Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 54-62
Context: The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices.
Come, my friends.
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Die
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St. 2
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
Context: "Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.
“The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.”
Nothing Will Die (1830)
Context: When will the stream be aweary of flowing
Under my eye?
When will the wind be aweary of blowing
Over the sky?
When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting?
When will the heart be aweary of beating?
And nature die?
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.
"The Miller's Daughter" (1832)
Context: Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss:
My own sweet Alice, we must die.
There's somewhat in this world amiss
Shall be unriddled by and by.
There's somewhat flows to us in life,
But more is taken quite away.
Pray, Alice, pray, my darling wife,
That we may die the self-same day.
“Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall”
"Claribel" (1830)
Context: Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall:
But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
With an ancient melody
Of an inward agony,
Where Claribel low-lieth.
“Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”
Becket, Prologue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Tiresias, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
St. 4
The Revenge (1878)
The Lover's Tale (1879), line 815
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 172
To ———, after reading a Life and Letters, stanza 4, from Poems (1850)
" Oenone http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/oenone.html", st. 3 (1832)
“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die”
Misquote of the lines "Theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die" from The Charge of the Light Brigade
Misattributed
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turn'd my back upon Don or devil yet."
St. 4
The Revenge (1878)