Act II, Scene i
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man
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“Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.”
" Tithonus http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tith.htm", st. 1 (1860)
Context: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
"Flower in the Crannied Wall" (1869)
Context: Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
Misattributed
“One still strong man in a blatant land.”
Part I, section x, stanza 5
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
“She with all the charm of woman,
She with all the breadth of man.”
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 48
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
Act iv, scene 3
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)
“And ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be!”
Part I, section x, stanza 6
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
"The Vision of Sin", sec. 5 (1842)
" Hands All Round http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/tiresias/handsallround.html", l. 1-4 (1885)
" The Golden Year http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tgy.htm", st. 3 (1842)
“Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.”
" The Gardener's Daughter http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/englishidyls/gardenersdaughter.html", l. 139-140 (1842)
“A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.”
The Wreck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lady Clare (1842)