Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Quotes about love

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was British poet laureate. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“O Love! what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine;
In lands of palm, of orange-blossom,
Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Daisy, Stanza 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A shadow flits before me,
Not thou, but like to thee:
Ah Christ, that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Part II, section iv, stanza 3
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Stanza 3
Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)

“mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida,
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
For now the noonday quiet holds the hill:
The grasshopper is silent in the grass:
The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,
Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
The purple flower droops: the golden bee
Is lily-cradled: I alone awake.
My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love,
My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim,
And I am all aweary of my life.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Oenone http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/oenone.html", st. 3 (1832)

“O eyes long laid in happy sleep!
O happy sleep, that lightly fled!
O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep!
O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Day-Dream

The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)

“A mastiff dog
May love a puppy cur for no more reason
Than that the twain have been tied up together.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Act i, scene 4
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)