Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

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For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

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The old order changes yielding place to new.

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God and Nature met in light.

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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

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Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

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Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales. They said that Love would die when Hope was gone. And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; At last she sought out Memory, and they trod The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope, And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

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