Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Moon Quotes , Planets Quotes

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Husband Quotes , Heart Quotes

I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dust Quotes

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Weed Quotes , Pain Quotes

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes

In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Air Quotes

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Mind Quotes

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Heart Quotes

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Death Quotes , Stars Quotes

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Flower Quotes

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Real Quotes

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Art Quotes , Dark Quotes

By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , People Quotes

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Hands Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Education Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Moon Quotes

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Flower Quotes

Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Spirit Quotes , Efficiency Quotes

Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Nature Quotes