Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

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There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

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I found Him in the shining of the stars.

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if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

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Love is the only gold.

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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

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