Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

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I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

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The last great Englishman is low.

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

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As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

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Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

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All things human change.

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There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

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Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die

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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

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