Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

1809–1892 England

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign, after William Wordsworth, and is one of the most popular English poets.

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Also known as: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Tennyson, Tennyson, Alfred

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Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.

Acting the law we live by without fear;
And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

The Lover's Tale (1879)

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

The Lover's Tale (1879)

Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd;
All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

The trance gave way
To those caresses, when a hundred times
In that last kiss, which never was the last,
Farewell, like endless welcome, lived and died.

Strike up a song, my friends, and then to bed.

The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)

Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss:
My own sweet Alice, we must die.
There's somewhat in this world amiss
Shall be unriddled by and by.

The Miller's Daughter (1832)

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well."

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

Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.

Of love that never found his earthly close,
What sequel?

We dare not even by silence sanction lies.

My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

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

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