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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The song that nerves a nation's heart
Is in itself a deed.

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill.

In after-dinner talk,
Across the walnuts and the wine.

Shall error in the round of time
Still father Truth?

The sin
That neither God nor man can well forgive.

Ambition
Is like the sea wave, which the more you drink
The more you thirst—yea—drink too much, as men
Have done on rafts of wreck—it drives you mad.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Remember that sore saying spoken once
By Him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is
For the rich man to enter into heaven!'
Let all rich men remember that hard word.

Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: 'Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?'

The Princess (1847)

Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise,
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

It may be that no life is found,
Which only to one engine bound
Falls off, but cycles always round.

In sweet dreams softer than unbroken rest
Thou leddest by the hand thine infant Hope.

Ode to Memory (1830)

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.

Crossing the Bar (1889)

Meet is it changes should control
Our being, lest we rust in ease.
We all are changed by still degrees,
All but the basis of the soul.

The dream
Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East,
Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

Well, well, be it so, thou strongest thief of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.

For men at most differ as Heaven and Earth,
But women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

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