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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Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

More black than ash-buds in the front of March.

In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.

And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.

The Princess (1847)

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

The Princess (1847)

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

And feet like sunny gems on an English green.

Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

The many fail: the one succeeds.

The Day-Dream (1842)

In the parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

For nothing worthy proving can be proven,
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise,
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith!

All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.

Here and there a cotter's babe is royal—born by right divine;
Here and there my lord is lower than his oxen or his swine.

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

But every page having an ample marge,
And every marge enclosing in the midst
A square of text that looks a little blot.

Broad-based upon her people’s will,
And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's?

And thus he bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan
And soiled with all ignoble use.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base.

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