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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In our windy world
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Current among men,
Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

The Princess (1847)

Love is hurt with jar and fret;
Love is made a vague regret.

The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.

The Princess (1847)

One so small
Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

Fear
Stared in her eyes, and chalk'd her face.

The Princess (1847)

Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

To be true to each other, let 'appen what maäy
Till the end o' the daäy
An the last loäd hoäm.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.

The Princess (1847)

And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make her, she.

The Princess (1847)

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers;
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.

What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

The Lotos-Eaters (1832)

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

The children born of thee are sword and fire,
Red ruin, and the breaking up of law.

Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,
The lovely, lordly creature floated on.

The Princess (1847)

Go, little letter, apace, apace,
Fly;
Fly to the light in the valley below—
Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.

But oh for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

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