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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At length I saw a lady within call,
Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there;
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.

A Dream of Fair Women (1832)

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and forever when I move.

One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Jewels five-words-long,
That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for ever.

The Princess (1847)

When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought out a noble knight.

Morte D'Arthur (1842)

A life of nothing's nothing worth,
From that first nothing ere his birth,
To that last nothing under earth.

But this main-miracle that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world.

In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.

The Lotos-Eaters (1832)

And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet —
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

For always roaming with a hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known.

The great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Thou shalt hear the 'Never, never', whispered by the phantom years.

So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

For now the poet can not die,
Nor leave his music as of old,
But round him ere he scarce be cold
Begins the scandal and the cry.

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

Sir Galahad (1842)

Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.

Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

Who are wise in love
Love most, say least

And wit its honey lent, without the sting.

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