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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Christmas

1809–1892 England

← All quotes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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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)

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.

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)

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

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

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

Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

My doom is, I love thee still.
Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.

We love but while we may;
And therefore is my love so large for thee,
Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

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

"I'll never love any but you," the morning song of the lark;
"I'll never love any but you," the nightingale's hymn in the dark.

In a wink the false love turns to hate.

For love reflects the thing beloved.

In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)

Love will conquer at the last.

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Who are wise in love
Love most, say least

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-In Memoriam A.H.H.

But am I not the nobler thro' thy love?
O three times less unworthy! likewise thou
Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years.

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