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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Women

1809–1892 England

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She with all the charm of woman,
She with all the breadth of man.

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)

And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.

The Princess (1847)

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

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

The Princess (1847)

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

The Princess (1847)

My lord, you know what Virgil sings—
Woman is various and most mutable.

Queen Mary: A Drama (1876)

Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain—
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.

For woman is not undeveloped man
But diverse; could we make her as the man
Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this
Not like to like but like in difference.

The Princess (1847)

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

The woman is so hard
Upon the woman.

The Princess (1847)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.