Alfred Tennyson
"Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower."
41 Quotes
"“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.”"
Alfred Tennyson
"O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."
Alfred Tennyson
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions."
Alfred Tennyson
"No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world."
Alfred Tennyson
"Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me."
Alfred Tennyson
"And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."
Alfred Tennyson
"Dear as remembered kisses after death,And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love,Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;O Death in Life, the days that are no more!"
Alfred Tennyson
"I came in haste with cursing breath,And heart of hardest steel;But when I saw thee cold in death,I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face,That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,Where neither rage nor fear has place,By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!"
Alfred Tennyson
"Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?... Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus"
Alfred Tennyson
"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"
Alfred Tennyson
"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
Alfred Tennyson
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."
Alfred Tennyson
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