Alfred Tennyson Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

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

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

The white flower of a blameless life.

The quiet sense of something lost

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.

Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.

The old order changeth yielding place to new.

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

I was born to other things.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds

Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

As the husband is the wife is.

For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

Marriages are made in Heaven.

I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.

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

The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.

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

Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.

Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

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

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!

And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea.

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.