Quotes by Alfred Tennyson

“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.”

“I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.”

“Half the night I waste in sighs,Half in dreams I sorrow afterThe delight of early skies;In a wakeful dose I sorrowFor the hand, the lips, the eyes,For the meeting of the morrow,The delight of happy...”

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days ...”

“HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

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

“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”

“T is not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I ...”

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

“But thy strong Hours indignant workd their wills,And beat me down and marrd and wasted me,And tho they could not end me, left me maimdTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immo...”

“Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt t...”

“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 ne...”

“Dear as remembered kisses after death,And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'dOn lips that are for others; deep as love,Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;O Death in Life, the days th...”

“I myself beheld the King Charge at the head of all his Table Round, And all his legions crying Christ and him, And break them; and I saw him, after, stand High on a heap of slain, from spur to plum...”

“Thine are these orbs of light and shade;Thou madest Life in man and brute;Thou madest Death; and lo, thy footIs on the skull which thou hast made.”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and ...”

“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”