Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him, and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON By blood a king, in heart a clown.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A day may sink or save a realm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Authority forgets a dying king.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matchd with an ag...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wond...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good c...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whateer befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lostThan n...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God's finger touched him and he slept.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Death is the end of life; ah why
Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON One still strong man in a blatant land,
whatever they call him, what care I,
Aristocrat, democ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Either sex alone is half itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder mo...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,
Full of sad experience, moving ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in or...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faith lives in honest doubt.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in m...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater person is one of courtesy.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lo...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Better not be at all than not be noble.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, dem...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little lon...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And every dew-drop paints a bow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "Th...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON . . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best mea...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ring out the false, ring in the true.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost T...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the wort...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his pass...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Darker than darkest pansies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater man the greater courtesy.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Trust me not at all, or all in all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't na...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and m...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perf...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of o...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that w...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Birds in the high Hall-garden/ When twilight was falling,/ Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,/ They were crying...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost t...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,/ But never a moment ceased th...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bou...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowin...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on whic...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Believing where we cannot prove.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The woman is so hard upon the woman
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravell...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON