110+ Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes On Death, Romantic And Reflective

Alfred Lord Tennyson was an English poet who wrote during the Victorian era. He was one of the most popular poets of his era and his works include "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "In Memoriam A.H.H.". He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1850 and held the position until his death in 1892. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson on death, romantic, reflective.

Top 10 Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

1. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
2. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
3. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
4. I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
5. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
6. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
7. the shell must break before the bird can fly.
8. I am a part of all that I have met.
9. Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
10. 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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Image Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Short Quotes

• Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
• So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
• Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
• I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
• Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
• Trust me not at all, or all in all.
• Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Death

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. — Alfred Lord 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 Lord Tennyson

God's finger touched him and he slept. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Love

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About World

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About True

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Half

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Either sex alone is half itself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Heart

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. — Alfred Lord 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 Lord Tennyson

By blood a king, in heart a clown. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson Famous Quotes And Sayings

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait." — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friends who never made a foe. — 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

The greater man the greater courtesy. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

God and Nature met in light. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Silence, beautiful voice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron) — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A day may sink or save a realm. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life Lessons by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry encourages us to embrace life's challenges and strive for greatness. He reminds us to remain hopeful and resilient in the face of adversity, and to never give up on our dreams.
2. He also encourages us to be kind and compassionate to those around us, and to take time to appreciate the beauty of nature and the world around us.
3. Finally, Tennyson's work reminds us to be mindful of our actions and the consequences they may bring, and to strive to live life with integrity and purpose.