Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ah! when shall all men's goodBe each man's rule, and universal peaceLie like a shaft of light across the land,And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,Through all the circle of the golden year?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
For man is man and master of his fate.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
O Sorrow, wilt Thou live with meNo casual mistress, but a wife.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson