Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson

Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

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

Man's word is God in man.

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.

For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

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,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.

Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

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

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.