Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
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
The greater man, the greater courtesy.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
But ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be. (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
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A simple maiden in her flower; Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This is England's greatest son, He that gained a hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gun.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dear as remember'd 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. Oh death in life, the days that are no more.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year, Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day For Im to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I come from haunt of coot and her, I make s sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson