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Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

Alexander Pope: What's fame? a...

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her tears fell...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her tears fell...

Her tears fell with the dews at even;
Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I seemed to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I seemed to...

I seemed to move among a world of ghosts,
And feel myself the shadow of a dream.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man dreams of...

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sink me the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sink me the...

Sink me the ship, Master Gunner - sink her, split her in twain!
Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That God, which...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That God, which...

That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

The grand old name of gentleman.

Source: In Memoriam, 111 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Thou madest man, he knows not why.

Source: In Memoriam, Prologue
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: With a little...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: With a little...

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How sweet are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How sweet are...

How sweet are looks that ladies bend
On whom their favours fall!


Source: Sir...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am going...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am going...

I am going a long way
With these thou seest - if indeed I go
(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) -
To...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

So I triumphed ere my passion, sweeping thro' me, left me dry,
Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida,
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most
No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

The moans of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

The clouds are lightly curled
Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Whatever crazy sorrow saith,
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: You must wake...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: You must wake...

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad...

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