Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Happy he<br>With such...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Happy he<br>With such...

Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood.


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

Source: In Memoriam, 32 (Note: the stanza...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

Source: The Village of Sin, 3; also last...

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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: His honour rooted...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: His honour rooted...

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He clasps the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He clasps the...

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made the...

God made the woman for the man,
And for the good and increase of the world.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hold thou the...

Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Home they brought...

Home they brought her warrior dead.
She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry:
All her maidens, watching said,
'She...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He is but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He is but...

He is but a landscape-painter,
And a village maiden she.


Source: The Lord of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I built my...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I built my...

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half light, half...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half light, half...

Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.


Source: The...

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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: How fares it...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How fares it...

How fares it with the happy dead?

Source: In Memoriam, 44 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

He seems so near and yet so far.

Source: In Memoriam, 97 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

I dreamed there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hope smiles on...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Hope smiles on...

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

I am a part of all I have met.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of...

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