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Alfred Tennyson quotes: Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.

My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The year is dying in the night.

The year is dying in the night.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

I fain would follow love, if that could be;
I needs must follow death, who calls for me;
Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Authority forgets a dying king

Authority forgets a dying king

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: fairy changeling lay the mage;

fairy changeling lay the mage;

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.

The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The children born of thee are sword and fire,Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws,

The children born of thee are sword and fire,
Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws,

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.

Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: He makes no friends who never made a foe.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: the deep moans round with many voices.

the deep moans round with many voices.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: There's not to reason why,There's but to do and die

There's not to reason why,
There's but to do and die

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.

Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Seal'd her minefrom her first sweet breathMine, and mine by right, from birth till deathMine, mine-our fathers have sworn.

Seal'd her minefrom her first sweet breath
Mine, and mine by right, from birth till death
Mine, mine-our fathers have sworn.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Love is the only gold.

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards?Confusion, and illusion, and relation,Elusion, and occasion, and evasion?

Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards?
Confusion, and illusion, and relation,
Elusion, and occasion, and evasion?

Alfred Tennyson quotes: No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Life is brief but love is LONG .

Life is brief but love is LONG .

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Alfred Tennyson quotes: A beam in darkness: let it grow.

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Brothers in Art: a friendship so complete

Brothers in Art: a friendship so complete

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.

I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,And dark and true and tender is the North.

O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Boldly they rode and well,Into the jaws of Death,Into the mouth of hell.

Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: But though we love kind Peace so well,We dare not even by silence sanction lies.

But though we love kind Peace so well,
We dare not even by silence sanction lies.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Then some one said, "We will return no more";And all at once they sang, "Our island homeIs far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.

Then some one said, "We will return no more";
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The shell must break before the bird can fly.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I had liefer twenty years/Skip to the broken music of my brains/Than any broken music thou canst make.

I had liefer twenty years/Skip to the broken music of my brains/Than any broken music thou canst make.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: God gives us Love, something to love, God lends us.

God gives us Love, something to love, God lends us.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into

Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The quiet sense of something lost

The quiet sense of something lost

Alfred Tennyson quotes: A louse in the locks of literature.

A louse in the locks of literature.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Above,the fair hall-ceiling stately set Many an arch high up did lift,And angels rising and descending met With interchange of gift.

Above,the fair hall-ceiling stately set Many an arch high up did lift,And angels rising and descending met With interchange of gift.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: That which we are, we are.

That which we are, we are.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die

Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die

Alfred Tennyson quotes: And at the closing of the dayShe loosed the chain, and down she lay;The broad stream bore her far away,The Lady of Shallot.

And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shallot.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let
Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set
In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: We needs must love the highest when we see it.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife.

Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I am a part of all that I have met.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: .... yet all experience is an arc, where through gleams the untraveled world, whose margin fades forever, and forever as I move...

.... yet all experience is an arc, where through gleams the untraveled world, whose margin fades forever, and forever as I move...

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.

I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: For always roaming with a hungry heart.

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee the clock Beats out the little lives of men

The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee the clock Beats out the little lives of men

Alfred Tennyson quotes: I will drink life to the lees.

I will drink life to the lees.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with thoseThat loved me, and alone

Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone

Alfred Tennyson quotes: We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson quotes: To many-towered Camelot

To many-towered Camelot

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Yet I thought I saw her stand,A shadow there at my feet,High over the shadowy land.

Yet I thought I saw her stand,
A shadow there at my feet,
High over the shadowy land.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Tennyson quotes: Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.