alfred tennyson Quotes

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

- Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

- Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

There has fallen a splendid tearFrom the passion-flower at the gate.She is coming, my dove, my dear;She is coming, my life, my fate.The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"And the lily whispers, "I wait."She is coming, my own, my sweet;Were it ever so airy a tread,My heart would hear her and beat,Were it earth in an earthy bed;My dust would hear her and beat,Had I lain for a century dead,Would start and tremble under her feet,And blossom in purple and red.

- Alfred Tennyson

And down I went to fetch my bride:But, Alice, you were ill at ease;This dress and that by turns you tried,Too fearful that you should not please.I loved you better for your fears,I knew you could not look but well;And dews, that would have fall'n in tears,I kiss'd away before they fell.

- Alfred Tennyson

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever.

- Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

- Alfred Tennyson

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

- Alfred Tennyson

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

- Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

- Alfred Tennyson

Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

- Alfred Tennyson

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.