Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was an English poet who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Renowned for his eloquent and musical verse, he became one of the most popular poets of the 19th century. He is remembered for works such as "In Memoriam," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and "Ulysses." Here are 376 of his quotes:

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

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

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