Alfred Tennyson Quotes

O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower.

So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry.

Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved.

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

All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Authority forgets a dying king

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

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

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

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

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

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.