Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Biography
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."
"Love is the only gold."
"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."
"I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul"
"The shell must break before the bird can fly."
"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"
"Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus"
"Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths."
"Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more."
"Well, Gosse, would you like to know what I think of Churton Collins? I think he's a Louse on the Locks of Literature."
"More black than ash-buds in the front of March."
"Insipid as the queen upon a card."
"A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall."
"Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again."
"A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart."
"There is no joy but calm!"
"Come out, my lord, it is a world of fools."
"Unalterably and pesteringly fond."
"Charm us, orator, till the lion look no larger than the cat."
"Yet the moonlight is the sunlight and the sun himself will pass."
"Is there evil but on earth? or pain in every peopled sphere?"
"Love will conquer at the last."