Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord T...
A source page for quotes linked to Alfred Lord Tennyson.
“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”
“Who should be King save him who makes us free?”
“Let darkness keep her raven gloss: Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss”
“We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.”
“Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.”
“And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”
“And every dew-drop paints a bow.”
“And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.”
“In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.”
“As the husband is, the wife is.”
“The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.”
“What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.”
“Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.”
“One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.”
“All Life needs for life is possible to will.”
“But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.”