| 146 Famous Quotes by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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“And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: The May Queen (st. 8)
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“My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.
A noise of falling weights that never fell,
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: Night's Dream (act V, sc. 1, l. 386)
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“Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Godiva (l. 53)
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“Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.”
Islands Quotes Source: Locksley Hall (164)
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“And rolling far along the gloomy shores
The voice of days of old and days to be.”
Voice Quotes Source: The Passing of Arthur
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“Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.”
Thieving Quotes Source: The Foresters (act III, sc. 1)
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“And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
Darkness Quotes Source: In Memoriam (CXXIV)
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“Fancy light from Fancy caught.”
Fancy Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. XXIII)
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“Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.”
Shadows Quotes Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, (ed. 1842)
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“And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. LXIII)
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“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.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: To the Queen (st. 8)
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“The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"
And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,
And then I will let you a better."”
Evolution Quotes Source: By the Evolutionist
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“Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere?
Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.”
Evolution Quotes Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 198)
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“Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”
Evolution Quotes Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 200)
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“When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.”
Evolution Quotes Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (l. 200)
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“Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's
pain--
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.”
Weakness Quotes Source: Locksley Hall (st. 75)
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“First pledge our Queen this solemn night,
Then drink to England, every guest;
That man's the best Cosmopolite
Who knows his native country best.”
Toasts Quotes Source: Hands All Round
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“Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land;
Ring in the Christ that is to be.”
Bells Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. CVI)
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“Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.”
Bells Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. CVI)
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“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow.”
Bells Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. CVI)
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“Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light.”
Bells Quotes Source: In Memoriam (pt. CVI)
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“The sabbaths of Eternity.
One sabbath deep and wide.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: St. Agnes' Eve (st. 3)
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“A savior of the silver-coasted isle.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (pt. VI)
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“. . . but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.”
Independence Quotes Source: The Foresters (act IV, sc. 1)
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“Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with
might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of
sight.”
Self-examination Quotes Source: Locksley Hall (l. 33)
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