Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cophetua sware a royal oath;"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

I am a part of all I have seen.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.