Best Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes About Love, Death, To Strive, New Year, Beautiful, Skyfall and Poetry! Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ninth place in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations tells us a great deal about the genius and prolificacy of this British poet. He served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland for most of Queen Victoria’s reign. He was born in England in 1809.
When Alfred Lord Tennyson was still a child, he started composing poems. Two Brothers published Tennyson’s first poem in Poems, published in 1827. Tennyson continued to produce poetry as well, and in 1829, he was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal for his poem “Timbuctoo.”
Tennyson released a second collection of poems in late 1832. It featured works that would go on to fame, such as “The Lady of Shalott,” yet it was met with poor reviews. Tennyson’s “The Princess” (1847), a lengthy narrative poem, was his next major piece of writing. However, “In Memoriam” was a career highlight (1850).
Tennyson’s grief at the loss of his close friend Arthur Hallam was interwoven into the elegiac composition that includes the famous lines, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” Tennyson gained a slew of new fans because of this work of art.
Tennyson’s poems grew in popularity, earning him a sizable fortune and elevating him to a position of worldwide renown. When Enoch Arden and Other Poems was published in 1864, the book sold 17,000 copies on its first day. On October 6, 1892, Tennyson died at the age of 83 at his Aldworth, Surrey.
Now, Tennyson is once again recognized for his poetic talent and delving into everlasting human concerns to provide comfort and inspiration to his listeners, even if his fame has waned during his lifetime.
Best Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
1. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier’.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
2. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
3. “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
4. “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
5. “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
6. “Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
7. “And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
8. “There’s no glory like those who save their country.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
9. “Better not be at all than not be noble.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
10. “Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”
11. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
12. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
13. “Love is the only gold.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
14. “For love reflects the thing beloved.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
15. “Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
16. “Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, around me once again”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
17. “Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
18. “Love lieth deep; love dwells not in lip-depths; love laps his wings on either side the heart.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
19. “As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
20. “He that shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, howling in outer darkness.”
21. “I am a part of all that I have met.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
22. “Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
23. “He makes no friends who never made a foe.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
24. “God’s finger touched him, and he slept.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
25. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
26. “By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
27. “Half the night I waste in sighs, half in dreams I sorrow after the delight of early skies.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
28. “Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, the people said, a weed.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
29. “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, tears from the depths of some divine despair rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, in looking on the happy autumn fields, and thinking of the days that are no more.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
30. “I will drink life to the lees.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson.
31. “Can calm despair and wild unrest, be tenants of a single breast?”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
32. “Oh, yet we trust that somehow good, will be the final goal of ill.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
33. “And all at once it seem’d at last, the living soul was flashed on mine.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
34. “I watch thee from the quiet shore; thy spirit up to mine can reach; but in dear words of human speech, we two communicate no more.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
35. “Yet less of sorrow lives in me for days of happy commune dead; less yearning for the friendship fled, than some strong bond which is to be.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
