28 Quotes & Sayings By Lord Alfred Tennyson

Lord Alfred Tennyson, born in 1809, was the fourth son of the poet laureate and a poet of grandeur and sensibility himself. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1830 he married Emily Sellwood, with whom he had three children; two died in infancy. On the death of his father (1843) Tennyson succeeded to the dukedom of Atherstone and became a Privy Counsellor (1844) Read more

In 1846 he became an MP for Cambridge University and held several other offices. It was he who suggested that Queen Victoria should be crowned at Westminster Abbey instead of Hyde Park. He died in 1892 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The old order changeth yielding place to new. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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God's finger touched him and he slept. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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I was born to other things. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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As the husband is the wife is. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The white flower of a blameless life. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go Come from the dying moon and blow Blow him again to me While my little one while my pretty one sleeps. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.' Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Marriages are made in Heaven. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Home they brought her warrior dead. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea! Lord Alfred Tennyson
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. Lord Alfred Tennyson
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So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be. Lord Alfred Tennyson