Quotes
Quotes - Tennyson
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
I am a part of all that I have met.
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him.
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Darker than darkest pansies.
Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-controlâthese three alone lead to power.
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.
Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.
Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.
Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.
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.
