560 Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.Verse XXVII

Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!

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