208 Quotes by Lord Alfred Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill; / But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And the sound of a voice that is still!

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move

And when they buried him the little port/ Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.

I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.

But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.

Drink to lofty hopes that cool -/ Visions of a perfect State.

Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.