208 Quotes by Lord Alfred Tennyson

The rise/ And long roll of the Hexameter.

If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

The Sabbaths of Eternity,/ One Sabbath deep and wide -/ A light upon the shining sea -/ The Bridegroom with his bride!

He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.

The rose was awake all night for your sake,/ Knowing your promise to me;/ The lilies and roses were all awake,/ They sighed for the dawn and thee.

Here at the quiet limit of the world,/ A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream/ The ever-silent spaces of the East.

Tears, idle tears,/I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair,/ Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,/ In looking on the happy autumn fields,/ And thinking of the days that are no more.

Her tears fell with the dews at even;/ Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.

Round thee with the breeze of song/ To stir a little praise of dust.