Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The quotations of
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
British Poet Laureate
1809–1892
34 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Love and Emotion.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
- “Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 280
- The Lover’s Tale (1879), line 466
- “The Higher Pantheism”, st. 6 (1867)
- The Eagle (1851)In context
- “To Virgil”, st. 3 (1882)
- Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Stanza 124
‘Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832), Stanza 7Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.“Tithonus”, st. 1 (1860)And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.“Oenone” (1832)- Ulysses (1842)In context
- Ulysses (1842)In context
