The quotations of

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British Poet Laureate

1809–1892

34 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Love and Emotion.

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Responsibility
- War & Peace
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Courage
- War & Peace
I am half sick of shadows,” said
The Lady of Shalott.
The Lady of Shalott (1832)In context
- Emotion
The mirror crack’d from side to side;
“The curse is come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott.
The Lady of Shalott (1832)In context
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark
Crossing the Bar (1889)In context
- Life & Death
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
- Nature
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Emotion
- Time
I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto IIn context
- Change
- Character
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto XCIVIn context
- Faith
- Religion
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Locksley Hall (1842)In context
- Love
- Youth
Death is the end of life; ah! why
Should life all labour be?
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)In context
- Life & Death
- Work
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
The Eagle (1851)In context
- Animals
- Nature
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Ulysses (1842)In context
- Courage
- Motivation & Goals
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Crossing the Bar (1889)In context
- Faith
- Life & Death
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
- Life & Death

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