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Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Portrait after a picture by Julia Margaret Cameron / Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British Poet Laureate

1809–1892

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

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
“Tithonus”, st. 1 (1860)
- Life & Death
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees
Ulysses (1842)In context
- Experience
- Life & Death
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Ulysses (1842)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
Death is the end of life; ah! why
Should life all labour be?
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)In context
- Life & Death
- Work
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
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto LIIIIn context
- Life & Death

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