If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. Alfred Lord Tennyson More Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson More Quotes From Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. Alfred Lord Tennyson shore individual world It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. Alfred Lord Tennyson thrive matrimony years One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. Alfred Lord Tennyson knowing-nothing obedience knowing That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. Alfred Lord Tennyson fighting may lying Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow. Alfred Lord Tennyson light inspirational death For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrath speak heart There is no land like England, Alfred Lord Tennyson light heart men What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan. Alfred Lord Tennyson atheism mother doe Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. Alfred Lord Tennyson perfect winning may Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Alfred Lord Tennyson hunts dog dream In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; Alfred Lord Tennyson flower change spring Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Alfred Lord Tennyson stars night science Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea. Alfred Lord Tennyson sunset stars death Science grows and Beauty dwindles. Alfred Lord Tennyson growth grows science The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm. Alfred Lord Tennyson far-away charm strange The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep. Alfred Lord Tennyson long-day moon long Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. Alfred Lord Tennyson doubt sides war He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness. Alfred Lord Tennyson sad love lying A day may sink or save a realm. Alfred Lord Tennyson time-management may time The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson piano music cities
