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 More Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson More Quotes From Alfred Lord Tennyson Any man that walks the mead Alfred Lord Tennyson nature mind men Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die. Alfred Lord Tennyson men death thinking He makes no friend who never made a foe. Alfred Lord Tennyson no-friends military friendship The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight. Alfred Lord Tennyson light fire heart O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying. Alfred Lord Tennyson blow sky love Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. Alfred Lord Tennyson scorn hate love Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. Alfred Lord Tennyson ancient lonely loneliness I hold 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. Alfred Lord Tennyson self may men The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott Alfred Lord Tennyson cracks mirrors sides The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. Alfred Lord Tennyson shadow sick love Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. Alfred Lord Tennyson wilderness law science Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Alfred Lord Tennyson passion wine men After-dinner talk Alfred Lord Tennyson walnuts dinner wine Nature, red in tooth and claw. Alfred Lord Tennyson nature law science We needs must love the highest when we see it. Alfred Lord Tennyson highest happiness needs And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Alfred Lord Tennyson stars poetry desire This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man. Alfred Lord Tennyson light men science Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Alfred Lord Tennyson garden cities summer Who is this? And what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the Knights at Camelot; But Lancelot mused a little space He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott. Alfred Lord Tennyson knights space cheer Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more! Alfred Lord Tennyson first-love regret sweet
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