the shell must break before the bird can fly. Alfred Lord Tennyson More Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson More Quotes From Alfred Lord Tennyson Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Alfred Lord Tennyson equal faith want Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson jealous fool thinking Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they. Alfred Lord Tennyson lord littles art All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson moving-on experience world Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Alfred Lord Tennyson swans ruffles cold The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. Alfred Lord Tennyson swans hymns joy Half a league, half a league, Alfred Lord Tennyson valleys half league Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined. Alfred Lord Tennyson efficiency cricket spirit Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame. Alfred Lord Tennyson storm names sweet I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone. Alfred Lord Tennyson all-time enjoyed drink And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be! Alfred Lord Tennyson deep-thought humor men There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun. Alfred Lord Tennyson stars sun And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows? Alfred Lord Tennyson delight equal spirit That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin. Alfred Lord Tennyson better-now ifs So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight Alfred Lord Tennyson hate weight loss A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. Alfred Lord Tennyson ice sea summer Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Alfred Lord Tennyson teeth and-love law Every man at time of Death, Alfred Lord Tennyson cutting death lying Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. Alfred Lord Tennyson house clouds lying Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead. Alfred Lord Tennyson happy-man dies men
