Dream Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

16 Dream quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s 16 excerpts echo the measured cadence of his era while probing the mystery of night‑time visions. Expect a blend of stately phrasing and heartfelt yearning.

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Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

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Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

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In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did…

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Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a…

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Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine…

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the…

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. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain…

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Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite:…

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She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her…

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Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless…

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

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So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of…

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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