Earth Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

15 Earth quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s measured cadence often turns landscape into metaphor. This selection highlights his most resonant lines about the planet’s timeless cycles.

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We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

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Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

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Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on…

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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,…

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Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round…

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She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were…

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There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath…

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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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Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of…

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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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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag…

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

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