Ifs Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

15 Ifs quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s 15 lyrical passages about “ifs” echo the cadence of Victorian poetry. He captures the bittersweet tension of possibility, turning each conditional into a fleeting, resonant image.

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That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

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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 love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

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If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he…

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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

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I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast,…

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Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle…

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Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,…

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What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not…

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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know…

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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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Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex…

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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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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-…

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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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