Night Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

16 Night quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s evening lines carry the cadence of a bygone era, yet still resonate today. Sixteen pieces illustrate his measured elegance as he contemplates the twilight.

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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver…

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All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.

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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my…

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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a…

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The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

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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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I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the…

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The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to…

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All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in…

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And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world…

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Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of…

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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 into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the…

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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is…

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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the…

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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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