Sea Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

14 Sea quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s measured cadence meets the ocean’s swell in these fourteen passages, where his classic diction frames the sea’s timeless majesty with elegant precision.

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A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

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Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.

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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put…

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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight…

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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise…

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence…

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, -…

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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

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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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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The…

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Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land,…

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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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“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise…

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Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over…

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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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