Tears Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

12 Tears quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s verses on tears, though few, echo the refined melancholy of his era, offering a polished emotional snapshot.

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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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And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again…

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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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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And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you…

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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and…

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There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming,…

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Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths…

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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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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And…

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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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Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close…

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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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