The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFour grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI found Him in the shining of the stars.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFaith is believing what we cannot prove.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSo many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONDreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONGod gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONO love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONRing out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON