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Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

1850

★ 7.0

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 5.4

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 5.4

That which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 3.6

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, - To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 3.6

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 3.6

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 3.6

But, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King · 1859

★ 3.6

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

Ah, why Should life all labor be?

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1832

★ 2.0

Man is the hunter; woman is his game.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 2.0

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 2.0

Love is and was my Lord and King.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 2.0

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King · 1859

★ 2.0

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Alfred Tennyson

1885

★ 2.0

Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1842

★ 1.9

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 1.9

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

1850

★ 1.9

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1832

★ 1.1