Quote #105
Mated with a squalid savage - what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time -
More from Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
- There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
- Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
- Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine -
- Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
- Comes a vapour from the margin, blackening over heath and holt, Cramming all the blast before it, in its breast a thunderbolt. Let it fall …
- So I triumphed ere my passion sweeping through me left me dry, Left with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to whi…
- It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal law…