7 Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Aging

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson quotes on aging

92. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

93. Never, tho' my mortal summers to such length of years should come As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.

97. O, I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

102. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

113. Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me - That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

114. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.

115. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be that we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, 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.