11 Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Change

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson quotes on change

17. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease. We all are changed by still degrees, All but the basis of the soul.

28. And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

49. Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show'd, And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd, Rare sunrise flow'd. And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow, When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow.

53. I said, 'The years with change advance: If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

87. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.

95. Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

106. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

108. 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 on Locksley Hall, with rain or hail, or fire or snow; For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go.

111. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

117. And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old: Across the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, And deep into the dying day The happy princess follow'd him.

159. And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!