4 Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Tradition

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson quotes on tradition

10. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

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.

121. It was the time when lilies blow, And clouds are highest up in air. Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe To give his cousin, Lady Clare.

138. 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.

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