Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Ability
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Advice
My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Apparitions
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Bells
Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Bells
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Blackbirds
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Brooks
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Christ
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
Lord Alfred Tennyson Topic: Christmas
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