The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

“Love may come, and love may go,
And fly, like a bird, from tree to tree:
But I will love no more, no more,
Till Ellen Adair come back to me.
Bitterly wept I over the stone:
Bitterly weeping I turn'd away;
There lies the body of Ellen Adair!
And there the heart of Edward Gray!”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, Edged with sharp laughter, cuts atwain The knots that tangle human creeds, 37 The wounding cords that 38 bind and strain The heart until it bleeds,”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Tennyson

“Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace:
  Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
  While the stars burn, the moons increase,
  And the great ages onward roll.
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet.
  Nothing comes to thee new or strange.
  Sleep full of rest from head to feet;
  Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The development of Tennyson's genius, methods, aims and capacity of achievement in poetry can be studied with singular precision and fulness in the history of the poems included in the present volume.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson