Tennyson

Famous quotes containing the word tennyson:

“Were it well to obey then, if a king demand
An act unprofitable, against himself?”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were
furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“gird the windy grove,
And flood the haunts of hern and crake;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)