Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes about Age

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Shining, Age

'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strong, Age, Ashes

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1255, Delphi Classics