Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes about Death

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God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Grieving, Funeral

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Men, Thinking

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) prologue

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Kings, Dying

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Inspirational, Death, Light

'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 50

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Heart, Blow

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Twilight, Farewell

'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Past, Men

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Lying, Cutting

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Stars, Sunset

'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death, Night, And Love

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer, Death, Lying

'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1