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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes about Love

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Friendship, Romantic

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Funny, Life
In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Dream, Art
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Gold, True Love
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1972, Delphi Classics

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, True Love, Wise
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.119, Courier Corporation

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Kissing, Fire
'Fatima' (1832) st. 3

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sweet, Pain

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sad, Lying
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Looks, Remember
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Earth, Faults
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 132

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Heart, Eye
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sick, Shadow
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.55

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Morning, Moving
'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Sweet, Vain
Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Blow, Sky
'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Hate, Scorn
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Life, Fall
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2607, Delphi Classics

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Life, Sight
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love, Orange, Land
'The Daisy' (1855) st. 1

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