Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes about Singing
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 48
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics