Alfred Lord Tennyson Soul Quotations

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within,

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul