Alfred Lord Tennyson World Quotations

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.