Alfred Lord Tennyson Years Quotations

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall not die.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

The year is dying in the night.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.