SOME QUTATIONS FROM TENNYSON’S POETRY

 

                SOME QUTATIONS FROM TENNYSON’S POETRY

            Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was a celebrated English poet and poet Laureate (1850-1892).  Some of his famous poems are:

            “Ring Out Wild Bells,”  “The Lady of Shalot,” “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Ulysses,” “In Memoriam, “ “The Lotus Eaters,“ “Come Into the garden, Maud.  and “Crossing the Bar,”.

            His language is simple, yet forceful  and impressive. He is rightly admired as a great poetic artist.

            Here are a few popular quotations from his poems.  

 

1.     Ring out the grief that saps the mind,

For those that here we see no more,

Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in redress to all mankind.

 

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife;

Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.

 

Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right,

Ring in the common love of good.

 

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.     

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2.     Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

3.     A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

4.     The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many ways,

Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

 

5.     More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

 

6.     Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control

These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

 

7.     It is better to have loved and lost,

Than  never to have loved at all.

 

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G. R. Kanwal

18 April 2026