Frases de Alfred Tennyson

„A leitura da Bíblia em si, é uma educação.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„A felicidade de um homem não consiste na ausência, mas sim no domínio das suas paixões.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Auto-respeito, autoconhecimento, autocontrole conduzem a vida ao poder supremo.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Nas mandíbulas da Morte,
Na boca do Inferno.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Na primavera, a imaginação de um jovem volta-se, ligeira, para pensamentos de amor.“

—  Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Locksley Hall (1842)
tradução conforme citado em Revista Caras http://www.caras.com.br, Edição 674.

„Sou parte de tudo que encontrei.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

I am a part of everything with which I come in contact
citado em "Report of the Minister of Education"‎ - Página 75, de Ontario Dept. of Education - Publicado por Ontario Education Dept., 1887

„Não tem amigos o homem que nunca teve inimigos.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

He makes no friend who never made a foe
Idylls of the King‎ - Página 179 http://books.google.com/books?id=R8ssIlkxZDQC&pg=PA179, de Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1862, ISBN 1605064807, 9781605064802 - 261 páginas

„Dizem que a dor nos torna sábios.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Os sonhos são verdadeiros enquanto duram, e não vivemos nos sonhos?“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Abismo Talvez o abismo nos engula Talvez cheguemos a Atlântida Talvez não tenhamos mais a força de mover montanhas. Mas somos o que somos.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Nossos espíritos se precipitaram um para o outro ao tocar dos lábios.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips.
Poems by Alfred Tennyson: In 2 Volumes - Volume 2 - Página 37 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=QalRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA37, Alfred Tennyson - Ticknor & Comp., 1849

„A minha força é igual a de dez outras criaturas, porque o meu coração é puro.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Todo o encanto de todas as Musas freqüentemente florescia em uma palavra solitária.“

—  Alfred Tennyson

„Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters

Choric Song, st. 4
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)
Contexto: Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?
Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence; ripen, fall and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.

„Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears

St. 2
Tears, Idle Tears (1850)

„Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, livro Ulysses

Fonte: Ulysses (1842), l. 46-53
Contexto: Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me —
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

„The many fail: the one succeeds.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Day-Dream

The Arrival, st. 2
The Day-Dream (1842)
Contexto: The bodies and the bones of those
That strove in other days to pass,
Are wither'd in the thorny close,
Or scatter'd blanching on the grass.
He gazes on the silent dead:
"They perish'd in their daring deeds."
This proverb flashes thro' his head,
"The many fail: the one succeeds."

„Thus truth was multiplied on truth“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere

The Poet (1830)
Contexto: p>Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world
Like one great garden show'd,
And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd,
Rare sunrise flow'dAnd Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
Her beautiful bold brow,
When rites and forms before his burning eyes
Melted like snow.</p

„But am I not the nobler thro' thy love?
O three times less unworthy! likewise thou
Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years.“

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

" Love and Duty http://www.readbookonline.net/read/4310/14259/", l. 1- 21 (1842)
Contexto: Of love that never found his earthly close,
What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts?
Or all the same as if he had not been?
Not so. Shall Error in the round of time
Still father Truth? O shall the braggart shout
For some blind glimpse of freedom work itself
Thro' madness, hated by the wise, to law
System and empire? Sin itself be found
The cloudy porch oft opening on the Sun?
And only he, this wonder, dead, become
Mere highway dust? or year by year alone
Sit brooding in the ruins of a life,
Nightmare of youth, the spectre of himself!
If this were thus, if this, indeed, were all,
Better the narrow brain, the stony heart,
The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days,
The long mechanic pacings to and fro,
The set gray life, and apathetic end.
But am I not the nobler thro' thy love?
O three times less unworthy! likewise thou
Art more thro' Love, and greater than thy years.