Alfred Lord Tennyson May Quotations

A day may sink or save a realm.

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

The thrall in person may be free in soul

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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.

It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.