Quotes by Alfred

"I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees."

"Come into the garden, Maud,  For the black bat, night, has flown."

"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."

"Every moment dies a man,  Every moment one is born."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

"In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."

"Break, break, break,  On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter  The thoughts that arise in me."

"If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of."

"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."

"Deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!"

"I chatter, chatter, as I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever."

"Nature, red in tooth and claw."

"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

"And the stately ships go on  To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,  And the sound of a voice that is still!"

"Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others."

"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."

"'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets,  And simple faith than Norman blood."

"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move."

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."

"Sunset and evening star,  And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar,  When I put out to sea."