I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went
In that new world which is the old. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

For love reflects the thing beloved. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthly bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

Love is hurt with jar and fret;
Love is made a vague regret. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...

I loved you, and my love had no return,
And therefore my true love has been my death. - Alfred Tennyson. View more images...