Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin DLwas an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin’s poems are little-remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 May 1835
inspirational sports beach
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!
horse food garden
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
garden earth return
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
summer soul tears
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
life men thinking
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
heart garden hands
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
wise wisdom thinking
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
song scent notes
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
real imagination fancy
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.