Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRSwas Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 August 1809
sick shadow half
I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
pace rooms three
She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room
knights loyal
She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
weed clothes cold
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
ants sun gleam
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
recalls
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
time sorrow crowns
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
weed flower earth
Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
so-sad
So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.
peace war years
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
peace lying men
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
time past men
I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?
delight spirit equal
And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
time names voice
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.