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
prayer heaven storm
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
done world earth
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
life shining age
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
nature soul half
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
sleep eye night
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
love gold true-love
Love is the only gold.
truth lying half
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
fall kissing blessing
And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
dark negativity chance
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
pain heart loss
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
thinking concentration ifs
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
life dream men
My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
son fighting gun
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
gratitude grateful cells
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.