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
worry despair action
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
love kissing fire
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
noble nobility
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
song rivers echoes
Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.
positive leadership knowledge
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
spiritual real believe
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
friends wisdom hate
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
hate love-is perfect
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
summer lying rain
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
true-love pain grief
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
happy new-year years
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
time may time-management
A day may sink or save a realm.
death heart blow
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
summer stars fighting
And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.