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
women men
Woman is the lesser man.
travel observation
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
league valleys half
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
women hard
The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
priests delicate heard
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
sorrow despair unrest
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
succeed failing
The many fail: the one succeeds.
strength rocks years
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
time age heirs
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
new-year years old-year
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
roots tree branches
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
roaming limits world
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
time jewels long
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
manners courtesy persons
The greater person is one of courtesy.