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
common-sense simplicity sublime
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
ignorance long naked
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
sight heard
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
summer weed heart
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
reason-why reason dies
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
music cities piano
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
mom mother blessed
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
smart vow snaps
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
love-is long life-is
Life is brief but love is LONG .
doubt sides anticipation
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
death grieving memorial
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
smile home
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
world too-late late
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
flower learning weight
Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.