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
beauty hands walking-hand-in-hand
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
running flower may
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
hurt honor helping
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
morning earth
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
sea people broads
Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.
father boys men
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
hate forgiving littles
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
goal finals ill
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
fashion looks
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
smile heart simple
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
sweet flower blow
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
friendship
He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
bows dew paint
And every dew-drop paints a bow.
death lying cutting
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.