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
hope new-year's smiles threshold
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
love funny life
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
philosophical touching together
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
live-life wonder ifs
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
love dream art
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
prayer eye home
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
prayer heaven storm
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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.
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.
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.