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
love funny life
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
time may time-management
A day may sink or save a realm.
faults
He is all fault who has no fault at all.
heresy
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
dove woodland heard
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
bridges cities legends
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
quiet lost
The quiet sense of something lost
graduation future eye
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
weed pain lying
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.
pace rooms three
She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room
knights loyal
She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.
weed clothes cold
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
recalls
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
time sorrow crowns
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.