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.
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
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.
positive leadership knowledge
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
time may time-management
A day may sink or save a realm.
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.
love-is long life-is
Life is brief but love is LONG .
deception triumph disaster
When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.
echoes soul aging
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
islands stories way
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.