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
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.
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.
noble nobility
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
positive leadership knowledge
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
friends wisdom hate
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
time may time-management
A day may sink or save a realm.