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.
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.
echoes soul aging
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
bows dew paint
And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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.
i-miss-you missing-you goodbye
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
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.
sick shadow half
I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.