Lord Alfred Tennyson
Lord Alfred 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...
jewels sparkle stretched
Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.
beyond far island longer
Our island home/ Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
experience follies nor preaches teach wisdom
Other's follies teach us not nor much their wisdom teaches; and most, of sterling worth, is what our own experience preaches
across bells dying flying happy ring wild year
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;
faithless ring sin
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.
peace ring thousand wars
Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.
feud redress rich ring
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,/ Ring in redress to all mankind.
ancient dying forms modes party purer ring slowly sweeter
Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.
common love ring truth
Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.
beneath mountain sea watches wrinkled
Ringed with the azure world, he stands./ The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;/ He watches from his mountain walls,/ And like a thunderbolt he falls.
loyal manners nature noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
reason theirs
Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.
eternal public
That eternal want of pence/ Which vexes public men.
fought harder lie matter met truth
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.