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...
dusty fresh
Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.
near seems
He seems so near and yet so far.
jewels sparkle stretched
Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.
english-poet
I am a part of all that I have seen.
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.
knight maiden
A maiden knight - to me is given/ Such hope, I know not fear.
cease systems
Our little systems have their day;/ They have their day and cease to be.
arch experience fades forever margin move whose
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move
fairy nourishing result tales youth
Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
arch experience fades margin whose
I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
adam claims gardener smile smiles
The gardener Adam and his wife/ Smile at the claims of long descent.
bound duty faith fought man queen valiant
I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;/ I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do.
federation parliament till
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
dreadful lips onward portions taken time
Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.