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...
eternal god nor power serve sold truth
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
battle god
God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
art god good thee thou
God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
corrupt custom fulfills god good himself lest older order
The older order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world
awful god himself rose
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
falls gives god left lends love
God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on which it throve/ Falls off, and love is left alone.
careless gods hills lie
Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
fears god greatness pray
Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.
god good increase woman
God made the woman for the man,/ And for the good and increase of the world.
faithless ring sin
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.
blanket depression minds settled
If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,
dealer fool fools-and-foolishness guard hour jealous speech thoughts words
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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