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...
changes fancy lightly love spring thoughts turns
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love
beauty creatures hunt love man ride shining woman
Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
common love ring truth
Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.
creed hands human loveliness perfect poetic strong word
And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.
flower garden love quote-of-the-day time walk
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
cute-love hold lost loved sorrow whatever
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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.
loved nature slight
I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.
across arm cute-love far felt hills round sweet-love waist
And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
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