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...
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.
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
although answer gave knew lived looked met mind mirrors opposed reflecting thoughts time
So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech.
art god good thee thou
God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
peace ring thousand wars
Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.
pure spirit thou
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.
casual sorrow thou wilt
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me/ No casual mistress, but a wife.
arise cold gray thoughts thy tongue utter
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me
dreams face pray prayer thou wrought
If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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,
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.