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...
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.
answer bells birth christmas draws hill mist moon near night time
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist
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.
england inventor name organ sing skilled time voice
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.
call glad happiest mother queen time wake
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;/ To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;/ Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day;/ For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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
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.
roll
The rise/ And long roll of the Hexameter.
eternal public
That eternal want of pence/ Which vexes public men.