Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 August 1809
happiness play wind
As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
wisdom scorn consequence
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
knowing knowing-nothing obedience
One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
night light tears
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
running moving knowledge
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
mother new-year queens
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll 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.
father boys men
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
peace war years
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
men hunting games
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those 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.
silence littles rift
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
crazy men forever
Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
winning perfect may
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
nature red teeth
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
criticism literature locks
A louse in the locks of literature.