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
time age heirs
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
death kings dying
Authority forgets a dying king.
jealous thinking care
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
peace lying men
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
life flower white
The white flower of a blameless life.
hope men
The mighty hopes that make us men.
hope spring fall
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
freedom red dawn
Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?
freedom feet light
Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.
forgiveness men forgiving
The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
faith heart simple
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
moving forever experience
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
christmas moon night
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.
science grows
Science grows and Beauty dwindles.