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 new-year hope
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
nature soul half
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
love gold true-love
Love is the only gold.
men cells years
And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
grief mind sap
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
mean eye heart
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
prayer eye home
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
men manners courtesy
The greater man the greater courtesy.
love dream art
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
love kissing fire
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
spiritual hands breathing
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
sweet heart deep-love
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
prayer heaven storm
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
thinking concentration ifs
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.