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
experience teach folly
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
quiet hills calmness
The noonday quiet holds the hill.
morning stars golden
The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.
sad land court
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed...
profit humans knows
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
women men
Woman is the lesser man.
knows
Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
moon long long-day
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.
better-now ifs
That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
golden-years years golden
Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
swans ruffles cold
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
swans hymns joy
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
league valleys half
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
spirit efficiency cricket
Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.