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
sweet names storm
Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
running age purpose
Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.
stars sun
There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.
travel observation
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
believe self thorough
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
world individual shore
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
cat blue owl
I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.
voice
The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
passion men years
To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.
feet british staring
Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.
race savages
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
twilight order tree
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
beauty daughter fairs
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
faith strong jesus
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.