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
sea water silence
There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
fate men masters
Man is man, and master of his fate.
heart men land
There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.
death night and-love
The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
death lying cutting
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
heresy
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.
islands stories way
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
blow white world
Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.
regret lasts dies
O last regret, regret can die!
reason photograph cameron
I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
death poetry valleys
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
music sweet voice
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
daughter heart littles
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
love looks remember
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.