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
hurt honor helping
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
sea people broads
Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.
law finals red
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
hate forgiving littles
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
fashion looks
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
music song heart
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.
music singing pipe
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
strength wind squares
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
fire-within sin save-me
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
life gold arms
So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
anchors care casts
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
bygones lost sail
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
succeed failing
The many fail: the one succeeds.
grace lovely faces
She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.