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
dream laughter eye
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
death light wheels
Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
life grief soul
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within,
echoes soul aging
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
life iron tears
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
love faults earth
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
flower learning weight
Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
doubt sides anticipation
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
mom mother blessed
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
funny women heaven
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
music cities piano
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
death grieving memorial
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
reason-why reason dies
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
world too-late late
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.