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
smile home
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
smart vow snaps
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
love lying darkness
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
life drink
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
common-sense simplicity sublime
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
sight heard
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
summer stars fighting
And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
death heart blow
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
change humans all-things
All things human change.
fall dust hands
I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
love eye heart
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
happiness
How fares it with the happy dead?
son fighting gun
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
hate love-is perfect
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.