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
husband heart wife
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
deception triumph disaster
When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.
summer weed heart
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
done world earth
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
positive leadership knowledge
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
art voice misery
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
love sweet vain
Sweet is true love, though given in vain.
wise sorrow
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
life love-you mean
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.
love-is long life-is
Life is brief but love is LONG .
mother fall blood
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
song wings singing
Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
fall kissing blessing
And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!
dark negativity chance
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.