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
wind sea fishing
I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling...
dust age deeds
I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.
men dwarves together
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
men together causes
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
new-year years old-year
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
fear night form
All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
stars science night
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
men gray
Oh good gray head which all men knew!
roaming limits world
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
dove woodland heard
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
mind doubt clouded
My mind is clouded with a doubt.
summer fall winter
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"
blue wife long
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
men
Man's word is God in man.