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
beauty hands walking-hand-in-hand
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
running flower may
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
father boys men
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
morning earth
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
nature moon voice
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
brother men done
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
bridges cities legends
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
men years long
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
nature sex men
Either sex alone is half itself.
women flower simple
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
shapes deeds virtue
Virtue must shape itself in deed.
bows dew paint
And every dew-drop paints a bow.
eagles world wrens
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
flower wells seasons
Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.