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
death past men
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
death stars sunset
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
death men thinking
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
death kings dying
Authority forgets a dying king.
death twilight farewell
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.
death night and-love
The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.
death lying cutting
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
death poetry valleys
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
death light wheels
Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
death grieving memorial
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
death heart blow
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
true-love pain grief
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
life dream men
My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.