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
faith feelings doubt
Faith lives in honest doubt.
faith dishonour rooted
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
faith heart simple
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
faith want equal
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
faith strong jesus
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
inspirational faith honesty
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
truth mind boundless
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
men coins currents
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
fire clouds west
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
country men cosmopolitanism
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
trust feelings trust-me
Trust me not at all, or all in all.
manners courtesy persons
The greater person is one of courtesy.
roots tree branches
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
death past men
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.