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
happiness new-year hope
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
happiness passion men
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
happiness may achilles
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
happiness play wind
As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.
happiness needs highest
We needs must love the highest when we see it.
happiness
How fares it with the happy dead?
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.
inspirational new-year years
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
spiritual real believe
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
ignorance long naked
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
climbing mud evolution
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
beautiful voice silence
Silence, beautiful voice.