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 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?
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.
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.
faith feelings doubt
Faith lives in honest doubt.
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.