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
hate self heaven
We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
love hate scorn
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
hate heart men
I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
hate loss weight
So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight
hate forgiving littles
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
hate love-is perfect
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
friends wisdom hate
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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.