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
needs life-is
All Life needs for life is possible to will.
life flower white
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
life dream prayer
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
life should labour
Ah, why Should life all labour be?
life self sight
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
life flower white
The white flower of a blameless life.
life fall love-is
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
life beloved
For love reflects the thing beloved.
life hurt regret
Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
life strings harps
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
life world arms
And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
life walks
Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
life deep-love lips
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.
life dream thee
I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.