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
silence littles rift
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
brother men littles
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
life littles lost
Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.
art littles lord
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
wind littles aspens
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.
heart littles
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
daughter heart littles
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
hate forgiving littles
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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.