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
men coins currents
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
country men cosmopolitanism
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
death past men
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
men dwarves together
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
men together causes
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
men gray
Oh good gray head which all men knew!
men
Man's word is God in man.
nature men hands
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
father boys men
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
brother men done
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
men years long
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
nature sex men
Either sex alone is half itself.
plato mean men
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
prayer men hands
What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?