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
nature soul half
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
light mets god-and-nature
God and Nature met in light.
nature men hands
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
nature moon voice
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
nature sex men
Either sex alone is half itself.
nature world sparrows
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
nature men mind
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
nature red teeth
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
nature mind noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
nature wall spring
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
noble human-nature
Better not be at all than not be noble.
nature flower hours
If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
nature
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.