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
roaming limits world
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
eagles world wrens
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.
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.
night purple world
And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.
men light world
This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
order world way
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
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.
world too-much rotten
Too much wit makes the world rotten.
world individual shore
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
blow white world
Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.
world too-late late
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
done world earth
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
true-love pain grief
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again