Lord Alfred Tennyson
Lord Alfred 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...
feels guinea helps honor hurt
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels
against creed final god indeed law love red tooth trusted
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
believe creeds faith half honest
There is more faith in an honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds
heard middle waking
Upon the middle of the night./ Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.
blind both bound call chains earth gold hands knowing life lift men nourish round sheep themselves within
For 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?/ For so the whole round earth is every way/ Bound by gold chains
cannon forward knew light man reason rode six soldier valley
Forward the Light Brigade! Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die; Into the valley of death, Rode the six hundred, Cannon to right
change forward great ringing spin
Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change
falls gives god left lends love
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.
dreams face pray prayer thou wrought
If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
music silence slowly tis within
Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all
beyond far island longer
Our island home/ Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
experience follies nor preaches teach wisdom
Other's follies teach us not nor much their wisdom teaches; and most, of sterling worth, is what our own experience preaches
across bells dying flying happy ring wild year
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;
faithless ring sin
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.