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...
blood civic false pride ring slander
Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.
ancient dying forms modes party purer ring slowly sweeter
Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.
common love ring truth
Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.
beneath mountain sea watches wrinkled
Ringed with the azure world, he stands./ The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;/ He watches from his mountain walls,/ And like a thunderbolt he falls.
act drama fifth playwright wild
Our Playwright may show/ In some fifth Act what this wild drama means.
sing
Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.
cease systems
Our little systems have their day;/ They have their day and cease to be.
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.
half man sight
Half light, half shade,/ She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
eternal god nor power serve sold truth
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.