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...
peace ring thousand wars
Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.
feud redress rich ring
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,/ Ring in redress to all mankind.
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.
near seems
He seems so near and yet so far.
eternal god nor power serve sold truth
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
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.
dusty fresh
Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.
deep great
From the great deep to the great deep he goes.
reason theirs
Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.