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...
reason theirs
Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.
eternal public
That eternal want of pence/ Which vexes public men.
fought harder lie matter met truth
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,/ But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
heart strength ten
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
beyond great happy purpose sail shall touch until wash western
My purpose holds/ To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths/ Of all the western stars, until I die./ It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;/ It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles/ And see the great Achilles.
april becomes blossoms buds
My regret/ Becomes an April violet,/ And buds and blossoms like the rest.
dreams hall hunts
Locksley Hall Like a dog, he hunts in dreams
dearer hall hold horse novel passion shall spent
Locksley Hall He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse
side
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
beyond cling faith forms
. . . cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.
closer hands nearer
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
cannon front left
Cannon to right of them,/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them/ Volleyed and thundered.
among battle mountains noise winter
So all day long the noise of battle rolled/ Among the mountains by the winter sea.
dream knows nor thee
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,/ Nor can I dream of thee as dead.