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...
careful careless single type
So careful of the type she seems,/ So careless of the single life.
die reason
Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
faces loathe meets squares
I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets
cute-love hold lost loved sorrow whatever
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
jaws mouth rode six
Into the jaws of death,/ Into the mouth of hell/ Rode the six hundred.
soul
Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.
duty path rough twice
Not once or twice in our rough island-story,/ The path of duty was the way to glory.
blinded eyesight miserable
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.
changes fancy lightly love spring thoughts turns
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love
hope smiles threshold whispering year
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
central fill ghastly heard heavens nations rained
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew/ From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
captain council foremost great
Great in council and great in war,/ Foremost captain of his time.
flower garden love quote-of-the-day time walk
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
ancient dreamed power spring
I dreamed there would be Spring no more,/ That Nature's ancient power was lost.