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...
blanket depression minds settled
If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,
break climbed
I climbed the roofs at break of day;/ Sun-smitten Alps before me lay.
forever join men
I chatter, chatter, as I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever
ah fools petty sweat
Ah God! the petty fools of rhyme/ That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars.
ah hour might possible short souls
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
across arm cute-love far felt hills round sweet-love waist
And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
creed hands human loveliness perfect poetic strong word
And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.
bosom moral within
And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?
adam claims gardener smile smiles
The gardener Adam and his wife/ Smile at the claims of long descent.
arch experience fades margin move whose
All experience is an arch where through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move
among days round strange
The days darken round me and the years,/ Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
charm flowering lonely
All the charm of all the Muses/ often flowering in a lonely word.
british head stare
And curving a contumelious,Gorgonized me from head to foot,With a stony British stare
lawless myriad science single wilderness
The lawless science of the law, that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances