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...
ancient dreamed power spring
I dreamed there would be Spring no more,/ That Nature's ancient power was lost.
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
beyond late order purpose sail seek sitting until western
Come, my friends,'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.
late seek
Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world.
black flown
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown
height lives mountain pleasure shepherd
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:/ What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)?
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
dealer fool fools-and-foolishness guard hour jealous speech thoughts words
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
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.
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.