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...
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.
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)?
born city gently
A city clerk, but gently born and bred.
sleep
Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.
sleep
Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.