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...
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?
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
adam claims gardener smile smiles
The gardener Adam and his wife/ Smile at the claims of long descent.