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...
lying heart brain
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.
vow snaps
The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.
men courtesy he-man
The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
stars heaven sun
When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
night middle-of-the-night middle
Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.
new-year war pride
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
destiny purpose embrace
I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.
men nurse despair
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
rich poor doom
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
lonely wall fall
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
nature twenties alive
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?
fate men masters
For man is man and master of his fate.
teaching mets
I am a part of all whom I have met.
rain twilight eye
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew, From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.