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...
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.
moving destiny law
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
men remembrance desire
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
education writing men
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.
humble pride men
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.
men ignorant exciting
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
close duty god himself moon shining
The toppling crags of Duty scaled/ Are close upon the shining table-lands/ To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
again fight hath lord shall spared strike
We have children, we have wives,/ And the Lord hath spared our lives./ We will make the Spaniard promise, if we yield, to let us go;/ We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.