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...
angel character divine false ideal looking loves man natures rubbish unreal
Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our natures - not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.
careless gods hills lie
Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
blossom wind
I wind about, and in and out,/ With here a blossom sailing,/ And here and there a lusty trout,/ And here and there a grayling.
rear savage shall
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my savage race.
loyal manners nature noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
limit quiet roaming shadow spaces
Here at the quiet limit of the world,/ A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream/ The ever-silent spaces of the East.
fell tears
Her tears fell with the dews at even;/ Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.
dreadful lips onward portions taken time
Time driveth onward fast,/ And in a little while our lips are dumb./ Let us alone. What is it that will last?/ All things are taken from us, and become/ Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.
fury maniac
Time, a maniac scattering dust,/ And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
federation parliament till
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
earth equal heroic moved strength strong temper time weak
Tho'/ We are not now that strength that in old days/ Moved earth and heaven: that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dusty fresh
Fresh from brawling courts/ And dusty purlieus of the law.
deep great
From the great deep to the great deep he goes.
english-poet
I am a part of all that I have seen.