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...
arch experience fades margin whose
I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
arch experience fades forever margin move whose
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move
loved nature slight
I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.
crying infant language
But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.
bound duty faith fought man queen valiant
I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;/ I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do.
Revolts, republics, revolutions, most/ No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.
great lay moon side
On one side lay the Ocean, and on one/ Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
among bearded reaping
Only reapers, reaping early/ In among the bearded barley.
bald blank breaks street
On the bald street breaks the blank day.
love thou
Love is of the valley, come thou down/ And find him.
alone control lead power three
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
alone lead life sovereign three
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
although answer gave knew lived looked met mind mirrors opposed reflecting thoughts time
So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech.
again breed grow men past word
Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again