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...
call glad happiest mother queen time wake
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;/ To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;/ Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day;/ For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
english gained greatest hundred lost nor
This is England's greatest son,/ He that gained a hundred fights,/ Nor ever lost an English gun.
fall fly flying gilded
O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,/ Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,/ And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.
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.
eyes music spirit tired
Music that gentler on the spirit lies- Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes
english-poet
I am a part of all that I have seen.
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.
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.