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...
dreams fame man men-and-women wakes woman
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
beauty creatures hunt love man ride shining woman
Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
pure spirit thou
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.
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
england inventor name organ sing skilled time voice
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.
kiss soul sunlight
O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
curse heard whisper
She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.
fall hands master sink split
Sink me the ship, Master Gunner - sink her, split her in twain!/ Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!
dreams maybe wildest
Maybe the wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth.
city funeral humming marriage news sound
News from the humming city comes to it/ In sound of funeral or of marriage bells.