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...
feels guinea helps honor hurt
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels
city funeral humming marriage news sound
News from the humming city comes to it/ In sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
absolution forgiveness hate sort sound
Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
fat great huge lord patron thirty
No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,/ A raiser of huge melons and of pine,/ A patron of some thirty charities.
breath death human life truly
No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death
edward fatter
Edward Bull/ The curate; he was fatter than his cure.
blind schoolboy
Not the schoolboy heat,/ The blind hysterics of the Celt.
call clear evening moaning sea sunset
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea
aged among barren dole idle laws profits savage unequal unto
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me
answer behind hope
What hope of answer or redress?/ Behind the veil, behind the veil.
believe creeds faith half honest
There is more faith in an honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds
heard middle waking
Upon the middle of the night./ Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.
music silence slowly tis within
Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all
alone five owl warming white
Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.