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...
richard sir
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.
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!
alone five owl warming white
Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.
knight maiden
A maiden knight - to me is given/ Such hope, I know not fear.
answer behind hope
What hope of answer or redress?/ Behind the veil, behind the veil.
faces loathe meets squares
I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets
cute-love hold lost loved sorrow whatever
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
side
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
beyond cling faith forms
. . . cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.
closer hands nearer
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
cannon front left
Cannon to right of them,/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them/ Volleyed and thundered.
jaws mouth rode six
Into the jaws of death,/ Into the mouth of hell/ Rode the six hundred.
changes fancy lightly love spring thoughts turns
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love
hope smiles threshold whispering year
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.