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...
close duty god himself moon shining
The toppling crags of Duty scaled/ Are close upon the shining table-lands/ To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
corrupt custom fulfills god good himself lest older order
The older order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world
fears god greatness pray
Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.
against creed final god indeed law love red tooth trusted
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
falls gives god left lends love
God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on which it throve/ Falls off, and love is left alone.
eternal god nor power serve sold truth
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
careless gods hills lie
Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
battle god
God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
art god good thee thou
God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
god good increase woman
God made the woman for the man,/ And for the good and increase of the world.
awful god himself rose
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
edward fatter
Edward Bull/ The curate; he was fatter than his cure.
blind schoolboy
Not the schoolboy heat,/ The blind hysterics of the Celt.
soul
Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.