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...
boundless mind thy truth within
This truth within thy mind rehearse,/ That in a boundless universe/ Is boundless better, boundless worse.
fathom mind shallow thou thy
Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it
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.
blanket depression minds settled
If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,
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.
duty path rough twice
Not once or twice in our rough island-story,/ The path of duty was the way to glory.
blinded eyesight miserable
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.
born city gently
A city clerk, but gently born and bred.
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
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