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...
dead perfection
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
dividing swift
This way and that dividing the swift mind.
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
moving science
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.
firsts toil should
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
flames heat cooks
Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks
duty clash hard
O hard, when love and duty clash!
loss blood water
Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.
christmas xmas answers
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
life moving voice
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.
life men foolish-man
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.
should labor
Ah, why should life all labor be?
lying heart brain
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.