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...
across bells dying flying happy ring wild year
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;
faithless ring sin
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.
peace ring thousand wars
Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.
feud redress rich ring
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,/ Ring in redress to all mankind.
blood civic false pride ring slander
Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite.
ancient dying forms modes party purer ring slowly sweeter
Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.
common love ring truth
Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.
change forward great ringing spin
Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change
awake dawn knowing night promise rose roses
The rose was awake all night for your sake,/ Knowing your promise to me;/ The lilies and roses were all awake,/ They sighed for the dawn and thee.
answer bells birth christmas draws hill mist moon near night time
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist
climbing peace
Is there any peace/ In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
believe mainly man ours wise
The world will not believe a man repents; And this wise world of ours is mainly right
roll
The rise/ And long roll of the Hexameter.
deep eternity light sabbath sea shining wide
The Sabbaths of Eternity,/ One Sabbath deep and wide -/ A light upon the shining sea -/ The Bridegroom with his bride!