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...
faithless ring sin
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.
sing
Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.
careful careless single type
So careful of the type she seems,/ So careless of the single life.
beyond bound follow gray human knowledge sinking spirit utmost yearning
This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
england inventor name organ sing skilled time voice
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.
fall hands master sink split
Sink me the ship, Master Gunner - sink her, split her in twain!/ Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!
lawless myriad science single wilderness
The lawless science of the law, that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances
answer behind hope
What hope of answer or redress?/ Behind the veil, behind the veil.
experience follies nor preaches teach wisdom
Other's follies teach us not nor much their wisdom teaches; and most, of sterling worth, is what our own experience preaches
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;
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.