Charles Tennyson Turner
Charles Tennyson Turner
Charles Tennyson Turnerwas an English poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 July 1808
dream long bees-and-honey
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.
sweet believe home
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
farewell night perfect
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
eye rainbow promise
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...
altar english-poet felt man spot stood surest until
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.