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...
god good increase woman
God made the woman for the man,/ And for the good and increase of the world.
limit quiet roaming shadow spaces
Here at the quiet limit of the world,/ A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream/ The ever-silent spaces of the East.
fell tears
Her tears fell with the dews at even;/ Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.
happy maiden shining till
Go not, happy day,/ From the shining fields,/ Go not, happy day,/ Till the maiden yields.
battle god
God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
art god good thee thou
God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
awful god himself rose
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
near seems
He seems so near and yet so far.
english-poet
I am a part of all that I have seen.
arch experience fades margin whose
I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
arch experience fades forever margin move whose
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move
loved nature slight
I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.
crying infant language
But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.
eternal god nor power serve sold truth
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power.