Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.Collection: Love
A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.Collection: Beauty
Bible reading is an education in itself.Collection: Bible
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.Collection: Lying
Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.Collection: Song
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.Collection: Happiness
For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.Collection: Heart
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.Collection: Death
I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!Collection: Hate
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.Collection: Strength
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.Collection: Blue
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.Collection: Wisdom
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.Collection: Summer
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.Collection: Life
The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.Collection: Dirty
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.Collection: Fall
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.Collection: Morning
There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.Collection: Gay
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?Collection: New Year
Sweet is true love, though given in vain.Collection: Love
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.Collection: Fighting