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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O plump head-waiter...
O plump head-waiter at The Cock,
To which I most resort
How goes the time? 'Tis five o'clock.
Go fetch a pint...
That eternal want...
That eternal want of pence
Which vexes public men.
Source: Will Waterproof's...
Sunset and evening...
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to...
Ring out a...
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With...
Sleep, Death's twin-brother,...
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,
Nor can I dream of thee as dead.
On either side...
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And...
The Gods themselves...
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Source: Tithonus.
-- Alfred, Lord...
That God, which...
That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which...
Ring out the...
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times.
So careful of...
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life.
Source: In...
On one side...
On one side lay the Ocean, and on one
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
The kindly earth...
The kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Source: Locksley Hall,...
The Sabbaths of...
The Sabbaths of Eternity,
One Sabbath deep and wide -
A light upon the shining sea -
The Bridegroom with his...
Ring out, wild...
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out...
Someone had blundered:<br>Theirs...
Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and...
Revolts, republics, revolutions,...
Revolts, republics, revolutions, most
No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.
The long day...
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.
The folly of...
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Source: In
She only said,...
She only said, `My life is dreary,
He cometh not,' she said:
She said, `I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I...
That a lie...
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...