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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The days darken...
The days darken round me and the years,
Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
There is no...
There is no joy but calm!
Source: The Lotos-Eaters, `Choric Song', 2
-- Alfred,...
Then the maiden...
Then the maiden Aunt
Took this fair day for text, and from it preached
An universal culture for the...
That man's the...
That man's the true Conservative
Who lops the moulder'd branch away.
Source:...
The steam<br>Floats up...
The steam
Floats up from those dim fields about the homes
Of happy men that have the power to die,
And grassy...
The gardener Adam...
The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
Source: Lady...
There lives more...
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
There lies a...
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.
Source:...
The old order...
The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should...
There's no glory...
There's no glory like those who save their country.
Source: In
This is my...
This is my son, mine own Telemachus.
Source: Ulysses, 33
-- Alfred, Lord...
This gray spirit...
This gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human...
Till the war-drum...
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of...
The rise<br>And long...
The rise
And long roll of the Hexameter.
Source: Lucretius, 10
-- Alfred,...
They praised him...
They praised him to his face
with their courtly foreign grace.
Source: The...
Thy voice is...
Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in...
This proverb flashes...
This proverb flashes thro' his head,
`The many fail, the one succeeds'.
Source:...
To love one...
To love one maiden only, cleave to her,
And worship her by years of noble deeds,
Until they won...
The sequel of...
The sequel of to-day unsolders all
The goodliest fellowship of famous knights
Whereof this world holds...
This is England's...
This is England's greatest son,
He that gained a hundred fights,
Nor ever lost an English...