A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.Lord Alfred Tennyson
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.Lord Alfred Tennyson
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.Lord Alfred Tennyson
Go, little letter, apace, apace, Fly; Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.Lord Alfred Tennyson
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.Lord Alfred Tennyson
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.Lord Alfred Tennyson
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.Lord Alfred Tennyson
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.Lord Alfred Tennyson
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.Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea!Lord Alfred Tennyson
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; 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.'Lord Alfred Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions.Lord Alfred Tennyson
The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.Lord Alfred Tennyson
