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Alfred Lord Tennyson Biography

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

Blow, Faint, Flower, Sweet

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

August, Bells, City, Garden, Summer, Wholly

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

Ceased, Down, Fighting, Stars, Summer

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Age, Life, Make, Pause, Shining, Though

Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

Rain, Rainbow, Sky

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

Boys, Dad, Father, Seen, Youth

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Ambition, Done, Philosophical, Things, Work, Worlds

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

Half, Lady, Said, Shadow, Shadows, Sick

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Dream, Dreams, Forgotten, Glimpse, Glimpses

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

Dust, Lightly, Men, Way, Ways

A day may sink or save a realm.

May, Realm, Save, Sink, Time, Time Management

The white flower of a blameless life.

Blameless, Flower, Life, White

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

Sorrow, Wise

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

Down, Faith, Heresy

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Glory, Islands, Stories, Story, Way

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun.

Call, Nebulous, Sinks, Star, Stars, Sun

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

World, Individual, Shore, Withers, Lingers

And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?

Delight, Equal, Spirit, Stir, Truth

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

Lakes, Lusty, Sailing, Sea, Wind

Love will conquer at the last.

Conquer, Lasts, Life, Love

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