Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Birthday
1809–1892 England
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well."
O friendship, equal-poised control,
O heart, with kindliest motion warm,
O sacred essence, other form,
O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
Then came your new friend: you began to change—
I saw it and grieved.
The Princess (1847)
The eternal landscape of the past.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
O good gray head which all men knew.
I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?