Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Character
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'He does not love me for my birth Nor for my lands so broad and fair; He loves me for my own true worth, And that is well,' said Lady Clare.
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A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she.
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!