Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Family
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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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O, I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
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There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
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Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
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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.