Alfred Tennyson:
(Somersby, 6 August 1809 – Blackdown, 6 October 1892).
Often referred to as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
English poet. Tennyson was Poet Laureate (court poet) of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets even in our time. He is the second most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Ring out the old, ring in the new. Ring, happy bells, across the snow. The year is going. Let him go. Ring out the false, ring in the true.
