PoemIdylls of the King—Book 3: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint
Author / PoetAlfred Lord Tennyson
TagsCloud, Hate, Love, Storm

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro’ sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands;
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;
For man is man and master of his fate.

Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd;
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 Aug 1809 - 6 Oct 1892
Region: British, Northern Europe
Period: Romantic

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