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I ENVY NOT IN ANY MOODS

I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born with in the cage,
That never knew the summer woods:

I envy not the beast that takes
His licence in the field of time,
Unfetter'd by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes;

Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth,
nor any want-begotten rest.

I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it,when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)

An English poet who was appointed poet laureate in 1850,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson is considered highly representative of the Victorian
age in England.


Alfred, Tennyson was the chief representative of what is known as the age of Victorian poetry.

He was hopelessly addicted to tobacco and port, he was a wanderer, and he remained largely unsettled throughout his life.

The poet Thomas Carlyle described him in a letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson as "A man sultry and sad in an element of gloom.....one of finest looking men in the world.....His voice is mightily loose. Fit for loud laughter and piercing wail."

From all that I have read of Alfred Tennyson, he was a deeply passionate man who loved to take risks and was willing to take the consequences when his investments or his pursuits did not turn out as planned.


Put the lesson of Tennyson's classic poem to work in your life with the following suggestions:

- Refuse to ever use the term "failure" again about yourself or anyone else.
Remind yourself that when things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

- Then ask yourself this powerfully life-enhancing question, "What am I going to do with the results I've produced?" And proceed to act in such a way as to be grateful rather than resentful for those less than glorious results.

- When others use the term "failure" about you, gently correct them by saying, "I have not failed, today I know another way not to bake a cake."

- Deliberately pursue activities in which you have previously shown little or no aptitude. The way out of fear or failure is to face it and laugh at the the results rather than be embarrassed or intimidated by earlier outcomes.