Alfred, Lord Tennyson. For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, / Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; … Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd / In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

What does the poem Locksley Hall represent?

According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat.

Am I mad that I should cherish that which bears but bitter fruit I will pluck it from my bosom though my heart be at the root?

Would to God—for I had loved thee more than ever wife was loved. Am I mad, that I should cherish that which bears but bitter fruit? I will pluck it from my bosom, tho' my heart be at the root. As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.