Love
Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel
From Victorian Songs (1895)
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.
Cite this poem
MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/295/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/295/.
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