Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT TENNYSON'S GRAVE (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON, NOV. 16, 1892), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL


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AT TENNYSON'S GRAVE (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON, NOV. 16, 1892), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All round is silence! And a withering wreath
Last Line: Shall not be worn by any mightier now!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ALL round is Silence! And a withering wreath
Lies on the marble o'er his breast: and mute,
Quiet from massy brain to nerveless foot,
Rests England's last great Seer this stone beneath:
Beside him Browning, erst so gay and strong!
Well-done!—in England's inmost heart to lay
Two English hearts that made her, day by day,
More splendid in her deathless dower of song.
Poor Poet's Corner!—not to hold in trust,
With mournful pride and high solemnity,
Our Shakspere's, Milton's, Wordsworth's, Shelley's dust!
But here we guard—through all the years to be—
Shakspere's twin sons. The bays that bound their brow
Shall not be worn by any mightier now!





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