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First Line: Alfred, I would that you behold me now
Last Line: Divide dominion with the abundant light.
Subject(s): Summer; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ACROSS THE SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the silence of the silent night
Last Line: We share his glory, and we share your tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ALFRED TENNYSON, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears, idle tears! Ah, who shall bid us weep
Last Line: Since all that tears would tell thyself hast said.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ALFRED TENNYSON (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lordliest at arthur's table round
Last Line: Whom death has knighted now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ALFRED TENNYSON (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The voice that late with music thrilled
Last Line: Of worlds new-wakened to his strain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief there will be, and may
Last Line: Filled with renown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


AT TENNYSON'S GRAVE (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON, NOV. 16, 1892), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     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


AUTOCHTHON, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rude country some four thousand miles
Last Line: O leader in a commonwealth of thought!
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Judgments; Life; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


BABY UP AT BATTENBERG'S, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heerd 'bout what's happened
Last Line: Haven't ye heerd tell?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


COMFORT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who would care to pass his life away
Last Line: Malgré alfred tennyson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Variant Title(s): Lotus Eating
Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Joy; Delight; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


DEATH AND BURIAL OF LORD TENNYSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone
Last Line: And his name in gold letters written thereon!
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Memory; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


DEATH OF TENNYSON, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mourn, all ye nations, mourn! For he is dead
Last Line: Who knew the tree, and gather'd of its fruit!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


FACADE: 27. WHEN SIR BEELZEBUB, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When / sir / beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in hell
Last Line: ... None of them come!
Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hell; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


FOOTNOTE TO TENNYSON, by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feel it when the game is done
Last Line: Than ever to have loved and won.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


IN POET'S CORNER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When first the clamorous poets sang, and when
Last Line: Of various tone, farewell!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


LACHRYMAE MUSARUM (THE DEATH OF TENNYSON), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low, like another's, lies the laurelled head
Last Line: With flower of perfect speech.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): Lacrimae Musarum
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Writing & Writers; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


LORD TENNYSON, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Immortal bard, whose voice is stilled in death
Last Line: Although he sleeps in peace. ... Can never die.
Subject(s): Death; Honor; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 1, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bury the great horse / with all clubdom's lamentation
Last Line: And critics gather in smoke-room and stall.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 2, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where shall we raise the statue they demand?
Last Line: Recognise the work their fancy planned.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 3, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Set up the statue: dull and staid
Last Line: Another civic statue's made.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Honor; Statues; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 4, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mourn, for with him we lose our last / chance to redeem the errors of the past
Last Line: All criticism while he stood.
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 5, by DOUGLAS GARMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now all's over, of course, / and small thanks to the sculptor
Last Line: Let the bronze be cast,
Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


ON THE DEATH OF ALFRED TENNYSON, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who took the laurel from the brow
Last Line: And kept the lily's whiteness fair.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


REPLY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a cruel stab
Last Line: The present poet laureate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldst know the clash of knightly steel on steel?
Last Line: Turn but the page, that various world is here!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS: 4. WIND OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind of the sea, come fill my sail
Last Line: And bear me away! -- away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Wind; Ocean; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


SONNET: 12. ALFRED TENNYSON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silvery dimness of a happy dream
Last Line: The sumptuous comfort left in drowsy eyes.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shakespeare and milton - what third blazoned name
Last Line: Will find no gift, where reverence is, unmeet.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Writing & Writers; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: How beautiful to live as thou didst live
Last Line: At rest in all the best that love could give!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The larks of song that high o'erhead
Last Line: To this one lark alone in heaven.
Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We of the new world clasp
Last Line: From old and new world -- ay, and still the new!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by KARL SHAPIRO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like many of us he was rather disgusting
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas fit that with the falling year
Last Line: The thoughts of all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon
Last Line: Silence here -- but, far beyond us, many voices crying, hail!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): In Lucem Tranitus
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1892), by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me my dead
Last Line: And whisper softly: all must fall asleep.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His brows were circled by a wreath of bays
Last Line: In the rich music of his english lyre.
Subject(s): Fame; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Reputation; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TENNYSON: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How grand he would have stood, had he declined
Last Line: Son of the morning -- how thy beams are shorn!
Subject(s): Love; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Truth; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE CHARGE OF THE BREAD BRIGADE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a loaf, half a loaf, / half a loaf? Um-hum?
Last Line: Fed 'em with hogwash!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is
Last Line: Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee.
Subject(s): Pantheism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN; PARODY OF TENNYSON'S 'LOCKSLEY HALL', by THEODORE MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Comrades, you may pass the rosy. With permission of the chair
Last Line: Rest thee with thy yellow nabob, spider-hearted cousin amy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with William Aytoun)
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE LITERARY WORLD: 2, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs alfred tennyson
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE MERMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would be / a merman gay
Last Line: We would live merrily, merrily.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE POETS AT TEA: 2. TENNYSON, WHO TOOK IT HOT, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I am drawing to an end
Last Line: O hallelujah! . . . Kindly pass the milk.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Tea; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


THE VILLAGE CHOIR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "half a bar, half a bar"
Last Line: Not the old hundred
Subject(s): "tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892);" "tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron;


TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Affronting fool, subdue your transient light
Last Line: T is decency in dunces to go lame.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Minstrel, what have you to do
Last Line: Had withstood it to grow old?
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO ALFRED TENNYSON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I entreat you, alfred tennyson
Last Line: Welcomer than alfred tenyson?
Subject(s): Mnemonics; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO ALFRED TENNYSON; ON HIS 'IDYLLS OF THE KINGS', by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me in their shadowy phrase
Last Line: Shall live, and die no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet a few years and thou, immortal bard
Last Line: Immortal, singing in this world of time!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO AN IMPORTUNATE HOST; DURING DINNER AND AFTER TENNYSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ask me no more: I've had enough chablis
Last Line: Ask me no more
Subject(s): "tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892);" "tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron;


TO LORD TENNYSON; ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 6, 1889, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master and seer! Too swift on noiseless feet
Last Line: And all our english race awaits thy latest word!
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


TO TENNYSON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from that world ere death and birth
Last Line: Reborn, re-risen, and yet the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


WAPENTAKE; TO ALFRED TENNYSON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine
Last Line: For thy allegiance to the poet's art.
Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


WHENCENESS OF THE WHICH; SOME DISTANCE AFTER TENNYSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come into the whenceness which
Last Line: "and the whatlet sobs, 'I pass'"
Subject(s): "tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892);" "tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron;