Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems

  • Lost Love
    I envy not in any moods
    The captive void of noble rage,
    The linnet born within the cage,
    That never knew the summer woods; ...
  • The Larger Hope
    Oh yet we trust that somehow good
    Will be the final goal of ill,
    To pangs of nature, sins of will,
    Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; ...
  • A Voice By The Cedar Tree
    A voice by cedar tree
    In the meadow under the Hall!
    She is singing an air that is known to me,
    A passionate ballad gallant and gay, ...
  • Dark House
    Dark house, by which once more I stand
    Here in the long unlovely street.
    Doors, where my heart was used to beat
    So quickly, waiting for a hand. ...
  • She Is Coming, My Own, My Sweet
    She is coming, my own, my sweet;
    Were it ever so airy a tread,
    My heart would hear and beat,
    Were it earth in an earthy bed, ...
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Love 215 I Love You 215 Life 210 Light 205 Heart 197 Night 185 Long 169 Time 159 Earth 149 World 147


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Psalm 119 Part 10
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Pleading the promises.

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Devoted to thy fear;
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