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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Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

• Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
• My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
• If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.
• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
• I am a part of all I have seen.

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