(6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 / Lincoln / England)

poet Alfred Lord Tennyson
#16 on top 500 poets

Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

41. How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? 1/1/2004
42. Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint 1/1/2004
43. Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) 1/1/2004
44. Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) 1/1/2004
45. In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure 1/1/2004
46. In Memoriam 16: I envy not in any moods 1/1/2004
47. In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship 1/1/2004
48. In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death 1/1/2004
49. In Memoriam A. H. H. 116 4/8/2010
50. In Memoriam A. H. H. 7 4/8/2010
51. In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel 1/1/2004
52. In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124. That which we dare invoke 1/1/2004
53. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105. To-night ungather'd let us leave 1/1/2004
54. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 11. Calm is the morn without a sound 1/1/2004
55. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate all this work of Tim 1/1/2004
56. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun 1/1/2004
57. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 126. Love is and was my Lord and King 1/1/2004
58. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure 1/1/2004
59. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 15. To-night the winds begin to rise 1/1/2004
60. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 16. I Envy not in any Moods 1/1/2004

The Grandmother

I.
And Willy, my eldest-born, is gone, you say, little Anne?
Ruddy and white, and strong on his legs, he looks like a man.
And Willy's wife has written: she never was over-wise,
Never the wife for Willy: he would n't take my advice.

II.
For, Annie, you see, her father was not the man to save,
Had n't a head to manage, and drank himself into his grave.

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