Prose and Poetry : The Hesperides

Education English | Prose and Poetry : The Hesperides | Prevailing in weakness, the coronach stole
Sometimes afar, and sometimes anear;
But anon her awful jubilant voice,
With a music strange and manifold,
Flow'd forth on a carol free and bold;
As when a  mighty people rejoice
With shawms , and with cymbals, and harps of gold,
And the tumult of their acclaim is roll'd
Thro' the open gates of the city afar,
And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds,
And the willow-branches hoar and dank,
And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds,
And the wave-worn Horns of the echoing bank,
And the silvery marish-flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among,
Were flooded over with eddying song.
Taken From Alfred Tennyson (Selected Poetry), 1951

Prose and Poetry : Break, Break, Break

Education English | Prose and Poetry : Break, Break, Break | Break, Break, Break
On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me
O, well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor said,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!
And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of voice that is still
Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me
Taken From Alfred Tennyson (Selected Poetry) , 1951
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Prose and Poetry : The Kraken

Education English | Prose and Poetry : The Kraken | Below the hundreds of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The kraken sleepeth : faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy side; above him swell
Huge sponges of millenial growth and height ;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There bath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angles to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise on the surface die
Taken From Alfred Tennyson (Selected Poetry), 1951

Prose and Poetry : Ulysses

Education English | Prose and Poetry : Ulysses | To feel, altho'no tongue can prove,
That every cloud, that spreads above
And veileth love, itself is love.
And forth into the fields I went,
And nature's living motion lent
The pulse of hope to discontent
I  wonder'd at the bounteous hours,
The slow result of winter showers;
You scarce could see the grass for flowers.
I wonder'd , while I paced along;
The woods were fill'd with song,
There seem'd no room for sense of wrong;
And all so variouslly wrought,
I marvedll'd how the mind was brought
To anchor by one gloomy thought;
And wherefore rather I made choice
To commune with that barren voice,
Than him that said , "Rejoice! Rejoice!"
Taken From Alfred Tennyson ( Selected Poetry), 1951
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