(August 6, 1809\u2013October 6, 1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, was accorded the royal honor of being named an English poet-laureate. He authored the poem Charge of the Light Brigade,<\/i> memorializing the courage of the British Cavalry as they charged to their death against the Russian guns at the Battle of Balaklava, October 25, 1854. He wrote Idylls of the King,<\/i> 1859\u201385, which described the legends of King Arthur\u2019s Court, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the search for the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Bible reading is an education in itself.2396<\/p>\n
The life after death is the cardinal point of Christianity. I believe that God reveals Himself in every individual soul; and my idea of heaven is the perpetual ministry of one soul to another. There are two things which I believe to be beyond the intelligence of man: the one the intellectual genius of Shakespeare, and the other the religious genius of Christ.2397<\/p>\n
My mother was as mild as any saint, and nearly canonized by all she knew, so gracious was her tact and tenderness.2398<\/p>\n
In 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote his work In Memoriam,<\/i> a poem written after the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. Queen Victoria once said, \u201cNext to the Bible, \u2018In Memoriam\u2019<\/i> is my comfort.\u201d2399 In it Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
And so the Word had breath, and wrought<\/p>\n
With human hands the creed of creeds<\/p>\n
In loveliness of perfect deeds,<\/p>\n
More strong than all poetic thought.2400<\/p>\n
Ring in the valiant man and free,<\/p>\n
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;<\/p>\n
Ring out the darkness of the land,<\/p>\n
Ring in the Christ that is to be.2401<\/p>\n
In 1850, Tennyson married Emily Sellwood, to whom he had been engaged for a long time. He later wrote:<\/p>\n
The peace of God came into my life before the altar when I wedded her.2402<\/p>\n
In Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,<\/i> 1852, st. 9, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Speak no more of his renown.<\/p>\n
Lay your earthly fancies down,<\/p>\n
And in the vast cathedral leave him,<\/p>\n
God accept him, Christ receive him.2403<\/p>\n
In Maud,<\/i> 1855, Part II, sec. iv, st. 3, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Oh, Christ, that it were possible<\/p>\n
For one short hour to see<\/p>\n
The souls we loved, that they might tell us<\/p>\n
What and where they be.2404<\/p>\n
In Enoch Arden,<\/i> 1864, line 222, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.2405<\/p>\n
In The Higher Pantheism,<\/i> 1869, st. 6, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet\u2014<\/p>\n
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.2406<\/p>\n
In other works, Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
In Grief<\/i><\/p>\n
Strong Son of God! Immortal Love,<\/p>\n
Whom we, that have not seen Thy face,<\/p>\n
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,<\/p>\n
Believing where we can not prove!<\/p>\n
Thine are these orbs of light and shade;<\/p>\n
Thou madest life in man and brute;<\/p>\n
Thou madest Death; and lo, Thy foot<\/p>\n
Is on the skull which Thou hast made!<\/p>\n
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust;<\/p>\n
Thou madest man, he knows not why;<\/p>\n
He thinks he was not made to die;<\/p>\n
And Thou hast made Him: Thou art just.<\/p>\n
Thou seemest human and Divine,<\/p>\n
The highest, holiest manhood, Thou;<\/p>\n
Our wills are ours, we know not how;<\/p>\n
Our wills are ours to make them Thine.2407<\/p>\n
Lazarus<\/i><\/p>\n
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,<\/p>\n
And home to Mary\u2019s house returned,<\/p>\n
Was this demanded\u2014if he yearned<\/p>\n
To hear her weeping by his grave?<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere wert thou, brother, those four days?\u201d<\/p>\n
There lives no record of reply,<\/p>\n
Which, telling what it is to die,<\/p>\n
Had surely added praise to praise.<\/p>\n
From every house the neighbors met,<\/p>\n
The streets were filled with joyful sound;<\/p>\n
A solemn gladness even crowned<\/p>\n
The purple brows of Olivet.<\/p>\n
Behold a man raised up by Christ;<\/p>\n
The rest remained unrevealed;<\/p>\n
He told it not, or something sealed<\/p>\n
The lips of that Evangelist.2408<\/p>\n
In Flower in the Crannied Wall,<\/i> 1869, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
Flower in the crannied wall,<\/p>\n
I pluck you out of the crannies,<\/p>\n
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,<\/p>\n
Little flower\u2014but if I could understand<\/p>\n
What you are, root and all, and all in all,<\/p>\n
I should know what God and man is.2409<\/p>\n
In Idylls of the King,<\/i> 1859\u201385, Tennyson wrote The Passing of Arthur,<\/i> line 9:<\/p>\n
I found Him in the shining of the stars,<\/p>\n
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,<\/p>\n
But in His ways with men I find Him not.2410<\/p>\n
In line 407:<\/p>\n
And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:<\/p>\n
The old order changeth, yielding place to new;<\/p>\n
And God fulfills himself in many ways,<\/p>\n
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.2411<\/p>\n
In Crossing the Bar,<\/i> 1889, st. 3, Tennyson wrote:<\/p>\n
I hope to see my Pilot face to face<\/p>\n
When I have crossed the bar.2412<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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