Excerpt from Queen Mary and HaroldTo The Master of BalliolIIIAnd on this white midwinter day -For have the far-off hymns of May,All her melodies,All her harmonies echo'd away? -IVTo-day, before you turn againTo thoughts that lift the soul of men,Hear my cataract'sDownward thunder in hollow and glen,V.Till, led by dream and vague desire,The woman, gliding toward the pyre,Find her warriorStark and dark in his funeral fire.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809a1892) published his first two volumes of poems in 1842, establishing him as the leading poet of his generation. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of Humanities and codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. He is the editor of six poetry collections, including "The Oxford Book of English Verse,"
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