greykit.poetry — Alfred Lord Tennyson/demeter-and-other-poems

• 1889 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Crossing the Bar
  Demeter and Other Poems

  Tennyson's valedictory lyric — written in a single sitting, placed by his own wish at the close of every volume of his work — hopes for no mourning when the tide bears him out, and to see his Pilot face to face.

  #elegy#death#faith#sea#1880s