greykit.poetry — Alfred Lord Tennyson/poems-1842

• 1842 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Break, Break, Break
  Poems (1842)

  Waves break on cold gray stones — the fisherman's boy shouts, the sailor lad sings, the stately ships go on, but the tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me.

  #lyric#elegy#grief#sea#1840s
• 1842 [alfred-lord-tennyson] The Lady of Shalott
  Poems

  Imprisoned in her island tower by a mysterious curse, the Lady of Shalott weaves the world in a mirror until Sir Lancelot's bright passage compels her to look directly at Camelot — and die.

  #narrative#Arthurian#lyric#curse#1840s
• 1842 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Ulysses
  Poems

  The aged Ulysses speaks from Ithaca, chafing against an idle kingship and rallying his mariners for one last voyage beyond the western stars — to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  #dramatic-monologue#myth#heroism#age#1840s