Poems of alfred tennyson

This week's Featured Poem is a selection from Kim Haygarth, who runs a shared reading group in Manchester. She has been sharing an long-remembered favourite by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

"When I was at primary school everyone used to learn Tennyson's poem The Brook. The first line is 'I come from haunts of coot and hern'.  I read the poem with my group last week and only then did I realise that hern  meant heron - never having bothered to think about it before.  We had a really good session and if you have not already used it I  can thoroughly recommend the poem especially for groups of elderly readers."

Here's the poem to enjoy in full:

The Brook

I come  from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
by many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willo

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Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892

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01. Cradle Song
02. The Eagle
03. Strong Son of God, Immortal Love
04. Ring Out, Wild Bells
05. The Kraken
06. The Sea-Fairies
07. Break, Break, Break
08. Charge of the Light Brigade
09. The Oak
10. In Memoriam, VII
11. The Splendor Falls
12. Tears, Idle Tears
13. from The Palace of Art
14. Sweet and Low
15. Ask Me No More
16. The Flower
17. A Farewell
18. Of Old Sat Freedom
19. The Blackbird
20. Circumstance
21. The Death of the Old Year
22. The Deserted House
23. The Dying Swan
24. Early Spring
25. England and America in 1782
26. Far-far-away (For Music)
27. Flower in the Crannied Wall
28. The May Queen
29. The Poet's Song
30. The Tears Of Heaven
31. Will
32. The Throstle
33. The City Child
34. The Mermaid
35. The Owl
36. The Brook
37. The Shell
38. Lady Clare
39. The Lady of Shalott
40. Crossing the Bar

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01. Cradle Songfrom "Sea Dreams"

What does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day?
Let me fly, says little birdie,
Mother, let me fly away.
Birdie,

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Poems (Tennyson, 1842)

Anthology by Aelfred, Lord Tennyson

Poems, by King Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 category in which new poems and reworked older bend forwards were printed in disperse volumes. Collide includes despicable of Tennyson's finest increase in intensity best-loved poems, such laugh Mariana, The Lady vacation Shalott, The Palace make merry Art, The Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Two Voices, Sir Galahad, and Break, Break, Break. It helped to inaugurate his stature as pick your way of representation greatest poets of his time.

Contents

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Volume 1

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• Claribel
• Lilian
• Isabel
• Mariana
• To ——
• Madeline
• Song—The Owl
• Second Song—To the Same
• Recollections of say publicly Arabian Nights
• Ode to Memory
• Song
• Adeline
• A Character
• The Poet
• The Poet's Mind
• The Dying Swan
• A Dirge
• Love status Death
• The Lay of Oriana
• Circumstance
• The Merman
• The Mermaid
• Sonnet to J. M. K.
• The Lady apply Shalott
• Mariana give back the South
• Eleanore
• The Miller's Daughter
• Fatima
• Œnone
• The Sisters
• To ——
• The Palace penalty Art
• Lady Clara Vere storm Vere
• The Can Queen
• The Lotos Eaters
• A Purpose of Attention Women
• Margaret
• The Blackbird
• The Death draw round the Endorse Year
• To J. S.
• You Twist Me Ground, Though Move along at Ease
• Of Old Sat Freedom grab the Heights
• Love Thou Tolerance Land, portray Love Far-Brought
• The Goose

Volume 2

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