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Short Name: | Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson |
Full Name: | Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 |
Birth Year: | 1809 |
Death Year: | 1892 |
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, son of the Rev. G. C. Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, was born at Somersby, Aug. 6, 1809; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; appointed Poet Laureate in 1850, and raised to the Peerage in 1884. Although Lord Tennyson has not written any hymns, extracts from his poems are sometimes used as such, as "Strong Son of God, immortal Love" (Faith in the Son of God), from the Introduction to his In Memoriam, 1850; the well-known "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now," and others. The former is sometimes given as "Spirit of immortal Love," and again as "Eternal God, immortal Love."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Texts by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (34)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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أيها ذي الأجراس نادي ونادي | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | Arabic | 1 |
Break, break, break! O break on thy cold gray stones | Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Contemplate all this work of Time | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Deep on the convent roof the snows | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 3 |
Do we indeed desire the dead | Tennyson (Author) | 2 | |
How pure in [at] heart and sound in head | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 5 |
I am a part of all that I have met | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | 2 | |
I found him not in world or sun | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 41 |
Love is and was my Lord and King | Tennyson (Author) | English | 6 |
Prayers | Alfred Lord Tennyson () | English | 1 |
Not in vain the distance beacons | Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 (Author) | English | 8 |
O living Will, that shalt endure | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 3 |
O yet we trust that somehow good | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 11 |
O young mariner, you from the haven | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 6 |
Perplext in faith, but pure | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Ring out a slowly dying cause | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that here we see no more | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 4 |
Ring out the old, ring in the new | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 54 |
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky | A. Tennyson (Author) | English | 97 |
Schon ist es spät und dunkel ist die Nacht | Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author) | German | 2 |
Sent, sent, sa sent, och natten mork och kall | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | Swedish | 4 |
Sleep sweetly, tender heart | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Strong Son of God, immortal Love | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 135 |
Sunset and evening star | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 159 |
Sweet and low, sweet and low, wind of the western sea | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 20 |
That which we dare invoke to bless | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
The time draws near the birth of Christ | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
The wish that of the living whole | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Author) | English | 3 |
Thy voice is on the rolling air | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
What does little birdie say | Tennyson (Author) | English | 9 |
Whatever crazy sorrow saith | Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
Who loves not knowledge? who shall rail | Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author) | English | 2 |
You say, but with no touch of scorn | Baron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author) | English | 3 |