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Crossing the Bar

Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry by Alfred Tennyson
(1809 - 1892) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
Christian : Protestant
19th Century

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

 

 

-- from Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), by Alfred Tennyson

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Themes

  Sound
  Water
 
 
 


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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), by Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics), by Alfred Tennyson / Edited by Adam Roberts
The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson, by Alfred Tennyson
Idylls of the King and a New Selection of Poems (Signet Classics), by Alfred Tennyson
The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee

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