Poems you ought to know . arrested in connection withthe Harpers Ferry affair, enlisted in 1862, was wounded, taught a blackschool in South Carolina in 1867, and for years led a hand to mouth exist-ence, all that time writing poetry, some of it of the most exquisite troubles resulted in his suicide in San Francisco about 1875. Let Liberty run onward with the years,And circle with the seasons; let her breakThe tyrants harshness, the oppressors spears;Bring ripened recompenses that shall makeSupreme amends for sorrows long arrears;Drop holy benison on hearts that ache;Put clearer r
Poems you ought to know . arrested in connection withthe Harpers Ferry affair, enlisted in 1862, was wounded, taught a blackschool in South Carolina in 1867, and for years led a hand to mouth exist-ence, all that time writing poetry, some of it of the most exquisite troubles resulted in his suicide in San Francisco about 1875. Let Liberty run onward with the years,And circle with the seasons; let her breakThe tyrants harshness, the oppressors spears;Bring ripened recompenses that shall makeSupreme amends for sorrows long arrears;Drop holy benison on hearts that ache;Put clearer radiance into human set the glad earth singing to the skies. Clean natures coin pure statutes. Let us cleanseThe hearts that beat within us; let us mowClear to the roots our falseness and pretense,Tread down our rank ambitions, overthrowOur braggart moods of puffed self-consequence,Plow up our hideous thistles which do growFaster than maize in May time, and strike deadThe base infections our low greeds have 23 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. Alfred Tennyson was born at Lincolnshire in 1809. In 1828 he wrote,•with his brother, the Poems by Two Brothers. He went to TrinityCollege, Cambridge, where he met his friend, Arthur Hallam, uponwhose death he wrote In Memoriam. When died la1850, the laureateship was given to Tennyson; later he was made aBaron. He died at Aldworth, on the Isle of Wight, In 1892, and hasbeen given a place in Westminster Abbey near the grave of of his longer poems beside the one mentioned above are: ThePrincess, Maud, Enoch Arden, and the Idyls of the King. Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O, sea!And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fishermans boy That he shouts with his sister at play I O, well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on, To the haven under the hill;But O, for the touch of a vanished hand,
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