It's Poetry Month! -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

[chamuda]

So, here's another entry in what I've decided to call my grandfather series.  The was another one of his favorites; one that we read together many times.


Crossing the Bar
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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 bourn of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.

Comments

[wintercreek]

Super late comment, but: How I love this poem! I did a big project in the eighth grade comparing this with Frost's "Stopping By Woods" and a third poem I can't recall now, comparing different metaphors for and attitudes toward death. Anyway, this one is lovely.