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Many happy returns of the day to Alfred Lord Tennyson, born today in 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.

Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign, in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Tennyson is the 9th most quoted writer.

Do you have a favorite Tennyson quote?

(posted by David James in Victorian History on FB, Aug. 6, 2015)
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,
And I linger on the shore;
And the individual withers,
And the world is more and more..."

And one of his best poems:
(song found thanks to elenbarathi)


On either side of the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road run by
To many-towered Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.