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Birth Name: Alfred Tennyson
Nickname: 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater
Born: August 6, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
Died: October 6, 1892 in Lurgashall, Sussex, England
Time Period: Victorian
Expertise: Playwright, Poet, Poet Laureate under Queen Victoria
Known For: Crossing the Bar, Poems Chiefly Lyrical, The Charge of the Light Brigade
Interesting quotes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.”
“God’s finger touched him, and he slept.”
“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”
“We are not now that strength which in old days, Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
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