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  2. Crossing the Bar - Wikipedia

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    Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the " sandbar " between the river of life, with its outgoing "flood", and the ocean that lies beyond death , the "boundless deep", to which we return.

  3. Moaning sandbar - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-19th-century, the phrase "the harbor bar be moaning" in the poem and lyric "Three Fishers" connected working-class suffering to the noises. Later in that century, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar", coupling "May there be no moaning of the bar" with images of life's end, and then designated it as essentially his own ...

  4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s ən /; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria 's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".

  5. A. H. Behrend - Wikipedia

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    "Crossing the Bar" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) "Stay, Stay at Home" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) "The Rainy Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) "The Song of the Shirt ...

  6. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical - Wikipedia

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    The volume had the following title-page: Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, by Alfred Tennyson. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830. [ 3 ] Favourable reviews appeared by Sir John Bowring in the Westminster , by Leigh Hunt in the Tatler , and by Arthur Hallam in the Englishman's Magazine .

  7. Tears, Idle Tears - Wikipedia

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Tears, Idle Tears" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics.

  8. What does it mean to be 'MagBarred?' Meet the owners of the ...

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    On Urban Dictionary, a popular online crowd-sourced dictionary website, the term “MagBarred” is defined as “turning a non-drive-thru building into a drive-thru without consent” — in ...

  9. Maud, and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...