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Lord Tennyson
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Definition:[1809 - 1892]a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Julia Margaret Cameron - (around 1875)
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Forth from the ill-lit tavern door
Where he had snoozed and boozed before
Stumbled his shambling feet.
A candle gave a guttering light,
And some one growled a hoarse good-night....
The Tramp was in the street.
Tennyson. The Tramp.
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[...] And look at me. Crispin, and I wouldn't like this to go any further, but I was christened Lancelot and Gawain, my mother being fond of Tennyson.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.172 (1971)
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By allowing the wife to receive the income 'for her separate use and free from the control of her husband,' as the phrase runs, you infallibly brush the bloom from the peach, and implant the 'little speck within the fruit' which, as Tennyson beautifully says, will widen by-and-by and make the music mute.
F. Anstey. The Black Poodle and Other Tales (1896)
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--And Harry of six wives' daughter. And other lady friends from neighbour seats as Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet, sings.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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