Camelot and King Arthur’s Court, Knights of the Round Table, Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, and the search for the Holy Grail…Our imaginations soar with history and legend immortalized in “Idylls of the King,” written 1859-85 by poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Alfred Lord Tennyson embellished the medieval legend of the Lady of the Lake who gave the sword Excalibur to the courageous young King Arthur. Born AUGUST 6, 1809, Alfred Lord Tennyson was the son of an Anglican clergyman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 1798: “He prayeth best who loveth best Alfred Lord Tennyson recorded the courage of the British Cavalry in “The Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Crimean War. British soldiers were mistakenly ordered to ride to their deaths fighting in the Crimean War against Russia at the Battle of Balaclava, 1854: “Half a league, half a league, ‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Over a half-million died in the Crimean War., in which there were over a half-million deaths, was eventually won by the British alliance. When the British alliance eventually won, Russia feared British Canada may try to claim Russian Alaska, so they sold the Alaskan Territory to the United States in 1867. Alfred Lord Tennyson was honored by Queen Victoria as Poet-Laureate, Tennyson wrote in “Enoch Arden,” 1864, line 222: “Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote: “Bible reading is an education in itself.” In 1850, Tennyson married Emily Sellwood, to whom he had been engaged for a long time. He wrote: “The peace of God came into my life before the altar when I wedded her.” Tennyson wrote in “Maud,” 1855, part II, sec. iv, st. 3: “Oh, Christ, that it were possible, Get the book America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations Tennyson’s “In Memoriam,” 1850, chapter XXVII, stanza 4, has the line: “‘Tis better to have loved and lost Tennyson wrote “In Memoriam,” 1850, chapter XXXI: “When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, “‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’ “From every house the neighbors met, “Behold a man raised up by Christ; The Library of Congress has a line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” displayed in the Jefferson Building’s Main Reading Room above the figure of History: “ONE GOD, ONE LAW, ONE ELEMENT, AND ONE FAR-OFF DIVINE EVENT, TO WHICH THE WHOLE CREATION MOVES.” Queen Victoria once said: “Next to the Bible, ‘In Memoriam’ is my comfort.” Alfred Lord Tennyson was referred to by U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer in his lecture “The Promise and Possibilities of the Future,” 1905: “Some think…that we are mere atoms of matter tossed to and fro… Speaker Reed once said…great events of history were brought about by an intelligent and infinite Being… If you will reflect a little you will be led to the conclusion that, as Tennyson writes ‘Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.'” Justice Brewer continued: “If there be a ‘purpose running‘ through the life of the world, is it not plain that one thought in the divine plan was that in this republic should be unfolded and developed in the presence of the world the Christian doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man?” Alfred Lord Tennyson’s verse echoed an older poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), who wrote in “The Monastery”, 1830, chapter XII: “Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, In “Crossing the Bar,” 1889, st. 3, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “I hope to see my Pilot face to face For God’s Glory Alone Ministries thanks Bill Federer and www.AmericanMinute.com
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