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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO PROFESSOR JEBB, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair things are slow to fade away Last Line: Blossom again on a colder isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse (1841-1905 | |||
FAIR things are slow to fade away, Bear witness you, that yesterday From out the Ghost of Pindar in you Roll'd an Olympian; and they say That here the torpid mummy wheat Of Egypt bore a grain as sweet As that which gilds the glebe of England, Sunn'd with a summer of milder heat. So may this legend for awhile, If greeted by your classic smile, Tho' dead in its Trinacrian Enna, Blossom again on a colder isle. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DEDICATION by ALFRED TENNYSON A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN by ALFRED TENNYSON BREAK, BREAK, BREAK by ALFRED TENNYSON CROSSING THE BAR by ALFRED TENNYSON EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE by ALFRED TENNYSON ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 by ALFRED TENNYSON ENOCH ARDEN by ALFRED TENNYSON |
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