Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson was a 19th-century British poet laureate. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Read more on Wikipedia →

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