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Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring in the love of ...

A portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Samuel Laurence and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, circa 1840. Wikimedia Commons Alfred Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses”, was, he tells us, written under a sense of loss ...

The legendary dramatic actress Helen Mirren indulged Stephen Colbert with a reading of lines from the poem 'Ulysses' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, during last night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen ...

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and ...