Departamento de Filología Moderna

COMENTARIO DE TEXTOS LITERARIOS EN LENGUA INGLESA

Year 2020-21
PRACTICE – Poems

Rhythm/Parallelism (1):
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam A.H.H.” (extract) (1850)

I hear the noise about thy keel; 1

I hear the bell struck in the night; 2
I see the cabin window bright; 3
I see the sailor at the wheel. 4

Thou bring’st the sailor to his wife, 5

And travelled men from foreign lands; 6
And letters unto trembling hands; 7
And, thy dark freight, a vanished life. 8

So bring him; we have idle dreams; 9

This look of quiet flatters thus 10
Our home-bred fancies. O, to us, 11
The fools of habit, sweeter seems 12

To rest beneath the clover sod, 13

That takes the sunshine and the rains, 14
Or where the kneeling hamlet drains 15
The chalice of the grapes of God; 16

Than if with thee the roaring wells 17

Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine, 18
And hands so often clasped in mine, 19
Should toss with tangle and with shells. 20

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