The speaker of this poem twice refers to the "doors where my heart was used to beat /
The speaker of this poem twice refers to the "doors where my heart was used to beat / So quickly" in reference to a friend's former home. One section of this poem addresses a "dear heavenly friend that canst not die, / Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine." The speaker notes that "we live within the stranger's land, / And strangely falls our Christmas-eve" in the last of the three descriptions of Christmas that mark the passage of time in this work. In one climactic section of this poem, the speaker reaches (*) "empyreal heights of thought" upon reading "those fall'n leaves which kept their green, / The noble letters of the dead." Nature is described as "red in tooth and claw" by this poem, which inspired an iambic tetrameter quatrain with rhyme scheme ABBA to be called its namesake stanza. Its best-known lines come from section 27, in which the speaker concludes, "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." For 10 points, name this 133-part poem on the death of Arthur Henry Hallam, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The speaker of this poem twice refers to the "doors where my heart was used to beat /
In Memoriam A. H. H.