" This poem quotes its earlier assertion that nature is "so careful of the type" but "so careless of the single life" before marveling that man "trusted God was love indeed" even though "Nature, red in tooth and claw" has "shriek'd against his creed."
This poem's line "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky" is followed by eight stanzas of invocations to bells to "ring out" or "ring in." This poem quotes its earlier assertion that nature is "so careful of the type" but "so careless of the single life" before marveling that man "trusted God was love indeed" even though "Nature, red in tooth and claw" has "shriek'd against his creed." Its preface invokes "Strong Son of God, immortal Love," and this poem's (*) one hundred and thirty one sections are composed of ABBA quatrains sometimes known as its namesake stanza. The narrator of this poem holds that "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem written over seventeen years after the death of Arthur Henry Hallam.
This poem's line "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky" is followed by eight stanzas of invocations to bells to "ring out" or "ring in.
In {Memoriam A.H.H.}