Break, Break, Break (Tennyson's Poem About Loss)

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Written 183 years ago by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break Break is an elegy on the loss of his friend and fellow poet, Arthur Hallam.

The poem is as follows:

Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

O well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead,
Will never come back to me.