Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | To Victor Hugo | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | | VICTOR in poesy! Victor in romance! | |
| Cloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears! | |
| French of the French and lord of human tears! | |
| Child-lover, bard, whose fame-lit laurels glance, | |
| Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance | 5 |
| Beyond our strait their claim to be thy peers! | |
| Weird Titan, by thy wintry weight of years | |
| As yet unbroken! Stormy voice of France, | |
| Who does not love our England, so they say; | |
| I know not! England, France, all men to be, | 10 |
| Will make one people, ere man’s race be run; | |
| And I, desiring that diviner day, | |
| Yield thee full thanks for thy full courtesy | |
| To younger England in the boy, my son. | | | | |
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