crossing the bar

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" in 1889, just years before he died. This poem describes his uncomplaining attitude toward death. Even though he wrote other poems after this, he requested that "Crossing the Bar" appear as the last poem in all collections of his work. This poem consists of four quatrain stanzas with rhyme pattern ABAB. The first and third lines of each stanza are always a couple of beats longer than the second …

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