" The title means "in memory." Tennyson's best friend Arthur Hallam died when he and Tennyson were still young men. Tennyson wrote his greatest work grieving and honoring his friend in a long series of short poems. In this one he justifies writing so much on his loss."

"I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold;
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more."

weeds- clothes, often for mourning

Some of the puzzles that people list for the public get indexed by the search engines (like Google). Some people find those puzzles and cannot figure out how to make a puzzle of their own. So this page now has the navigation sidebar.

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