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IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand
Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2)
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement


Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more --
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.






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