Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 - 1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

Read some of his work here, on Poetry Foundation.

Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

A voice by the cedar tree (1871) Camille Saint-Saëns
Be near me (2017) Jonathan Dove
Calm is the morn (2017) Jonathan Dove
Enoch Arden (1898) Op. 38 Richard Strauss
Fair Ship (2017) Jonathan Dove
Now sleeps the crimson petal (1904) Op. 3 no.2 Roger Quilter
Peace, come away (2017) Jonathan Dove
Ring out, wild bells (2000) Jonathan Dove
The Sailor-Boy
The splendour falls (1905) Ralph Vaughan Williams
There Rolls the Deep Hubert Parry
Thy voice is on the rolling air (2017) Jonathan Dove
Tonight the winds begin to rise (2017) Jonathan Dove
With weary steps (2017) Jonathan Dove

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