Ethelwulf, and although the youngest of five sons succeeded to the
crown in 872 +A.D.+--at the age of 22. In the first year of his reign
the young king fought nine battles against the Danes who had overrun
the greater part of England north of the Thames. After a respite of
several years a second invasion took place in 878 under Guthrum, king
of the Danes in East Anglia, who overran Somerset without opposition,
and Alfred retired to Athelney, where tradition says he burnt the
cakes. In the same year he inflicted a defeat on the Danes at Edington
in Wiltshire. By the peace of Wedmore, Guthrum consented to become a
Christian and to acknowledge the supremacy of Alfred of the country
south of the Thames and the greater part of Mercia. He subsequently
devoted himself to legislation, the administration of government, and
to the encouragement of learning, being himself a man of letters. It
is to him we owe the foundation of England’s greatness on the seas
(849-901).
_An Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Harold_.
ALFWIG.
Abbot of New Minster and uncle of king Harold. With twelve of his
monks, joined Harold at the battle of Senlac, and after the battle was
found among the slain, his body being recognized by the habit of his
order.
_Osgod._ I am sure this body
Is Alfwig, the king’s uncle.
_Athelric._ So it is!
_Harold._
ALICE.
A lady in waiting to queen Mary.
_Queen Mary._
ALICE.
Daughter of a wealthy miller, betrothed to a man whose parents at first
thought he ‘might have looked a little higher.’ They were married,
and in later years her husband expressed a wish that they might die
together.
Pray, Alice, pray, my darling wife,
That we may die the self-same day.
_Miller’s Daughter._
ALICE.
The nurse of the supposed lady Clare. On the eve of the wedding of lady
Clare and lord Ronald, Alice revealed to her the secret of her birth,
namely, that she was the daughter of her own nurse.
_Lady Clare._
ALICE.
There’s Margaret and Mary, there’s Kate and Caroline:
But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say,
_May Queen._
ALIF.
we scarce can spell
The Alif of Thine alphabet of Love.
The first letter of the Arabic alphabet.
_Akbar’s Dream._
ALINGTON.
A castle--near the river Medway--originally built in Saxon times by
a family named Columbary, but was razed afterwards by the Danes.
After the conquest it was given to bishop Odo, and on his disgrace
to earl Warrenne. It afterwards passed to the Cobham family, and from
them to the Brents, by whom it was alienated to sir Thomas Wyatt, who
made it his residence, and where was born his son and successor, sir
Thomas Wyatt, Junior, who was subsequently deprived of his estates and
executed for treason against Mary.
Ah, gray old castle of Alington, green field
Beside the brimming Medway, it may chance
That I shall never look upon you more.
_Queen Mary._
ALIOTH.
The name of a star in the tail of the Great Bear.
_Last Tournament._
ALLA.
The word used by the Arabs to denote their chief god, and adopted by
Mahomet as the name of the one true God.
_Akbar’s Dream._
ALLAN.
A farmer, father of William, to whom he wished to wed his niece Dora.
_Dora._
ALLEN (Francis).
_See_ =Francis, Francis Allen=.
ALLEN.
A labourer to farmer Steer.
_Promise of May._
ALLEN (Sally).
_See_ =Sally, Sally Allen=.
ALLENDALE (Earl of).
Allen-a-Dale of Nottingham was to be married to a lady who returned his
love, but her parents compelled her to forego him for an old knight
of wealth. Allen told his tale to Robin Hood, who, in the disguise of
a harper, went to the church where the wedding ceremony was to take
place. ‘This is no fit match; the bride shall be married only to the
man of her choice,’ exclaimed Robin, and sounding his horn Allen and
twenty-four bowmen entered the church. The bishop, however, refused to
marry the woman to Allen until the banns had been called three times,
whereupon Robin pulled off the bishop’s gown, and placed it upon Little
John, who called the banns seven times, and performed the ceremony.
_The Foresters._
ALL-HEAL.
A name applied to various plants, as the mistletoe, the great valerian,
etc.
_Vastness._
ALLY.
Alfred Tennyson, grandson of the poet, to whom the poem is inscribed.
Golden-hair’d Ally whose name is one with mine,
_To Alfred Tennyson._
ALMESBURY.
A town in Wiltshire on the river Avon, about eight miles from
Salisbury. Elfrida, widow of Edgar, founded here in 980 a Benedictine
nunnery in atonement for the murder of her son-in-law, king Edward, but
there had been a more ancient British monastery at the same place,
called after king Ambrosius who lies buried there. Mary, daughter
of king Edward I, took the veil here in 1285, and two years later,
Eleanor, queen of Henry III and the mother of Edward I, was admitted.
It was at this town that Guinevere (_q.v._) after the death of Arthur,
took the nun’s habit.
Queen Guinevere had fled the court and sat
There in the holy house at Almesbury
Weeping, none with her save a little maid,
A novice:
_Guinevere._
‘And when queen Guenever understood that king Arthur was slain, ...
she went to Almesbury, and there she let make herself a nun, and wore
white clothes and black.’
Malory: _Morte d’Arthur_, Book XXI, chap. vii.
_Guinevere_;
_Passing of Arthur_.
ALMSHOUSES AT NOTTINGHAM.
Part shall go to the almshouses at Nottingham, part to the shrine of
our Lady.
_The Foresters._
ALOE.
A genus of plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, of
considerable medicinal importance.
_The Daisy._
ALPHEGE OF ENGLAND.
Monk of Deerhurst, bishop of Worcester 984; archbishop of Canterbury
1006. Inaugurated the Council of Enham, which made enactments against
heathenism and the selling of slaves. By confirming Olaf Tryggwesson
in his Christianity and obtaining from him in 994 a promise not to
invade England, he incurred the hatred of the Northmen, and during the
invasion of the Danes in 1011 was captured, and upon refusing to ransom
himself was put to death. His body was translated to Canterbury by
Knut, and in 1078 he was canonized (954-1012).
_Becket._
ALPS.
I climb’d the roofs at break of day:
Sun-smitten Alps before me lay.
The great mountain range in Europe, forming the boundary between
France, Germany and Switzerland on the north and west, and Italy on the
south.
_The Daisy._
ALRASCHID.
_See_ =Haroun Alraschid=.
ALVA (Duke of).
A distinguished soldier and a descendant from one of the ancient
families of Spain. When only 17 years of age he was selected for a
military command by Charles V, and was present at the battle of Pavia,
1535. In 1547 he gained a victory over John of Saxony at the battle
of Muhlberg and subsequently took part in the siege of Wittenburg and
presided at the court-martial which tried and condemned to death the
Elector. In 1552 he invaded France and was engaged for several months
in an unsuccessful siege of Metz. In his campaign against pope Paul IV
in 1556, Alva was completely successful and was at the gates of Rome
when we was compelled by Philip to negotiate a peace, and to ask pardon
for having opposed the pope in the war. In 1567 he was sent to the Low
Countries to reduce the Netherlands to the Spanish yoke, which they
were attempting to throw off. By his tyranny he filled the provinces
with terror and scenes of carnage, for which his memory is held in
detestation to this day. In 1573 the oppressed country was relieved of
his presence, and on returning to Spain was treated with distinction by
Philip. Falling into disgrace he was banished from court, and confined
in the castle of Uzeda, where he remained for two years. Appointed in
command of an army he invaded Portugal in 1581, defeated Antonio and
subdued the kingdom (1508-1583).
_Queen Mary._
AMARACUS.
= Marjoram, a mint-like plant, used as a seasoning in cookery.
_Œnone._
AMARANTH.
The unfading Amaranth, so called because its flowers do not soon
wither; early employed as an emblem of immortality.
Immortal Amarant, a flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life,
Began to bloom, but, soon for Man’s offence
To Heaven removed where first it grew,
Milton: _Paradise Lost_, Book III, 353-356.
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_Romney’s Remorse_.
AMARYLLIS.
A genus of bulbous-rooted plants, including the narcissus, jonquil,
daffodil, agavè, etc. _Amaryllis_ is the name of a country girl in
Theocritus and Virgil.
_The Daisy._
AMAZON.
Glanced at the legendary Amazon
As emblematic of a nobler age:
In Greek mythology a race of warrior females, said to have inhabited
the neighbourhood of the Caucasus.
_The Princess._
AMBROSIA.
for her, and her,
Hebes are they to hand ambrosia, mix
The nectar:
The food of the gods which conferred immortality upon those who partook
of it.
_The Princess_;
_Demeter and Persephone_.
AMBROSIAL.
With rosy slender fingers backward drew
From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair
Ambrosial,
An epithet used by Homer of the hair of the gods.
_Claribel_;
_Œnone_;
_In Memoriam_.
AMBROSIALLY.
= Delicious.
and opening out his milk-white palm
Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold.
That smelt ambrosially,
_Œnone._
AMBROSIUS.
A monk.
And one, a fellow-monk among the rest,
Ambrosius, loved him much beyond the rest
And honour’d him,
_Holy Grail._
AMMON.
A tribe, occupying the region to the east of Jordan, who hired Balaam
to curse Israel. They were continually at war with the Israelites until
subdued by Judas Maccabæus.
‘Moreover it is written that my race
Hew’d Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer
On Arnon unto Minneth.’
_Dream of Fair Women._
AMMONIAN OASIS.
Gliding with equal crowns two serpents led
Joyful to that palm-planted fountain-fed
Ammonian Oasis in the waste.
Refers to Alexander’s visit to the famous temple of Jupiter Ammon in
the Libyan desert.
_Alexander._
AMMONITES.
Carved stones of the Abbey-ruin in the park.
Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time;
Huge fossil snake-shaped stones, known in the middle ages as ‘Cornu
Ammonis,’ so-called from the Ammonian Horn of Ammon.
_The Princess._
AMOMUM.
An Indian spice plant. It is mentioned in Virgil’s _Eclogue_.
_The Cup._
AMPHION.
In Greek mythology son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin-brother of Zethus.
He was born on mount Citheron, where Antiope had fled to avoid the
resentment of Dircê (_q.v._), and the two children were exposed, but
were brought up by shepherds. It is said that Amphion invented the lute
and built Thebes by the music of it, which was so melodious that the
stones danced into walls.
Amphion there the loud creating lyre
Strikes, and beholds a sudden Thebes aspire!
Pope: _Temple of Fame, 85-86._
When the two children had grown to manhood they united to avenge the
wrongs which their mother had suffered at the hands of Dircê. They
captured Thebes, slew Lycus, and tied Dircê to the tail of a wild bull
which dragged her through precipices until she expired. Amphion married
Niobe (_q.v._) who, boasting that she was greater and more deserving
of immortality than Latona was changed into a stone, and in despair
Amphion killed himself.
_Amphion._
AMPHISBÆNA.
so you quash rebellion too
For heretic and traitor are all one:
Two vipers of one breed--an amphisbæna,
Each end a sting: Let the dead letter burn.
A fabled serpent having two heads and able to move either backwards or
forwards.
Dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the hall, thick-swarming now
With complicated monsters, head and tail--
Scorpion, and Asp, and Amphisbæna dire,
Milton: _Paradise Lost_, Book X. 521-524.
_Queen Mary._
AMURATH.
The Third, sixth sultan of the Turks (1574-1595). His first act on
ascending the throne was to invite all his brothers to a banquet and
strangle them.
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry Harry.
Shakespeare: _2 Henry IV._ Act v. Scene 2.
In 1579 a commercial treaty between Amurath and Elizabeth was ratified.
_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham._
AMY.
The fiancée of an impetuous boy lover--her cousin--who found that his
love had been disdained. Amy forsook him to satisfy the wishes of her
father, and married for money. On account of his unhappy love affair
he spoke of flight into a far country, and a marriage amid some savage
tribes, but the bonds of culture and comfort were too strong for him,
and the project of wild adventure was abandoned as quickly as it was
formed. Amy died at the birth of her first child, and sixty years
afterwards her once boy lover says:
All in white Italian marble, looking still as if she smiled,
Lies my Amy dead in child-birth, dead the mother, dead the child.
* * * * *
I this old white-headed dreamer stoopt and kiss’d her marble brow.
_Locksley Hall_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_.
ANAKIM.
I felt the thews of Anakim,
The pulses of a Titan’s heart;
Sons of Anak, a race of giants inhabiting the mountains of Hebron, and
who were conquered by Joshua. _Joshua xi. 21-22._
The Israelites said they were grasshoppers as compared with the Anakim.
_Numbers xiii. 33._
_In Memoriam._
ANATOLIAN GHOST.
Anatolian spectre stories.
_To Ulysses._
ANEMONE.
A plant of the crowfoot family.
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_To the Rev. F. D. Maurice_;
_City Child_.
ANDREW, SAINT.
_See_ =St. Andrew=.
ANGELO (Michael).
A famous Italian sculptor, painter and poet.
_In Memoriam._
ANGLE.
A German race of people who invaded Britain in the fifth century and
settled in Northumbria and East Anglia. From them the name of England
was derived.
_Battle of Brunanburh_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_.
ANGUISANT.
King of Erin, subdued by king Arthur, fighting on behalf of Leodogran,
king of Cameliard.
_Coming of Arthur._
ANGLIA.
Eques cum pedite
Præpediatur!
Illorum in lacrymas
Cruor fundatur!
Pereant, pereant,
Anglia precatur.
_Harold._
ANGLIAE.
Hostis per Angliae
Plagas bacchatur;
Casa cremator,
Pastor fugatur
trucidatur--
_Harold._
ANGLIAM.
Hostis in Angliam
Ruit prædator,
Illorum, Domine,
Scutum scindatur!
_Harold._
ANJOU.
An ancient province of France. In 1127 the eleventh count of Anjou
married Plantagenet, the daughter of Henry I of England and became the
father of Henry II, who took it from his brother Geoffrey in 1156. It
was taken from king John by Philip Augustus of France in 1205, and
united to the French kingdom in 1328 by Philip VI, son of Charles of
Valois.
_Becket._
ANLAF.
A Danish king who invaded England and, joining forces with Constantius,
king of the Scots, was defeated by Athelstan (_q.v._) and his brother
Edmund Atheling (_q.v._) at the battle of Brunanburh, +A.D.+ 937.
_Battle of Brunanburh._
ANNE.
The warrior Earl of Allendale,
He loved the Lady Anne;
The lady loved the master well,
The maid she loved the man.
_The Foresters._
_See_ =Allendale (Earl of)=.
ANNE (Queen).
_See_ =Boleyn=.
ANNE.
ANNE WHARTON.
Wife of lord Wharton, and a friend of lady Jane Grey.
she was passing
Some chapel down in Essex, and with her
Lady Anne Wharton, and the Lady Anne
Bow’d to the Pyx;
_Queen Mary._
ANNE--ANNIE.
For, Annie, you see, her father was not the man to save,
Hadn’t a head to manage, and drank himself into his grave.
An old woman--who had survived all her children--relates to her
grandchild Annie the story of her life.
_Grandmother._
ANNIE.
An’ es for Miss Annie es call’d me afoor my awn foälks to my faäce
‘A hignorant village wife as ’ud hev to be larn’d her awn plaäce,’
Eldest daughter of the village squire.
_Village Wife._
ANNIE.
‘He says I shall never live thro’ it, O Annie, what shall I do?’
Annie consider’d. ‘If I,’ said the wise little Annie, ‘was you,
One of the inmates of a children’s hospital, who suggested to one of
her fellow sufferers who was about to undergo an operation, that she
should pray for help to ‘the dear Lord Jesus.’
_In the Children’s Hospital._
ANNIE.
ANNIE LEE.
_See_ =Enoch, Enoch Arden=.
ANSELM.
Archbishop of Canterbury. Born at Aosta in Piedmont. In 1060 entered
the monastery of Bec, and in 1063 was installed as prior in succession
to Lanfranc, and fifteen years later was elected abbot. Visited England
in 1092, and in the following year accepted the archbishopric of
Canterbury from William II who was lying ill at Gloucester. Consecrated
the church, erected by William I in 1094 on the field on which he
defeated Harold. In 1494 he was canonized (1033-1109).
_Becket._
ANT.
A small insect.
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Vastness_;
_Queen Mary_.
ANTIBABYLONIANISMS.
_See_ =Boanerges=.
ANTIOCH.
Ancient capital of the Greek kings of Syria, built by Seleucus 300
+B.C.+ It was famous in the early history of the Church as the seat of
several ecclesiastical councils, as well as for being the birthplace of
Chrysostom. In 635 +A.D.+ it fell into the hands of the Saracens, who
held it until 969 +A.D.+ when it came under Roman dominion and retained
till 1084 +A.D.+, when it fell into the hands of the Turks, from whom
it was captured by the Crusaders +A.D.+ 1098.
_Becket._
ANTON.
A Knight of the Round Table, and, according to Tennyson, the
foster-father of king Arthur.
Wherefore Merlin took the child,
And gave him to Sir Anton, an old knight
And ancient friend of Uther; and his wife
Nursed the young prince, and rear’d him with her own;
And no man knew.
Malory in his _Morte d’Arthur_ says: ‘So the child was delivered unto
Merlin; and so he bare it forth unto Sir Ector, and made an holy man to
christen him, and named him Arthur.’
_Coming of Arthur._
ANTONIUS.
A Roman general, but evidently not meant to be identified with any
Roman general known to history.
_The Cup._
ANTONY (Mark).
_See_ =Mark Antony=.
ANTONY.
ANTONY KNYVETT.
Lieutenant of the Tower of London in the reign of Henry VIII; joined
the earl of Devon in insurrection to prevent the marriage of Mary
with Philip of Spain; taken prisoner with Wyatt at Temple Bar by sir
Maurice Berkeley, and being taken to the Tower was tried, condemned and
executed.
_Queen Mary._
ANTWERP.
To Strasburg, Antwerp, Frankfort, Zurich, Worms,
Geneva, Basle--our Bishops from their sees
Or fled, they say, or flying--
_Queen Mary._
APE.
A monkey.
_St. Simeon Stylites_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Making of Man_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Becket_.
APHRODITÈ.
The Greek goddess of love and beauty, and wife of Hephæstus and mother
of Cupid. Her sacred bird was the dove. As the queen of beauty she
had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of
conferring beauty. In Roman mythology she is identified with Venus
(_q.v._).
_Œnone._
APICUS.
A celebrated Roman glutton in the time of Augustus Tiberius. He
expended large sums in gluttony and wrote a book upon cookery. It is
said that having spent £800,000 in supplying the delicacies of his
table and having only £30,000 left, he committed suicide, not thinking
it possible to exist on such a miserable sum.
_Becket._
APOLLO.
The chief god of the Greeks; in ancient literature described as
possessed of many powers. Tennyson speaks of him as the god of the sun
and god of music:
Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing,
_Tithonus._
‘Look where another of our Gods, the Sun, Apollo,’
_Lucretius._
The statue of Apollo at Rhodes, made to commemorate the successful
defence of that place against Demetrius Poliorcetes in 300 +B.C.+, was
one of the several wonders of the old world. It represented the sun-god
with his head surrounded by rays, and with his feet resting one on
each side of the entrance to the port. This Colossus of Rhodes, as the
statue was generally called, was 105 feet high, and took twelve years
to build, at a cost of about £120,000.
_Tithonus_;
_Lucretius_.
APPLE-TREE.
A tree of many varieties.
_Holy Grail._
AQUITAINE.
A province of south-west France. It was conquered by the Romans 57
+B.C.+ under Cæsar, and again in 418 in the reign of Augustus. On the
marriage of Louis VII with Eleanor, daughter of William X, it was
annexed to the French crown, but upon Henry II of England marrying
Eleanor after her divorce, it was added to the English crown. It
remained in English possession until 1453, when it was restored to
France.
_Becket._
ARAB.
From the delicate Arab arch of her feet
To the grace that,
Refers to the high instep of the Arab, giving swiftness and elasticity
to his gait.
_Maud._
ARÂBI.
Leader of the Egyptian Revolt, 1882. As under-secretary for War in the
Egyptian government, he adopted a policy which the British government
had to meet by armed force. Alexandria was bombarded on July 11, 1882,
and on September 13 of the same year the British troops under sir
Garnet Wolseley completely routed him at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir.
You saw the league-long rampart-fire
Flare from Tel-el-Kebir
Thro’ darkness, and the foe was driven,
And Wolseley overthrew
Arâbi.
Arâbi fled to Cairo, but surrendering was banished to Ceylon, 1883. In
1901 he was released and granted a pension. He claimed descent from
the prophet.
_Prologue to General Hamley._
ARABY.
A poetical form of Arabia.
_Queen Mary._
ARAC (Prince).
A prince, whose hard old father represented in his blunt and violent
manner the old-fashioned régime when women were women and knew their
place. Since his infancy he had been proxy wedded to a certain princess
Ida (_q.v._), with whom he was deeply in love. He is described as a
genial giant, with splendid muscles, healthy love of action, and proud
devotion to his sister. When Ida reached marriageable age she founded
a college for women from which men were excluded. Arac determined to
gain access to the college, so with two more friends disguised as girl
students, the college portress admitted them. After many adventures his
sex was discovered. Arac wooed Ida, this time more successfully, and
after many amusing happenings they were married.
_The Princess._
ARAGON.
Once a kingdom, but now divided into three provinces. It was conquered
by the Romans, but upon the fall of that empire, it passed into the
hands of the Goths; and at the beginning of the eighth century was
conquered by the Moors. In 1137 it was recovered by the rulers of
Aragon and united with Catalonia, and by the marriage of Ferdinand with
Isabella of Castile in 1469 the crowns of Aragon and Castile (_q.v._)
were united.
_Queen Mary._
ARBACES.
Name of a horse.
_The Brook._
ARCADY.
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
Represents Greek Idyllic poetry.
_In Memoriam._
ARDEN (Enoch).
_See_ =Enoch, Enoch Arden=.
ARDEN.
A large forest supposed to have been in Warwickshire. It is a
place-name in Shakespeare’s _As You Like It_.
_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)._
ARÊS.
The Greek god of war, called by the Romans, Mars, and son of Zeus and
Hera. Was an enemy of Cadmus (_q.v._) on account of his having killed
the dragon that guarded the springs of Dircê which were sacred to Mars.
The great God, Arês, burns in anger still
Against the guiltless heirs of him from Tyre,
Our Cadmus, out of whom thou art, who found
Beside the springs of Dircê, smote, and still’d
Thro’ all its folds the multitudinous beast,
The dragon,
His symbols were the spear and the burning torch.
_Tiresias._
ARIMATHÆAN JOSEPH.
_See_ =Joseph=.
ARNO.
An Italian river which flows through Florence.
_The Brook._
ARNON.
A river which formed the boundary between Moab and the Amonites, and
afterwards between Moab and Israel.
_Dream of Fair Women._
AROER.
A city on the river Arnon, the southern point of the territory of
Sihon, king of the Amorites, and afterwards of the tribe of Reuben, but
later in the possession of Moab.
‘Moreover, it is written that my race
Hew’d Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer
On Arnon unto Minneth.’
_Dream of Fair Women._
‘And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith.’
_Judges xi. 33._
_Dream of Fair Women._
’AROLD (Harold).
_Promise of May._
AROMAT.
Supposed to have been the native land of Joseph of Arimathæa and the
place from which he brought the Holy Grail to Glastonbury.
The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord
Drank at the last sad supper with His own.
This, from the blessed land of Aromat--
_Holy Grail._
ARTEMIS.
In Greek mythology the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was twin-sister
of Apollo, and was born in the isle of Delos. A virgin goddess,
represented as a huntress armed with bow and arrows. The Romans
identified Artemis with the old Italian goddess Diana (_q.v._).
_The Cup._
ARTEMISIA (Carian).
_See_ =Carian Artemisia=.
ARTHUR.
‘You know,’ said Frank, ‘he burnt
His epic, his King Arthur, some twelve books.
= _The Idylls of the King_.
_The Epic._
ARTHUR.
Sir Arthur, a local magnate.
_The Brook._
ARTHUR.
Arthur Henry Hallam, son of Henry Hallam, the historian, born 1811.
During his residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Tennyson made the
acquaintance of Hallam, with whom he formed an affectionate friendship,
and some years later Hallam became engaged to the poet’s sister Emily.
His early death, which occurred suddenly at Vienna in 1833, was a great
grief to the poet, whose _In Memoriam_ is a noble elegy to his loss.
My Arthur, whom I shall not see
Till all my widow’d race be run;
Dear as the mother to the son,
More than my brothers are to me.