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One of the most famous Victorian poems is Tennyson's In Memoriam, written for Arthur Hallam. "In 1833 Tennyson was profoundly shocked by the death of Arthur Hallam, his intimate friend during his Cambridge days and his sister Emily's fiance" (yes, the men who were in love often married each others' sisters!).
The poem covers his intense grief and reflections over the next five-year period; he worked on it for seventeen years. It contains famous lines like "Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." Not many people know that those lines originally referred to the love of one man for another. And he does refer to love throughout the poem.
I have to put in a few extracts. The first describes his reading letters from Hallam one night after everyone else had gone to bed:
So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touched me from the past,
And all at once it seemed at last
The living soul was flashed on mine,
And mine in his was wound, and whirled
About empyreal heights of thought,
And came on that which is, and caught
The deep pulsations of the world (#95)
...And from #130, near the end, when he is thinking of Hallam after almost twenty years,
Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the setting thou art fair.
What art thou then? I cannot guess,
But though I seem in star and flower
To feel thee some diffusive power,
I do not therefore love thee less.
My love involves the love before;
My love is vaster passion now;
Though mixed with God and Nature thou,
I seem to love thee more and more.
Far off thou art, but ever nigh,
I have thee still, and I rejoice;
I prosper, circled with thy voice;
I shall not lose thee though I die.