Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-15
THE POET DEAD.
Surrounded By Loved Ones, Tenny-
son Passes Away.
The End as Peaceful and Gentle as His
Life Had Been.

Life Had Been.
A dispatch from London Eng. says:
Lori Ternyson died at IS A. NJ His last
moments were painless and peaceful. He
will lie buried at Westminster Abbey at the
special request of the canon.
Immed ately after the death of Lord Ten
Dyson the representative of the Associated
Press had an interview with Sr Andrew
Clark, one of the physicians who attended
the poet laureate. Sir Andrew said that
Lord Tennysons death was the most glor-
ious he had ever seen.
There was no artificial light in the room,
and the chamber was almost III darkness,
save where broad fiood OF moonlight
poured in through a Western window The
moons rays fell across the bed upon which
the dying man lay, bathing him i'll their
pure light anl forming a Rembrant-like
background to the scene. All was silent
save the ugting of the Autumn wind as it
gently PLAYED through the trees surrounding
the house, fitting requiem for the gentle
poet who sang of love and the beauties of
nature.
Motionl4ss Lord Tennyson lay upon his
couch, the tide OF his life gently and slowly
o
rocks of pain OF sorrow check d its course or
caused a ripple upon the outgoing tide. As
peacefully and as gently as he had lived, so
he di d. LOOKING until the end into the eyes
of those dear to him.
All the members of his family were by hi
bedside, and if Andrew Clark remained bv
his side from the moment of his arrival
until he breathe1 his last. So gentle and
painless was his passing away that the fam
it-- n . Ilf
Clarke broke the news TO Lady TenDyson,
who bore the closing scene of her great
trial well in spite of her extremely delicate
health
The Hon Halliam T,nnyson, the poets
son. SAYS that his fathers death was emf
nently peaceful He did not show single
trace of suffering to distress his Borrowing
relatives al friends Once or twice during
the night he lifted his EYES TO the faces OF
the watchers by his bedside and beautiful
smile played over his features
1t may be mentioned as a coincidence that
a year ago to-day a man died who was as
prominent Ia his field of labor as was Tenny-
son in his. On October g. 1891 Charles
Stewart Parnell, the great Irish leader,
passed away.
THE POETS LIFE.
Alfred Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth, Sus-
sex, and of Freshwa.er, Isle Of Wight was
the third son Of the late Rev. G. G. Tenny-
son, the elder brother of the late Right Hon.
C. Tennyson, d'Eyncourt, and was born in
1909. He was educated by his father, and in
due course proceeded to Trinity College,
Cambridge In 1929 he gained the chancellor's
medal by poem in blank verse entitled
'Timbuctoo."
Mr. Tennyson did not publish anything oil
. Importance till 1880 when Poems Chiefly
Lyrical" appeared, and from 1872 the steady
and rapid growth of his fame may be traced.
1t was at once apparent that the author Of
the ''Morte d'Arthur, "Locksley Hail. this
'tMay Queen and the 1.-TWO Voices'' was
entitled to take the first rank among English
poets, a reputation which was more thar
sustained by the two great works which fol.
low 4. He published Sin Memoriam" III
1850, and it seemed only matter of coarse,
upon the death of Wordsworth in 1850 thai
the privilege of wearing ''The laurel greener
from the brows of him who uttered nothing
base should be offered to him.
This was also the year of his marriage to
Emily, daughter Of Henry Sellwood Esq,
OF Berkshire, and niece of Sir John Frank,
lin, by whom he has had two sons, Halam
and Lionel. The lode on the death of the
Duke of Wellington" was published liz 1852,
on the morning of the funeI al and since that
occurrence few events of more than ordinary
interest in the eyes of Englishmen have taken
place without eliciting from the laureate
some poem worthy of the occasion.
Among his dramatic compositions are
"Queen Mary 1875; Harold" 1875: 1.-THE
Cup, play which was represented at the
Lyceum Theatre January 3 1881 Mr.. Irving
taking the principal character (as was also
Queen Mary'9; the Falcon, produced by
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall and The Promise of
May drama, in three acts, brought out
at the Globe Theatre November ii, 1882
"A Concordance to the Entire Works of AL
fred Tennyson,n published ia 1869, is Re
markable proof of the laureate's great popu-
larity. At the commemoration of 1856 the
University of Oxford conferred on the poet
the honorary degree of D. G. L., and the
fellow of his own college, Trinity, Cam
bridge, endorsing the judgment of the sister
university subscribed to purchase his bust
(by Woolner), which they have placed in
their library, and 1869 they unanimously
elected him an honorary fellow of the college
In December, 1888, Mr.. Tennyson accepted a
peerage as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth,
Sussex, and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Since then he has published "Bechet, 1''Tire-
sias and Other Poems, and the end of 1886
'Iocksley Hall-Sixty Years After,n and
in his Slst year he produced another volume
'Demeter and Other Poems,n which has
been very popular with both the English and
American public.