Friends and Flatterers by William Shakespeare

 

The Kraken

Poem by Alfred Tennyson

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides: above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by man and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

About Alfred Lord Tennyson 

Lord Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. At the age of twelve, written his first epic poem that consisted of 6,000 lines.

In 1827 Tennyson attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He and his brother, Charles, co-published a book of poems titled, Poems by Two Brothers.  Tennyson dedicated a number of poems to his friend Arthur Hallam’s memory who died leaving him in great pain.   Tennyson’s success allowed him to continue writing.  He died in 1892.  He is one of the most popular Victorian poets.