Poet Laureate for over forty years, Tennyson was the voice of Victorian Britain. In Memoriam mourns his friend Arthur Hallam, Idylls of the King retells the Arthurian legends, and short poems like “The Eagle” and “Crossing the Bar” remain classroom favourites.
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Yes. Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 6 of them here or as a flip book.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850), Idylls of the King (1859–1885), Maud (1855).