Relationships
Helen's Tower
From Tiresias and Other Poems (1885)
Relationships
HELEN'S TOWER, here I stand,
Dominant over sea and land.
Son's love built me, and I hold
Mother's love in letter'd gold.
Love is in and out of time,
I am mortal stone and lime.
Would my granite girth were strong
As either love, to last as long!
I should wear my crown entire
To and thro' the Doomsday fire,
And be found of angel eyes
In earth's recurring Paradise.
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Helen's Tower.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/399/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “Helen's Tower.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/399/.
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