Charles Tennyson Turner

Charles Tennyson Turner (born Charles Tennyson; 4 July 1808 – 25 April 1879) was an English poet. Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and the "heart union" with his brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers (1829). Another poet brother was Frederick Tennyson.

Quotes

• The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
  To join her comrades in the braided hive,
  Where, housed beside their mighty honey-comb,
  They dream their polity shall long survive.
  • "A Summer Night in the Beehive" in Small Tableaux (1868)

• Oh! that the memories which survive us here
  Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!
  Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine
  Now thou art gone.
  • "On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book" in Sonnets, Lyrics, and Translations (1873)

• Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West,
  The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
  In hues of ancient promise there imprest;
  Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.
  • "The Rainbow" in Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces (1830)

• How like the leper, with his own sad cry
  Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!
  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,
  To warn us from the place of jeopardy!
  • "The Buoy-Bell" in Sonnets (1864)