Tiresias, and Other Poems

Helen’s Tower

Alfred Tennyson


Written at the request of my friend, Lord Dufferin.


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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