{"id":14850,"date":"2012-07-17T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2012-07-17T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:42:52","slug":"tuesday-poem-viviens-song-by-alfred-lord-tennyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/tuesday-poem-viviens-song-by-alfred-lord-tennyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Vivien’s Song” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vivien’s Song<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
\nFaith and unfaith can ne\u2019er be equal powers:
\nUnfaith in aught is want of faith in all.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is the little rift within the lute,
\nThat by and by will make the music mute,
\nAnd ever widening slowly silence all.<\/p>\n

\u2018The little rift within the lover\u2019s lute
\nOr little pitted speck in garnered fruit,
\nThat rotting inward slowly moulders all.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is not worth the keeping: let it go:
\nBut shall it? answer, darling, answer, no.
\nAnd trust me not at all or all in all.\u2019<\/p>\n

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

I enjoy this poem for a number of reasons: because it is part of Tennyson’s Arthurian cycle, which includes the Morte d’Arthur<\/em>, and because of the word play with meaning and double meaning (eg unfaith as ‘faithlessness’ or ‘lack of trust’, or both, as well as of question and answer within the poem. Fun and<\/em> clever: “I like.” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate from 1850 and one of the most notable poets of the Victorian age. To read an online biography. click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n

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Vivien’s Song \u2018In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne\u2019er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. \u2018It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. \u2018The little rift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14873,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions\/14873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}