Lyric Poem · Grief
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1847
1Home they brought her warrior dead:
2She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:
3All her maidens, watching, said,
4‘She must weep or she will die.’
5Then they praised him, soft and low,
6Called him worthy to be loved,
7Truest friend and noblest foe;
8Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Full-text availability follows the United States display decision recorded below; status can differ elsewhere.
“Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — quilloak.com/poems/home-they-brought-her-warrior-dead
Quick facts
- Poem
- Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
- Poet
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Published
- 1847
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Grief, War & Remembrance, Sad
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 16 lines · 4 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 7-syllable lines.
Want the rules this form is measured against? Read what makes a lyric poem, or run your own draft through the form checker to see the same measurements on your lines. How we measure · Report a mistake
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Full-text display is based on the committed source record and a United States term-expiry review.
- Author record
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892
- Source record
- PoetryDBHome They Brought Her Warrior Dead by alfred-lord-tennyson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1847
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 50f0dc7422ea3ca6…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.