19+ Break Break Break Poem Pictures. Alfred, lord tennyson composed break, break, break in 1835, two years after the death of his close friend and fellow poet, arthur hallam. Break, break, break, on thy cold gray stones, o sea!
Tears of blood fall from my broken heart.
An old hermit of eighty, is seated on a rock looking over the ocean. O, well for the fisherman's boy, that he shouts with his sister at play! And i would that my tongue could utter. Tennyson's poem break, break, break is the narrator's lament for someone vanish'd (line 11).