What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

While at Cambridge he contributed four poems to Poems by Two Brothers which Frederick Alfred and their brother Charles Tennyson Turner publiFrederick Tennysond in 1827. Works
Days and Hours 1854
The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus 1890
Daphne and other poems 1891
Poems of the Day and Year 1895. He also won the Browne medal for Greek verse composition in 1828 but was rusticated for three terms for refusal to accept punishment for not attending chapel.

Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 Louth Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 Kensington) was an English poet.