Be Near Me is a setting of Canto 50 from the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB) or men’s chorus (TTBB). Duration ca. 5'15".

Published in 1850, the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. by the British Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson (1809 -1892) is an extended requiem for the poet is beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, age 22. The poem is considered one of the greatest poems of the 19th Century and was reported to be a great favorite of Queen Victoria.