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The Works of Tennyson

The Eversley Edition: Annotated by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Edited by Hallam, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

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POEMS
  
TO THE QUEEN.
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JUVENILIA.
  
CLARIBEL.
  
NOTHING WILL DIE.
  
ALL THINGS WILL DIE.
  
LEONINE ELEGIACS.
  
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS
  
THE KRAKEN.
  
SONG.
  
LILIAN.
  
ISABEL.
  
MARIANA.
  
MARIANA IN THE SOUTH.
  
TO ------.
  
MADELINE.
  
SONG—THE OWL.
  
SECOND SONG.
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
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ODE TO MEMORY.
  
SONG.
  
A CHARACTER.
  
THE POET.
  
THE POET'S MIND.
  
THE SEA-FAIRIES.
  
THE DESERTED HOUSE.
  
THE DYING SWAN.
  
A DIRGE.
  
LOVE AND DEATH.
  
THE BALLAD OF ORIANA.
  
CIRCUMSTANCE.
  
THE MERMAN.
  
THE MERMAID.
  
ADELINE.
  
MARGARET.
  
ROSALIND.
  
ELEÄNORE.
  
[My life is full of weary days]
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EARLY SONNETS.
  
THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
  
THE TWO VOICES.
  
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER.
  
FATIMA.
  
ŒNONE.
  
THE SISTERS.
  
TO ------
  
THE PALACE OF ART.
  
LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE.
  
THE MAY QUEEN
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THE LOTOS-EATERS.
  
A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.
  
THE BLACKBIRD.
  
THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR.
  
TO J. S.
  
ON A MOURNER.
  
[You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease]
  
[Of old sat Freedom on the heights]
  
[Love thou thy land, with love far-brought]
  
ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782.
  
THE GOOSE.
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ENGLISH IDYLS.
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APPENDIX.
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Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.
  
[To The Queen]
  
MABLETHORPE
  
LOVE
  
II
  
[The Miller's Daughter]
  
[The Miller's Daughter]
  
[The Palace of Art]
  
[The Palace of Art]
  
[The Palace of Art]
  
[The Palace of Art]
  
[A Dream of Fair Women]
  
HOME
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POEMS
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ENOCH ARDEN AND IN MEMORIAM
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THE PRINCESS AND MAUD
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IDYLLS OF THE KING
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BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS
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DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS
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QUEEN MARY AND HAROLD
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BECKET AND OTHER PLAYS

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[To The Queen]

[Lines not used in the final version]

[_]

The third verse in proof.

Nor should I dare to flatter state,
Nor such a lay would you receive,
Were I to shape it, who believe
Your nature true as you are great.
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