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Poems by Two Brothers

2nd ed. [by Charles Tennyson]

Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879)

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['Tis sweet to lead from stage to stage]

‘IN EARLY YOUTH I LOST MY SIRE’

‘YES—THERE BE SOME GAY SOULS WHO NEVER WEEP’

THE EXILE'S HARP

‘HAVE YE NOT SEEN THE BUOYANT ORB?’

‘WHY SHOULD WE WEEP FOR THOSE WHO DIE?’

‘RELIGION! THO' WE SEEM TO SPURN’

‘ON GOLDEN EVENINGS, WHEN THE SUN’

THE DELL OF E—

ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA

‘I WANDER IN DARKNESS AND SORROW’

‘TO ONE, WHOSE HOPE REPOS'D ON THEE’

‘WE MEET NO MORE’

WRITTEN BY AN EXILE OF BASSORAH, WHILE SAILING DOWN THE EUPHRATES

MARIA TO HER LUTE

THE VALE OF BONES

‘DID NOT THY ROSEATE LIPS OUTVIE’

HUNTSMAN'S SONG

THE DRUID'S PROPHECIES

THE EXPEDITION OF NADIR SHAH INTO HINDOSTAN

THE MAID OF SAVOY

IGNORANCE OF MODERN EGYPT

‘IN SUMMER, WHEN ALL NATURE GLOWS’

‘BORNE ON LIGHT WINGS OF BUOYANT DOWN’

‘THE STARS OF YON BLUE PLACID SKY’

ON THE DEATH OF MY GRANDMOTHER

‘AND ASK YE WHY THESE SAD TEARS STREAM?’

THE REIGN OF LOVE

‘'TIS THE VOICE OF THE DEAD’

‘ALL JOYOUS IN THE REALMS OF DAY’

GOD'S DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST PHARAOH-HOPHRA, OR APRIES

THE THUNDER-STORM

THE BATTLE-FIELD

THE GRAVE OF A SUICIDE

ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON

THE WALK AT MIDNIGHT

THE BARD'S FAREWELL

MITHRIDATES PRESENTING BERENICE WITH THE CUP OF POISON

EPIGRAM ON A MUSICIAN,

ON BEING ASKED FOR A SIMILE,

THE OLD CHIEFTAIN

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS'S COMPLAINT

THE FALL OF JERUSALEM

SHORT EULOGIUM ON HOMER

LAMENTATION OF THE PERUVIANS

‘A SISTER, SWEET ENDEARING NAME!’

‘OH! NEVER MAY FROWNS AND DISSENSION MOLEST’

‘THE SUN GOES DOWN IN THE DARK BLUE MAIN’

‘STILL, MUTE, AND MOTIONLESS SHE LIES’

ON A DEAD ENEMY

THE DUKE OF ALVA'S OBSERVATION ON KINGS

‘AH! YES, THE LIP MAY FAINTLY SMILE’

‘THOU CAMEST TO THY BOWER, MY LOVE, ACROSS THE MUSKY GROVE’

THE HIGH-PRIEST TO ALEXANDER

‘THE DEW, WITH WHICH THE EARLY MEAD IS DREST’

ON THE MOON-LIGHT SHINING UPON A FRIEND'S GRAVE

EPIGRAM

THE DYING CHRISTIAN

‘THOSE WORLDLY GOODS THAT, DISTANT, SEEM’

‘HOW GAILY SINKS THE GORGEOUS SUN WITHIN HIS GOLDEN BED’

‘OH! YE WILD WINDS, THAT ROAR AND RAVE’

THE SLIGHTED LOVER

‘OH! WERE THIS HEART OF HARDEST STEEL’

‘CEASE, RAILER, CEASE! UNTHINKING MAN’

‘IN WINTER'S DULL AND CHEERLESS REIGN’

THE OAK OF THE NORTH

EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS

KING CHARLES'S VISION

ADDITIONAL POEMS

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EPIGRAM

A saint by soldiers fetter'd lay;
An angel took his bonds away.
An angel put the chains on me;
And 'tis a soldier sets me free.

C. T.

The reader must suppose a young man deeply in love, but persuaded by a friend in the army to lead a military life, and forget the charms of the siren who cramped the vigour of his soul.