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Poems by Two Brothers

2nd ed. [by Charles Tennyson]

Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-1879)

[section]

['Tis sweet to lead from stage to stage]

STANZAS

‘IN EARLY YOUTH I LOST MY SIRE’

MEMORY

‘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’

REMORSE

‘ON GOLDEN EVENINGS, WHEN THE SUN’

THE DELL OF E—

MY BROTHER

ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA

‘I WANDER IN DARKNESS AND SORROW’

‘TO ONE, WHOSE HOPE REPOS'D ON THEE’

THE OLD SWORD

‘WE MEET NO MORE’

THE GONDOLA

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

‘DID NOT THY ROSEATE LIPS OUTVIE’

HUNTSMAN'S SONG

PERSIA

EGYPT

THE DRUID'S PROPHECIES

LINES

SWISS SONG

THE EXPEDITION OF NADIR SHAH INTO HINDOSTAN

GREECE

THE MAID OF SAVOY

IGNORANCE OF MODERN EGYPT

MIDNIGHT

‘IN SUMMER, WHEN ALL NATURE GLOWS’

SCOTCH SONG

‘BORNE ON LIGHT WINGS OF BUOYANT DOWN’

SONG

‘THE STARS OF YON BLUE PLACID SKY’

FRIENDSHIP

ON THE DEATH OF MY GRANDMOTHER

‘AND ASK YE WHY THESE SAD TEARS STREAM?’

THE REIGN OF LOVE

ON SUBLIMITY

THE DEITY

‘'TIS THE VOICE OF THE DEAD’

TIME: AN ODE

‘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

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

LINES

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’

TO ---

THE PASSIONS

THE HIGH-PRIEST TO ALEXANDER

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

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

A CONTRAST

EPIGRAM

THE DYING CHRISTIAN

‘THOSE WORLDLY GOODS THAT, DISTANT, SEEM’

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

A GLANCE

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

SWITZERLAND

BABYLON

THE SLIGHTED LOVER

‘OH! WERE THIS HEART OF HARDEST STEEL’

‘CEASE, RAILER, CEASE! UNTHINKING MAN’

‘IN WINTER'S DULL AND CHEERLESS REIGN’

EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS

KING CHARLES'S VISION

ADDITIONAL POEMS

[Come hither, can'st thou tell me if this skull]

THE DYING MAN TO HIS FRIEND

[Unhappy man, why wander there]

WRITTEN DURING THE CONVULSIONS IN SPAIN

TIMBUCTOO

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‘CEASE, RAILER, CEASE! UNTHINKING MAN’

“Cur in amicorum vitiis tam cernis acutum,
“Quam aut aquila, aut serpens Epidaurius?”
Horace.

Cease, railer, cease! unthinking man,
Is every virtue found in thee?
How plain another's faults we scan,
Our own how faintly do we see!

So one, who roves o'er marshy ground
When evening fogs the scene obscure,
Sees vapour hang on all things round,
And falsely deems his station pure!

C. T.