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The Eversley Edition: Annotated by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Edited by Hallam, Lord Tennyson

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

MARIANA IN THE SOUTH.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.

ODE TO MEMORY.

II.

III.

IV.

THE BALLAD OF ORIANA.

[My life is full of weary days]

EARLY SONNETS.

I. TO ------

II.

II. TO J. M. K.

III.

IV.

IV. ALEXANDER.

V. BUONAPARTE.

VI.

VI. POLAND.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XI. THE BRIDESMAID.

THE LADY OF SHALOTT.

THE TWO VOICES.

THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER.

LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE.

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 GARDENER'S DAUGHTER;

Song of the Three Sisters.

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.

[To The Queen]

MABLETHORPE

LOVE

[The Miller's Daughter]

[The Palace of Art]

[A Dream of Fair Women]

II.

WILL WATERPROOF'S LYRICAL MONOLOGUE.

LADY CLARE.

THE CAPTAIN.

THE LORD OF BURLEIGH.

THE VOYAGE.

SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE.

A FAREWELL.

THE BEGGAR MAID.

THE EAGLE.

[Move eastward, happy earth, and leave]

[Come not, when I am dead]

[Break, break, break]

ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852.

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

ODE SUNG AT THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

A WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA.

A WELCOME TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS MARIE ALEXANDROVNA, DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH.

TO THE REV. F. D. MAURICE.

WILL.

IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ.

IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON.

II.

II. MINNIE AND WINNIE.

THE SPITEFUL LETTER.

LITERARY SQUABBLES.

THE VICTIM.

WAGES.

THE HIGHER PANTHEISM.

THE VOICE AND THE PEAK.

[Flower in the crannied wall]

[O you chorus of indolent reviewers]

SPECIMEN OF A TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD IN BLANK VERSE.

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes

[Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere]

[Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington]

III.

ENOCH ARDEN AND IN MEMORIAM

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes

THE GRAVE

TO A. H. H.

THE VICTOR HOURS

VII.

THE PRINCESS AND MAUD

[As thro' the land at eve we went]

II.

[subsection]

[Sweet and low, sweet and low]

III.

[subsection]

[The splendour falls on castle walls]

IV.

[subsection]

[‘O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South]

[subsection]

VI.

[Home they brought her warrior dead]

[subsection]

[‘Our enemies have fall'n, have fall'n: the seed]

[subsection]

[Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea]

VII.

[subsection]

[‘Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white]

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

II.

PART II.

II.

III.

IV.

III.

PART III.

VI.

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[The Princess; A Medley. Canto V]

[The Princess; A Medley. Canto VI]

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[Maud; A Monodrama.]

IDYLLS OF THE KING

III.

BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS

THE LOVER'S TALE.

ARGUMENT.

II.

III.

IV.

IV. THE GOLDEN SUPPER.

BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS

TO ALFRED TENNYSON MY GRANDSON.

THE FIRST QUARREL.

RIZPAH.

THE NORTHERN COBBLER.

THE REVENGE.

THE SISTERS.

THE VILLAGE WIFE; OR, THE ENTAIL.

IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

DEDICATORY POEM TO THE PRINCESS ALICE.

THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW.

SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE, LORD COBHAM.

COLUMBUS.

THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE.

II.

PREFATORY SONNET TO THE ‘NINETEENTH CENTURY.’

TO THE REV. W. H. BROOKFIELD

MONTENEGRO.

TO VICTOR HUGO.

TRANSLATIONS, ETC.

BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH.

ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH.

TO PRINCESS FREDERICA ON HER MARRIAGE.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

TO DANTE.

TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

THE ANCIENT SAGE.

THE FLIGHT.

TOMORROW.

THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER.

PROLOGUE TO GENERAL HAMLEY.

THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA.

PREFATORY POEM TO MY BROTHER'S SONNETS.

‘FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE.’

HELEN'S TOWER.

EPITAPH ON LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.

EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON.

EPITAPH ON CAXTON.

TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.

HANDS ALL ROUND.

FREEDOM.

TO H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRICE.

THE FLEET.

OPENING OF THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN.

POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from notes.

THE MYSTIC

IV.

DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS

TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA.

ON THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA

TO PROFESSOR JEBB,

DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE.

THE PROGRESS OF SPRING.

MERLIN AND THE GLEAM.

THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE.

THE PLAY.

ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER.

TO ONE WHO RAN DOWN THE ENGLISH.

THE DEATH OF ŒNONE, AKBAR'S DREAM, AND OTHER POEMS

JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER.

TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL.

THE CHURCH-WARDEN AND THE CURATE.

A VOICE SPAKE OUT OF THE SKIES.

DOUBT AND PRAYER.

FAITH.

THE SILENT VOICES.

GOD AND THE UNIVERSE.

THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE.

II.

III.

II.

II.

III.

Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.

THE ROSEBUD

TO THE VICAR OF SHIPLAKE

THE BRIDAL

VIII.

QUEEN MARY AND HAROLD

II.

III.

IV.

II.

II.

III.

IV.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

IV.

II.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

SHOW-DAY AT BATTLE ABBEY, 1876.

II.

II.

II.

III.

II.

IV.

II.

III.

II.

IX.

BECKET AND OTHER PLAYS

II.

III.

IV.

II.

II.

III.

II.

III.

IV.

II.

II.

III.

II.

III.

II.

ACT II THE FLIGHT OF MARIAN

Scene I.

II.

Scene II.

III.

ACT III THE CROWNING OF MARIAN

Scene I.

IV.

ACT IV THE CONCLUSION

Scene.

APPENDIX.

UNPUBLISHED SONNET.

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THE SPITEFUL LETTER.

First published in Once a Week, January 1868. It is no particular letter that I meant. I have had dozens of them from one quarter and another.

Here, it is here, the close of the year,
And with it a spiteful letter.
My name in song has done him much wrong,
For himself has done much better.

O little bard, is your lot so hard,
If men neglect your pages?
I think not much of yours or of mine,
I hear the roll of the ages.

Rhymes and rhymes in the range of the times!
Are mine for the moment stronger?
Yet hate me not, but abide your lot,
I last but a moment longer.

This faded leaf, our names are as brief;
What room is left for a hater?
Yet the yellow leaf hates the greener leaf,
For it hangs one moment later.

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Greater than I—is that your cry?
And men will live to see it.
Well—if it be so—so it is, you know;
And if it be so, so be it.

Brief, brief is a summer leaf,
But this is the time of hollies.
O hollies and ivies and evergreens,
How I hate the spites and the follies!