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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 POET.

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 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

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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 POET.

The poet in a golden clime was born,
With golden stars above;
Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,

The poet hates hate; and scorns scorn.

The love of love.

He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill,
He saw thro' his own soul.
The marvel of the everlasting will,
An open scroll,

Before him lay: with echoing feet he threaded
The secretest walks of fame:
The viewless arrows of his thoughts were headed
And wing'd with flame,

Like Indian reeds blown from his silver tongue,
And of so fierce a flight,
From Calpe

Gibraltar (one of the pillars of Hercules) was the western limit of the old world, as Caucasus was the eastern.

unto Caucasus they sung,
Filling with light

And vagrant melodies the winds which bore
Them earthward till they lit;
Then, like the arrow-seeds of the field flower,

the dandelion.

The fruitful with

Cleaving, took root, and springing forth anew
Where'er they fell, behold,
Like to the mother plant in semblance, grew
A flower all gold,

And bravely furnish'd all abroad to fling
The winged shafts of truth,
To throng with stately blooms the breathing spring
Of Hope and Youth.

So many minds did gird their orbs with beams,
Tho' one did fling the fire.
Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams
Of high desire.

Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world
Like one great garden show'd,
And thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd
Rare sunrise flow'd.

And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise
Her beautiful bold brow,
When rites and forms before his burning eyes
Melted like snow.

There was no blood upon her maiden robes
Sunn'd by those orient skies;
But round about the circles of the globes
Of her keen eyes

And in her raiment's hem was traced in flame
Wisdom, a name to shake
All evil dreams of power—a sacred name.
And when she spake,

Her words did gather thunder as they ran,
And as the lightning to the thunder
Which follows it, riving the spirit of man,
Making earth wonder,

So was their meaning to her words. No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world.