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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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NOTHING WILL DIE.

ALL THINGS WILL DIE.

LEONINE ELEGIACS.

SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS

MARIANA IN THE SOUTH.

SONG—THE OWL.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.

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THE POET'S MIND.

THE SEA-FAIRIES.

THE DESERTED HOUSE.

THE DYING SWAN.

LOVE AND DEATH.

THE BALLAD OF ORIANA.

[My life is full of weary days]

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II. TO J. M. K.

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XI. THE BRIDESMAID.

THE LADY OF SHALOTT.

THE TWO VOICES.

THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER.

THE PALACE OF ART.

LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE.

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THE LOTOS-EATERS.

A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN.

THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR.

[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.

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MORTE D'ARTHUR.

THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER;

WALKING TO THE MAIL.

ST. SIMEON STYLITES.

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Song of the Three Sisters.

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Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.

[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]

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THE TALKING OAK.

THE GOLDEN YEAR.

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THE SLEEPING PALACE.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

ST. AGNES' EVE.

WILL WATERPROOF'S LYRICAL MONOLOGUE.

THE LORD OF BURLEIGH.

SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE.

THE BEGGAR MAID.

[Move eastward, happy earth, and leave]

[Come not, when I am dead]

THE VISION OF SIN.

[Break, break, break]

THE POET'S SONG.

AYLMER'S FIELD.

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.

THE GRANDMOTHER.

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NORTHERN FARMER.

NORTHERN FARMER.

TO THE REV. F. D. MAURICE.

IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ.

IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON.

THE SAILOR BOY.

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I. THE CITY CHILD.

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II. MINNIE AND WINNIE.

THE SPITEFUL LETTER.

LITERARY SQUABBLES.

THE HIGHER PANTHEISM.

THE VOICE AND THE PEAK.

[Flower in the crannied wall]

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[O you chorus of indolent reviewers]

SPECIMEN OF A TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD IN BLANK VERSE.

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MARRIAGE MORNING.

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HANDS ALL ROUND!

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Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes

[Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere]

[Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington]

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ENOCH ARDEN AND IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM A. H. H.

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Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes

THE VICTOR HOURS

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THE PRINCESS AND MAUD

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[As thro' the land at eve we went]

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[Sweet and low, sweet and low]

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[The splendour falls on castle walls]

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

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VI.

[Home they brought her warrior dead]

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

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

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VII.

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

[‘Come down, O maid]

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MAUD; A MONODRAMA.

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Additional lines and fragments of verse extracted from the notes.

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[The Princess; A Medley. Canto V]

[The Princess; A Medley. Canto VI]

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[The Princess; A Medley.]

[Maud; A Monodrama.]

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IDYLLS OF THE KING

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BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS

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THE LOVER'S TALE.

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IV. THE GOLDEN SUPPER.

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BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS

TO ALFRED TENNYSON MY GRANDSON.

THE FIRST QUARREL.

THE NORTHERN COBBLER.

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.

THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUNE.

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THE TWO GREETINGS.

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PREFATORY SONNET TO THE ‘NINETEENTH CENTURY.’

TO THE REV. W. H. BROOKFIELD

TO VICTOR HUGO.

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TRANSLATIONS, ETC.

BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH.

ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH.

TO PRINCESS FREDERICA ON HER MARRIAGE.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

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TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS

TO E. FITZGERALD.

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THE ANCIENT SAGE.

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THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS.

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LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER.

PROLOGUE TO GENERAL HAMLEY.

THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA.

THE DEAD PROPHET

PREFATORY POEM TO MY BROTHER'S SONNETS.

‘FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE.’

EPITAPH ON LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.

EPITAPH ON GENERAL GORDON.

EPITAPH ON CAXTON.

TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.

HANDS ALL ROUND.

TO H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRICE.

OPENING OF THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN.

POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

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DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS

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DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS

TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA.

ON THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA

TO PROFESSOR JEBB,

DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE.

TO W. C. MACREADY.

THE PROGRESS OF SPRING.

MERLIN AND THE GLEAM.

ROMNEY'S REMORSE.

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BY AN EVOLUTIONIST.

FAR—FAR—AWAY.

BEAUTIFUL CITY.

THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE.

ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER.

TO ONE WHO RAN DOWN THE ENGLISH.

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

JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER.

TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL.

THE DEATH OF ŒNONE.

ST. TELEMACHUS.

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TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.

THE BANDIT'S DEATH.

THE CHURCH-WARDEN AND THE CURATE.

THE MAKING OF MAN.

POETS AND CRITICS.

A VOICE SPAKE OUT OF THE SKIES.

DOUBT AND PRAYER.

THE SILENT VOICES.

GOD AND THE UNIVERSE.

THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE.

CROSSING THE BAR.

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THE PROMISE OF MAY

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TO THE VICAR OF SHIPLAKE

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QUEEN MARY AND HAROLD

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SHOW-DAY AT BATTLE ABBEY, 1876.

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HAROLD: A DRAMA

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BECKET AND OTHER PLAYS

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ACT II THE FLIGHT OF MARIAN

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ACT III THE CROWNING OF MARIAN

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ACT IV THE CONCLUSION

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UNPUBLISHED SONNET.

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[You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease]

This and the two following poems, Of old sat Freedom and Love thou thy land, are said to have been versified from a speech by my friend Spedding at the Cambridge Union. I am reported as having gone home and written these three poems during the night and shown them to him in the morning. The speech is purely mythical; at least I never heard it, and no poem of mine was ever founded upon it.

In the first, You ask me why, etc., there is a similarity to a note by Spedding and why not, for I thoroughly agreed with him about politics. Aubrey de Vere showed these poems to Wordsworth; they were the first poems of mine which he read.

You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,
Whose spirits falter in the mist,
And languish for the purple seas.

It is the land that freemen till,
That sober-suited Freedom chose,
The land, where girt with friends or foes
A man may speak the thing he will;

A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where Freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent:

Where faction seldom gathers head,
But by degrees to fulness wrought,
The strength of some diffusive thought
Hath time and space to work and spread.

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Should banded unions persecute
Opinion, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual freedom mute;

Tho' Power should make from land to land
The name of Britain trebly great—
Tho' every channel of the State
Should fill and choke with golden sand—

Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth,
Wild wind! I seek a warmer sky,
And I will see before I die
The palms and temples of the South.