The Works of Alfred Tennyson

Front matter

From a Photograph . THE WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON POET LAUREATE LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE (Successors to the Publishing Department of Henry S. King & Co.) {The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved} CONTENTS. Early Sonnets— continued page 9. ' Wan sculptor, weepest thou ' . . 27 10. ' If I were loved, as I desire to be ' . 27 11. The Bridesmaid 27 The Lady of Shalott, and other Poems : The Lady of Shalott 28 Mariana in the South 3° The Two Voices 31 The Miller's Daughter 39 Fatima 42 Œnone 42 The Sisters 47 To . ' 47 The Palace of Art 48 Lady Clara Vere de Vere 53 The May Queen 54 New-Year's Eve 55 Conclusion 57 The Lotos-Eaters 59 Choric Song 60 A Dream of Fair Women 62 The Blackbird 68 The Death of the Old Year 68 To J. S 69 On a Mourner 7° ( You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease ' . . . 71 ' Of old sat Freedom on the heights ' . . 71 ' Love thou thy land ' 72 The Goose 73 English Idylls and other Poems . . 74 The Epic 74 Morte d'Arthur 75 The Gardener's Daughter ; or, the Pictures 81 Dora 86 Audley Court 89 Walking to the Mail 9° Edwin Morris ; or, the Lake 92 St. Simeon Stylites 95 The Talking Oak 99 Love and Duty 104 The Golden Year 105 Ulysses io7 England and America in 1782 108 PAGE To the Queen i Juvenilia 2 Claribel 2 Nothing will Die 2 All Things will Die 3 The Kraken 3 Song 3 Lilian 4 Isabel 4 Mariana 5 To — - 6 Madeline 6 Song— The Owl 7 Second Song— To the Same 7 Recollections of the Arabian Nights . . 8 Ode to Memory IO Song 12 A Character 12 The Poet 12 The Poet's Mind 13 The Sea-Fairies 14 The Deserted House 15 The Dying Swan J5 A Dirge 16 Love and Death J7 The Ballad of Oriana 17 Circumstance *8 The Merman J8 The Mermaid 19 Adeline 20 Margaret 21 Eleanore 22 ' My life is full of weary days ' .... 24 Early Sonnets 24 1.

Sonnet to 24 2.' Sonnet to J. M. K 24 3. " Mine be the strength of spirit ' . . 25 4. Alexander 25 5. Buonaparte 25 6. Poland 26 7, ' Caress'd or chidden ' 26 8. ' The form, the form alone is eloquent' CONTENTS. PAGE The Daisy 270 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice 272 win 272 In the Valley of Ca.iteretz 273 In the Garden at Swainston 273 The Flower 273 Requiescat 274 The Sailor Boy .274 The Islet 274 The Spiteful Letter 275 Literary Squabbles 275 The Victim 275 Wages 277 The Higher Pantheism 277 The Voice and the Peak 278 * Flower in the crannied wall ' 278 A Dedication 278 Experiments : Boadicea 279 In Quantity 281 Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse . . . .■.*.. . . .282 The Window ; or, the Song of the Wrens : The Window 282 On the Hill 282 At the Window 283 Gone ■..,.... 283 Winter 283 Spring ■ 283 The Letter 284 No Answer 284 The Answer 284 Ay 285 When 285 Marriage Morning 283 In Memoriam A. H. H 286 Maud: a Monodrama 330 Idylls of the King : Dedication 354 The Coming of Arthur 355 The Round Table . . . . . . . . 365 Gareth and Lynette ... . . . 365 Geraint and Enid 302 Merlin and Vivien 425; Lancelot and Elaine 4_,3 The Holy Grail .0q Pelleas and Ettarre .35, The Last Tournament 408 Guinevere _.„ The Passing of Arthur 525 To the Queen Queen Mary 6 Harold . . '. 619 PAGE Tithonus 109 Locksley Hall no Godiva n6 The Day-Dream 117 Prologue n7 The Sleeping Palace ... .... 118 The Sleeping Beauty 119 The Arrival up The Revival n9 The Departure 120 Moral I2o L'Envoi ....121 Epilogue 12I Amphion I22 St. Agnes' Eve I23 Sir Galahad 123 Edward Gray 12^ Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue . . 125 Lady Clare 128 The Captain !3o The Lord of Burleigh 130 The Voyage . .

I3a Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere . . . 133 A Farewell I3+ The Beggar Maid 134 The Eagle i34 ' Move eastward, happy earth, and leave ' . 134 'Come not, when I am dead ' 134 The Letters 135 The Vision of Sin . . 135 To , after reading a Life and Letters . 139 To E. L., on his Travels in Greece . . . 139 'Break, break, break ' 139 The Poet's Song I4o Enoch Arden, and other Poems : Enoch Arden I4o The Brook I56 Aylmer's Field 160 Sea Dreams jje The Golden Supper i8i Lucretius !g8 The Princess : a Medley I93 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 254 The Third of February, 1852 259 The Charge of the Light Brigade . . . .260 Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition 260 A Welcome to Alexandra 261 A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh . 262 The Grandmother 263 Northern Farmer.