The Works of Alfred Tennyson ... With portrait and ... illustrations

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From a Photograph THE WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON POET LAUREATE WITH PORTRAIT AND TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE [The rights oj translation and of reproduction art 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 30 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 ofthe Old Year 68 To J. S 69 On a Mourner 70 ' You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease . . . 71 1 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 90 Edwin Morris ; or, the Lake 92 St. Simeon Stylites 95 The Talking Oak gg Love and Duty 104 The Golden Year 105 Ulysses 107 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 10 Song 12 A Character 12 The Poet 12 The Poet's Mind 13 The Sea-Fairies 14 The Deserted House 15 The Dying Swan 15 A Dirge 16 Love and Death 17 The Ballad of Oriana 17 Circumstance 18 The Merman 18 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.

IV PAGE PAGE The Daisy 27° Tithonus -°9 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice 2?2 LocksleyHall no Will 2?2 Godiva "6 In the Valley of Cauteretz 273 The Day-Dream "7 In the Garden at Swainston 273 Prologue JI7 The Flower 273 The Sleeping Palace "8 Requiescat 2?4 The Sleeping Beauty "9 The Sailor Boy 27* The Arrival "9 The Islet 2?4 The Revival 119 The Spiteful Letter 275 The Departure 120 Literary Squabbles 275 Moral 120 The Victim 275 L'Envoi 121 Wages 277 Epilogue 121 Amphion 122 The Higher Pantheism 277 The Voice and the Peak 278 St. Agnes' Eve 123 1 Flower in the crannied wall ' 278 Sir Galahad 123 A Dedication 278 Edward Gray 125 Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue . . 125 Experiments : Lady Clare 128 Boadicea 279 The Captain 13° In Quantity 281 The Lord of Burleigh 130 Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse 282 The Voyage 132 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere . . . 133 The Window ; or, the Song of the Wrens : A Farewell 134 The Window 282 The Beggar Maid 134 On the Hill 2S2 The Eagle 134 At the Wmdow 2S3 ' Move eastward, happy earth, and leave ' . 134 Gone 283 ' Come not, when I am dead ' 134 Winter 283 The Letters 135 Spring 283 The Vision of Sin 135 The Letter 2S4 To , after reading a Life and Letters . 139 No Answer 2S4 To E. L., on his Travels in Greece . . . 139 The Answer 2S4 ' Break, break, break * 139 Ay 2S5 The Poet's Song 140 When 285 Enoch Arden, and other Poems : Marriage Morning 285 Enoch Arden 140 In Memoriam A. H. H 2S6 The Brook 156 Maud : a Monodrama 330 Aylmer's Field 160 Idylls of the King : Sea Dreams 175 Dedication 354 The Golden Supper 181 The Coming of Arthur 355 Lucretius 188 The Round Table 365 The Princess : a Medley 193 Gareth and Lynette 365 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 254 Geraint and Enid 392 The Third of February, 1852 259 Merlin and Vivien 425 The Charge of the Light Brigade .... 260 Lancelot and Elaine 443 Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition 260 The Holy Grail 469 Pelleas and Ettarre 4S6 A Welcome to Alexandra ........ 261 The Last Tournament 498 A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh . 262 Guinevere .513 The Passing of Arthur c2c The Grandmother 263 To the Queen t „4 Northern Farmer.