Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clytie Siddall, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography by John Churton Collins Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.” Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory Song (“A spirit haunts the year’s last hours”) Adeline A Character The Poet The Poet’s Mind The Sea-Fairies The Deserted House The Dying Swan A Dirge Love and Death The Ballad of Oriana Circumstance The Merman The Mermaid Sonnet to J. M. K. The Lady of Shalott Mariana in the South Eleänore The Miller’s Daughter Fatima Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S. “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες. “Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free”