The Early Poems of Alfred Lord TennysonTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
English poetry -- 19th century
_Claribel_.
_Lilian_.
_Isabel_.
Elegiacs.*
The “How” and the “Why”.
_Mariana_.
To —— .
Madeline.
The Merman.
The _Mermaid_.
Supposed Confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind not in unity with
itself.*
The Burial of Love.
To — (Sainted Juliet dearest name.)
_Song. The Owl._
_Second Song. To the same._
_Recollections of the Arabian Nights._
_Ode to Memory_.
Song. (I’ the glooming light.)
_Song. (A spirit haunts.)_
_Adeline_.
_A Character._
Song. (The lint-white and the throstle cock.)
Song. (Every day hath its night.)
_The Poet._
_The Poet’s Mind._
Nothing will die.*
All things will die.*
Hero to Leander.
The Mystic.
_The Dying Swan._
_A Dirge._
The Grasshopper.
Love, Pride and Forgetfulness.
Chorus (in an unpublished drama written very early).
Lost Hope.
The Deserted House.*†
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.
_Love and Death._
The Kraken.*
_The Ballad of Oriana._
_Circumstance._
English War Song.
National Song.
_The Sleeping Beauty._
Dualisms.
We are Free.
The Sea-Fairies.*†
_Sonnet to J.M.K._
οἱ ῥέοντες
Of these the poems in _italics_ appeared in the edition of 1842, and
were not much altered. Those with an asterisk were, in addition to the
italicised poems, afterwards included among the _Juvenilia_ in the
collected works (1871-1872), though excluded from all preceding
editions of the poems. Those with both a dagger and an asterisk were
restored in editions previous to the first collected editions of the
works.
In December, 1832, appeared a second volume (it is dated on the
title-page, 1833): “Poems by Alfred Tennyson. London: Moxon,
MDCCCXXXIII.” This contains thirty poems:—
Sonnet.†† (Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free.)
To— .†† (All good things have not kept aloof.)
Buonaparte.††
Sonnet I. (O Beauty passing beauty, sweetest Sweet.)
Sonnet II.†† (But were I loved, as I desire to be.)
_The Lady of Shalott_.*
_Mariana in the South._*
_Eleanore._
_The Miller’s Daughter._*
φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θεοῖσιν Ἔμμεν ἀνήρ.
_Œnone_.
_The Sisters._
To— . (With the Palace of Art.)*
_The Palace of Art_*
_The May Queen._
_New Year’s Eve._
The Hesperides.
_The Lotos Eaters._
Rosalind.††
_A Dream of Fair Women_*
Song. (Who can say.)
_Margaret_.
Kate.
Sonnet. Written on hearing of the outbreak of the Polish Insurrection.
Sonnet.†† On the result of the late Russian invasion of Poland.
Sonnet.†† (As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood.)
O Darling Room.
To Christopher North.
_The Death of the Old Year._
_To J. S._
Of these the poems italicised were included in the edition of 1842;
those marked with an asterisk being greatly altered and in some cases
almost rewritten, those marked with a dagger being practically
unaltered. To those reprinted in the collected works a double dagger is
prefixed.
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