Check every outflash, every ruder sally Of thought and speech; speak low, and give up wholly Thy spirit to mild-minded Melancholy; This is the place. Through yonder poplar alley Below, the blue-green river windeth slowly; But in the middle of the sombre valley The crispèd waters whisper musically, And all the haunted place is dark and holy. The nightingale, with long and low preamble, Warbled from yonder knoll of solemn larches, And in and out the woodbine's flowery arches The summer midges wove their wanton gambol, And all the white-stemmed pinewood slept above-- When in this valley first I told my love. XXIX =Sonnet= [Published in _Friendships Offering: a Literary Album_ for 1832. London: Smith and Elder.] Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh: Thy woes are birds of passage, transitory: Thy spirit, circled with a living glory, In summer still a summer joy resumeth. Alone my hopeless melancholy gloometh, Like a lone cypress, through the twilight hoary, From an old garden where no flower bloometh, One cypress on an inland promontory. But yet my lonely spirit follows thine, As round the rolling earth night follows day: But yet thy lights on my horizon shine Into my night when thou art far away; I am so dark, alas! and thou so bright, When we two meet there's never perfect light. XXX =Sonnet= [Published in the _Yorkshire Literary Annual_ for 1832. Edited by C.F. Edgar, London: Longman and Co. Reprinted in the _Athenæum_, 4 May, 1867.] There are three things that fill my heart with sighs And steep my soul in laughter (when I view Fair maiden forms moving like melodies), Dimples, roselips, and eyes of any hue. There are three things beneath the blessed skies For which I live--black eyes, and brown and blue; I hold them all most dear; but oh! black eyes, I live and die, and only die for you. Of late such eyes looked at me--while I mused At sunset, underneath a shadowy plane In old Bayona, nigh the Southern Sea-- From an half-open lattice looked at _me_. I saw no more only those eyes--confused And dazzled to the heart with glorious pain. =Poems, 1833= [The poems numbered XXXI-XXXIX were published in the 1832 volume (_Poems by Alfred Tennyson_. London: Edward Moxon, 94 New Bond Street. MDCCCXXXIII; published December, 1832), and were thereafter suppressed.] XXXI =Sonnet=