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PREFACE.
The
More
recently,
when arrangements
for carrying
them.
less
heartily
ratified
by
my
and other of
his
Princess'
editions of
poems;
The
and in
him and
Lord Tenny-
The
text of the
of the latest
tion of
many
poems
typographical errors.
Only
PREFACE.
vi
cerning which
The
doubt.
could possibly be
there
and
spelling
pointing
any
the
of
No
Shepherd
L.
J.
his
in
Warren
and other
'
Tcnnysoniana,
and commentators.
critics
engaged
of
the
of
British
While
some of these poems
compared the later text with
in this first volume.
in annotating
These
the early
poems included
the
in
in
believe that
Hon.
'Fortnightly Review,*
the
in
the
'
1830 and
Museum and
them
1832
for
of copies of those
volumes in the
my work
I
on the rest
volumes belonging
D. D.,
of
New
to Rev.
York,
to
have been
Of the
poems
PREFACE.
vii
shall
am aware
that
ings
'
him
The Princess
'
'
preserved so
of his
work.
when
later,
'
man
variorum
me
for
my
many
But, as
think
said to
we have a right to
watching him. Whether an
be interested in
editor
is
may be
may
use
it
is
public
at his dis-
an
author
suppresses anything
for
If
personal
as
their withdrawal
but
it is
no injustice to give
two
literary
men,
with the
squibs
bandied
between them.
seem
at
first
sight.
is
To
not so apt as
record
his
it
may
various
'
PREFACE.
viii
readings
is
shavings.
poem
after finishing
it
is
and placing
it,
it
if,
on exhibition,
it
form,
not the
in finishing
chips and
shavings
it.
In the introduction
commended
to
me by
Lord Tennyson
trustworthy.
I
as,
as
also
in
Tennyson,' which
all these,
Waugh's 'Alfred
Mr.
I
did not
When
see
until
Lord
my
was in doubt
sketch was in type.
whether certain statements were accurate or
not, I consulted the present Lord Tennyson,
who kindly
criti-
and
in the notes.
PREFACE.
The
illustrations,
with which
ix
have had
sketches by
To
E. L.
'
edition.
VV. J. R.
Cambridge, February
i,
1895.
CONTENTS.
Page
131
JUVENILIA.
Claribel
133
140
Supposed Confessions
142
135
137
The Kraken
151
Song
i^
Lilian
153
Isabel
i^c
Mariana
To
Madeline
Song The Owl
Second Song To the Same
Recollections of the Arabian Nights
Ode to Mejiory
Song
A Character
The Poet
jrg
162
16^
167
168
...
169
177
183
185
187
CONTENTS.
xii
Page
'
190
200
192
195
197
Dirge
204
Circumstance
209
The Merman
The Mermaid
210
'ii:D^iNE
216
203
213
Margaret
220
Rosalind
224
Eleanore
'
My
227
Life
is
'
234
Early Sonnets
To
To
236
236
J.
M.
237
....
238
Alexander
Buonaparte
239
Poland
241
240
242
243
'
Wan
is
eloquent'
Cast'
'If
244
were loved,
as
desire to be'
The Bridesmaid
245
246
247
Mariana
256
in
the South
CONTENTS.
Xlll
Page
261
Fatima
299
CEnone
302
The
315
NOTES
Sisters
287
317
OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LIST
Vol.
Portrait of Tennyson
From
roRTR.A.lT
the painting by
I.
Titlepage
(1844)
Samuel Laurence.
OF TENNYSON
Frontispiece
10
...
40
Victoria
130
Mezzotint by G.
^*
W. H.
Ritchie.
Lilian
When
merry milkmaids
154
Maud Humphrey.
The Owl
166
girl alone."
174
Thou
W.
St.
John Harper.
Ode
Photo-etching from painting by
Hope."
Memory.
to
Maud Humphrey.
178
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
"
And
Ode
In triumph led."
to
Memory
184
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
"
Singing alone,
Combing her
hair
"
The Mermaid
212
"
So sweet
And
it
once again to
woo
thee mine."
288
LORD TENNYSON.
Alfred Tennyson was born on the 6th of August,
1809, at Somersby, a small village in Lincolnshire,
about
Its
six miles
now somewhat
souls.
Of this and
population,
about sixty
ish of
He
was rector.
was graduated
and
at
in 1805
'
two
is
known
have lived
at
The former
Holdernesse, in York-
The
I.
'
III.,
children of
it
the reign of
Henry
in
who was
In
bans.
Deincourt in
His
1624.
who was
created Baron
great-grandson, Ghristo-
ence
Lionel,
Duke of
Glar-
ried
connected
and with
who
Tennysons are
the revival of an
It
may be noted
mother
to
Madame
de
Maintenon.
1
For the
'
Church's
'
The Laure-
of our Noble
'
OF LORD TENNYSON
and
strength,
man
and talented
the degree
withal,
being 'something
He
Frederick (born
June
5,
the others
had
The
v*'ere
4,
ratio.
and
Cecilia.
Matilda,
greatest,
eral
Isles
after-
is
1832
and
it
in the
is
'
if
not
all,
of the
Mrs.
Anne Thackeray
Ritchie (in
'
Harper's Maga-
'
for
'
which occurred
in 1879.
The volume
is
Spedding.
Midnight, June
30, 1879,'
new
part
some
life
of
of these
'
'
The same
tempts
Alfred's
written
at verse
first
upon a
verses, so
slate
which
OF LORD TENNYSON.
hand one Sunday
his
when
Louth,
at
all
the flowers
blank verse.
son's
'
all
can picture
it all
to one's self,
little
Alfred brought
little
the models of
left alone.
in the garden,
had ever
read.
ThomOne
lines.
'
later on,
'
When
'
it
was
used to compose
of furious
full
'
He
ery.
breath,
long before
he
as already stated,
When
they pub-
fire.
His
father,
who,
so
it
Somersby
The
that I
know
native village of
of,
'
of
Tennyson
is
and large
ash-trees
clean sandstone.
Et paulum
and
rock,
and over
among
its
silvae superest.
the walls,
'
'
Memory
'
Come from
The seven
the
woods that
The
filter'd tribute
'
'
OF LORD TENNYSON-.
Of the
thick-fleeced sheep
Upon
from wattled
folds,
When
Norman
of
The
seven elms
are
'
the manor,
still
who gave
to
three
now
is
more
in
exchange a house
Bag
at
Some
tify
charming a song
but this cannot
fairly
true, as
there are
'
many
'
The Brook
two streamlets.
notes, that at
'
Somersby
It is
sweet forget-me-nots
'
and
and the
may
rivulet
to its questioner,
In
little
'
Mr. Church
brook' did
'
'
it
Here and
And
holds
in the brook,
and the
first
schoolmaster,
village
mained
Church remarks,
went
was
the
Later
where he
re-
remembered
in
'
As Mr.
been no
little dif-
who was
else.'
Alfred's return to
to Trinity College,
his instructor
Much
at Louth,
ficulty at that
anything
J.
to
his brothers.
From
who came up
him and
Somersby
in
1820
Cambridge, in 1828,
until
he
his father
great reader.
At
the
The
OF LORD TENNYSON-.
hand or wrapped
life at
One
Somersby.
how he and
in
own
some deep
reverie,
recollections of his
is
were wont to defend one of the bridges over the Somersby brook against
superior numbers of the village boys. Against three or
four or even five they could hold their own, but on one
occasion, when the attacking force doubled this last numof
ber,
with
and a
aisle,
The
interior has
been
it
'
in the
edifice
much
restored
modem
small
is
style,
It
is
'
Tenny-
since Dr.
look which
is
railings,
is
flat
the
TO THE MEMORY OF
THE REVEREND
not in
To
built
Church.
183I
lO
by
Two
bookseller
Brothers
pounds
'
Louth,
at
who engaged
The two
and
'Poems
J.
Jackson,
to
pay ten
They intended
at
first
to affix
but
subsequently decided
The
anonymously.
as follows
The
from Martial
strangely calls
following
the
book appear
nihil,'
Wace
(which Mr.
is
to let
poems were
Haec
somewhat lengthy
')
which
and matter. To
light upon any novel combination of images or to open
any vein of sparkling thought untouched before, were no
easy task indeed, the remark itself is as old as the truth
and, no doubt, if submitted to the microscopic
is clear
eye of periodical criticism, a long list of inaccuracies and
imitations would result from the investigation.
But so it
is
we have passed the Rubicon, and we leave the rest to
fifteen to eighteen, not conjointly,
may account
but individually
fate,
though
its
edict
may
March,
1827.
Such
we
''
OF LORD TENNYSON.
who
II
But
ye,
The
Few from
Distance on
And who
apply
t'
fail to lose.
all
is
Which throws
welcome shade
in the
two
drawn from
few of the
may serve
tra
;
'
titles
The Gondola
'
down
rah, sailing
*
The
'
'
all
to
ages and
show
'
Druid's Prophecies
The Maid
of Savoy
;
'
'
'
Persia
Swiss Song
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
;
'
'
gium on Homer
*
Babylon
Greeks
'
'
'
'
'
Phrenology
'
Hume,
seau,
'
Byron,
Cicero,
;
'
;'
Eulo-
Claudian,
others,
Gray,
the
to
They
etc.
among
God's De-
Exhortation
Addison,
Greece
The Death
Egypt
The Ex-
'
'
Scotch Song
Cleopa-
to
the Euphrates
lands, as a
all
Antony
are
from
Horace,
Sallust,
There are
Scott,
also
learned than
Tacitus,
Terence,
and
Virgil.
more
we might expect
12
They have an
father's death.
historical interest,
and
own
Be-
sake.
sively rare
no
this
the
exces-
account
if
on
other.
The poems
1827 edition.
are,
is
how-
authority
now
Of
'
printed.
for
The
prize
poem
of
'
'
when
Timbuctoo
'
it
is
was
also
We
of Byron, who
cent death
to
is
is
quoted
six
times,
and whose
in another.
Mrs. Ritchie
was dead
re-
" Byron
'
OF LORD TENNYSON.
"I thought
everything was
every one,
13
and
over
finished
Byron
for
remem-
is
dead
'
anonymous volume
and
now appears
it
that
Some
of
The
At times her
Upon
'
Two
Sometimes a
give an illustration,
As
To
Valley of Bones,'
Voices
little
'
corner shines
Aside from
this parallel, I
in ascribing
'
in
the
'
to Alfred, for
book.
it is
His poems
and grace of
nature,
rule,
'
and
in
the longer
The Oak
versification,
in
descriptions of
poems
As a
14
posed
now
proves
it
to be Frederick's.
Alfred's
for instance,
zsform, charm;
etc.
for
versifying,
facility in
Alfred
be his
to
admitting
combinations
such
lid,
the only
faultless,
if it
made
(?) to
The
lines
faintly smile,'
certainly Charles's
signed
A. T. or C.
it
This
is
is
T.,'
are almost
said of those
(page 175),
unquestionably belongs to
should have
(?),'
marked.
latter.
gaily
appends a
similarly
'
on page 164, * Ah
marked 'A. T.
'How
on page 178,
the
He
no doubt.
may
may be
It
his, for I
has
A. T.,'
'
all
and
the other
'The
T.,'
be-
All these
as
and
pious.'
this vein
much
'Remorse'
which
of the
'
is
(p.
'
poor
me
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Mind,' published in
iiis
15
To
take
illustrate the
this
first
The storm
But
faint at
first,
rise,
And
And
the skies,
hark
The
The
That
carries death
And
Not
like the
(When no
eye.
;
And
forked
thro' the air
A moment blazes dazzles bursts and dies
Quick
it flies,
livid,
To
each replies
its
own
still
allotted peal.
poem
from a
of Alfred's, entitled
a somewhat higher
86), in
'
strain?
Midnight
(page
'
'T
wan,
of swimming light
weak
is
for
all
in spots
that,
it
the
'
it
but,
than the
other.
There
is
Two
other pieces.
in the
rhymed heroics
of these
'
Sunday Mobs
are in a
soberer brother.
as this
from
'
The
wit,
in the
and stanza
however,
Sunday Mobs
'
may
is
'
and
humorous
for in the
rather laboured,
illustrate
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Tho' we
at times
ly
Yet
still it
Our
To
streets all
Prankt out
in ribbands,
and
gaily drest
in silks array'd.
Then
giggling milliners
swim
pertly by,
With
And
And that
But no
slight
Is independent of a stomacher.
Their metaphors from gowns and caps are sought,
And
In
'
Phrenology
'
we have
Thus with
the
same
ofificiousness of pains.
The poem On
*
means up
critics
Charles,
ited to
is
one of
his
VOL.
I.
best,
it
though by no
to
whom
the
l8
daturus
Coutino's
Epitaph on Cantoens.
He
died
Where
As once
To war
their
roll'd,
Each drop
That soon
At
At
At
last
last
shall
upon
last the
whelm
tide,
shame
of
bondage
learn,
'
OF LORD TENNYSON:
19
the skies,
Who would
To
And, towering
To
Her
more
Was
which
following
I
hand he came.
that path of fame
heart and
But perish'd
The
Byron's hope
With ready
'
in
On
Dead Enemy
'
(page
60 )
'
A. T.' appended,
is
a remarkable pro-
came
And
But when
I felt
as
man
should
in
death
feel.
20
The poem on
Egypt
'
is
said to have
by C. T. and finished by A.
that the
T.'
It
been
is
'
begun
easy to see
first
And
eye,
ginning thus
But the
first glitter
of his rising
beam
'Antony
to Cleopatra,'
is
the Cleo-
patra stanzas in
'
'
ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA.
O
Cleopatra
We
The
love to thee
tell
bore.
; ;!!
OF LORD TENNYSON.
To
thine,
thy light
me so dear,
breathed but in thy sight
A subject world I lost for thee,
For thou wert all my world to me !
!
to
The thunder
sought,
For what
saw,
to love
Thine on the
And
How
flung.
was victory
earth,
still I
am I
am thine
in the grave,
And, dying,
Thy
own,
bleeding Antony.
shall
my
spirit joy to
hear
tear,
22
*
Alfred before
specimen of
his juvenile
work
tho'
Thy
blade,
edge incrusted
With cankers Time hath made
Yet once around thee swell'd the cry
glitt'ring
Of triumph's
fierce
dehght,
With
still
corroding breath,
The
What
And
puissant
in
wrath
fire,
The
.*
OF LORD TENNYSON.
And with that hand which
What heroes' blood was
When
grasp'd thee
spilt
open hearts,
fearlessly, with
And
23
The dark-eyed
Old Sword
warriors closed
Thy venerable
Nor sweep away
rust,
the tarnish
Of darkness and
of dust
decay,
still
A wreck of ancient
Alfred's
poem
entitled
'
Love
'
time
contains an allusion,
The Palace
to
which there
to
tion.
is
a parallel in
The passage
Or else,
Upon
is
'
as follows
of Art,' but
Thy
fragrant
Twanging
*
bow
vol. vi., p.
313
He
He
Which
24
And
Which
To
Compare
'
The Palace
of Art
'
'
editors
shine
And many
1
Cama
or
Camdeo
is
the
Hindoo god
of love, sometimes
William Jones's
Hymn
to
Camdeo
lay be
sung
Pours her
soft
Ed.
Compare
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Of those dark groves
And
At
that
25
fell
dell.
first efforts
of Idleness
now
'
poems
Hours
we can
me
im-
when
There
is
Two
Brothers
earthed
is
in
The
1827.
'
several
the
and
little
poems
promise
come.
criticism of the
Poems by
union of kindred
little
tastes,
are given in
full
stanzas beginning
clear,'
to
'
'The
hibits a pleasing
the
show the
really
'
Yon
star
it is
the
first
of
whole
of eve, so soft
Two
as samples of the
is
26
The
four
'
Poems
Additional
Charles.
'
inferior
is
ferred as
him.
'
The
stanza
last
is
many
to his
the
to
have re-
pieces assigned to
as follows
is
equally
commonplace, and
The
the
of
third
Convulsions in Spain,'
is
'
I find
so
poor
appended poems,
there ?
is
'
also
correctly signed
A. T.'
Cambridge, where
his
residing.
He
remained
1831.
first
latter part
of
it
will
be seen, he
left
without
The
tutor to
whom
OF LORD TENNYSON.
to the
custom of the
college,
27
of Mineralogy, and
Whewell
in the
friendship were
may have been proud to posWise, sincere, and witty, these contemporaries of
his spoke with authority, with the modesty of conscious
strength.
Those of this race whom I have known in later
opinion Tennyson himself
sess.
days
also
and of indepen-
made
the less
chapter in
life
to
them from our youth. One of those old friends, who also
my father, and whom he loved, who has himself just
passed away, one who saw life with his own eyes, described Alfred in his youth, in a pamphlet or book which
loved
How many
and
poet,
of us
to the poet
of
life,
more books, of
youth,
with
of
mainly but
and again
another
name
for
its spirit
that
all
28
soul
days ?
A man
at all points, of
sig-
and
honourable race when himself a Yonge Squire,' like him in
Chaucer, of grete strength,' that could hurl the crowbar farther than any of the neighbouring clowns, whose humours, as
knight, squire, landlord, and lieutenwell as of their betters,
ant,
he took quiet note of, like Chaucer himself like Wordsworth on the mountain, he too when a lad abroad on the world,
sometimes of a night with the shepherd, watching not only the
flock on the greensward, but also
nificant
becoming
his ancient
'
'
Andromeda
R.
lines to
of clearest insight,
.
Is couching
As who
now
shall say, I
whose fame
for
'11
my
spring to
him anon.
own.
Monckton Milnes, George Stovin Venables, the Lushingtons and Kinglake, need no comment; many more
there are, and deans and canons,
a band of youthful
on mind and
art,
OF LORD TEAWYSON.
29
When
And
last the
Would
The
lines to
associates
J.
S.
master-bowman, he.
were written
to
one of these
earlier
And
That are
many
During
his
humour and
Cambridge
his
life,
he was noted
power of mimicry.
for
his
Dr. Whewell
humour or drollery. Brookfield almost lived with Arthur Hallam and the Tennysons, and, of course, with those
who could afford time for their nodes coenceque.
in
whom
Arthur Hallam, to
this last
sentence alludes,
He
bridge.
monument
In the preface to a
poems and
Cam-
little
He
died at
Memoriam is
reared to his mem*
In
'
volume of
essays,
eminent
father, the
at
his collected
death,
him
historian, says of
his
From
ual benevolence,
ani-
late
'
to
poem
Dean
him
of Canterbury, an
in
'
The School of
him more
at length.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Gentle soul
Was
From inward
And
in thy look
won
thou hadst
spirit of love
youth
The memory
of Arthur
But he
is
his days
name
in
all
than that of
his very
was more
likelihood greater
distinguished father.
The
mark'd him
As a far Alp and loved to watch the sunrise
Dawn on his ample brow.
I
All-comprehensive tenderness,
All-subtilising intellect.
32
It
human
after
Hallam,
in
Arthur's
memory
If
now
in the
way
of
life.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
I
my
best part of
by
my
side,
sumption
in
and
feel secure
sacred memory.
lady, speaking of
said to Tennyson,
'
young Hallam
man can
the
as
so
near perfection as a
be.'
summer
of
on
And
'
His
Timbuctoo.
friend
for a
Hallam was
poem
also
the
The
this
'
The same
poem
The
central idea
The narrow
VOL.
I.
relation of
34
of the past,
such as were
and
asks,
Wide
Lighten, thy
As
He
is
soul
hills enfold,
Sun
a city as fair
o'
till
And
Of her black
Among
billows.
Then
first
him
the sight of
is
saw
On
Of canopy
o'ercanopied.
am
the Spirit,
courseth through
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Reacheth
35
Deep-rooted
the
this
Soon yon
brilliant
'
Spirit's
latest
keen Discovery
'
towers
wand
Darken and shrink and shiver into huts,
Black specks amid a waste of dreary sand,
Shall darken with the waving of her
was the
poem
in
first
blank verse,
all
'
it
Against
founded prejudice
and
and
originality of the
it
says
much
poem, and,
it
ill-
only
fair to
examiners,
that
the
metre was
not considered
disqualification.'
John
Sterling,
We
who
said of
it
in
:
the 'Athenaeum' by
to think,
among
was
perhaps with-
likely to perish
The age
is now passing away.
seems determined to contradict us, and that in the most
decided manner, for it has put forth poetry by a young
in a prize
man, and that where we should least expect it
poem. These productions have often been ingenious and
elegant, but we have never before seen one which indicated
generation of poets which
36
honour to any
man
The
adds
'
some
praise,
forty lines of
have lived
This
'
something of
was shown
his
Tennyson put
Poems,
book of poems
his
name appeared,
fifty-four
Thirty-two
but
first
chiefly Lyrical.'
hundred and
pieces.
knew
poem.
in this
In 1830 the
brilliant
high
is
It
to
which Alfred
with
the
title
more recent
^
editions.
These
are
'The Deserted
authorities,
four of the rejected pieces are grouped under the one head of
' Sonnets,'
and partly because several pieces, omitted in 1842,
were restored so soon afterwards that their brief suppression
was overlooked. I may add that others have been restored in
reappear until
its
Foresters' (1892).
The
'
introduction with a
National Song
new
'
chorus
'
'
did not
in
'
The
OF LORD TENNYSON.
House,' 'Nothing
Mind,'
We
'
Elegiacs
are Free
'
(now
(now
'
'
entitled
Kraken,' and
Among
'
'
will
Die,^
Leonine Elegiacs
Song,' beginning,
and The
ory,'
'
'
Mariana,'
poet's art
started
on
his career.
no mere
is
Poet.'
'),
The winds
'
National Song.'
cially
'
'
Things
'
Die,' 'All
will
37
The
minstrel, playing
and singing
the world
to
amuse the
prophet,
seer,
king by a divine
right higher
dent of
birth.
'Westminster Review.'
tences read
Among
now
like
The concluding
prophecy
fulfilled.
sen-
After
was
Hero
his
'
to Leander,'
Stuart Mill
but
it is
this notice
it
with the
38
He
own
and we look
men
to
to sink into
They can
themselves or others.
unnumbered minds they can command the sympathey can disseminate printhies of unnumbered hearts
ciples they can give those principles power over men's
imaginations they can excite in a good cause the susof
is
they can act with a force, the exwhich it is difficult to estimate, upon national feelings and character, and consequently upon national hapIf our estimate of Mr. Tennyson is correct, he
piness.
too is a poet and many years hence may he ^ read his
juvenile description of that character with the proud consciousness that it has become the description and history
martyrs of patriotism
tent of
of his
own work.
More than
sixty years
elo-
and there
that
In the
I
'
Westminster,' as in
'
is
Lord Tennyson'
made
it first
in
at least
have no
'he.'
(1892),
my Young
'
all
misprinted 'be,'
Waugh,
in his
'
Al-
People's
Tennyson
'
(1886), p. 90.]
OF LORD TENNYSON.
The
youth.
39
The
noble
made
but he
ideal,
was
It
it
living
reality.
Tennyson's
Charles
first
volume,
'Sonnets and
Poems,
'
chiefly Lyrical
'
few months
peared in
later,
poet
It
Tennyson
is
is
the
declared to be a true
fairy fineness
there
a strange
is
charm over
described,
once
felt
manner
his
and not
noted
second, his
acters
objects,
of
felt
than
it.'
are
to
first,
same
his luxuriance
third,
his vivid,
them fused
in
of imagi-
picturesque
skill
delineation of
medium
of
it
in ideal char-
strong
all
emotion
40
and
of the feelings
fall
expressed
and imparting
tions,
impressive than
if
opinions in verse,
impHed
and
the
fifth,
in these
composi-
the author
had drawn up a
and sought
to instruct the
set of
under-
wood
'
merciless severity.
was
justice in
It
many
up
its
faults
it
Black-
some
in
may
up
some pieces
to ridicule
discarded poems.
critics
charlatan
The
article
'
'
'
declared to have
is
Englishman's Mag-
'
it
poems
in detail (of
Memory,'
'
among which
'
are the
Isabel,'
'
'
Ode
to
Mariana,'
Farringford, Freshwater,
Isle
of IVight.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
'
Adeline,'
'
The Sleeping
Beauty,'
41
and Recollections
'
little
rhymed
retort
criticism
is
which he inserted
You
my
evi-
lays,
Crusty Christopher;
You
Musty Christopher;
I
Fusty Christopher.
The
poems
first is
to
for
1831.
containing the
that are
germ of the
No More
'
in
'
The
exquisite song,
Princess
'
'
The Days
NO MORE.
No More ! Oh sweet No More !
Oh strange No More !
Oh
sad
By
And
both
Surely
all
my
in
my
ears,
No More
'
title
42
The second
reontics.'
is
These
trifles in
and
which he
it
also discarded,
zine
(August,
third
somewhat longer
is
title,
The
'
Fragment.'
writ-
the
passage from
Anac-
'
Poems,
is
at
Thy
spirit to
This
is
mild-minded Melancholy.
also
among
Lotos- Eaters
To
To
'
:
the
the
which
fill
my
'The
third^ contributed to
the same
year, has
'
Friendship's Offering
'
for
poet's
al-
Me
OF LORD TENNYSON.
Thy
spirit, circled
summer
In
Alone
my
still
43
summer
joy resumeth.
One
And
yet
my
As round
And
my
Into
I
am
night,
so dark, alas
When we
my
horizon shine
when thou
art far
and thou so
's
away.
bright,
never perfect
light.
by Alfred Tennyson
many
'
(that
was the
title)
was brought
out in
thirty
for
contained
fourteen
pieces,
It
'
To
,'
beginning, in
of weary days
life is full
Buonaparte
;
'
'
its
revised form,
(see notes
the sonnet,
'
If I
on
that
'
My
poem)
were loved as
I de-
sire to
be
etc.),
'
'
we muse and
Rosalind,'
brood.'
'
Poland
'
(<
On
it is
generally believed)
the number of suppressed and of subsequently repoems in this volume, as concerning that of 1S30, all
the authorities are inaccurate. Compare the foot-note on
1
stored
page
36.
44
in the
tune
that he
is
book, added
in the
'
Samuel Taylor
1833.
was *a good
that there
'
The
to write verses
Church, quoting
much
he had had
remarks
this,
The
be so regular
in
me
assure
'
that,
common
with
make
so perfect
is
seems
see
to
his
with
in
'
stinct
poets, living
Poe,
like
minute lapses
'
in their application.
to attain a finer
Edmund
strict letter ot
'
the
Pos-
rhythmical in-
called), notes in
Coleridge,
this
and
his
on
command
commenting
as
it is
often
of delicious metres,
to
sufficient
precise investigation
but,
earJ
his
sibly the
all
him not
rhythms.'
in his
abound
Mr.
is.'
was that
fact
misfor-
and studied
is
OF LORD TENNYSON.
mental architecture,
yet so
much an
45
interlaced por-
general
the
in
He
excellence.'
and
these lyrics
adds
forgotten
is
:
'
Even
if
idyls
beauty.
The
made
metrical elegance
thing before
Certain
its
it.'
poems
first
In a note to the
written in 1833
'
old sat
land
;
'
with
Freedom on
and
'
the
heights
The Goose.'
'
first
we
are
'
also dated
at
ill
'
'
ease
the
'
Black;
'
'
Of
'
is
1833.
'
in that year,
'
'
'Conclusion' of 'The
bird
force of
'
silent,
'The Keepsake'
The Tribute
'
in
'
Saint
Agnes
'
(a collection of miscellaneous
poems
in
'
46
The
were possible,'
'The Academy'
poem
'
for
it
fit
it
refreshed with
among
as 'the
of pathos
;
since re-
new beauty
to
"Maud."'
of
poem
This
subject of the
the
'
says
is
(October, 1837)
'
contribution
;
'
hand
and the
The
writer
to understand the
of
the
do not profess
Stanzas
notice that
We
been the
first
Edinburgh Review
:
terious
'
may be
it
fullest delight
that
for
'
etc.,
incorporated into
said to have
of a true poet
lines
it is
not
difficult to
'
'
detect
Mariana
is
in
those stanzas which describe the appearance of a visionary form, by which the writer
is
The
'
Morte d'Arthur
as early as 1837,
'
must
supposed to be haunted
city.
also have
been written
until
1842
for
me
man
of rare judg-
OF LORD TENNYSON:
47
It is more
in style from his printed poems.
Homeric than any poem of our time, and rivals some of
different
'
Odyssey.'
was written,
the author
in the "
The
till it
that
poem
'
it
laid aside
and forgotten by
Demeter
"
poet's father
volume
had died
in
Hallam.
and
Ixxviii.) after
the
'
In
Memo-
death of Arthur
which Carlyle,
member
Anonymous
Club,
Mill,
of the
article
from which
have
'
'
'
'
'
48
guffaw.
was
n't
you," he answered.'
The
story
is
illustrate the
'
'
At length in 1842,
new
of which was
made up
was broken
silence
'
Poems,' the
The Day-Dream
1830), and
'
'
'The
'Dora,'
Hall,'
Talking
Godiva,'
and
Epic
Oak,'
'
'
('
'Ulysses,'
The Two
Voices,'
'
Locksley
none of
poems from
Most
unnecessary here.
is
list
is
OF LORD TENNYSON.
entirely rewritten for this edition
earlier
49
slight
alteration.
The
mirers had been the select few, and the leading critics
now he was
'
All
ley Hall
"
work
but
and nearly
all
stirring
do him honour.'
Up
to this time
America.
It is
in
Neither of them
great libraries,
and
in
is
to
private
collections
exceedingly rare.
they are
notice
they
S.
in
Dwight of Boston.
He
them reprinted
borrowed
in Boston.
This
&
to
to
have
me
letter
from
VOL.
I.
their
50
intention of
making one
the
The
Boston by Mr.
W. D. Ticknor
The
audience, though
it'N.^
and
demand
marked
I
am
poets.
for
in the
Christian
'
'
Examiner
'
Democratic Review'
fit
Tennyson
is
for
for
In the latter
The
magazine
in
for the
November, 1842
same year
re-
me from demonstrating
Other bards produce effects which are, now
and then, otherwise produced than by what we call poems,
but Tennyson an effect which only a poem does. His
alone are idiosyncratic poems. By the enjoyment or
Morte d'Arthur,' or of the
non-enjoyment of the
CEnone,' I would test any one's ideal sense.
of the term poet alone prevents
that he
is.
'
'
Much
OF LORD TENNYSON.
51
I
melody of his earlier cadence
and taken him to heart as
a brother. One of his themes lias long been my favourite,
and his, like mine, is
the last expedition of Ulysses,
the Ulysses of the Odyssey,' with his deep romance of
wisdom, and not the worldling of the Iliad.' How finely
masked his slight description of himself and of TelemaIn Dora,'
chus
Locksley Hall,' 'The Two Voices,'
Morte d'Arthur,' I find my own life, much of it, written
intoxicating, sensuous
this time,
'
'
'
'
'
out.
in
Poems was
'
issued in 1845
'
and 1846.
in the
the
Westminster
Quarterly
'
'
'
(October)
(October)
by John Sterling in
and anonymously
in the
'
(December).
'
Most of these
criticisms
'
were highly
eulogistic.
edited
*
Orion.'
appeared in
A New
'
by Richard Hengist
He
remarked
Spirit
Home,
of the Age,'
the
author
of
But
what is his position in the public mind ? Or, rather, to
what extent is he known to the great mass of general
readers ? Choice and limited is the audience, we appre-
52
hend, to
whom
this
'
a rising
man
'
in its
is
really
on the
It is
he published his
volume
time for
'
'
this
poetry of Tennyson.
first
and certainly
rise
and
if
it
require
to discover his
all
this
existence,
and
determine
'
however,
is
'
'
'
OF LORD TENNYSON:
53
to this period
the latter.
Locksley Hall,' in
times, selecting
'
The
'
Sisters,'
Or,
etc.
rolls out,
at
other
collected
memory
as
in
'
'Morte d'Arthur.'
With
ful
respect to
'
'
CEnone,' or the
CEnone,'
it is
an exquisitely success-
own
beating heart's
blood into the pale, blind statues of the antique times, and
loses
no
grace.
The
Morte d'Arthur
Greek revival, and,
with equal success, draws back the Homeric blood and
or Landor.
Keats, or Shelley,
'
spirit
Of
the
'
'
54
breathing over
ideality
the
whole, and giving a saddened charm even to the suggesall this, and much more, indetion of a watery grave,
the language.
'
in
1843
at the publisher
later (July
i,
Reed of Philadelphia
in London several times.
our living poets,
world
still
and
'
He
hope
decidedly the
is
live to
will
was
first
of
give the
better things.'
It
'
There
little
is
and ought
to have
will
that can be
Mr. Tennyson
do great things
Cooper remarked
time.'
He
'
that
this
Tennyson's sense of
new
1
race of poets.
'
Yes,'
said
Wordsworth
'
the
doubtless helped to
country.
'
;
OF LORD TENNYSON.
perception of harmony
that he
cited Tennyson's
endowed with
is
Cooper
it.'
'
essence of
cent proofs
the very
in
lies
55
as
words
a sense of music
fine
and
to this
smile.
Moxon
means
to
me
informs
come and
that
is
main beautiful
me,
to
Tennyson
Of this
see me.
Alfred
be very glad.
for a description of
Ten-
now
is
in town,
latter result
and
shall
a true human
soul, or
whom
some
au-
Indian-looking;
smokes
fit
infinite
loose,
His voice
is
free-and-easy;
musical metallic,
between
do not meet,
lie
I
clothes cynically
tobacco.
a pipe
We
shall see
Emerson wrote
Tennyson was
of mine,
though
in reply
right
welcome,
owned
I love
what he
his
will
grow
to.
he
is
book before
of
an old favourite
I
saw your
face,
O, cherish him
'
'
$6
with love and praise, and draw from him whole books
new
of
full
verses yet
manner
in the
'
Bon
Gualtier Ballads
by Theo-
'
in
'
Tait's
]Martin
way
in a
He
a-tilt,
with
said
all
the recklessness
liv-
st3-le
rather out of the fulness of our admiration, just as the excess of a lover's fondness often runs over into raillery of
the
while
*
newspaper
Theban
starves
taste
'
'
Wordsworth and
'
(London, 1846),
that
Knowles.'
School-miss Alfred
ing
year,
criticism,
'
The
to sneer
Tennyson
pensions
productions
were described as
'
of
Out-baby-
much
'
OF LORD TENNYSON.
more
the
in
Tennyson
same
The
vein.
lowed
titled
comes
It
'
'
to
fol-
all
offensive
verses
called,
friends.
Tennyson,
father of
in
after-
In a public speech in
'
by our Poet-Laureate,'
silent
two authors
that the
1862, Lytton, in
what he
the
'
18,
and
is
the
'
this
from
out
In
After-thought.'
the poet
Alcibiades,'
in the
'
'
drew
attack
'Punch' (Feb.
a rejoinder printed in
57
namely,
our kings to be
dedicating
Harold
'
'
to
'
and
the
is
later
younger
'
for
which
lished nothing
was added
1846.
no haste
to
his friends
greater
were clamouring
and
new except
'
The Golden
We know
little
of his
life
which
Year,'
'
Poems
'
may come
in
fireplace, a
volume
'
58
far
The
gested by Johnson's
'
Rasselas,'
was the
idea of
the poem, as
all
She desired
best.
where we read
'
sug-
The
first
to learn of sciences,
and
In
preside.'
'
Love's Labour
's
Lost
Academe
cluded
but
from which
'
Dan Cupid
Tennyson's poem.
Mrs. Ritchie remarks
The
women
are
to
'
be ex-
he does
in
and glowing
and
smuts of Lincoln's Inn, although, like all works of true
art, this poem had grown by degrees in other times and
The poet came and went, free, unshackled, mediplaces.
One of my family remembers hearing
tating, inditing.
Tennyson say that Tears, idle Tears,' was suggested by
Tintern Abbey who shall say by what mysterious wonder
transient
of beauty and regret, by what sense of the
'
among
the fogs
'
'
The
'
Princess
favour by the
'
was
critics.
at
first
with
received
it
little
OF LORD TENNYSON.
59
human sentiment were evident but the medwas thought somewhat incongruous, and the main
web of the tale too weak to sustain the embroidery raised
upon it.
beauty, and
ley
On
In
this
country, Prof.
'New
a long
and
for
it
were
critics
of the poem.
true merit
recognise the
to
wrote
lege,
the
the
prompt
Critical.'
second edition of
within a year
'
Essays, Philologi-
'
The
and a third
Princess
'
was called
for
and
Letters,'
March
1850,
after
'
'
'
Life
Examiner
24.
the poet's
Reading a
else
for
'
until
to the world,
significant
work
poem
It is said
this
century
The
Princess,'
edition.
this
'
poem
in
In
of
the present
6o
Memoriam
list.
'
'
either the
Obviously
first
or second place
upon
is
it
his
sitting,
contains
The wisdom,
Tennyson's poems.
mind
pirations of a noble
for once, is
shut in
are here
upon
itself,
strives
is
to
of
as-
curious reasoning,
irradiate with
life.
At the
made symbolic
palingenesis,
and
problems of
yearnings,
inward
close.
Na-
of the soul's
beautiful marriage-
dear
common
living kind.'
In
this
same
year, 1850,
sister
Arctic navigator.
His
The marriage
on the Oxfordshire
'
side of the
Thames
Stedman.
in the direction of
OF LORD TENNYSON:
The
6l
some
of which
view,
Mr.
James
Fields
T.
says
Once,
village
with
We came
to
Hill.'
remem-
a pilgrimage to a
grand old
ivy.
'
me on
ber,
is
half- covered
it
was a superb
pile, rich in
the
man
to stop,
and turning
" This
siasm, said,
is
the 19th of
to
me
On
'
Queen
His
1851.
After his marriage
cept for a
visit
to
Tennyson
France and
made
'
lived
two years
twice
classic
'
and
memories
render
it.
it
poet's son
more
'
all
Here the
(ex-
Twickenham,
Italy) at
'
the
may
in
1852.
Church.
'
:;
62
lines
to
'
('
child
I lay
reclined/ etc.)
In
85
'Come
when
not
am
which are
stanzas,
volumes
not
lines,
dead,'
included
in
published
his
What
One
time
of the shining
Show'd me vast
winged powers
with crowns of towers.
cliffs,
He
said,
'
The
labour
is
not small
Other contributors to
'
Macready,
March
i,
be read
to
on
his
at a
from the
in
1850;
section
The
and the
(lix.),
'O
'
In
this
year,
until
This
stage.
1891.
issued
peared
Charles
retirement
Three editions of
The same
William
to
'
The
Princess
'
new
me?'
also ap-
OF LORD TENNYSON.
*
dl
not
when
tioned
am
and
'
Come
men-
new poems
three other
The
'
Eagle.'
Edwin Morris
The
'
following stanza in
the Crystal
referring to
And
In
December,
185
Louis
1,
early in
poems,
Britons,
'
February,' and
in
'
Hands
all
for
the
three
fol-
spirited
The Third of
Round.' The first (printed
the 'Examiner'
famous
Napoleon's
and
'
'
in
memory
great
'
Ode
'
in
second edi-
soon followed.
Queen.
The
'
64
Greece
cess
sage
'
'
also
from
lines
were added.
'
To
fifth
E. L. on his Travels
edition of
The
'
Prin-
chronicle
'
in
the
Prologue.
Mr.
The domain
ler's right
history
of Farringford can
hand as he makes
his
be seen on the
travel-
The
estate
this
name
is re-
'
assessed at
15 hides.
It
is
now
assessed at 6 hides.
at thirty pounds."
OF LORD TENNYSON-.
At
65
should call
Crown
lands.
first
who endowed
it
its
names
of the local
recall this
Henry
I.
Sub-
its
at
;/^
134 3 j. \\d.
Some
ecclesiastical ownership.
'Abraham's Mead,' and 'The Clerk's Hill.' Lord Tennyson has in his possession transference deeds signed by
Walter de Fferingford, evidently the chief owner of land
at Freshwater.
The
tensions,
Not
the least of
its
it.
it
green.
VOL.
I.
66
Mrs. Ritchie,
Cameron
who
spent
known
(well
The house
photographs)
:
Farringford seemed
like a charmed
and speaking walls
There hung Dante with his solemn nose and
within.
wreath; Italy gleamed over the doorways; friends' faces
lined the way books filled the shelves, and a glow of
crimson was everywhere the great oriel drawing-room
window was full of green and golden leaves, of the sound
of birds, and of the distant sea.
The very names of the people who have stood upon
the lawn at Farringford would be an interesting study for
palace,
at
some
the
future biographer
Duke
Consort.
of Argyll,
Good
Locker,
Dean
OF LORD TENNYSON.
67
...
hill.
thrushes,
'
rises, crisp,
wash
of fierce,
delicious waters.
The
lovely places
all
about Farring-
Beyond the
and the blue Solent, the New Forest spreads its shades, and the green depths reach to the
very shores. Have we not all read of the forest where
Merlin was becharmed, where the winds were still in the
wild woods of Broceliande ? The forest of Brockenhurst,
in Hampshire, waves no less green, its ferns and depths
are no less sweet and sylvan, than those of Brittany.
among
Primrose Island
the least of
charms.
its
itself
At
I
coming out
me
it
The
poem
only
left.
Examiner
'
of
'
It
was
either a ghost
said they.
to-
peo-
Some
December
first
'
Writ-
68
It
was printed
whom I am proud
for my ballad on
affol-
to call
my
Alfred Tennyson.
%th August,
8 55.
ment
he
'
gives
single
following
the
Explorations
name
of
'
Tennyson's Monu-
'
cliff
description
of greenstone,
in
his 'Arctic
marked by
the
slaty
it,
rears itself
OF LORD TENNYSON.
69
back a sketch of it, which may have interest for the reader,
though it scarcely suggests the imposing dignity of this
magnificent landmark.^
familiar
communed
with
apprehend
name.
Essays
'
:
to his son
My dear
Poet- Laureate.
many
Sir,
and feelings
Will you forgive
presumption of offering you a book which at least
acknowledges them and does them homage ?
As the hopes which I have expressed in this volume
are more likely to be fulfilled to our children than to ourof those thoughts
rne the
selves,
to
more he may
if
words which
1
will
full-page engraving
Kane's book.
from
70
who
my
dear
Sir,
Yours very
and
truly
gratefully,
F. D.
Maurice.
'
upon
the Laureate.
It is said
Sir
John Burgoyne,
in the
just returned
is
notable for
the
publication of
critics
'
The
Princess
'
had
divided.
the
poem
as
made
in
and the
subsequently by the
The
'
missing links
is
'
It is
in the plot.
mood more
critics
it
OF LORD TENNYSON.
*
monodrama.'
mouth of a
single speaker
Maud
'
71
to
have invented
still
Maud
'
and
it.
appeared,
'
been made.
Dr. R.
"Maud"
nyson's
J.
Mann
'Ten-
tion
also published
Tennyson, acknowl-
'
No one
misunderstand
my
commentary
as true as
is
another gentleman
dramatic
poem
"
who had
sent
Maud."
him a copy of a
tique
Your
In replying to
it is full.' ^
am much obliged to you for sending me your crion my poem and happy to find that you approve of
;
it,
indeed,
am
work
the
of
bitter-
mine has
excited.
Nimue or
poem of consid-
found
in the
'
Maud
pubHsh
'
will
be
72
According
it.
to
'are said to be
still
visit
While
it
an Ex-
to
painters,
accosted
'
Soon Mr.
returned,
and said he had found the Poet-Laureate, and, going into
the saloon of the Old Masters, we saw him there, in company with Mr. Woolner, whose bust of him is now in the
not acquainted with Tennyson.
Exhibition.
How
cannot
seemed mean
even to look
at
to
at
all.
He is as un-English
man of genius usually
and
is
as possible,
indeed, an
English-
great abnormally.
of us
more than
here, for
OF LORD TENNYSON:
73
It
of his
have
men
it
of
'
In the
the Isle
'
Life of
of Wight
is
is
visited
a letter written in
an extract
thrushes singing in
all
the hedges,
in
is
way
now in
that, at
the very-
He
same
coast.
''
74
honour
in
wife here
which he
is
us with an account of
Opening
awed.
held by their
'
betters.'
Our house-
is
how
said servant
had
lately
been
tall,
turned to go.
maid.
'
Bayard Taylor,
in his
'
At
same year
ford in this
Home
visit
he made to Farring-
poets, Alfred
Wight.
that
my
dulating
visit
hills,
New
landscape
Forest
through
beyond
in
it,
all,
gap
the Channel.
little
inns,
OF LORD TENNYSON.
chiming in
my
mind.
'The dry-tongued
'
75
'
laurel'
shone
on
bloom
'
of a crescent of
glimmered afar.
had not been two minutes in the drawing-room beSo unlike are the published
fore Tennyson walked in.
portraits of him that I was almost in doubt as to his
The engraved head suggests a moderate
identity.
stature, but he is tall and broad-shouldered as a son of
Anak, with hair, beard, and eyes of southern darkness.
Something in the lofty brow and aquiline nose suggests
Dante, but such a deep, mellow chest-voice never could
have come from Italian lungs.
He proposed a walk, as the day was wonderfully clear
and beautiful. We climbed the steep combe of the chalk
cliff, and slowly wandered westward until we reached the
Needles, at the extremity of the island, and some three or
During the confour miles distant from his residence.
versation with which we beguiled the way, I was struck
with the variety of his knowledge. Not a little flower on
the downs, which the sheep had spared, escaped his
notice, and the geology of the coast, both terrestrial and
submarine, was perfectly familiar to him. I thought of
a remark which I once heard from the lips of a distinguished English author [Thackeray], that Tennyson
was the wisest man he knew, and could well believe
that he was sincere in making it.
sea
'
circle to
which
sanctity
of
Suffice
it
parted
to say that
the poet
is
relations,
his depth
and tenderness of
feeling,
he deserves to be
so.
76
On
the
Prussia,
Anthem,
were printed
in the
God
'
Vivien,'
'
Elaine,'
and
'
the
four poems,
'
Enid,'
Ten thousand
entitled.
of January 29.
first
25,
They
London 'Times'
Jan.
stanzas to
Among
continued
write
to
his
warmest admirers
its
his
name
in
The note
it.
You would
which
rekindle
They
quite
feeling with
'
memory
Idylls' appeared,
of the Prince,
who
was not
1869 that
until
this
'
master- work
'
of
more
'
Grail,'
Idylls,'
'
thur,' in
Pelleas
'
The Coming
and
which the
'
Ettarre,'
of Arthur,'
and
'
The
Morte d'Arthur
'
'
The Holy
Passing of Ar-
of 1842
is
incor-
OF LORD TENNYSON.
In
porated.
to the
872
The
'Contemporary Review'
77
'
December, 18 71)
for
appeared; and
1885
in
in
'
Tiresias
In the
ranged in
'
twelve books
divided into
and Enid
'
'
'Morte
The Marriage
of Geraint
'
and
'
are ar-
Enid
'
'
being
Geraint
')
last
(or
d' Arthur
cessively
poems
(the original
latest editions
by the
'
the portion of
included in the
it
third,
in-
first,
followed suc-
were arranged
in 1859),
first,
eighth, ninth,
amplification of the
and
fifth.
'
'
Morte d'Arthur
Nave and
'),
second, tenth,
until,
continues
Stedman, from
whom
quote
this,
who has
to be
welded together
of chivalry,
the
in heroic form.
It is
the epic
we
our conception
78
of
what
really
it
spells, fantastic
a chronicle illuminated by
and often blazes with light like that which
flashed from the holy wizard's book when the covers were
unclasped. And, indeed, if this be not the greatest narrative poem since Paradise Lost,' what other English
production are you to name in its place? Never so lofty
as the grander portions of Milton's epic, it is more evenly
sustained and has no long prosaic passages while Paradise Lost is justly declared to be a work of superhuman
genius impoverished by dreary wastes of theology.
of golden mist, seems like
saintly hands,
'
'
'
The
Idylls
'
as
completed form
Round
of the
meaning
illustrative
'
Idylls
and decadence
an
allegorical
The
Dean Alford,
late
view
Contemporary Review
'
history
a great connected
in the
'
'
for January,
The
1870.
the Soul in
its
coming,
gles
Round
'
One
In Arthur's
conflict continually
the flesh
and
spirit
and
we recognise
'
OF LORD TENNYSON.
down
the bearing
in history,
and
79
in individual
man,
by the corruptions of
flesh,
superstition,
by human
Apology'
mother's
'The
(entitled
Grandmother'
'
herd
says,
so beautifully
'
poem, and
is
read
first
in
it
it
in the
magazine,
the
it
dissociated.*
On
first
and third
['
'
Enid
'
and
a great poet.
Elaine
']
could have
fourth
me
first
12) he wrote
rich tapestries,
wrought
as only
Faerie Queene."
this
appeared in
Fields
I believe
'
there
is
When
to
brilliant
Tennyson
on
so
good.'
a
The
The
no discordant voice
'
The Holy
Grail
8o
King
in
new volume
Alfred's
to get anything
light
It
always a de-
is
from him.
this
good works
New
meet the
to
for a holiday,
''
"
Year with a
made a tour in
Turner Palgrave, who was then
paring his
'
Palgrave says
to begin the
pre-
In the dedication to
Lyrics.'
Por-
'
the
Laureate,
Your encouragement
work
and
Mr.
me
led
it
Magazine
hill
except
public
for January,
'
Magazine
'
and
in
'
to
Macrnillan's
Tithonus,' in the
'
Corn-
'The
Regia,'
Christmas volume of
uted to
Sea Dreams,'
Victoria
full.
in the
new
edition of the
opening of
printed in
'
the
Eraser's
'
May
Idylls
'
already mentioned,
the First,
International
Magazine
1862,' sung at
Exhibition,
and
for June.
'
To
this
he alludes
Hallam
in the lines
in
'
his
early
manhood.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
teretz,' written at this time,
until
1864:
All along the valley, stream that flashest white,
of the night.
walk'd to-day,
all
thirty years
Arthur
time,
and
sons at
Pyrenees
at this
Tenny-
Mont
in the
comfortably established
"
The Laureate
river.'
Clough writes
the
feet,
'
To-day
is
him
that
At Cauteretz, September
7,
to be done.
told
hills,
and
little
a simile to "
The
place, evidently.'
VOL.
I.
visit of
Princess."
He
is
82
The
the
simile occurs in
fifth
part of
'The
Prin-
cess,'
The
In 1863 the
'
Welcome
to Alexandra,'
which Thack-
and
December
in
in Quantity
the
appeared
'
'
Attempts
in the
at Classical
Metres
Cornhill Magazine.'
who had
mother,
to
the
'
gives the
'
In August
was published.
to the
title
idyllic style
'
volume
is
'
Enoch Arden
ocean,
finally, for
genre scenes.'
in 1864,
The
George William
remarked:
title
'
and
under the
Epi-
Queen's
Court Journal.'
(the
'
Wakefield,' of a
^
its
it
Hawthorne elaborated
man
Stedman.
Curtis, reviewing
quietly withdrawing
OF LORD TENNYSON.
from
his
home and
windows
many
in the
83
years from
darkness to
see wife and children and the changes tim.e works in his
familiar circle,
is
reproduced in
'
is
involuntar}',
it
is
is
it was too dainty, too conspicuously fasand the words were chosen too much for themselves and their special suggestions and individual melody.
But his mastery of them now is manly. It is as striking
as Milton's, although entirely different.
There are a
Miltonic and a Tennysonian blank verse in English literature
is there any other ?
Mr. Henry
the
poem
J.
Jennings
tells
its
'
'
84
'
greater thankfulness.'
still
'
Enoch Arden
'
Italian,
Spanish,
several
hands)
and
German
(by
in
'
Enoch
Arden,' was
pathos, which
revealed a
The command
delightful
this
acter
the
poems, remarkable
dialect
new power
in
'
of dialect
The poem
surprise.
Lincolnshire
of the
first
is
humour and
Tennyson.
least part in
strongly
in
in the
draws
of himself.^
'
Works of
1865, contained
On
a Mourner
spears
'
'
'
six
new poems
Home
Alfred Tennyson,'
Moxon's Miniature
till
Home
Poets,'
'The Captain;*
Jennings.
now,
The
')
is
proba-
Princess,'
and three
OF LORD TENNYSOM.
'Sonnets
Coquette,'
to
85
beginning,
respectively,
is
among
On
the
'
eloquent,'
cast.'
many
for
'The form,
years at
sister.
some
desired to confer
the
'
Athenrum
'
upon the
distinction
announced
poet,
and
a baronetcy had
that
The
Queen
latter part of
Nine years
later,
when
and declined.
series of twelve songs, entitled
In 1867 the
'The
Guest, of Canford
with
almost
dedicate
to
the
least
printer.'
set to
at
These
is
were written
'
merit
sole
to music
dedication
this
at
in
little
till
so
songs,
they are
whose
wedded
excellently printed,
The note
prefixed to
music by him.
The
Victim,'
which
had
also
been
privately
86
Words
Letter
*
'
Wages
few
appeared
in
'
'
in
and
'
Once a Week
'
On
'
for
Good
a Spiteful
month
the same
'
'
February
Lucretius
'
in
now
lines
Macmillan's Magazine
lines entitled
March
The
'
'
Macmillan
May.
for
'
In
brother
poet
James T.
says
the
'
Farringford.
at
Fields, dated at
We came
last
his
visited
In a letter to Mrs.
He
was very
whole time
his
to us.'
the poet
previously subscribed
library.
It
may
Bar
May
'
for
also
to
'
Mr.
be called a
great poet.'
In 1867 the
poet
had purchased an
rising
estate
above the
on
village
OF LORD TENNYSON.
o?
some
in
1869
Mr.
friend,
Century,'
named
J.
and an excellent
architect
place
the
Sellwood
demesnes.
The mansion
Nineteenth
'
He
withal.
of
the
old
stands
on
the
above the
and most
sea,
commanding one
beautiful views in
all
of the broadest
England.
an allusion
General Hawley
There
is
addressed to
Our
The
While
squirrels
Were
from our
fiery
beech
into blue
of sea.
And
left to
lies
Downs
Chichester on the
on one
is visible
no small part of Kent can be seen and if one half
turns, the noble eminence of Leith Hill, and on the other
Portsmouth and the Hampshire Downs. The one gray
glimpse of sea' is where there is an opening in the South
right.
side
'
Downs
at Arundel.^
^
Church.
88
life.
a white stone
It is
are trained,
making a foreground
to the lovely
annoyed
in
of tourists,
summer by
their telescopes
and
mobs
field-glasses at
station
and
above the
impudent
intrusions.
at
hand.
it
is
it
less
im-
closely about
;
'
OF LORD TENNYSON:
89
hidden
Within
who
[to quote
visited
'
The
it,
perhaps, just a
modern
or of mediaeval
pavement,
modern decorators
delight,
stained
backed
chairs,
moods
while
more effeminate
inspirations.
Nowhere
is
the spirit
'
and the
lips,'
though
of calm digface,
sound
like provincialism,
if
way
away
OF LORD TENNYSON.
91
Contemporary Review
year;
*
Last Tournament,'
but 1872
is
'
contributed to the
December
for
memorable
in the latter
appearance of
for the
It
was now
but, as
we have
seen,
In the
'
Library Edition
'
Juvenilia
'
and
'
1852
'
'
and
1846) were
new
first
ordium
'
To
the
'A Welcome
Some
passages in the
'
Idylls of the
Queen were
'
to
Edinburgh,' printed
also
King
'
added.
'Times' early
in
sheet,
1874,
is
now
The
'
Cabinet
Edition
'
in
memory
in
('
The
1782,' the
in
stanzas
poem
In the Garden at
'
92
Swainston
'),
and
the Peak
'
now
first
appeared
and
lines
fifty
was inserted
in
'
'
opening paragraph.
after the
it
'
and modification,
at the
Lyceum Theatre
in
London,
part
critics
work was
that the
though
than
'
'
it
'
tic
that
'
the
'
Nineteenth Century
said to have
subsequent numbers a
and
*
'
'
first
name
Montenegro
Sonnet to Victor
(the
'
of
close.'
During
is
critics
enthusias-
number of
which
Some were
Franklin
'
He
;
'
and
Hugo
cenotaph
for the
in
Westminster Abbey.
The next
Revenge
'
poem was
for the
Nineteenth Century.'
'
When
Eh he
!
this
has
'
'
OF LORD TENNYSON.
got the grip of
it
'
made
a tour in Ireland.
us,
93
'
When
I
last
tells
was here
The
brought
money
the
all
to the place.'
'
was published
and the
and
'
'
heroine.
It
was
Dedicatory
Poem
The Defence
'
Nineteenth Century.'
of
to
Lucknow
The
at the
as the
'
James Theatre
St.
'
in
was
pantomime."
in April
who was
no
less a
seemed
from off
and I
could scarcely tell at last where reality began and Shakespeare ended. The play was over, and we ourselves seemed
a part of it still here were the players, and our own prince
poet, in that familiar simple voice we all know, explaining
the art, going straight to the point in his own downright
the curtain
fell
to flow
we had been
sitting,
94
to him.
name
Lord
candidature.
among
In a
letter
You are probably aware that some years ago the Glasgow Liberals asked me to be their candidate, and that I,
in like
if
approve Tennyson's
refusal
In the
'
the
volume entitled
to the world.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
It
was dedicated
to
'
He
little
95
half old.
*
Ballads when,
'
the
fitting tribute to
after
to say
praise
dimmed the
fire
and beauty of
What
is
radiant genius.
still
his
collection, short
as
it
is,
'
'
The
First
And
the
Quarrel,'
boat
with
culmination,
tragic
its
down
went
that
night,
the
boat
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
with
the
well-known
To
Alfred Tennyson,
of
English
century
'
verse
that
most
has
on
his
the following
publishing, in
richly various
appeared in
volume
his
own
96
Beyond
the peaks of
Whose magic
Kdf a
rivulet springs
on each hand.
all
duced
at
Lyceum
the
and had a
dramas.
Century/ and
*
pro-
Theatre,
more
tears
'
'
Despair
The Charge
'
of the
to the
'
Nineteenth
Heavy Brigade
'
to
Macmillan's Magazine.'
In March,
'Hands
all
Queen's birthday.
at a concert in
London on
of
According to a
Kaf
are entirely
the
Mohammedan
tradition, the
refer-
mountains
reflected splen-
OF LORD TENNYSON.
ences in the song to
and
to
Freedom
done
drinking a health
'
England
to
Good Templars,
'
97
had
their cause in
'
of
movement
on Sunday
to close public-houses
in
in
'
pression of loyalty.'
the
resolution,
sent the
receipt
of
My
father begs
me
to
Good Tem-
'
An
place here.
She
is
not out of
You
I 've
you
been drunk
will
shake
I.
for six
me
VOL.
who
Mr. Tennyson.
're
am
I.
if
Look
by the hand,
here,
sir,
'm d
here
if I
ever
98
Though
Theatre in London.
the Globe
condemned by
the critics,
it
had a run of
at
generally
six
weeks.
of the
from
first
At the beginning
After
free-
some delay
its
sect.
as a travesty of the
in a
morning paper
am
pudiate
He added
re-
among
But, as a writer in a
freethinkers.
London
journal remarked in
OF LORD TENNYSON.
99
Schopenhauer
cere; but he
man.
he
is
sin-
is
He has no
brought face to face with the consequences of his crime, and in the awakening of that conscience the poet has manifested his fullest and sublimest
conscience until he
At our
strength.
is
first
introduction to
Edgar we
see
him
'
but
we can
mode
of
life.
He
He
feels
member
to
hanker
of society.
himself to look
lOO
make amends.'
desire to
'
form of
selfishness.
idiocy
'
He
Communism,
of
is still
perhaps,
'
only a
Utopian
gentleman
himself for
it,
is
selfishly
'
Suddenly, however,
'
soul
of the
man
knows
he
That
always
is
his
punishment.
humiliated
we can
Edgar
quits
This
is
dramatic
OF LORD TENNYSON.
loi
critic.
We
that the
died out.
of the
King of Denmark
invited by the
to
the northern
At Copenhagen he was
Continent.
to
the steamer
and
passenger,
them some of
at
his
their
poems.
It is
applauded,
enthusiastically
especially demonstrative in
'
request
he read
the
royal
ladies
being
admiration.'
During
this
visited,
and
Mr. Gladstone,
companion thus
his
eminent
only, but
I02
human
field,
action than
and
his
countrymen,
momentarily
homage
we
danger of being
the undue
intoxicated
of kindness,
by the
we may
kindness,
receive.
It is
our business
life,
many
claims.
Your
made
to
own song on
never die. Time
his
this, that
built, still, in
would be no
had done to
difficulty in stating
deathless fame-
In the
latter part
of
this
It is a conical
mound
is
and
really belongs to a
much
when
but
it is
supposed that
earlier period.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
He
honour.
Farringford on the
Among
the
many
i8th of the
following
from
had been
maid
many
letters
letter to
Susan
Epton,
Mrs. Tennyson.
to
January,
was one
lady's
1 03
and afterwards
have
received
a friend,
'
some from
great lords
and
ladies,
sister
touched
me more
than
but
it
was urged
rise to
own
that,
ideals,
to
him from a
title,
no better answer
with
fault
true to his
all these.'
own
inspiration.'
he did not
I
know
of
been made by an
'
'
'
104
own form
from some
foreign potentate.
Longfellow, for example, promptly
declined an order tendered him by the King of Italy. But
a sense of fitness, and even patriotism, should make it
easy for an Englishman, faithful to a constitutional
monarchy, to accept any well-earned dignity under that
system.
In every country it is thought worth while for
one to be the founder of his family and in Great Britain
no able man could do more for descendants, to whom he
is not sure of bequeathing his talents, than by handing
down a class-privilege, even though it confers no additional
glory upon the original winner. Extreme British democrats, who openly or covertly wish to change the form
of government, and even communists, are aware that
Tennyson does not belong to their ranks. He has been a
liberal conservative,
liberal .n humanity and progressive
would be truckling for an American, loyal
to his
title
system.
As
institutions of
and Hugo
Tennyson, a
'
;
he
is
Whitman
the
Maurice
liberal of the
feudalism
betrays
'
poet of
leaving
In
who
rail at
in-
the
coming
In the
'
to
an understanding.
latter
part
of
1884
the
poet
published
historic trilogy.'
'
the
OF LORD TENNYSON:
borne, the author states that the play
in
its
modem
put
form
present
it
Like
stage.''
historical series,
is
not intended
to
theatre,'
on the
1 05
its
it is
R. Green,
the
searches into
the
J.
to
predecessors in the
says that
historian,
'
all
Mr.
his re-
Henry
and
"
Becket
Tennyson's
of
marks
II.
court
his
;
"
'
'backed by an authority
that,
like this,
in
re-
it
is
coming when
is
of Shakespeare's historical
the study
embodied
was
as
plays
will
be
for
to the presi-
In 1885
a
*
Ballads
Despair
'The
^
'
Tiresias
volume
'
'
were
full
of power
'
'
was published,
some respects
as remarkable in
and
'
To-morrow
were no\vise
Becket,'
as the
The Wreck
and
'
'
and
inferior to
by Mr. Irving
this country.
at the
'
io6
The dedication of
al-
Idylls.
TO MY GOOD FRIEND
ROBERT BROWNING
WHOSE GENIUS AND GENIALITY
WILL BEST APPRECIATE WHAT MAY BE BEST
AND MAKE MOST ALLOWANCE FOR WHAT MAY BE WORST
VOLUME
THIS
IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
'
was contributed
to the
'
to
'
'
Macmillan's Magazine
'
for
November.
Hall
'
forty-four
electrified
the
later
many
critics
Hutton intimated
'
it.
the
but, as
Mr. R. H.
ap-
Locksley
Naturally
world.
justice to
(December 18),
they had carefully read
tator
'
After,'
first
'
Spec-
He
adds
OF LORD TENNYSON.
107
poem was
of youth
resenting the
passionately
and yet
utterly unable to
The
'
'
'
'
'
'
by
melancholy
in the
by the
man, a
failure of
result
knowl-
is to be found in a real personal experience of true nobility in man and woman. Hence those
who
'
to
'
'
'
itself inexplicable,
'
and
The
final
and
retreat,
is,
lo8
mood
'
like
'
strain.'
The
currents
later
its
'
Locksley Hall
'
is
worthy of
predecessor.
And so,
who reads
it
seems
it
aright.
to
me,
it
must appear
to every
one
tale
particularly
English.
in
familiar old
good examples of
happen
to
that classic
know
that
measure
in
Lord Tennyson
faultless in their
way.
The
by Randolph Caldecott.
On
the
home from
monument
Freshwater church.
brass or marble,
on the voyage
India.
erected to his
tribute
memory
in
OF LORD TENNYSON.
could carve,
father's lines
is
built in lofty
in his
The appearance of
worthy event
109
in the
Demeter and
in 1889.
that
volume
is
It is
week
rian
*
after
Critic
it
came
out.
it
'
(New York)
well says of
it
writer in the
bell,
\Vhen
embark
farewell
'
no
For
I
tho'
may
The
flood
hope
to see
When
my
bear
me
far,
The
and one of the longest as well as most delightful
The poem which
is inscribed to Mr. Lowell.
Ring'
gives its title to the book is addressed to Professor Jebb,
the eminent Greek scholar, of whom the poet writes
'
you
in
'
'
pleasure found in
'
'
'
'
Van Dyke
Dr.
as 'the
most
regards
'
beautiful,'
remarkable
'
artistic principles
The wonder
recognised
it
is
for
and
He
adds
what
it
the
respects
a group
tastes.'
as an idealist.
some
in
of Tennyson's art-poems,
really
and
is,
the
his
seem
poet's
to
have
own
de-
OF LORD TEJSINYSON.
The
The
this
is
was on sea or
land,
the
glanced
pictures,
first
toil
blameless king.
the
Then
it
And
with light
The Gleam
Wed
flying
onward,
to the melody,
Sang
And
it
glanced upon
it
Hamlet or city.
That under the Crosses
The dead men's garden,
The mortal hillock
And
But
For
came
can no longer.
die rejoicing.
thro' the
Of Him
Who
Magic
the Mighty,
taught
me
in childhood,
Of boundless Ocean,
112
And
but in
all
Heaven
Not
Not
Not
of the sunlight,
of the moonlight,
of the starlight
young Mariner,
Down
to the haven,
Launch your
And crowd
vessel,
your canvas.
it,
Follow
That
is
is
'
follow
it.
The Gleam.*
It
and
irresolute generation.
If
this
be, the
'
Swan Song
whom
simple even
'
sweeter or nobler.
I
it
might
it
could
In the words of
it is
'
perfect poetry,
vesper bells
full
of music,
it
is
to a vision
which transcends
all
The
Aug.
6,
1889,
;:
OF LORD TENNYSON.
called forth
From
13
the latter I
he
is
with us
still.
gilds grass
and flower
trees,
the breeze
a conscious thrill
Sends forth, methinks, a thrill,
That tells yon meadows by the steaming rill
Where, o'er the clover waiting for the bees,
The mist shines round the cattle to their knees
Another birthday breaks he is with us still.
loves our Tennyson
For Nature loves him,
I think of heathery Aldworth, rich and rife
With greetings of a world his song hath won
I see him there with loving son and wife,
His fourscore years a golden orb of life
My proud heart swells to think what he hath done.
August
6,
at sunrise.
Macmillan's Magazine
'
for
September, 1889
TO LORD TENNYSON.
The fourscore years that blanch the heads
Touch not immortals, and we bring to-day
No
of
men
Above
is
when
I.
say,
! !
114
But
O
O
O
still
Heaven's
fire
bringer of
When God
The
souls that
own
Shall
shrine
made
was
thine.
D. C.
L,,
College, Cambridge.
Monthly'
for
March, 1890:
TENNYSON.
Shakespeare and Milton
seas,
Was
What
strain
was
his in that
bugle-call in battle;
Crimean war?
a low breath.
OF LORD TENNYSON.
O
But thou,
Thou
On
In
Thy fame
generally
known
'
New Review
for
duced
in
'
for
'
A Song,'
March.
It
was
gaged
some time
and
New York by
he
early in
was pro-
this
in every clime
contributed to the
was
115
title
of
'
The
Forest-
Its success
on the stage
New
in
it
The realm
realm of
'
as follows
into
which
Ivanhoe,'
this
the
was decidedly in
New York
play allures
far-off,
its
favour.
Tribune,' re-
auditor
its
is
the
romantic region of
Sherwood
realm
is
summer upon
the
to feel again
brow
of youth
Il6
'
Its
frail.
that of its
'
'
is
'
'
OF LORD TENNYSON.
unto
sufficient
with animal
herself,
The
spirits.
117
is
and
demeanour of a child of the woods, and the predominant dignity of purity and honour,
these are the
salient attributes of the part. The success of the comedy
is largely dependent upon the enchantment that is diffused by Marian; yet the burden of the acting is laid
upon Robin. The character is a crystal of manliness,
chivalry, and sentiment. Robin is brave, bluff, impetuous,
humorous, ardent in his feelings, yet not inapt to muse
and moralise, devoted to liberty, humane, affectionate, a
faithful friend and a fearless foe.
lover, the refinement of high birth, the lithe bearing
free
'
'
'
Athenaeum
picture-play,'
that
'
aptly calls
is,
'
one
in
'
The
which
ated to
scene,
become
exist,
special
While
in
The
we
are
forms
of
kind,
other
Foresters
liable to
poetic
and new,
the
place,
must
human
passion,
is
we do
work
misjudge
art
lyric or
as to take
not,
If
'
the
it.
scene
dramatic,
more than a
howsoever beautiful
in scenic poetr)',
on the con-
Il8
movement
is
The
of the story.'
critic
goes on to say
if
But
the plot
if
too com-
is
if
then
is
which
is
failure.
at the root
.
That the
plot of
'
The
Foresters
is
'
purposely kept
may be
produced,
purposely
true picture-play
the
made
poems
way
in
which
by the drama-
especially the
such as
'
'
'
strong
is
his
hand
show how
when he con-
is at
moment working
strong effects.
the
of
and yet
of the story,
Paynim
slavery.
The
is
Now,
money
'
the land
'
is
OF LORD TENNYSON.
119
The
money
in order to
sand marks had been required, not to save the land, but
to save a beloved brother, a beloved son, from the slavery
in which he was known to be languishing, an intense interest would have been lent to the quest of the two thousand marks, and the warring of two deep emotions in the
soul of the heroine, so important not only in tragedy, but
most
plot could
easily
to
awaken
details of
a sufficiently
'
'
I20
tragi-comedy.
(the chief of
'
'
the impression
the picture
too absorb-
'
Adam
Bede.'
nounced
and
at
away.
that
1.35
Sir
it
was an-
Andrew
Clark,
sick,
peacefully
last,
his
said afterwards to
'
Lord Tenny-
my
experience
rious.
and
the
all
There were no
was
moon
artificial lights in
In
all
the chamber,
at its full.
The
soft
beams of
light
fell
features of the
OF LORD TENNYSON.
moonlight
121
thicker breath,'
irresistibly
'
drawing
own Passing
'
We
from
learn
another source
that
when
'
with his
the
re-
His eyes
how much
the leaves
till
he read no one
will
dream or slumber, or
on the scene
outside.'
On
in the
Wednesday, October
'
London
Poets' Corner
'
Times
'
'
of Westminster Abbey.
was buried
its
The
detailed
was mortal
ceremony
in
Lord Tennyson
the immortals.
is distinctly
Inside the
the
same
122
Family had
and sent
and regret the two Archbishops
were the embodiment of the Church of England. Statestheir official representatives present
men
side
common
art,
and even the crude socialism of the day were repwho shared in one deep feeling
of general loss.
For the time, doubtless, all of them felt,
as they stood in mournful silence, as Tennyson felt when
he wrote of the Duke of Wellington,
science,
The
last great
Englishman
is
low.
And
Not
less impressive
of those who,
Abbey
the
were
first
be-
Abbey
organist,
OF LORD TENNYSON.
*in
ment
123
major
accompani-
'
rendering of
'
The
melody
pressive
Silent Voices,' a
F minor
in
'
Then
and the
coffin,
strains of Chopin's
first
time the
'
Dean took
whom
the last-named
little
singing in triumphant
Holy, Holy
'
('
Nicaea
'),
wedding and considered to be the most beautihymns. Then, after the blessing had been said by
the Dean, one mourner after another gazed long at the
open grave, and left the Abbey amidst the silent crowd,
while the Dead March in Saul came floating from the
his son's
ful of
'
organ.
'
'
'
124
we may
Surely
*
as
say,
another has
was
life,
that
which
full
Had
steadfastness.
over him,
it
his
and among
laurels,
said,
his
" fields
how among
the odorous
who
Quique
The
Phoebe digna
pii vates, et
all
is
locuti.'
Next
Browning, with
its
to
On
1400
Robert Moray,
Sir
Society,
1673;
is
are
is
the
tomb of
Pilgrimage
'
first
Immediately
1700.'
being reproduced
in
are in the
Denham,
ments below.
Robert
John Dryden,
is
Dryden memo-
1669;
the grave of
is
it
The
the
falls
'
Canterbury
stained glass
on the monu-
busts of Longfellow
and Milton
OF LORD TENNYSON,
It
Tennyson
that he
hands
printer's
with the
later,
and
title,
'
of
London 'Academy'
it
in the
this
125
for
Nov.
in
5,
volume
'
Death
of
Dream'
CEnone,'
are
'
narrative
The
Telemachus,'
St.
or meditative
Bandit's Death
and
poems
'
Akbar's
in
blank
'
'
'
'
'
'
shire dialect
'
Kapiolani
'
is
in
to fascinate him.
Like his
own
geous.
His
later verse
'
126
more
'
youth.
There
Even
is
so shght a thing as
perfect line,
and 'The
'
in
the book.
still
'
'
'
'
be of much value.
Year
will
And
In closing
this
literary career of
to
me
in his
his
still
Tennyson,
let
me
seems
fortunate
whom
Voices
and
birth
friends, to
life
say that he
boyhood
Two
;
'
he alludes so eloquently
fortunate in the
in
'The
experiences, though
OF LORD TENNYSON.
127
which
his
genius was maturing without the necessity of his earning his bread with the pen, as
compelled
do
to
many
no more of poverty
(if
poverty
it
knowing
could be called)
renown
that followed
it
was with
all
life
that should
accompany old
in his death,
his
and
'
age,
fortunate even
terity will
and fortunate
W.
J.
R.
POEMS.
VOL.
I.
yictoria.
Mezzotint by G. W. H. Ritchie.
TO THE QUEEN.
Revered, beloved
nobler
office
since your
Royal grace
Of him
that utter
d nothing
base
Then
And thro
Where
The
throstle calls.
TO THE QUEEN.
132
Take,
For
Madam,
this
Your
kifidtiess.
And leave
As
rule us long,
noble
May
May you
till
'
'
thousand claims
life serene ;
to reveretice closed
And statesmen
Who knew
when
the seasons
to
take
and 'make
By
decree.
still,
And compassed by
March,
1851.
JUVENILIA.
CLARIBEL.
A MELODY.
I.
Where
The
Claribel low-lieth
"^
fall
Of an inward agony,
Where
v ^
<-
Claribel low-lieth.
II.
At eve
the beetle
boometh
At noon
About
hummeth
CLARIBEL.
134
At midnight
And
looketh
Her song
The
the
moon cometh,
down
alone.
The
The hollow
Where
outwelleth,
runnel crispeth,
grot replieth
Claribel low-lieth.
NOTHING WILL
DIE.
NOTHING WILL
When
will the
DIE.
will the
Under
When
135
my
eye?
When
When
will the
And
Never, oh
be aweary of beating?
nature die?
The stream
The wind
The cloud
The
blows,
fleets,
heart beats,
Nothing
Nothing
flows,
will die.
will die
Thro* eternity.
'T
is
; ;
NOTHING WILL
136
DIE.
is
make
Round and
round,
Here and
there,
And
the ground
Shall be
fill'd
with
life
anew.
So
let
change, but
it
will
Ever
will
be
Thro' eternity.
will die
not fade.
! ;
Under
my
137
DIE.
in its
flowing
eye
south winds are blowing
One
after
Every heart
May morning
this
in
joyance
beating
Full merrily
Yet
all
The stream
The wind
will cease to
blow
The
The
For
all
fleet
Spring
will
Oh
vanity
Death waits
at the
door.
is
; ;
138
all
forsaking
the merrymaking.
We
we must go.
are call'd
we must
The merry
glees are
The
still
Shall no
Nor
lie.
more be heard,
hill.
Oh! misery!
Hark
death
While
The jaw
The
is
calling
speak to ye,
is
falling,
The
failing
eyeballs fixing.
Ye merry
The
souls, farewell.
old earth
Had a birth,
As all men know,
Long
And
ago.
bell
let
And
the
warm winds
range,
Ye
will
never see
Thro' eternity.
All things were born.
Ye
will
For
all
139
LEONINE ELEGIACS.
140
LEONINE ELEGIACS.
Low-flowing
dimm'd
valley
in the
gloaming:
far
river shines.
Down by
the poplar
babble and
tall rivulets
hopper carolleth
fall.
the grass-
clearly;
halloos
Winds creep
dews
fall
chilly
in
her
first
sleep
in the
and mourn.
Sadly the
far
kine loweth
outfloweth
to
the
LEONINE ELEGIACS.
Low-throned Hesper
peaks
Throbbing
in
is
141
in
her breast.
The
all
things bringeth,
bring
me my
love,
Rosalind.
or even; she
cometh not
morning or even.
False-eyed Hesper, unkind, where
RosaHnd?
is
my
sweet
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS,
142
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS
OF A SECOND-RATE SENSITIVE MIND.
God
my God
Men
1 faint, I fall.
Thou
ill,
Of ignorance,
A sign
Would
While
and
I
if
rive the
I
should require
a bolt of
fire
do pray
to
Thee
alone,
Think
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
143
grown?
And what
And
is left
faith in
to
Men
Thee?
Christians with
me by;
pass
happy countenances
Above Thee, on
When
that
happy morn
angels spake to
men
aloud.
born.
one of them
my
Brothers in Christ
brothers they
a world of peace
And
And
And
How
sweet to have a
and hope
till
common
all.
faith
of death
my human
heart, whene'er
With hopeful
eat
grief,
grief,
not fear.
; ;
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
144
The
on the knee
trustful infant
Who
lets his
About
Nothing beyond
They
He
He
and knows
alway
or death
life
Because the
And
And
arise,
Spirit of happiness
is
Where
place of birth,
and
far apart,
Or breathe
Whose
Her
chillness
subtil,
would make
Oh
him with
sure
visible
earth.
it is
infant's blood,
beatitude.
a special care
HS
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
Of God,
To arm
from doubt,
to fortify
in proof,
With
that
For me outpour'd
For me unworthy
Thy
in holiest
!
prayer
and beheld
And
Oh
From
roots
which
strike so
Bow
To
Could not
Here, and
What
I feel
From
thine
deep,
I.
would melt
VOL.
the earth
Was
lO
own
my
lily,
to brush the
mother,
in
the clay?
dew
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
146
Myself?
So
little
Is
it
Had
Myself?
thus?
Why
Great
not?
will
not,
But why
who can
pray
save
and strong
in faith,
Wert
Thou
pleadest
still,
Unpiloted
drive
full-sail'd skiff,
At matins and
That thou,
me
and seest
if
i'
Of reboant
What
if
at
know,
evensong,
alive.
To
Albeit,
At
'
me
reconcile
my
hope
Bring
My
this
Lord,
Would'st
lamb back
if
so
tell
it
me
into
be Thy
I
murmur
Thy
still
fold,
will;'
And
chastisement of
That
Betwixt
me and
human
the light of
pride;
God
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
That hitherto
And had
had defied
rejected
God
that grace
As manna on my
If
would pray
And
Would
that
utmost bitterness,
in their
love,
wilderness,
Sweet
I47
Nor sojourn
in
me.
hope's
now no
am
life.
Alas
place
void.
Why
Why
Anchor thy
where man
frailty there,
At
midnight,
when
not yet
Ask
the sea
fret
Wherefore
And
like a
mountain tarn?
ripples of an inland
Wherefore he moaneth
Draw down
into his
mere?
vexed pools
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
148
The other?
am
too forlorn,
Too shaken
'
Yet,' said
I,
in
The unsunn'd
When
'
my
went forth
in
strength,
quest of truth,
may
stand forth
at length
unmoved of change,
And
Of running
Of
of youth,
freshness of
Truth
An
my morn
lawless
fires
and
fluid
airs, at last
range
stood out
Of constant
Feeds
in
And
For the ox
beauty.
The horned
In
fear.
It is
If so
valleys
all
about,
summer
Unfearing,
About
fills
hills
his
his hoof.
own blood
And
in
flows
the flocks
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
The lamb
149
In a time,
Of which he wots
Thro' his
warm
He knows
not,
A shadow;
heart
on
and
to leap
and climb.
And
something
in the
darkness draws
dies.
Shall
man
As
live thus, in
we not look
Of life and
And
Our double
All creeds
If
nature,
till
we have found
may
Some must
All
Whom
and compare
Ay me
the one,
fear
call I
Idol?
Let
Yet,
my
God,
Thy dove
SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS.
ISO
Shadow me
over,
and
my
sins
Somewhat
Oh
me
teach
Of
yet
that sharp-headed
worm
fret
begins
THE KRAKEN.
151
THE KRAKEN.
Below
The Kraken
About
his
shadowy
Huge sponges
And
far
away
From many
sides
secret cell
Winnow
There hath he
lain for
ages and
will lie
fire shall
angels to be seen,
152
SOA'G.
SONG.
The
sea,
With mellow
preludes,
'
We
are
a lilied
free.'
row
'
We
are free.'
LILIAN.
153
LILIAN.
I.
Airy,
fairy Lilian,
When
ask her
if
Laughing
She
'11
not
Cruel
all
me
tell
little
she can
if
Lilian.
II.
When my
passion seeks
Pleasance
in love-sighs.
Thoroughly
to
me
undo me,
So
innocent-arch, so cunning-simple,
From beneath
laughters dimple
The baby-roses
in
flies.
her cheeks
LILIAiV.
1 54
m.
May
Prythee weep,
Lilian
May
Wearieth me,
my
When
Thro'
very heart
Lilian
it
thrilleth
from crimson-threaded
Prythee weep,
May
Lilian.
IV.
Praying
If
all I
can,
Airy
Lilian,
Like a rose-leaf
I will
Fairy Lilian.
crush thee,
lips
Maud Humphrey.
ISABEL.
155
ISABEL.
I.
Of her
still
spirit;
Madonna-wise on
Sweet
lips
head
Revered
The
Were
by
Isabel, the
mood,
lowlihead.
ISABEL.
156
II.
The
And
thorough-edged
The
love
To
a prudence to withhold
Upon
intellect to part
still
Of subtle-paced
counsel
in distress.
Winning
Thro'
all
its
gentleness
Isabel, thro'
her placid
all
life,
most perfect
wife.
III.
The mellow'd
reflex of a winter
Till in its
With
onward current
swifter
The vexed
it
movement and
eddies of
its
moon
muddy
one,
absorbs
in
purer light
wayward brother
ISABEL.
157
With
cluster'd flower-bells
Of rich
Shadow
forth
thee
the
world
hath
another
(Tho'
And
all
her
thou of
Of such
fairest
God
in
not
';
;:
MARIANA.
IS8
MARIANA.
*
Mariana
moated grange.'
in the
With
Were
The
rusted nails
fell
all
to the gable-wall.
Upon
She only
said,
'
My
life is
dreary,
Her
would that
tears
Her
fell
tears
were dead
fell
morn
or eventide.
;;
'
MARIANA.
After the
When
flitting
159
of the bats,
And
by,
She only
'The night
said,
is
flats.
dreary.
Upon
would that
From
Came
were dead
ere light
to her
About
the lonely
She only
moated grange.
said,
He Cometh
She
I
About
said,
'
The day
'
not,'
am
would that
is
dreary,
she said
aweary, aweary,
were dead
'
!
A sluice with
;; ' '
MARIANA.
l6o
And
o'er
The
it
small,
Hard by
shook alway,
a poplar
The
mark
tree did
rounding gray.
She only
My
said,
'
life is
dreary,
would
that
were dead
away,
fro,
And
wild winds
bound within
Upon
their cell.
fell
She only
said,
'
The night
is
dreary.
would that
were dead
MARIANA.
dreamy house,
The
blue
fly
sung
i6i
the pane
in
the
Or from
Old
mouse
shriek'd,
call'd
She only
flioors,
said,
My
'
life is
dreary,
would that
Which
to the
When
the roof,
ticking,
'
were dead
did
all
confound
the thick-moted
sunbeam
lay
Was
He
will
She wept,
VOU.
1.
O
II
'
am
very dreary.
am
God, that
aweary, aweary,
were dead
'
!
: :
TO
62
TO
I.
Clear-headed
friend,
scorn,
that tangle
The wounding
The
whose joyful
human
creeds.
heart until
it
bleeds,
Roof not
If
Thou
II.
Low-cowering
Falsehood
brow
With
Nor
Can do away
now
thro'
and
Falsehood
thro' with
die.
cunning words.
TO
163
III.
Weak
Thy
in
And weary
And
Yabbok brook
heaven's
mazed
Israel,
signs stood
still
MADELINE.
64
MADELINE.
I.
Sudden
And
II.
Thou
Of wealthy
smiles
but
fleeter?
or frown be sweeter,
Who may
know?
: ;
MADELIXE.
Light-glooming over eyes divine,
Like
little
each
to
Hues of the
dearest brother;
is
silken
Momently shot
All the mystery
not aloof
sheeny woof
into
is
each other.
thine
Thou
III.
A subtle,
By
sudden flame.
When
The
would
kiss
flush of anger'd
thy hand.
shame
And
o'er black
A sudden-curved
But when
Thou,
frown
turn away.
willing
me
to stay,
165
MADELINE.
66
Wooest
All
my
In a golden-netted smile
Then
If
in
my
Thy
madness and
lips
in bliss.
And
o'er black
sudden-curved frown.
"When merry
milkmaids
The Owl
Photogravure from painting by
E. H.
Garrett.
t
e
iS-v'
ft.**
SONG THE
OWL.
1 67
When
cats run
home and
light
is
come,
n.
his roundelay,
Twice or thrice
his roundelay;
SECOND SONG.
68
SECOND SONG.
TO THE SAME.
I.
delight,
delight.
Wears
day a
all
fainter tone.
II.
Not
cannot mimick
it;
Thee
to
woo
to
Thee
to
woo
to thy tuwhit,
With
thy tuwhit.
Tuwhoo,
;;
69
When
In the silken
The
sail
of infancy,
The
dawn blew
And many
a sheeny
summer-morn
it
was
in the
my
Alraschid.
foliage,
The citron-shadows
By
and sworn,
golden prime
Of good Haroun
Anight
drove
and clove
in the blue
The
open wide,
free
70
Gold
And
In sooth
For
it
it
was
golden prime
Of good Haroun
Alraschid.
The
From
The
away
a broad canal
Was damask-work,
Adown
to
A goodly place,
For
it
was
in the
A motion
from the
crept
slept.
a goodly time.
golden prime
Of good Haroun
My
all
Alraschid.
river
level,
won
bearing on
Imbower'd vaults of
light,
pillar'd
palm,
A goodly time,
Of hollow boughs.
For
it
was
golden prime
in the
Of good Haroun
Still
Is
onward
rounded
From
to as clear a lake.
Of diamond
Thro'
Alraschid.
little
Down
many
fall
musical,
rillets
crystal arches
low
The
sparkling
flints
For
it
was
in
Of good Haroun
Above
thro'
many
Alraschid.
bowery turn
engrain'd.
On
shells
either side
From
fluted vase,
marge
72
With
With odour
golden prime
in the
Of good Haroun
Far
off,
Alraschid.
The
living airs of
middle night
Not he
The darkness
Ceasing
as he sung;
immortal love,
But
flattering the
golden prime
Of good Haroun
Alraschid.
Slumber'd
all
behind
RECOLLECTIONS OF
TILE
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
The
Of dark and
For
it
was
in
diamond-plots
bright.
lovely time,
Of good Haroun
Alraschid,
that under-flame
With
silver
anchor
left afloat.
Upon me,
as in sleep
came
sank
Of good Haroun
Thence
thro' the
garden
A realm of pleasance,
And many
Alraschid.
was drawn
many
mound.
a shadow-chequer'd lawn
And
173
174
Of good Haroun
With dazed
From
vision
Alraschid.
unawares
Emerged,
Ran up
flights
floors,
of marble stairs
And humour
Of good Haroun
The
As
Alraschid.
fourscore windows
all
alight
From
The hollow-vaulted
shame
"
Ga^ed on
W.
St.
John Harper.
Upon
the
mooned domes
In inmost Bagdat,
till
aloof
there seem'd
Of night
To
Of good Haroun
Then
stole
Alraschid.
girl alone.
Amorous, and
Of darkness, and
brow
of pearl
many
The
Of good Haroun
Alraschid.
Pure
silver,
side.
underpropt a rich
in
ore,
many
from which
a floating fold,
75
76
With inwrought
saw him
all
pride,
in his
golden prime,
ODE TO MEMORY.
177
ODE TO MEMORY.
ADDRESSED TO
I.
Thou who
stealest fire,
Visit
my
low desire
me
of
memory.
II.
Come
late,
On
the white
Of orient
day
but robed
in soften'd light
state.
Even
as a maid,
whose
stately
brow
When
kiss'd.
she, as thou,
I.
12
ODE TO MEMORY.
178
Which
earliest shoots
The black
III.
Whilome thou
And
morning
mist,
into
my
open
breast
Never grow
When
in the rudest
wind
sere,
Nor was
Thou
leddest
The eddying
The
Of
light of
by the hand
of her
thine infant
Hope.
Was
"
Thou
leddest by the
hand
thine infant
Hope."
Ode to Memory.
Photo-Etching from Painting by
Maud Humphrey.
: !
ODE TO MEMORY.
For sure she deem'd no mist of earth could
Those
spirit-thrilling
79
dull
The
illimitable years.
me
obscurity,
Come
Thou
forth, I
of the
charge thee,
many
Thou comest
arise,
eye,
Memory
the waterfall
cliffs,
Come from
The seven
the
aloof descried
woods
And
To
chiefly
my
father's door.
ODE TO MEMORY.
l8o
Or dimple
Drawing
in the
into his
The
filter'd tribute
Of the
Upon
When
the
first
What
forlorn,
morn
V.
To
the
young
When first
And like a
spirit
she
is
present
wed
bride of old
In triumph led.
Of festal
flowers.
first
artist
Memory,
experiment
ODE TO MEMORY.
l8l
And
foremost
in
first
essay,
Place
it,
Upon
falls
And
newness of thine
That
all
Or
The
Ever
On
No
fairest
Artist-like,
Whether
Or even
a sand-built ridge
Of heaped
hills
that
mound
the sea.
Or even
a lowly cottage
Stretch'd
whence we see
marsh,
Where from
Like emblems of
The trenched
infinity,
ODE TO MEMORY.
82
Or
With
Long
alleys falling
down
to twilight grots,
Or opening upon
level plots
Of crowned
standing near
lilies,
Purple-spiked lavender:
Whither
From
brawling storms,
From weary
wind.
We may
re-inspired,
forms
all
And
those
whom
Subtle-thoughted, myriad-minded.
My
friend, with
you
to live alone,
better than to
own
me
obscurity,
of memory.
SOA'G.
183
SONG.
I.
last hours,
To
For
At
himself he talks
his
Of the mouldering
flowers
stalks
Over
grave
its
i'
tiger-lily.
II.
The
As
air
is
a sick man's
An
My
At
room when he
close,
taketh repose
very heart
faints
and
my
SONG.
l84
And
Of
And
the breath
box beneath,
Over
its
grave
i'
tiger-lily.
"And
like
a bride of old
In triumph led^
Ode to Memory.
Photogravure from painting by Louis Meynelle.
A CHARACTER.
185
A CHARACTER.
With
At
a half-glance
night he said,
Of this most
The wanderings
'
Universe
intricate
Beyond
He
all
creation pierce
spake of beauty
Saw no
divinity in grass,
Then looking
He smooth'd
And said the
He spake
More
And
And
't
were
his chin
in a glass,
and sleek'd
and Juno
sitting
to
by:
Devolved
his
his hair.
of virtue
purely,
Pallas
as
rounded periods.
charm
A CHARACTER.
86
Most
delicately
hour by hour
And
his
own
With
lips depress'd as
he were meek,
Upon
And
With
and
sleek.
THE POET.
THE
The
poet
in
POET.
a golden clime
With golden
stars
187
was born,
above
the scorn of
hate,
scorn,
The
He
saw
love of love.
thro' life
He saw
The marvel
An
thro' his
The
own
open
ill.
soul.
of the everlasting
The
will.
scroll,
secretest walks of
fame
And
silver tongue,
sung,
88
THE POET.
And
Them
earthward
till
they
lit
The
fruitful wit
anew
Where'er they
fell,
behold,
A flower
And
all
gold,
bravely furnish'd
The winged
To throng
all
abroad to
fling
shafts of truth.
spring
Heaven
flow'd
Of high
Thus
truth
beams,
in
many dreams
desire.
was multiplied on
truth, the
world
And
Rare sunrise
flow'd.
dark upcurl'd,
THE POET.
And Freedom
Her
When
189
rites
Melted
his
burning eyes
snow.
like
Of her keen
And
in
circles of the
eyes
hem was
her raiment's
Wisdom,
name
to
And when
Her words
And
Which
traced in flame
shake
a sacred name.
she spake,
follows
Making
So was
globes
their
it,
man,
earth wonder,
meaning
Of wrath her
to her words.
right
arm
scroll,
No
sword
whirl'd,
19^
THE
POET'S MIND.
I.
Vex
Vex
wit:
Flowing
it
it.
should be ever,
Bright as
light,
II.
is
holy ground
Come
not here.
Holy water
will I
pour
Of the
The
flowers
would
faint at
it
around.
; ;
There
is
Where you
From
The
death,
is
your breath
frost in
Which would
IQI
wild-bird's din.
would
fall
to the
ground
if
you came
in.
Ever brightening
From
night
it is
And
And
And
it
yet, tho'
its
It
ever drawn
Which
It
all
are
it,
full,
you
to the earth
dull
if
you came
in.
THE SEA-FAIRIES.
192
THE
Slow
sail'd
SEA-FAIRIES.
Sweet
To
faces,
little
harps of gold
Whispering
Shrill
to
in fear,
sea.
fly
no more.
field,
and the
Day and
They
And
waterfalls
:; :
THE SEA-FAIRIES.
hither,
Come
hither to
Hither,
Here
We
come
come
it is
me and
only the
furl
the day
your
blissful
sails.
downs and
dales,
flies
on the land
islands free
come
sweet
is
hither,
come
hither,
We
all
that wails
Hither,
me
Over the
And
And
And
mew
you
Mariner, mariner,
And
to
sails,
will sing to
And
And
And
193
will
kiss
are
sweet
and be our
lords,
we
kisses,
words
listen, listen,
your eyes
listen, listen,
VOL.
I.
13
shall glisten
your eyes
shall glisten
THE SEA-FAIRIES.
194
When
the
the
golden
chords
Who
sea.
Whither away?
ner, fly
all
listen
no more.
II.
All within
is
dark as night:
In the windows
And
no murmur
So frequent on
no
is
light
at the door,
its
hinge before.
III.
Or
thro' the
windows we
shall see
Of the dark
deserted house.
195
196
IV.
Come away
Is
no more of mirth
And
of the earth,
ground.
V.
Come away
for Life
Here no longer
But
and Thought
dwell,
in a city glorious
1 97
The
plain
was grassy,
Which had
An
built
wild,
up everywhere
With an
and bare.
to the air,
swan,
And
it
went.
II.
Some
And
Shone out
One
their
crowning snows.
And shook
198
Above
in the
Chasing
And
itself at its
own
wild
will,
still
slept,
III.
The
Of that waste
Hidden
in
sorrow
And
low,
and
full
and clear
Sometimes
afar,
As when
free
and bold
And
To
the shepherd
star.
is
roll'd
afar,
who watcheth
the
evening
And
And
And
And
And
the
The
199
wavy
Were
; ;
A DIRGE.
200
DIRGE.
I.
Now
is
rest.
Shadows of the
silver birk
II.
A DIRGE.
20I
III.
Thou
Thou
wilt
From
Let them
rave.
IV.
eglatere
traitor's tear.
in the tree
V.
Round
Bramble
And
roses, faint
and
pale,
A DIRGE.
202
These
in
VI.
The
frail
fine,
clover.
As
thine,
VII.
gift
of speech abused
The
let
them
rave.
Let them
rave.
:; :
203
moon was
gathering
light
And
all
about him
And talking
You must
*
all
eyes
plots of Paradise,
a cassia,
full in
view,
to himself,
first
met
his sight
Death,
begone,' said
'
these walks
are mine.'
his
sheeny vans
flight,
Thou
art the
said,
shadow of
'
This hour
life,
in
thine
So
is
all
beneath,
The shadow
But
I shall
passeth
when
all.'
fall.
for
204
heart
wasted with
is
my
woe,
Oriana.
There
is
no
rest for
me
below,
Oriana.
Alone
wander
to
and
fro,
Oriana.
Ere the
light
Oriana,
At midnight
Oriana
We
flowing.
snow,
205
Ere
fight,
Oriana,
While
By
blissful tears
star-shine
blinded
my
sight
and by moonlight,
Oriana,
I to
thee
my
Oriana.
castle wall,
Oriana
She watch'd
my
crest
among them
all,
Oriana:
me
She saw me
fight,
When
forth
she heard
call,
Oriana,
castle wall,
Oriana.
The
bitter
The
false, false
Oriana:
tall,
!!
206
And
my
aside,
my
love,
bride,
Oriana
Thy
heart,
my
life,
my
love,
my
bride,
Oriana
Oh
Oriana.
Oh
The
battle deepen'd in
place,
its
Oriana;
But
my
face,
Oriana.
me where
stabb'd
lay,
Oriana
How
could
How
could
I rise
Oriana?
I
me where
stabb'd
Oriana
trod
me
into clay,
I lay,
:
!!
!
207
Oriana
pale, pale face so sweet
and meek,
Oriana
Thou
And
smilest, but
my
cheek,
Oriana
What
wantest thou ?
whom
Oriana?
1 cry aloud
none hear
my
cries,
Oriana.
the skies,
Oriana.
I feel
Up
from
my
heart unto
my
eyes,
Oriana.
my
arrow
lies,
Oriana.
cursed hand
cursed blow
Oriana
happy thou
Oriana
2o8
me
Beside
in
my
utter woe,
Oriana.
go,
Oriana.
When
sea,
Oriana,
I
walk,
Thou
I
liest
come
to thee,
Oriana.
I
tree,
;; ;
CIRCUMSTANCE.
209
CIRCUMSTANCE.
Two
Playing
mad pranks
Wash'd with
Two
still
rains
VOL.
I.
14
life
from hour
to hour.
THE MERMAN.
210
THE MERMAN.
I.
Who would be
A merman bold,
Sitting alone,
Singing alone
Under the
sea,
On
a throne?
II.
would
sit
would
fill
But
at night I
in
And
I
would
And
kiss
kiss
them
them again
till
they kiss'd
me
THE MERMAN.
211
Laughingly, laughingly;
high,
III.
Low
would
us
in the
moon nor
Neither
We
star;
call
magic night
star.
dells,
They would
pelt
me
shells,
their
hands between,
But
would throw
to
them back
in
mine
would
And
kiss
kiss
them
them again
till
they kiss'd
me
THE MERMAN
212
Laughingly, laughingly.
Oh
what a happy
life
were mine
We
would
" l4^ho
would be
Mermaid fair,
Singing alone.
Combing
her bair?"
The Mermaid.
Photo-Etching- from Painting by
F. S.
Ciiurch.
'
THE MERMAID.
213
THE MERMAID.
I.
Who
would be
mermaid
fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her
Under
hair
the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of
On
pearl,
a throne?
II.
would be a mermaid
would sing
With
And
'
my
comb
of pearl
would comb
as
comb'd
still
Who
to
fair;
is it
loves
would comb
Low
me? who
my
hair
till
loves not
my ringlets
starry sea-bud
say,
me?
From under my
hair;
crown
would
fall
THE MERMAID.
214
Low adown
And
and around,
Springing alone
With a
shrill
inner sound,
From
Would
slowly
Round
trail
deeps
himself sevenfold
sate,
and look
in at the
gate
With
And
his large
Would
Die
the
all
calm eyes
mermen under
feel their
me
the sea
immortality
me.
III.
But
I
at night I
would
fling
my
low flowing
locks,
And
lightly vault
We
would run
On
to
and
fro,
THE MERMAID.
Whose
But
if
215
And adown
would
and shriek,
call,
would leap
From
For
would not be
kiss'd
by
all
who would
list,
the sea;
flatter
me,
Woo
all
Then
all
Would
curl
round
my
And
if I
aloft
Would
All looking
down
me.
ADELINE.
2i6
ADELINE.
I.
Mystery
of mysteries,
With thy
Thy
divine,
all
at rest,
fair
rose-lips
and
full
blue eyes
my
breast.
thine,
II.
Whence
Like a
Looks
As
lily
bloom
of thine.
And
Thou
that aery
a Naiad in a well.
still,
ADELINE.
Looking
Or
at the set
of day,
Of a maiden
Ere the placid
old
past away,
lips
Wherefore those
be cold?
Spiritual Adeline?
III.
What hope
Who
or fear or joy
Keep measure
with thine
What
Or
in stillest
Or when
To
butterflies
evenings
violet
How
own?
To
thine?
Do
is
woos
dews?
Of
the
lilies
at sunrise?
ADELINE.
Wherefore that
IV.
Some honey-converse
Some
spirit
of a crimson rose
What
aileth thee?
With thy
And
Thou
soften'd,
whom
waitest thou
shadow'd brow,
Adeline ?
V.
When
Wander from
On
With melodious
airs lovelorn,
face.
ADELINE.
While
his locks
Make
219
a-drooping twined
in subtle ring
a carcanet of rays,
And
ye talk together
still,
Hence
hill ?
Spiritual Adeline.
MARGARET.
220
MARGARET.
I.
O
O
What
SWEET
pale Margaret,
lit
Like moonlight on a
Who
tearful
falling
shower?
aspect pale.
As perfume
power.
frail
of the cuckoo-flower?
From
From
From
all
A tearful
things outward
grace, as tho'
you stood
The very
sun.
The
all
senses with a
still
delight
MARGARET.
Of dainty sorrow
221
without sound,
Which
the
Moving
moon about
her spreadeth,
II.
You
To
love,
remaining peacefully,
hear the
murmur
Your
spirit is
toil
of the
of
life.
You
strife.
fight.
Come
Float
to you,
day
by you on
III.
What
can
What
The
it
matter, Margaret,
lion-heart, Plantagenet,
Sang looking
Exquisite Margaret,
The
last wild
who can
tell
thought of Chatelet,
MARGARET.
2 22
The burning
Genius made
sorrow's shade,
Keeps
far
real
You move
You
sorrow
away.
Than your
Your
hair
in
your moods,
twin-sister, Adeline.
is
And
thro' the
dew
Of dainty-woeful sympathies.
V.
O
O
hear
me
speak
MARGARET.
The sun
is
The arching
And
faint,
Moving
in
limes are
all
tall
and shady,
Where
223
sit
between
Or only look
Upon me
let
ROSALIND.
224
ROSALIND.
I.
My
My
Rosalind,
my
frolic falcon,
Whose
Rosalind,
free delight,
flight,
Stoops at
My
My
game
all
Rosalind,
my
that
wing the
skies,
Rosalind,
Whither
Up
or
fly ye,
down
II.
The quick
the sea,
The
The
sunlight driving
The leaping
That
To
will
down
the lea.
: ;
;
;
ROSALIXD.
225
Is
As
you,
You
my
falcon Rosalind.
all
without alloy.
And
flashes off a
Thro'
lips
thousand ways.
and eyes
Your hawk-eyes
in subtle rays.
are
To
pierce
me
still
flash
and
glitter
rill,
are seeming-bitter,
From
III.
My
my
Rosalind,
Rosalind
at will
I.
15
whom
they
kill,
ROSALIND.
26
And your
Is so
sparkhng-fresh to view,
Some
Touch'd with
sunrise.
my
fast,
my
We
must bind
Rosalind,
wild-eyed Rosalind,
We
'II
to South,
bind you
rosy mouth.
night,
ELEANORE.
227
ELEANORE.
I.
Thy
Nor
For there
is
air,
nothing here
to the
inward brought,
off
Thou wert
born, on a
summer morn,
Thy bounteous
Of
lavish lights
in
some
flattering
The
the
delicious land
And
At
glades.
moment
of thy birth.
rills,
ELEANORS.
!8
And
The
choicest wealth of
Jewel or
shell,
To deck thy
all
the earth,
or starry ore,
cradle, Eleanore.
II.
Or
Thro' half-open
Coming
Fed
in
lattices
in fairy
gardens
cull'd, -
III.
Who may
Summer
minister to thee?
in a
bower
With many
light,
and blinded
ELEANORE.
Of fragrant
trailers,
Sleepeth over
And
all
229
when
the air
the heaven,
IV.
How may
How may
The
full-sail'd
full-flowing
Of thy
verse express,
harmony
swan-like stateliness,
Eleanore?
The
luxuriant
Of thy
symmetry
floating gracefulness,
Eleanore?
Every lineament
thine,
divine,
Eleanore,
And
For
in
thee
From one
censer
in
one shrine,
ELEANORE.
230
Motions flow
Mingle
ever.
To one
so
To an unheard melody,
Which
Of
lives
evermore
richest pauses,
Who may
other mellow-deep
V.
I
muse, as
in a trance,
the while
Comes
I
muse, as
The
in a trance,
Float on to me.
So tranced, so rapt
To
whene'er
would
were
in ecstasies.
Gazing on thee
for evermore,
ELEANORE.
231
VI.
seem
Thought
intensity-
to see
and deep
full
cannot
But
As
am
or droop
veil,
as nothing in
Fix'd
full face,
heaven
set,
it.
his orb,
And draw
So
sight,
light:
its
To
my
full,
itself to
what
it
was before
so deep, so slow,
Thought seems
to
come and go
VII.
As
Roof 'd
Grow golden
all
ELEANORE.
232
In thee
all
Touch'd by thy
Losing
his fire
spirit's
mellowness,
In a silent meditation,
Falling into a
still
delight,
Rolling
slide,
Shadow
forth the
still
banks
Or sometimes they
swell
at will
and move.
And
Controlleth
Of
sea:
all
Leaning
his
cheek upon
Droops both
And
his hand.
VIII.
But when
ELBA NO RE.
233
moon
On
I
My
and
in its place
While
And
a languid
Thro'
my
fire
veins to
face
creeps
all
my
frame,
soon
From thy
rose-red lips
MY name
Floweth
and then, as
in a
My tremulous
I lose
I
my
ears are
rife,
faltereth,
lose
my
breath,
I die
with
my
hear what
Yet
I
tongue
colour,
Brimm'd with
my
swoon.
tell
delirious draughts of
delight, before
my name
again to me,
So dying
ever, Eleanore.
warmest
life.
MV
234
WEARY
LIFE IS FULL OF
DAYS.
I.
My
of weary days,
life is full
Nor wander'd
I
aloof,
ways
into other
Nor golden
And now
So
far
Thy
far
voice,
which
to
:
down, but
go
cannot sink
I
I
shall
know
II.
When
in the darkness
over
me
shall scrape,
me
in the
doleful crape,
flowing grape.
MY
LIFE IS FULL OF
And when
Ring sudden
let
DAYS.
235
wood
Then
WEARY
to bud,
new-flush'd with
will,
may
EARLY SONNETS.
236
EARLY SONNETS.
TO
As when
downcast
with
eyes
we muse and
brood,
And ebb
seem
To
To
If
So
that
we
say,
when
Our thought
know
first I
not
look'd
gave answer
when
or where
upon your
face.
each to each, so
true
tho'
Methought
And
knew not
that
reflecting each
in
'
;
and speech.
EARLY SONNETS.
237
II.
TO
My
A
To
latter
M. K.
with thee
thou wilt be
Our dusted
Thou
art
Distill'd
velvets have
much need
of thee
But spurr'd
To
is
J.
energy
With iron-worded
The humming of
Mounted
in
Arrows of
heaven
wilt
lightnings.
Thou from
a throne
EARLY SONNETS.
238
III.
Mine be
the strength of
spirit, full
and
free,
From
Which with
lea;
to
its
sway
May
Even
as the
Floats far
The
warm
away
gulf-stream of Florida
into the
Northern seas
239
IV.
ALEXANDER.
Warrior
of
God, whose
strong right
arm
debased
Issus
by the Syrian
gates, or fled
led
Ammonian
There
in a silent
High
unapproached mysteries
unhanded down
secret shrine
2 40
V.
BUONAPARTE.
He
Madman
bands
From Ind
When
walls,
by
lit
lightnings,
sure
and with
smoke,
Peal after peal, the British battle broke.
We
Flamed over
We
taught him
at Trafalgar yet
:
late
distant sea,
sudden
fires
once more
he learned humility
whom
EARLY SONNETS.
24
VI.
POLAND.
How long, O
And
shall
men be
Of men?
To
God,
The
last
ridden down,
and
least
The
fields,
Power be
increased.
Till that
Transgress
to
ample bound
his
crown,
Cries
drown
to
Thee,
'
Lord,
how
some new
long shall
these
things be?
How
who
stand
right,
Us,
Forgive,
Us,
'
in three
I.
16
EARLY SONNETS.
242
VII.
And
singing airy
Light
Hope
at
trifles this
Beauty's
or that,
call
stand,
For Hope
Nor
is
live
other
far.
And Fancy
watches
in the wilderness,
That
less,
star.
EA RL Y SONNE TS.
2 43
VIII.
The
eloquent
is
And
win
all
Yet
in
My
fancy
To
to
dance and
eyes with
made me
my
find
for a
The phantom of
And
She
if
moment
blest
to rob
it
of content.
move,
no smiles restore
you
still
went,
A ghost of passion
!
we
moment came
For ah
drest,
accomplishment
be gaily
sing,
all
her rest
thousand years,
praise,
EARLY SONNETS.
244
IX.
Wan
Of those dead
some dead
In painting
Weep
His object
My tears,
No
1
lives
no
from memory?
more cause
to
Nor
care to
pity
sit
weep have
it
in
Love can
it
die.
hint
But breathe
With
last:
Ah
friend
not in
into earth
human
sits
tones,
and close
it
up
with weary
EARLY SONNETS.
245
X.
If
were loved,
What
And
That
is
range of
I
as I desire to be,
should
evil
fear,
all
birth,
if I
if
thou wert
mine,
As
have heard
that,
Fresh-water springs
somewhere
in the
main.
come up through
bitter
brine.
fear,
thee,
To
mute careless of
a thousand
Below
us, as far
on
as
all ills.
hills
eye could
see.
'
'!
EARLY SONNETS.
246
XI.
THE BRIDESMAID.
BRIDESMAID, ere the happy knot was
tied,
Thy
sister
A happy bridesmaid
And
No
makes a happy
And
*
over his
left
bride.'
by
full
side,
of glee,
And
all at
me
tears for
service
I learn'd,
made
thee weep,
On
I.
Long
fields
lie
And
by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
Round an
blow
The
island of Shalott.
By
248
Flowing down
Four gray
walls
Camelot
to
And
the silent
isle
The Lady
By
of Shalott.
heavy barges
Slide the
By
imbowers
slow horses
The
trail'd
and unhail'd
Skimming down
to
Camelot
Or
at the
Or
is
she
known
among
Hear a song
From
Down
And by
the
to tower'd
moon
Camelot
Listening, whispers,
Lady of
'
'T
Shalott.'
is
the fairy
PART
There
II.
colours gay.
A curse
is
To
on her
look
if
say,
she stay
down
to Camelot.
And
And
The Lady
And moving
of Shalott.
all
the year.
Winding down
There the
And
And
river
eddy
to
Camelot:
whirls,
girls,
An
249
glad,
be.
250
Or
Goes by
And
to tower'd
sometimes
Camelot
The Lady
But
in
her
true,
of Shalott.
web she
still
delights
To weave
For often
funeral, with
And
Or when
plumes and
lights
the
moon was
overhead,
The Lady of
PART
Shalott.
III.
And
Of bold
Sir Lancelot.
field,
The gemmy
Hung
The
in the
As he
And
mighty
And
golden Galaxy.
as
silver
bugle hung,
the helmet-feather
As he
As
Below the
Some bearded
Moves over
still
Shalott.
251
252
LADY OF SHALOTT.
T/fJS
On
in sunlight
glow'd
From underneath
helmet flow'd
his
As he rode down
From
He
*
to Camelot.
Tirra
She
lirra,'
by the
Sang
Sir Lancelot.
left
river
left
the loom,
thro' the
bloom,
water-lily
room,
Out
flew the
The mirror
'
The
curse
web and
to Camelot.
floated wide
come upon
me,' cried
PART
253
IV.
The
pale yellow
in his
banks complaining,
Down
she
Beneath a willow
And
a boat
left afloat.
And down
the river's
Seeing
With
all his
in a trance,
own mischance,
a glassy countenance
And
dim expanse,
to Camelot.
chain, and
day
down she
far
away,
Lying, robed
in
snowy white
to left
and right
lay;
254
The
leaves
upon her
falling light
She
And
floated
down
as the boat-head
The willowy
They heard
hills
and
to
Camelot;
wound along
fields
Heard
among,
last
song,
Till
And
The
first
tide
The Lady
of Shalott.
By
floated by,
;:
255
And
Who
And
is
this?
in the
and what
is
here?
And
fear,
He
said,
God
in
'
little
space
face
'
256
MARIANA
With
IN
THE SOUTH.
The house
at its feet,
And
silent in its
dusty vines
right,
river-bed before,
'
To
'
live forgotten,
slowly
down
Her streaming
curls of deepest
brown
'
'
'
and
left
257
right,
divine,
And Ave
'
Madonna, sad
And
To
a tear.
is
be
to
'
all
alone.
Low on
Before Our
Complaining,
To
help
And on
The
'
Mother, give
of
my
cast,
she.
me
grace
weary load
That won
And
I
Nor
me
Lady murmur'd
'
she
sleep forgotten,
but
wake
and morn?
wake
alone,
forlorn
I.
17
2S8
On
Till
to heat,
now
at
noon she
slept again,
in sleep a
And murmuring,
She thought,
Walks
'
My
She
as at night
forlorn.'
Shrank one
And
is
steady glare
and small.
and morn,
here alone.
was a dream
The
is
felt
She woke
it
lower moan,
spirit
forgotten, and
grass,
a stifled
Sweet Mother,
let
moan
at night or
me
morn,
forlorn.'
rising,
Old
For
is
image seem'd
To
*
letters,
To what
An
must needs be
upon
true,
earth.'
and say,
slight,
'
O
'
for evermore.'
And
To
cruel love,
whose end
end to be
live forgotten,
But sometimes
An
Is this the
'
'
So be alone
To
259
in
left
scorn,
is
alone,
'
image seem'd
to night,' she
'The day
And day
To
the wall.
and night
live forgotten,
am
left
and love
morn,
alone
forlorn.'
26o
At
Backward the
And
There
lean'd
all in
spaces rosy-bright
Large Hesper
And
glitter'd
deepening
And weeping
The
When
To
on her
then she
I shall
tears,
as of the sea;
cease to be
live forgotten,
all
alone.
and love
forlorn.'
THE TWO
26
VOICES.
Thou
Were
it
Then
to the
'
small voice
still
I said,
Let
To which
'
To-day
Come from
'
An
lie.
from head to
Of his
old husk
Came
He dried
his
wings
like
tail
flew.'
dew
THE TWO
262
I said,
'
When
Young Nature
And
first
VOICES.
in the sixth
lordliest
Dominion
in the
Thereto the
*
'
thro' night:
the world
is
wide.
That
Is
'
rest.
breast.'
Self-blinded are
Look up
head and
in a
boundless universe
Think you
Could
find
this
no
statelier
fears
It
*
spake, moreover, in
my
mind,
Yet
is
THE TWO
Then
'
did
my
VOICES.
response clearer
No compound
'
Good
Who
'
Or
soul
When
suppose
would have
But
grant
it
thee,
less intense,
Is cancell'd in the
one beam be
will
all.'
answer'd scoffingly,
weep
'11
fall,
To which he
263
my
said,
full heart,
Rain'd thro'
my
world of sense?'
'
Thou
sight
its
overflow.
Thou
Surely
'
Thine anguish
Nor any
Thou
will
not
train of reason
let
thee sleep,
keep
THE TWO
264
I said,
If I
'
shut
Some
Even
my
life
But he
yet.'
wept,
That
A wither'd
I
VOICES.
all
What drug
can make
Tho'
should
die, I
know
'
And men,
Still
moving
after truth
long sought.
thought
'
am
not'
some
time,
Sooner or
later, will
Make thy
Not
Rapt
gray prime
yearn for
light,
Would sweep
THE TWO
*
Not
The
less the
The foxglove
I said
that
'
is
the
fire
cluster
all
Each month
VOICES.
furzy prickle
'
265
cells,
dells,
dappled
bells.'
'
Were
this
How
The highest-mounted
'
Still
The
mind,' he said,
morning spread
summit overhead.
silent
Those lonely
lights that
still
remain,
Or make
And
Flood with
full
down,
THE TWO
266
VOICES.
'
Thy
let
feet,
Thou
Nor
art
'
light,
is infinite.
Than cry
for strength,
And seem
'
to find, but
still
to seek.
lackest,
A healthy frame,
I said,
"
remaining weak,
He
'
When
thought resigned,
a quiet mind.'
am gone away,
men will
Doing dishonour
'
This
'
To
is
more
to
vile,'
my
say.
clay.'
he made reply,
live
and
sigh,
to die.
THE TWO
'
VOICES.
a divided
will
Still
The
fear of
'Do men
To men,
men, a coward
love thee?
that
how
267
ill
still.
thy name
may sound
'
The memory
In endless time
Than
Go, vexed
The
is
scarce
more
brief
Hears
little
is fill'd
of the false or
with dust,
just.'
'
Hard
task, to
'
From
Of that
'Nay
pluck resolve,'
One hope
While
I cried,
that
still I
could raise
warm'd me
yearn' d for
in the
human
days
praise.
THE TWO
268
When, wide
'
Among
The
the tents
The
and rung.
And,
'
in soul
VOICES.
sitting,
clear,
Waiting to
strive a
happy
strife.
Some hidden
To put
And mete
'
As
principle to move.
far as
To
The
And
search thro'
springs of
all I felt
life,
or saw,
THE TWO
'
At
least,
VOICES.
some generous
'
To
pass,
when
In
To
in a
perish,
And
'
merely
some good
wept
When,
for,
And
Yea
overthrown
'
the war
is
roll'd in
was the
'
ears
stroke.
mine own.
soil'd
all
honour'd, known.
What
cause
cause, not in
and deed,
self-applause,
selfish
like a warrior
Whose
seed,
Nor
269
is
broke,
smoke.*
in the
bud.
THE TWO
27
'
If
About
Who
'
is it
Then comes
Pain
There
'
VOICES.
is
pleasures pall.
one remedy
fall,
for
thro'
all.
enduring pain,
Of knitted
purport,
Thou hadst
all
were vain.
'
little
worth.
play'd,
That bears
THE TWO
*
different threads,
Beyond
Or
in
Wrapt
is
born
in
little
corner shines,
I will
I shall
Look
either Truth
Sometimes a
and soon
As
late
Beyond
and
own cocoon.
'
271
Draws
VOICES.
to find her
If straight
Thou
fail
is
on her brow.
thy track, or
know'st
not.
Embracing cloud,
now.
if
oblique,
strike,
THE TWO
2 72
And owning
'
Than
but a
Than
Why
little
angels.
more
beasts, abidest
Calling thyself a
'
VOICES.
lower
little
There
is
one remedy
for
all.'
'
To
dull,
flatter
know
me
that
may
I,
lie,
die?
A dust of systems
'
and of creeds.
Achieving calm, to
whom
The joy
man
'
that mixes
Saw
distant gates of
And
did not
dream
was given
with Heaven;
Eden gleam.
it
was a dream.
THE TWO
*
VOICES.
273
Even
led,
in
'
Which
tire,
fire.
'
He heeded
Nor
'
He
pray
'd,
full
of grace,
The
'
Not
I said,
But,
'
I toil
I.
hope were
kindlier mix'd.'
I fear to slide
VOL.
face.'
18
fix'd,
THE TWO
74
'
And
One
I
'
that, in
riddle,
knit a
Or
'
VOICES.
seeking to undo
and to
Be
'
fix'd
For
Naked
What
go,
I
weak from
is it
'
Consider
'
His
that
well,'
face, that
Wilt thou
may
not fear?
'Will he obey
He
suffering here
There
is
in rest.
THE TIFO
*
His
lips are
VOICES.
275
And on
'
His
He
little
Becomes dishonour
'
to her race;
Some grow
But he
'
embrace.
He
to honour,
is chill
will
some
to
shame
to praise or blame.
From
fold
and swim
The
forgetteth him.'
place he
knew
be dark, vague
If all
Nor
canst thou
show
voice,' I said,
in
THE TWO
276
The sap
'
dries
up
VOICES.
the plant declines.
'
darkness
From
In her
still
Omega
"We
*
find
Why,
in
if
no motion
man
Who
knew,
in the
said,
dead."
The simple
*'
Touch'd by
'
my
And
fact, as
taught by these,
By which he
THE TWO
'
He owns
That read
the fatal
Here
gift
277
of eyes,
Not simple
'
VOICES.
sits
he shaping wings to
fly;
He names
'
the
name
Eternity.
in his
mind
He
A labour working to
an end.
many
things perplex,
He knows
At such
He may
THE TWO
278
'
VOICES.
Vast images
in
glimmering dawn,
'
Ah
sure within
Could
him and
his
'
thine
Or thou
out,
to his doubt,
own weapon
answer but
wilt
In the
same
circle
As when
art
we
little
Where
resolve.*
ceased, but
wert thou
In his free
slain,
revolve.
thou
in vain.
rest, I
'
it
With
without,
field,
merry boy
in
which
fenced
recommenced
when thy
father play'd
THE TWO
He
sat
'
Before the
To
little
call'd
Who took
till
him then,
men
come again
ducts began
a wife,
who
Whose
Whose
troubles
'
life
From
To
'
days
his
that
first
These words,'
No
I said,
'
'
!
A vague
*
number with
But
The
That
if I
thesis
279
Their course,
'
VOICES.
THE TWO
28o
'
my memory
Because
That
'
A
'
It
I first
was
cannot make
But
I for
in
VOICES.
certain hold,
is
so cold,
human mould?
this
matter plain,
may be
that no
in vain,
the brain.
life is
found,
'
As
off,
Some draught
The
'
As
here
we
find in trances,
men
'
fall in
So might we,
As one
before,
if
trance again
remember much.
likes
THE TWO
*
But,
Some
if I
VOICES.
my
disgrace
of delight
'
Or
if
Tho'
all
came
might forget
For
is
not our
my
first
weaker
lot
year forgot?
'
From
Oft
cells of
'tose
not.
madness unconfined,
Incompetent of memory;
free,
281
THE TWO
282
'
VOICES.
And
material prime?
Moreover, something
That touches
me
is
or seems,
Of something
like
felt,
Of something done,
Such
The
'
as
still
But
Who
may
voice laugh'd.
is
I,
I talk,'
Suffice
said he,
it
thee
sought'st to wreck
Why
'
declare.'
a reality.'
thou,' said
By making
'
no language
pain
something here
Thy
all
my
mortal ark,
if I
should do
With
organs new?
THE TWO
*
VOICES.
No
saith,
life
283
human
Has ever
''Tis
Oh,
life
life,
More
life,
and
fuller, that I
scant,
we pant;
want'
Then
'
breath
Behold,
And
it is
arose,
and
Like soften'd
When
to
in the
dawning
airs that
east.
blowing
steal,
On
released
bells
began
to peal.
Each
enter'd like a
welcome
guest.
rest,
THE TWO
284
One
VOICES.
With measured
footfall firm
and mild,
faithful, gentle,
good.
And
in their
The
little
My
Remembering
I blest
I
its
ancient heat.
The
dull
and
came
bitter voice
there none;
was gone.
THE TWO
As from some
blissful
VOICES.
285
neighbourhood,
know
the good.'
may
know.'
No
certain
air,
but overtakes
What is
'A
it
at
it
makes
my
side.
?
'
I cried.
So heavenly-toned
From
out
my
that in that
sullen heart a
hour
power
To
feel, altho'
And
is
love.
THE TWO
86
VOICES.
And
And
The
wonder'd
The slow
You
result of winter
showers
wonder'd, while
paced along:
fill'd
so
went,
bounteous hours,
at the
And
all
full
with song,
for sense of
wrong;
so variously wrought,
marvell'd
how
the
that said,
'
Rejoice
Rejoice
'
!
287
And who
that
The busy
The slow
forget
curl'd,
And
full
In yonder chair
see
him
sit,
cup
silver
At
his
own
With summer
So
So
full
of
jest,
gray eyes
lit
up
lightnings of a soul
summer warmth,
so glad,
His
Yet
memory
fill
my
My own
scarce can
glass
give
make me
me one
sad.
kiss
die.
288
There
's
somewhat
by and
Shall be unriddled
There
somewhat
's
But more
is
That we may
flows to us in
my
darling wife.
happy earth?
I 'd
So sweet
And
It
life,
not found a
I least
by.
Have
world amiss
in this
it
live
my
life
birth
again.
to walk,
seems
in after-dinner talk
To be
this old
Have
here,
lived
Each morn
By some
boy
Late-left an
Where
where
village spire;
and you
my
So sweet
And
it
seems
-with thee to
once again to
woo
walk,
thee mine."
H.
Winthrop
Peirce.
And
oft I
But ere
I
my
had no motion of
For scarce
Before
my
life
my
moan;
love,
own.
in
the stream.
lean'd to hear
sway'd
And
289
noise,
minnows everywhere
The
tall
flag-flowers
Or those
hung
When
('T
woods
came and
Were
I.
their
buds
And on
VOL.
sat
19
me down,
cast
But angled
love-song
An
in
had somewhere
290
I
my
read,
strain,
head
The phantom of a
in the
rhymes.
silent song,
Then
I
leapt a trout.
watch'd the
They
mood
circles die
And
The
little
In lazy
my
eye
As when
set,
And when
my
raised
eyes, above
so
full
swear to you,
291
and bright
my
love,
That
And
fill'd
was
alter'd,
To move about
And
I
ails
boy?
the
and began
swam
it
the dam,
never
still.
Made
air
mill,
floor,
wold.
to blow,
292
And
I
I
saw the
knew your
And
below
village lights
full at
And by
'
that lamp,'
the mill
thought,
the
'
O
O
now
she answer
if I
Sometimes
And,
for
sit
last
And
vow.
and spin
At
fits.
saw you
in the
Sometimes
if I
light,
And
all
call?
'
sits
hill
she
: :
The
Your
at last I
lanes,
dared to speak,
ripe lips
moved
not, but
your cheek
To
half-shy,
not,
little
one
pleaded tenderly.
And
slowly was
were
my
all
alone.
mother brought
yield consent to
my
desire
And
*
Go
was young
Yet must
fetch
Her
little
higher;
your Alice
And down
went
to fetch
ill
my
bride
at ease
Too
I
fearful that
please.
293
well;
294
And
I kiss'd
watch'd the
fell.
little flutterings,
at large of
many
not see;
things,
Ah, well
I
to heart.
When, arm
in
A pensive pair,
With
As
bridal flowers
in the nights
that
of old, to
While those
full
That
she
is
seem,
lie
the stream.
daughter,
That trembles
For hid
I 'd
in
may
It is the miller's
And
in her ear
in ringlets
warm and
white.
And
295
waist,
And
should
I 'd clasp it
And
beat right,
if it
all
day long to
fall
and
would
I scarce
trifle,
lie
so light, so light,
So,
all
if I
sighs
For
rise
And
tight.
And
Upon
know
the spirit
right alone.
letter dwells.
is
his
own.
in truth
And now
youth.
in age.
life
to
me
thou
art,
296
Where
Do make
Half-anger'd with
day,
in one,
The
wound
when
made,
my happy
lot.
in
Love
Can he
Many
Many
and we forget?
pass,
set.
Love the
gift is
Even
so.
Love
is
Love
is
made
Eyes with
and
fret.
a vague regret.
What
is
love
for
Ah, no
Look
thro'
no
forget
!
thro'
thine.
other dearer
Look
we
Round my
My
my
True
wife,
arms entwine
life in life.
297
May
They have
Dear
Yet
not shed a
eyes, since
first I
Of sorrow
The
still
tears,
knew them
ripe,
well.
for
many
type,
And
left
a want
Although the
That
With
loss
unknown
made
loss but
before.
The
Weak
symbols of the
The
comfort,
to
kiss.
be
settled bliss.
have found
in
thee:
who wrought
one equal mind
Two
With
spirits to
blessings
With
To yon
wander
forth,
298
Winds
And
fires
all
sunset, south
Touching the
On
and north.
sullen pool
glass,
below
Is
Let us go.
FA TIMA.
299
FATIMA.
withering might
Shudderest when
Throbbing
thro' all
strain
my
sight,
my
light,
constant mind,
Last night
Below the
city's eastern
towers
roll'd
among
them on
my
my mouth
crush'd
Of
breast,
From my
swift
FA TIMA.
300
thousand
Were
shafts of flame
little
my
shiver'd in
Love,
fire
My
lips,
narrow frame.
once he drew
kiss
Sweet
hill,
gales, as
my
thro'
know
whole soul
He Cometh
my
dry brain
my
my
brow.
spirit soon,
to swoon,
And
Is
The
skies stoop
And,
My
isled in
hills,
down
fire
and nigher
in their desire;
sudden seas of
light,
My
silently,
FAT/MA.
301
his shining
eye
will
Grow,
die looking
in
on
his place,
his face,
(ENON'E.
302
GENONE.
There
Than
lies
all
hills.
And
loiters,
On
slowly drawn.
either
hand
Hang
rich in flowers,
and
far
The
but
in front
Troas and
Ilion's
The crown
column'd
citadel.
of Troas.
Hither came
at
noon
Of
Paris,
hills.
float in rest.
(EiVONE.
Sang
to the stillness,
till
ZOl
the mountain-shade
'
mother
Dear mother
harken ere
I die.
The grasshopper
The
lizard,
is
hill;
The purple
flower droops
Is lily-cradled
My
My
alone awake.
my heart
heart is breaking, and my eyes
And I am all aweary of my life.
*
eyes are
full
mother
Dear mother
Hear me,
of love,
of tears,
are dim.
harken ere
I die.
O Caves
O mountain
Hills,
brooks,
I
am
Hear me,
My
sorrow with
my
and build up
all
Rose slowly
to a
My
heart
speak of
it,
mother
for
little
Dear mother
I
CENONE.
304
'
:;
it
may be
while
deeper woe.
its
hills
And
dewy-dark
aloft the
mountain pine
Came up from
Far
reedy Simois
Far up the
The
all
solitary
alone.
I die.
me from
the cleft
morning smote
With down-dropt
eyes
I sat
alone
Droop'd from
a leopard skin
sunny hair
CENONE.
And
his
cheek brighten'd
305
the
as
foam-bow
brightens
When
Went
'
He
all
my
heart
Dear mother
die.
Disclosed a
fruit
And
Came down upon my
look'd
heart:
"
Beautiful-brow'd CEnone,
Behold
'
this fruit,
My
my own
whose gleaming
fair,'
own Q^none,
soul,
rind ingraven
would seem
to
award
it
thine.
As
lovelier than
The
Of movement, and
Dear mother
the
Ida,
all
grace
harken ere
die.
I.
20
(ENONE.
306
Ranged
Rose
But
of Feleus
in the halls
light-foot Iris
brought
it
whereupon
whom
't
were due
yester-eve,
by common voice
This meed of
fairest.
Hear
'
It
all,
Dear mother
Ida,
harken ere
Had
Of
lost his
this
way between
Then
long glen.
I die.
to
came,
And
brake
like fire,
Lotos and
And
lilies
Ran
riot,
in
many
a wild festoon
thro'
and
thro'.
CENONE.
'
mother
Ida,
307
harken ere
I die.
Heaven,
thro'
grows
She
ample
to Paris
made
rule
Wherewith
to
many
vale
And
champaign
river-sunder'd
clothed with
corn,
Or
Honour," she
From many an
toll.
'
Still
"
mother
among
Power
tallest towers."
Which
her
still
in all action is
fitted to
die.
the end of
all
3o8
CENONE.
And
from
throned of wisdom
neighbour
all
crowns
Alliance and allegiance,
Fail from
the
till
thy hand
sceptre-staff.
me,
born,
shepherd
all
thy
life,
in
power
Only, are likest Gods,
Rest
in a
Above
Dear mother
Out
attain'd
quiet seats
In knowledge of their
who have
own supremacy."
at arm's-length, so
much
the
thought of
power
Flatter'd his spirit
Somewhat
Upon
The
(ENONE.
309
'
decision,
reply:
Yet not
live
And, because
right
Were wisdom
in the
Dear mother
Again she
to sovereign power.
life
for
Would come
'
made
said
is
by without
by
law,
fear;
scorn of consequence."
"
me
To
fairer.
So
me
gifts.
am.
fairest.
Yet, indeed,
If gazing
Thy
on divinity disrobed
frail
to judge of
fair,
Unbias'd by
self-profit,
That
So
I shall
that
my
vigour,
oh
wedded
to thy blood,
To push
life
of shocks,
3IO
(ENONE.
until
endurance grow
will,
Circled thro'
all
Commeasure
perfect freedom."
Here she
And
Paris ponder'd,
Give
it
"
to Pallas
and
I cried,
but he heard
"
me
'
mother
Dear mother
ceas'd.
Paris,
not,
is
me
harken ere
I die.
Fresh
as the foam,
From
her
new-bathed
in
Paphian
wells,
backward drew
fingers
And
shoulder
from the
o'er her
rounded form
'Dear mother
The
in
CENONE.
Half-whisper'd in his ear, "
The
fairest
311
promise thee
my
shut
Greece."
in
sight for
fear;
But when
look'd, Paris
had raised
his arm,
My
why
fairest
Methinks
When
Eyed
wife?
me
must be
am
I
I
die.
not fair?
so a thousand times.
fair,
for yesterday.
like the
evening
Crouch'd fawning
star,
in the
with playful
weed.
tail
Most loving
she?
Ah
me,
my
thee,
and
my
my
Of
Flash
in the
arms
Autumn
rains
dew
is
(EXONE.
312
'
me
mother, hear
My tall
yet before
away
cut
my
I die.
tallest pines,
between
all
cataract
Whose
thick
mysterious boughs
in
dark
the
morn
The
panther's roar
Low
in
CEnone see
thro'
them
the valley.
Shall lone
Sweep
came
the
morning mist
'
mother, hear
wish that
Among
Or
me
yet before
somewhere
in
stars.
I die.
The Abominable,
that uninvited
came
And
And
mind,
that
might speak
my
CENONE.
And
Her
tell
how much
me
mother, hear
hate
'
313
yet before
his love a
die.
thousand times,
Even on
this
Seal'd
O
O
O
it
happy
tears,
earth,
with tears?
it
happy
hill,
how
my face?
my weight?
happy
And shadow
all
my
Weigh heavy on my
I will
Do
mother, hear
my
light of
life,
may
die.
soul, that I
'
this earth,
eyelids
me
let
yet before
me
die.
I die.
Whereof
Dead sounds
at night
hear
come from
the inmost
hills.
CENONE.
314
My
dimly see
far-off
Ere
it is
born
her child
a shudder comes
'
me
me
mother, hear
Hear me,
Lest their
shrill
earth.
yet before
I will
starless
Uncomforted, leaving
my
Down
into Troy,
fire
ancient love
I will rise
stars
and go
come
forth
Rings ever
What
me
to
road of death
I die.
in
may
be
know
That, wheresoe'er
am by
this
not, but
know
fire.'
;;
THE
THE
We were
SISTERS.
The wind
They were
blowing
in turret
She died
3^5
SISTERS.
fair to
tree.
fell
me
see
and
well.
The wind
is
howling
in turret
To win
made
won
a feast
his love,
The wind
And after
Upon my
tree.
and
is
fair to
see
supper, on a bed.
lap he laid his head.
fair to
see
!!
THE
3l6
SISTERS.
I kiss'd his
The wind
I
is
my
breast.
But
up
rose
As
stabb'd
and comb'd
look'd so grand
The wind
I
bright.
wrapt
And
him
thro'
curl'd
He
is
Three times
hell,
his
laid
is
him
comely head,
his
in turret
and
in the sheet,
at his
thro*.
blowing
body
and
mother's
fair to
see
feet.
tree.
NOTES.
NOTES.
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF LORD TENNYSON.
Page
i.
'
'
'
The
afterwards took the Jiame of Tur7ter.
accordance with whose will this was done was his
great-uncle, the Rev. Samuel Turner, vicar and patron of
Grasby, to whose estate and living Charles succeeded in 1S35.
Charles,
'
relative
who
in
'
Most, if not
Napier
whom
(p.
Page
all,
have mentioned.
10.
Dyke
(3d ed.
son but the poet evidently had in mind the time when the
manuscript was given to the printer. The preface would not
have been dated March, 1827,' if the book had he^n published
;
'
in 1826.
NOTES.
320
Engaged to pay
Church
twenty.
pounds for
made
it
the copyright,
so states
(p. 53)
sum was
generally
ten
it;
and there
is
no doubt
A poem on
Page
33.
124) says:
(p.
'He
'
resuscitated an old
p. 25)
"he too
is
likely to
Page
47.
several years.
autumn
to reside at
Somersby for
(p. 41), it
'
it
Napier
(p.
months of 1837
and this date
letter of Alfred's to Monckton Milnes, dated
which he writes: 'As I and all my people
was
confirmed by a
137) says
is
'
Page
51.
my
hands.'
poi-trait
of
Tennyson.
From
crayon
'
'
'
visit
'
as
'
it
two and thirty.' The former is the correct
number, and as Clough doubtless got it at the time from the
poet, it is probable that the latter changed it in the verses for
quoted,
makes
'
'
NOTES.
321
'
'
'
'
'
Mrs. Ritchie
1830 tour
Once
in their early
Hallam, travelling
the latter.
'
(p.
in the Pyrenees.
of
men went
over
These two
con-
intentions,
Mais
voiis
black one
man
connaissez
it is,
all
Sefior
his aspirations.
ccettr^'
h.
fully explain
and a pretty
when he had
crossed over from the Continent and was coming back, walking through
little wayside inn, where an old man sat
Are you from
who looked up, and asked many questions.
Then where do you come from
the army ? Not from the army ?
said the old man.
I am just come from the Pyrenees,' said Alfred.
said the wise old man.
Ah, T knew there was a something
by the
'
fire,
.-'
'
'
'
Epitaph on the
Page
inscribed on Mr. Theed's statue of
and reads thus
late
82.
Duchess of Kent.
It
was
'
Her
children rise
Long as the
Thy child
Here, as elsewhere,
magazine
VOL.
thy
21
her blessed."
memory wiU be
blest
(New York,
'
Records of Tennyson,
call
life
up and
heart beats
form.
NOTES.
32 2
Page
The
105.
Becket
'Academy'
'
lines
24.
of Virgil.
in
'
van Dyke
The Poetry
'
of
Tennyson
'
TENNYSON
In
Lucem Transitus
October
From
6,
1892.
moon,
To
Who
till it
Silence here,
is silent,
is
uplifter of
more
the
who
human
shall sing
heart,
if
thou depart ?
voiceless
sail
NOTES.
323
POEMS.
To THE Queen.
These
'
Poems
'
verses
in 1851.
above.
Page
132.
first
The
slowly down.
Claribel.
First published in 1830.
Page
133.
reading was
Some
'
critic
The
'
original
eve
'
'
is
rhyme
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
brooks
'
('
Paradise Lost,'
iv.
'
and Milton's
'
crisped
237).
Nothing will
die.
been made
in either.
Leonine Elegiacs.
Published in 1830 with the
title
'
NOTES.
324
Page
141.
'
The
'
allusion
is
to the
Byron's paraphrase in
Hesperus
Don
'
Juan'
(iii.
107)
is
good things
the weary, to the hungry cheer,
!
thou bringest
all
familiar:
Home to
To the young bird the parent's brooding wings,
The welcome stall to the o'er-labour'd steer
;
Thou
rest
than
'
announced that
contain
its
issue for
'
The
was
rate Sensitive
Mind not
'
in
'
'
and
dull,
As
is
life,
full
or night
we
NOTES.
325
More
All that
is
salts,
and be
all,
again
The
is
'
rosy fingers
'
for
'
waxen
fingers
'
in
p. 144.
this
'
sition,
'
'
'
Page
Compare
150.
'
The
busy fret
Dirge
(p. 200)
'
Of
that sharp-headed
and
'
The Palace
of Art
On
'
(vol.
ii.
p. 15)
fretted foreheads
all,
wall.
worm.
'
NOTES.
326
The Kraken.
Published
in 1830,
without change.
Page
is
151.
the reading of
wall's
all
to be seen.
This
altered to
is
'men'
margin.
in the
Song.
was
We
In 1S30 the
Page
52.
title
The
runnel crispeth,'
'
crisped sea.
See note on
'
The babbling
323 above.
p.
Lilian.
published in
1830,
'
'
'
'
'
Isabel.
'
blanched
in
The
First published
'
that this
'
for
poem
'
'
in
1830.
blenched,' which
'
'
it is
un-
whom
this description
would so properly
twenty years
later,
completely she
'
perfect wife
became
'
his wife
'
fit
may be doubted
but
how
testify.
'
The
Daisy,' published in
1852, indicates),
was
NOTES.
addressed to her.
volume
in 1864,
In
'A
327
Dedication'
in
Can prove
lie
you, tho'
And
inscribed to her at
With a
And
As
posthumous
seventy-seven,'
summer-new
amid
272
156.
'
Death
of Qinone,'
was
a fancy as
Page
V. 3.
An
the
Compare 'King
an
Lear,'
soft,
excellent thing in
woman.
Mariana.
First printed
in
and subsequently.
Review' for July,
'
It
'
human
bol of
feeling
it,
and
in
or so fitted to
to
summon up
it
as to be the
('
iv. p.
itself,
404) calls
58.
That
reading was
The peach
the
with a
it
'a pic-
more than
Bayard
reality.'
Page
embodied sym-
Taylor
in art.'
to the gable-wall.
The
Bayard
Taylor, writing in 1877 (in the review of Tennyson cited
above), quotes the poet as saying: There is my " Mariana,"
A line in it is wrong, and I cannot possibly
for example.
change it, because it has been so long published yet it always
annoys me. I wrote " That held the peach to the gardenNow this is not a characteristic of the scenery I had
wall."
The line should be " That held the pear to the
in mind.
first
'
to the garden-wall.'
'
gable-wall."
'
Whether
this
conversation occurred
during
'
NOTES.
328
say
early as 1875, or
Page
She
There has
heard the night-frnvl crow.
been some discussion in the English Notes and Queries' and
elsewhere as to the birds meant by 'night-fowl.' It can hardly
be the cock mentioned in the next line, though 'crow' (probably used for the sake of the rhyme) would suggest that bird.
It appears to be used in a general way for the various birds
that are more or less heard at night in Lincolnshire, where
159.
'
the scene
laid.
is
Page
160.
'
'
'
'
'
Originally
the original
all
sung
1'
nally
'
161.
Was
Downsloped
'
did dark
'
'
retained
The
1830 reading
In the next stanza
Page
in
'
'
slopi7ig
down
to 1875.
toward
was westering
in
his
bower
;
'
Origichanged
1842.
To
except in
Page
162.
rare exceptions,
'gardenbowers,'
'
subtle wit.
Compare
without the
mountainstreams,
'
etc.
compound words
hyphen
as
'
are,
with
silverchiming,'
NOTES.
Page
163.
Like
329
Compare
Genesis,
xxxii. 22-32.
Madeline.
First printed in
The
is
in 1842.
three
'
Song
in
The
Owl.
'
description, vivid
in "
The Palace
sively
announced the
Page
*
Page
103
rise of
Died round
172.
Not
the
Princess,'
interspaces, coiinterchanged
'
Of
this flat
'
inlaid
'
level lake
:
floor
The
In Memoriam,' Ixxxix.
drawn.'
For
veil.'
Their
Compare
with diamond-plots.
'
The
'
'
173.
'
unrayed
deci-
'
'
it
'
Page
itself fully
a great poet.'
of
'
'
which shows
pictorial,
blosms.'
name
Persian
'
170.
Of breaded
iv.
and very
of Art."
and below
The
'
was borne
'
for
'
was
NOTES
330
Page
Thick
174.
The
obso-
rare in poetry.
it
and
unique.
Page
175.
'
below
DiaJ'er'd.
Entirely covered, as
Compare
technically so called.
Be
I liave
silvers
Spenser,
And
'
of
perhaps also
is
in diaper-work,
Epithalamion,' 51
all
along,
Ode to Memory.
The
'
and
slight.
Page
Compare
I
The changes
Life.'
179.
poem
the prize
of
'
to
in 1842
,'
has
were few
Timbuctoo,' 1829
Man's
first, last
home
Th'
illimitable years.
Co7ne
from
Page
iSi.
meaning
the
woods that
The
belt,
See
etc.
p.
6 above.
steep, pointed
hill,'
hill,
not
One
and Pro-
necessarily a
latter
of infinity.'
Page
182.
With plaited
nally 'pleached
'
alleys,'
mine orchard
;
'
'
alleys
of the trailing
rose.
Nothing,'
i.
2.
10
play,
'
iii.
a thick-pleached alley in
1.7:
Where
Origi-
Compare
'
NOTES.
And
whom
those
My
331
etc.;
1S30
The
Song.
In the 1830 volume, and reprinted without change.
Character.
The
Poet.
'
read thus
And
is
in the
Wisdom,
Hoar
name
to shake
And when
she spake,
etc.
Page
scorn,
187.
etc.
which originally
is,
hate,
the scorn of
etc.
Rev. F.
W.
'
'
'
wine.'
From
Calpe
icnto
Caucasus.
Calpe,
one of the
Pillars of
was an eastern.
332
NOTES.
The
Poet's Mind.
summer mountainstreams,
Clear as
Which beneath
To
a blossomstarred shore.
The
mind
poet's
The
'
'
The
Sea-Fairies.
first
Poems.'
Page
was
'
it
of the
originally
holy ground.'
is
This poem,
when
was
192.
battk.
The
first
reading
? fly
poem
is
no more.
as follows
Whither away wi' the singing sail ? whither away wi' the oar ?
Whither away from the high green field, and the happy blossoming shore ?
Weary
One and
Weary
We
all,
mariners,
will sing to
Furl the
From
you
sail
the
Furl the
one and
all,
prow
sail
the day;
will fall
One and
Leap ashore
all
!
Know
Drop
Leap
the oar,
ashore,
Fly no more
Whither away wi' the sail
I
;;
NOTES.
Day and
Down
They
From wandering
And
333
fulltoned sea.
From
To
Come
free
happy brimmed
down trails
sea.
We
Oh
your eyes
listen, listen,
With
shall glisten
Ye
will
chords
Weary mariners
Oh
fly
all
no more
ye,
Hither away,
Oh
fly
Leap ashore
no more.
no more
sail
swallow.'
'
'
'
'
'
'
NOTES.
334
Dirge.
birk.
Birk
a Northern English
See note on
is
325 above.
Page
The
201.
Dictionary
'
woodbine and
calls eglatere
'
eglatere.
a spurious
altera-
The
The
modern
biisy fret,
'Century
archaism,' the
And
{Orchis mascula).
printed as a quotation.
'
'
after-
Page
203.
in 1842
in 1842
of 1830.
Circumstance.
Reprinted in 1842 from the volume of 1830, with no change
except in the last line, which originally began, Fill up the
'
round,' etc.
The Merman.
This
poem and
no
text.
Page 210.
The white sea-flower.
Perhaps the seaanemone, which, though an animal, gets its name from the
resemblance of
Page
211.
its
Tnrkis
and
agate
and
alniondine.
Turkis
word
NOTES.
now commonly
335
Alviondine or almandine is a
brought from Alabanda, a city in Asia
spelled turquoise.
precious stone
first
Minor.
The name is a corruption of the Latin adjective
Alabandina [gemtiia being understood).
Adeline.
Reprinted
changes
'
the
in
side
the
in
the
o'
stanza
fifth
'
morn,' and
'
locks a-drooping
slight
morn
the
the side of
for
'
'
for
'
locks
a-dropping.'
Margaret.
First printed in the
volume of
1833,
and
slightly
changed
in 1842.
Page
221.
lion-souled
The
Originally
lion-heart, Plantagenet.
The
Plantagenet.'
allusion
the
to
'
The
story
of
Chatelet,
Richard I. and Blondel needs no explanation.
mentioned just below, was proscribed in the Reign of Terror
and executed in December, 1793.
Page
222.
Attd
the next
'
The
And
'
original reading
instead of
But
'
'
in
line.
Rosalind.
Printed in 1833, but suppressed until 1884,
restored without any change in the poem itself.
following was appended to
it
when
it
was
In 1833 the
NOTE TO ROSALIND.
Perhaps the following
originally
they
lines
made
may be allowed
part
of the
text,
to stand as a separate
they were
where
improper.
My
Rosalind,
my
Rosalind,
who know no
Of inward woe
or outward fear
strife
of Life,
poem
manifestly
NOTES.
336
Chimeth musically
My
clear.
falconhearted Rosalind,
For
That trouble
With
life in
early years,
The
To
as,
whenever
Young
Up
My
my
Rosalind,
Rosalind,
falls.
Eleanore.
from the 1833 volume, with
the seventh and eighth stanzas.
Reprinted
changes
Page
a
in
229.
in
reminiscence
proud
of
Shakespeare,
'
231.
Roofd
the
Page
232.
As
'
Evidently
Was
that
quiet
There
it
the
fall
Origi-
etc.
waves that up a
was
As waves
original reading
express.
Sonnet 86
some
Page
nally
1842
still.
cave,
etc.
The
NOTES.
337
in sleep,
Page
233.
edition of 1833
then
and
I faint,
My
etc.
For
'
When
the
line
the
this
Of mortal beauty
Floweth
etc.
Originally
Originally
then, as in a swoon.
'
Floweth
swoon.*
Life
is
full of
Weary
Days.
'
To
.*
The
I.
Nor wander'd
I
into other
ways
Nor golden
But
life is full of
weary days.
II.
Thy
The next
voice,
darnel
for
'
'
jay,'
and
darnels.'
restored
VOL.
I.
22
'
NOTES.
$$$
VI.
thou art
If
blest,
my
mother's smile
may
Of bubbling
(If
any sense
Thy words
in
to
'
'
line,
is
'
If
'
any sense
in
me
will
As welcome
me
parched plains
in
remains),
be
my
crumbling bones.
had
remains.'
its fling at
This doubt,'
'
it
the
says,
too modest
fact,
Tennyson
that,
much
fortune to possess.'
'
'
'
'
'
Early Sonnets.
To
The
line
In
I.
'
reads,
Altho' I
'
And
'
hath
'
'
is
italicised.
Reprinted
II.
To
III.
in 1842 from the 1830 volume. It is addressed to John Mitchell Kemble (1807-1857),
who was a fellow-student of the poet at Cambridge. He gave
up his purpose of entering the Church (to which this sonnet
refers), and devoted himself to Anglo-Saxon studies.
first
'
line
J.
'
full
warm was
'
M. K.
'
'
was
great.'
originally
'
fierce
;
'
and
in 1842.
in
In the
the twelfth
'
A'OTES.
Alexander.
IV.
Edition
The
'
of the
First
339
published
Ammon
Libyan Desert
in the
well-known.
is
Buonaparte.
In the 1S33 volume, but suppressed in
The only variation from the original version is in the
V.
1842.
third line,
which had
'
that
'
for
'
VL
On
Poland.
VII.
This
printed in the
The
16.
'
Muscovite
'
had
'
entitled
Poland
How long
;
Selections
'
The only
'
first
Three
first
of VII.,
and the
original version
is
Sonnets to a Coquette.'
'
fifth
'
'
'
'
whirling dances.'
At the end
'
7,
'
viii.
In
suppressed in 1842.
line
who.'
'
'Library
the
in
Poems,' 1S72-73.
'
of IX. there
is
X.
Printed
in 1833,
XI.
The
first line
Brides.maid.
Like
The
origi-
I loved,' etc.
The
follows
The
The
yellowleaved waterlily,
greensheathed daffodilly,
Tremble
Round about
thus
Shalott.
The sunbeam-showers
NOTES.
340
The
first
barley,
The
and
early,
"t
Listening whispers,
Lady
the fairy
is
of Shalott.'
The
Skimming down
to Camelot.
She leaneth on a
velvet bed,
The Lady
Part n. goes on thus
of Shalott.
No
A
A
is
on her,
Her weaving,
To
if
she stay
look
down
to
Camelot.
The Lady
of Shalott.
The
clear,
And
She
as the
whirls.
'
'
In Part
had
'
NOTES.
341
'
over
green Shalott
'
Tirra
lirra,
'
water-flower.'
'
'
tirra lirra
'
and the
Outside the
isle
first
stanza was as
a shallow boat
afloat,
Then followed
this stanza
All raimented in
That
snowy white
Though
fixed
on Camelot,
By
Lady
of Shalott.
thus
was the
The remaining
closing, etc.
From
Blown shoreward
Still
as the boathead
The
willowy
hills
so to Camelot
wound along
and
fields
had
among.
NOTES.
342
And
Turned
For
to
towered Camelot
By
Dead
'
They
The Lady
of Shalott.'
'
Draw
is I,
be
pointless as
it
'
is
puzzled
'
new
is
ending, with
as
its
introduction of Lancelot,
'
'
Page
254.
Dead-pale
down
between
the
to 1S73) ^^^^
'
houses
A corse
high.
The
between,'
etc.
NOTES.
Mariana
the South.
in
changed so much
hill
The
343
in 1842 that
upsprung
against the light,
Each
Far,
glaring creek
far,
and
inlet bright.
Looming
Down
Madonna
'
lo
am
all
alone,
When
Low
cast,
NOTES.
344
From
Low
she mourned,
'
am
all
alone,
And
nestling lisp.
Murmuring
Madonna
'
am
all
alone.
From
And
Up
to the coast
to roll
The mourning
gulf,
NOTES.
Poured divine
345
Of moonlight from
Volcano-like, afar,
Not
all
'
made
alone she
Madonna
lo
her moan,
and morn,
she, night
am
all
alone.
The
is
Shrank the
'
Page
Italian
prol.
At
260.
for
'Nor
Compare
cicada.
The Two
originally
it
the
is
Passes,'
Pippa
Voices.
(when
writes
'
was
Cicala
sung.
Browning,
with authority
to
all
'
unal-
of which
things wrought.'
(who unquestionably
Palgrave
describes
'),
first line
mean
to
'
the
is
man
that
is
likely to develop.'
But
human
(as
may open
and that
'
the
'
is
no splendid
remarked
in
my
'
Select
is
Poems
obvious,'
make
seems
to
me
merely a
desperate
what the
myself, I
man
attempt
a
'
reply
to
'
to
'A
dragon-fly
is
'
NOTES.
346
you
;
'
'
The
dragon-fly
to
it
me
in
as wonderful as
is
you.'
Page
Page
264.
265.
gorse.
Page
No
Compare
Page
above.
p. 27
270.
Palace of Art
'
The
of the earth.
riddle
Compare
'The
Page
p. 17
Sometimes a
271.
corner shines,
little
etc.
See
above.
Page
273.
Like
Stephen,
See
an iinqnenched fire.
above.
p. 21
Shakespeare,
'
Julius Caesar,' v.
5.
73
Page
280.
'.(^neid,' vi.
Page
748
286.
You
Compare George
And
etc.
Compare
Virgil,
fol.
Peele,
'
Araynment
of Paris
for flowers.
'
Ye may ne
see, for
peeping
NOTES.
The
Miller's Daughter.
much changed
nally
began with
I
this stanza
an ivy-tod.
stanza,
now
the
is
'
first,
make
can
for
'
makes
'
'
in the
in
And dreamt
wife
rod,
While
last line.
It origi-
He
The second
in 1842.
The
347
'
My
'
my own
sweet
The
not found,'
in 1842.
The
fifth
etc.)
My
I
And
and you
The
sixth stanza
I
began
long,
In
But
firry
'
'
long.'
left
behind
floating
weed
was added
NOTES.
348
At
will to
wander everyway
The
and the
first
now made
the thirteenth,
The
I loved
off
etc.
And
still,
Low down
the
fiagfiower that
tall
sprung
And
That glistened
Upon
I
came and
gummy
Beneath those
lay
chestnutbuds
lay
'
love-song,' etc.,
was not
Plunged
in the
stream.
With
idle care,
full fair
And
form, a
in the
NOTES.
349
If
Upon
my
eyes at once
above
The next
follows
(thirteenth)
stanza,
now
suppressed, was
The
Each
you
all
bent,
quaintly-folded cuckoo-pint,
And
The
tell
coltsfoot
Whose round
Each
could
silver-paly
fourteenth was
cuckoo flower.
When
thro' the
From
I
all
knew your
My
heart
was
full of
trembling hope,
The
fifteenth
was as follows
Upon
I
the hill
murmured
lowly, sitting
still.
as
'
NOTES.
35
The
*
Sometimes
but
I loved,
My
Your
dared to speak
May
moved
ripe lips
Flushed
when
love, the
sixteenth,
like the
coming
day
of the
You
etc.
May,' which
'
may
'
'
would,
in 1842.
Remember you
That whitened
When
I
all
stept
murmured,
lute-toned whisper,
'
The stream
The low
all
am here
my love,
;
is
loud
cannot hear.'
I heard, as I
When
'
Speak again,
heard, as
The
Call to
To
The
left
hill.
nightingale in leafy
its
still.
new year
woods
NOTES.
With brooch and
ring
351
for
seem,
-shall
And
The
'
Song
I
was
'
wish
originally this
I
Ambushed
(So might
in
auburn ringlets
my shadow
sleek,
tremble
Hid
wish
me
should
I 'd
know
clasp
wish
it
well
if it
beat right,
tight.
Upon
I
I
The next
trifle,
On
Of
With pulses
Do
How
frame
waste language
yet
in truth
And
over-garrulous in age.
rage
NOTES.
352
me
Sing
Half-angered with
When
1
in the
made,
my happy
lot,
breezy limewood-shade
Song
'
'
met me
My
me
ladylove, forget
When
am
not.
not.
me not,
me not.
gone, regret
And
That seem
to say,
'
me
Regret
me
leave
Wear
me
not
not,
me
me
not
away
quite
not.'
not.
not
me
not
oh, let
me
forget
me
forget
Oh
threat
not
forget me not.
The twenty-third stanza is unaltered from the one beginLook thro' mine eyes with thine,' etc. and the twentyfourth and last is the same that now ends the poem, except
ning
'
half a
To
mind
to walk,
my
love.
For look
Winds
all
(' Yet
added in 1842. In the seventh line
of the twenty-fifth all the American editions that I have seen
(from 1842 down) have the loss that brought instead of
had brought.'
The
'
'
'
NOTES.
353
Fatima.
Reprinted in 1842 from the volume of 1833, where, instead of
the present title, it has for heading the following quotation
4>a(j'6Tof fioi Krjvos fffos 0eo7cnv
Sappho.
EfifiiV avT]p.
'
'
'
'
CEnone.
First printed in 1833, but materially altered in 1842
slightly since.
The poem
originally
There
is
began thus
glenriver,
that lean
And many
all
Hither came
float in rest.
Sang
to the stillness,
Sloped downward
till
the mountain-shadow
to her seat
VOL.
I.
23
Ida,
die.
chff.
and
NOTES.
354
The
The
grasshopper
the grass,
is silent in
The
The
of the line,
not in the
Simois
'
first
'
all alone.'
'
mother
I sate alone
It
morn
the goldensandalled
my
With changeful
flashes,
Ambrosially smelling.
From
his lip.
river of speech
My own
"
Behold
'
this fruit,
Deep
own
fair
'
in aftertime
evilwilledness of heaven
may breed
and sere
CEnone,
soul.
poem was
written, I
saw a
very beautiful species of Cicala, which had scarlet wings spotted with
black.
NOTES.
And
all
my
the colour of
355
afterlife
Today
Here and Pallas and the floating grace
Of laugh terloving Aphrodite meet
In manyfolded Ida to receive
This meed of beauty, she to whom my hand
Award the palm. Within the green hillside,
Under yon whispering tuft of oldest pine,
Is
And ivymatted at
Thou unbeholden
Hear
'
all,
It
Had
lost his
way between
They came
all three
the Olympian goddesses
Naked they came to the smoothswarded bower,
Lustrous with
lilyflower, violeteyed
blue,
On
thro'.
How
To
look upon
More
'
lovelier
than
me
all
I die.
sovranly,
Fulleyed Here.
made
She
to Paris
ample rule
Wherewith
And
NOTES.
356
From many
large,
mother
Ida,
hearken ere
Still
tallest
still
towers."
1 die.
The next
of
There
his spirit
is
'
lines,
afterwards suppressed
no change
for
'
in the
next ten
lines,
except
live
by without
fear,
Not
as
men
it
die.)
tricks
for itself.
selfgood.
snakes, infect
A
So
falls.
Come hearken to me.
me and consider me.
find me fairest, so endurance,
drop of poison
And
The speech
'
look upon
shalt thou
'
Flattered
NOTES.
Like
357
become
still
till
And
Here she
The next
on thus
ceased, etc.
poem
then goes
With rosy
in
Paphian
wells,
upward drew
From her wai^m brow and bosom her dark hair
Fragrant and thick, and on her head upbound
In a purple band below her lucid neck
Shone ivorylike, and from the ground her foot
Gleamed rosywhite, and o'er her rounded form
Between the shadows of the vinebunches
Floated the glowing sunlights, as she moved.
slender fingers
There
no change
is
that, instead of
in the
my
only saw
In the
die
p.
'
reading
and so also
314.
The
hearken ere
on
first line
'
My
My
'
dark
dark
mother, hear
Dear mother
me
yet,'
paragraph on
Oh mother Ida,
313 was
and the next paragraph began with Yet,
line
on
'
p.
'
'
312
third
I die
is
poem
p.
arm
'
On
I die.'
tall pines,'
tall pines,
that
p. 312,
or lower
all
down
between
cataract
from beneath,
etc.
NOTES.
358
second
on
line
p. 313,
'
'
As
'
slowly to a music,
Tithonus
'
:
etc.
Compare
While
'
'
Gareth
and Lynette.'
Page
Compare
308.
'
Rest
a happy place
in
The Lotos-Eaters
'
:
and
quiet seats.
For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd
Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly
Round
curl'd
The
Sisters.
'
and
'
for
'
an'
'
in
'
turret
END OF
and
tree.'
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