To ("Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn ")

Song ("A spirit haunts the year's last hours")
Adeline

A Character.

The Poet

The Poet's Mind

The Sea-Fairies

The Deserted House

The Dying Swan .
A Dirge

Love and Death

The Ballad of Oriana

Circumstance

The Merman

The Mermaid

Sonnet to J. M. K.
The Lady of Shalott
Mariana in the South
Eleänore

The Miller's Daughter

Fatima.

Enone.

The Sisters

9

10

12

12

13

17

21

22

24

25

27

29

31

32

34

36

36

39

39

41

42

43

50

54

58

69

70

83

Chorus ("The varied earth, the moving heaven")
Lost Hope

289

290

Sonnet ("Could I outwear my present state of woe").
Sonnet ("Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest

291

Sonnet ("Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good").
Sonnet ("The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain")
Love

292

292

292

Dualisms

We are Free.

οἱ ῥέοντες

"Mine be the strength of spirit, full and free"
Το

("All good things have not kept aloof”).

Sonnet ("Oh, Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet!")
The Hesperides

Song ("The golden apple, the golden apple, the hallowed fruit ")
Rosalind

Sonnet ("Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar ")
Poland.

To ("As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood ")

300

301

301

303

TENNYSON'S EARLY POEMS

TO THE QUEEN

This dedication was first prefixed to the seventh edition of these poems in 1851, Tennyson having succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate, 19th Nov., 1850.

Revered, beloved1—O you that hold
A nobler office upon earth

Than arms, or power of brain, or birth
Could give the warrior kings of old,

Victoria,2—since your Royal grace
To one of less desert allows

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter"d nothing base;

And should your greatness, and the care
That yokes with empire, yield you time
To make demand of modern rhyme
If aught of ancient worth be there;

Then—while3 a sweeter music wakes,
And thro' wild March the throstle calls,
Where all about your palace-walls
The sun-lit almond-blossom shakes—

Take, Madam, this poor book of song;
For tho' the faults were thick as dust
In vacant chambers, I could trust
Your kindness.

May you rule us long,

1 1851. Revered Victoria, you that hold.

2 1851. I thank you that your Royal grace.

3 This stanza added in 1853.

41851. Your sweetness.