1830-1868
Edited by J.C. Thomson
Timbuctoo
POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL
i. The How and the Why
ii. The Burial of Love
iii. To ——
iv. Song ‘I’ the gloaming light’
v. Song ‘Every day hath its night’
vi. Hero to Leander
vii. The Mystic
viii. The Grasshopper
ix. Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
x. Chorus ‘The varied earth, the moving heaven’
xi. Lost Hope
xii. The Tears of Heaven
xiii. Love and Sorrow
xiv. To a Lady sleeping
xv. Sonnet ‘Could I outwear my present state of woe’
xvi. Sonnet ‘Though night hath climbed’
xvii. Sonnet ‘Shall the hag Evil die’
xviii. Sonnet ‘The pallid thunder stricken sigh for gain’
xix. Love
xx. English War Song
xxi. National Song
xxii. Dualisms
xxiii. οἱ ρἑοντες
xxiv. Song ‘The lintwhite and the throstlecock’
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1831-32
xxv. A Fragment
xxvi. Anacreontics
xxvii. ‘O sad no more! O sweet no more’
xxviii. Sonnet ‘Check every outflash, every ruder sally’
xxix. Sonnet ‘Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh’
xxx. Sonnet ‘There are three things that fill my heart with sighs’
POEMS, 1833
xxxi. Sonnet ‘Oh beauty, passing beauty’
xxxii. The Hesperides
xxxiii. Rosalind
xxxiv. Song ‘Who can say’
xxxv. Sonnet ‘Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar’
xxxvi. O Darling Room
xxxvii. To Christopher North
xxxviii. The Lotos-Eaters
xxxix. A Dream of Fair Women
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1833-68
xl. Cambridge
xli. The Germ of ‘Maud’
xlii. ‘A gate and afield half ploughed’
xliii. The Skipping-Rope
xliv. The New Timon and the Poets
xlv. Mablethorpe
xlvi. ‘What time I wasted youthful hours’
xlvii. Britons, guard your own
xlviii. Hands all round
xlix. Suggested by reading an article in a newspaper
l. ‘God bless our Prince and Bride’
li. The Ringlet
lii. Song ‘Home they brought him slain with spears’
liii. 1865-1866
THE LOVER’S TALE, 1833
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
Note
To those unacquainted with Tennyson’s conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson’s powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson’s work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected.
The bibliographical notes prefixed to the various poems give, in every case, the date and medium of first publication.
J.C.T.