The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems

by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

• ISBN13: 9780486272825
• ISBN10: 0486272826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-21
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem,Enoch Arden,plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works:The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Dates
Further Reading
Timbuctoo	p. 1
The Idealist	p. 8
From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)	p. 9
Mariana	p. 9
Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind	p. 11
Song ['A spirit haunts the year's last hours']	p. 17
A Character	p. 18
The Poet's Mind	p. 19
Nothing Will Die	p. 20
All Things Will Die	p. 22
The Dying Swan	p. 23
The Kraken	p. 25
From Poems (1832)	p. 26
The Lady of Shalott	p. 26
Mariana in the South	p. 31
Fatima	p. 34
Oenone	p. 36
The Palace of Art	p. 44
The Hesperides	p. 53
The Lotos-Eaters	p. 57
'Hark! the dogs howl!'	p. 63
'This Nature full of hints and mysteries'	p. 64
'Over the dark world flies the wind'	p. 64
Oh! that 'twere possible'	p. 65
From Poems (1842)	p. 69
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]	p. 69
Morte d'Arthur	p. 70
The Gardener's Daughter	p. 79
St Simeon Stylites	p. 88
Ulysses	p. 94
Locksley Hall	p. 96
The Two Voices	p. 104
'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave'	p. 118
'Break, break, break'	p. 119
From Poems (1846)	p. 120
The Golden Year	p. 120
From The Princess (1847)	p. 123
'As thro' the land at eve we went'	p. 123
'Sweet and low, sweet and low'	p. 123
'The splendour falls on castle walls'	p. 124
'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean'	p. 125
'Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea'	p. 126
'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'	p. 126
'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'	p. 127
Lines ['Here often, when a child, I lay reclined')	p. 129
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)	p. 130
From Poems (1851)	p. 225
Edwin Morris	p. 225
The Eagle	p. 229
From Maud, and Other Poems (1855)	p. 231
Maud	p. 231
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington	p. 278
To the Rev. F.D. Maurice	p. 286
Will	p. 288
The Charge of the Light Brigade	p. 289
From Enoch Arden (1864)	p. 291
The Grandmother	p. 291
Tithonus	p. 296
In the Valley of Cauteretz	p. 298
On a Mourner	p. 299
From The Holy Grail and Other Poems (1869)	p. 301
Northern Farmer, New Style	p. 301
'Flower in the crannied wall'	p. 304
Lucretius	p. 304
From Tiresias and Other Poems (1885)	p. 313
To E. Fitzgerald	p. 313
Tiresias	p. 316
The Ancient Sage	p. 321
Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets	p. 329
'Frater Ave atque Vale'	p. 331
From Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)	p. 332
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After	p. 332
From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)	p. 345
Demeter and Persephone	p. 345
Crossing the Bar	p. 349
Notes	p. 351
Index of Titles	p. 373
Index of First Lines	p. 375
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