of Good”)
Sonnet ("The pallid thunderstricken sigh
for gain”)
Love
The Kraken
English War Song
National Song
Dualisms
We are Free
[Greek: oi rheontes]
“Mine be the strength of spirit,
full and free”
To—("All good things have not
kept aloof)
Buonaparte
Sonnet ("Oh, Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest
Sweet!”)
The Hesperides
Song ("The golden apple, the golden apple,
the hallowed fruit”)
Rosalind
Song ("Who can say”)
Kate
Sonnet ("Blow ye the trumpet, gather from
afar”)
Poland
To—("As when with downcast
eyes we muse and brood”)
O Darling Room
To Christopher North
The Skipping Rope
Timbuctoo
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POEMS OF 1842
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, beloved [1]—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—while [3] 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. [4] May you rule us long.
And leave us rulers of your blood
As noble till the latest day!
May children of our children say,
“She wrought her people lasting
good; [5]
“Her court was pure; her life serene;
God gave her peace; her land reposed;
A thousand claims to reverence closed
In her as Mother, Wife and Queen;
“And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons, when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet [6]
“By shaping some august decree,
Which kept her throne unshaken still,
Broad-based upon her people’s will,
[7]
And compass’d by the inviolate sea.”
MARCH, 1851.
[Footnote 1: 1851. Revered Victoria, you
that hold.]
[Footnote 2: 1851. I thank you that your
Royal grace.]
[Footnote 3: This stanza added in 1853.]
[Footnote 4: 1851. Your sweetness.]
[Footnote 5: In 1851 the following stanza referring
to the first Crystal Palace, opened 1st May, 1851,
was inserted here:—
