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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part Ithe editions Part IIcomparison of the editions Part IIIgrouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”
Early Poems To the Queen Claribela Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline SongThe Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.
You ask me, why, tho ill at ease Of old sat Freedom on the heights Love thou thy land, with love far-brought The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin Come not, when I am dead The Eagle Move eastward, happy earth, and leave Break, break, break The Poet’s Song AppendixSuppressed Poems Elegiacs The How and the Why Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.
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
A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.
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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Chapter I · Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson is here in full — 329 sentences across 66 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part Ithe editions Part IIcomparison of the editions Part IIIgrouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”
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Early Poems To the Queen Claribela Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline SongThe Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.
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You ask me, why, thoill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-broughtThe Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of SinCome not, when I am deadThe EagleMove eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, breakThe Poet’s Song AppendixSuppressed Poems Elegiacs TheHowand theWhySupposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“Ithe glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.
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Mine be the strength of spirit, full and freeTo — (“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
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A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

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bibliography noun US /ˌbɪbliˈɑːɡrəfi/

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

From this reading “The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.””

commentaries noun US /ˈkɑːmənteriz/

plural of “commentary” — a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material

From this reading “The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.””

Dualisms noun US /ˈduːəlɪzəmz/

plural of “dualism” — the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

From this reading ““You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.”

Fatima noun US /ˈfæθɪmə/

youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632)

From this reading “Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.”

Godiva noun US /ɡəˈdaɪvə/

according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily

From this reading ““You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.”

Merman noun US /ˈmɜːrmæn/

United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984)

From this reading “Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.”

Stylites noun US /stɪˈlaɪts/

plural of “stylite” — an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars

From this reading ““You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.”

transcript noun US /ˈtrænskrɪpt/

something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech

From this reading “The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.””

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From this reading “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

adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

acknowledgedadjectiveUS /ækˈnɑːlɪdʒd/

recognized or made known or admitted

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

Adeline

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

afaradverbUS /əˈfɑːr/

(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far

From this reading “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

afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/

later than; following

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Agnes

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

AlfrednounUS /ˈælfrəd/

king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899)

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

AlladjectiveUS /ɔːl/

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

allegorynounUS /ˈæləɡɔːri/

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

aloofadjectiveUS /əˈluːf/

remote in manner

From this reading “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

amauxiliary verbUS /æm/

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Amphion

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

andeterminerUS /æn/

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

AppendixnounUS /əˈpendɪks/

supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

applenounUS /ˈæpəl/

fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

From this reading “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

ArabiannounUS /əˈreɪbiən/

a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ArrivalnounUS /ərˈaɪvəl/

accomplishment of an objective

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Artauxiliary verbUS /ɑːrt/

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

AsconjunctionUS /æz/

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading “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

askverbUS /æsk/

make a request or demand for something to somebody

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

atprepositionUS /æt/

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Audley

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

BalladnounUS /ˈbæləd/

a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

beauxiliary verbUS /biː/

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading “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

BeautynounUS /ˈbjuːti/

the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/

the past participle of “be”

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

BeggarnounUS /ˈbeɡər/

a pauper who lives by begging

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

bibliographynounUS /ˌbɪbliˈɑːɡrəfi/

a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

BlackbirdnounUS /ˈblækbərd/

any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

BlowverbUS /bloʊ/

exhale hard

From this reading “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

BreakverbUS /breɪk/

terminate

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

broodverbUS /bruːd/

think moodily or anxiously about something

From this reading “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

Buonaparte

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From this reading “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

BurialnounUS /ˈberiəl/

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Burleigh

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

canmodal verbUS /kæn/

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading “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

CharacternounUS /ˈkerɪktər/

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

childnounUS /tʃaɪld/

a young person of either sex

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ChorusnounUS /ˈkɔːrəs/

any utterance produced simultaneously by a group

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ChristophernounUS /ˈkrɪstəfər/

Christian martyr and patron saint of travellers (3rd century)

From this reading “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

CircumstancenounUS /ˈsɜːrkəmstæns/

a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Clara

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Clare

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Claribel

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Clear-headed

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

climbedverbUS /klaɪmd/

past form of “climb” — go upward with gradual or continuous progress

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ComeverbUS /kʌm/

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

commentariesnounUS /ˈkɑːmənteriz/

plural of “commentary” — a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

comparisonnounUS /kəmˈperəsən/

the act of examining resemblances

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

ConclusionnounUS /kənˈkluːʒən/

a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

ConfessionsnounUS /kənˈfeʃənz/

plural of “confession” — an admission of misdeeds or faults

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

CourtnounUS /kɔːrt/

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

criticaladjectiveUS /ˈkrɪtɪkəl/

marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

d'Arthur

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DarlingnounUS /ˈdɑːrlɪŋ/

a special loved one

From this reading “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

DaughternounUS /ˈdɔːtər/

a female human offspring

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

daynounUS /deɪ/

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Day-Dream

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

denounUS /diː/

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

deadadjectiveUS /ded/

no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

dearestnounUS /ˈdɪrəst/

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DeathnounUS /deθ/

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

DeparturenounUS /dɪˈpɑːrtʃər/

the act of departing

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DesertedadjectiveUS /dɪˈzɜːrtɪd/

forsaken by owner or inhabitants

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

DieverbUS /daɪ/

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DirgenounUS /dɜːrdʒ/

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Dora

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

downcastadjectiveUS /ˈdaʊnkæst/

directed downward

From this reading “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

DreamnounUS /driːm/

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

DualismsnounUS /ˈduːəlɪzəmz/

plural of “dualism” — the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DutynounUS /ˈduːti/

the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

DyingadjectiveUS /ˈdaɪɪŋ/

in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

EnounUS /iː/

a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EaglenounUS /ˈiːɡəl/

any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EarlyadjectiveUS /ˈɜːrli/

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

earthnounUS /ɜːrθ/

the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

easeverbUS /iːz/

move gently or carefully

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

eastwardadjectiveUS /ˈiːstwərd/

moving toward the east

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

editedadjectiveUS /ˈedətəd/

improved or corrected by critical editing

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

editionnounUS /əˈdɪʃən/

the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

editionsnounUS /ɪˈdɪʃənz/

plural of “edition” — the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

EdwardnounUS /ˈedwərd/

King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EdwinnounUS /ˈedwən/

king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Elegiacs

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Eleänore

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

EnglishnounUS /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EpicadjectiveUS /ˈepɪk/

very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EpiloguenounUS /ˈepəlɔːɡ/

a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EvenounUS /iːv/

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

EverydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

EvilnounUS /ˈiːvəl/

morally objectionable behavior

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

eyesnounUS /aɪz/

opinion or judgment

From this reading “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

FairadjectiveUS /fer/

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

far-brought

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

FarewellnounUS /ˌferˈwel/

an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

FatimanounUS /ˈfæθɪmə/

youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

finallyadverbUS /ˈfaɪnəli/

after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

forprepositionUS /fɔːr/

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

Forgetfulnessnoun

tendency to forget

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

FragmentnounUS /ˈfræɡ.mənt/

A small part broken or separated off something larger.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

FreeverbUS /friː/

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

FreedomnounUS /ˈfriːdəm/

the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

friendnounUS /frend/

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

fromprepositionUS /frʌm/

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading “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

fruitnounUS /fruːt/

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

From this reading “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

fulladjectiveUS /fʊl/

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading “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

gainverbUS /ɡeɪn/

obtain

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GalahadnounUS /ˈɡæləhæd/

(Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Gardener'snounUS /ˈɡɑːrdənərz/

possessive form of “gardener” — someone who takes care of a garden

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

gatherverbUS /ˈɡæðər/

assemble or get together

From this reading “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

gloomingadjective

depressingly dark

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GodivanounUS /ɡəˈdaɪvə/

according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GoldenadjectiveUS /ˈɡoʊldən/

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GoodadjectiveUS /ɡʊd/

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GoosenounUS /ɡuːs/

web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GrasshoppernounUS /ˈɡræshɑːpər/

terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GraynounUS /ɡreɪ/

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

GreecenounUS /ɡriːs/

a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

groupingnounUS /ˈɡruːpɪŋ/

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

Guineverenoun

(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hagnounUS /hæɡ/

an ugly evil-looking old woman

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

HallnounUS /hɔːl/

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hallowedadjectiveUS /ˈhæloʊd/

worthy of religious veneration

From this reading “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

happyadjectiveUS /ˈhæpi/

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

hathauxiliary verbUS /hæθ/

an old form of “has”

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hauntsnounUS /hɔːnts/

plural of “haunt” — a frequently visited place

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading “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

heavennounUS /ˈhevən/

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

heightsnounUS /haɪts/

a high place

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hereadverbUS /hiːr/

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

HeronounUS /ˈhɪroʊ/

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Hesperidesnoun

(Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera

From this reading “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

highestadjectiveUS /ˈhaɪəst/

superlative of “high” — greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

HopenounUS /hoʊp/

a specific instance of feeling hopeful

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

hoursnounUS /ˈaʊərz/

a period of time assigned for work

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

HousenounUS /haʊs/

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

How

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

IInoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

IIInoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

illadjectiveUS /ɪl/

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

introductionnounUS /ˌɪntrəˈdʌkʃən/

the act of beginning something new

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

Isabel

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

IVnoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

JnounUS /dʒeɪ/

a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

joyfuladjectiveUS /ˈdʒɔɪfəl/

full of or producing joy

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Juliet

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

KnounUS /keɪ/

the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Kate

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From this reading “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

keptadjectiveUS /kept/

(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

From this reading “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

Kraken

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

LnounUS /el/

a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

L'Envoi

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

LadynounUS /ˈleɪdi/

a polite name for any woman

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

LakenounUS /leɪk/

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

landnounUS /lænd/

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

lastadjectiveUS /læst/

immediately past

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Launcelot

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

LeandernounUS /liˈændər/

(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

leaveverbUS /liːv/

go away from a place

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

LettersnounUS /ˈletərz/

the literary culture

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

LifenounUS /laɪf/

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

lightadjectiveUS /laɪt/

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Lilian

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

lintwhitenoun

small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Locksley

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

longadjectiveUS /lɔːŋ/

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

LordnounUS /lɔːrd/

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

LostadjectiveUS /lɔːst/

no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Lotos-Eaters

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

LovenounUS /lʌv/

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

LyricaladjectiveUS /ˈlɪrɪkəl/

suitable for or suggestive of singing

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MnounUS /em/

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Madeline

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MaidnounUS /meɪd/

a female domestic

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MailnounUS /meɪl/

the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Margaret

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Mariana

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Maymodal verbUS /meɪ/

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

mepronounUS /miː/

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MelodynounUS /ˈmelədi/

a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MemorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MermaidnounUS /ˈmɜːrmeɪd/

half woman and half fish; lives in the sea

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MermannounUS /ˈmɜːrmæn/

United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Miller'snounUS /ˈmɪlərz/

possessive form of “miller” — United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MindnounUS /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

MinepronounUS /maɪn/

the one or ones belonging to the person speaking

From this reading “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

MonologuenounUS /ˈmɑːnəlɔːɡ/

speech you make to yourself

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MorrisnounUS /ˈmɔːrəs/

United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Morte

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MoveverbUS /muːv/

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

movingadjectiveUS /ˈmuːvɪŋ/

in motion

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

musenounUS /mjuːz/

in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

From this reading “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

mydeterminerUS /maɪ/

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

MysticadjectiveUS /ˈmɪstɪk/

having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

nameverbUS /neɪm/

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

NationaladjectiveUS /ˈnæʃənəl/

of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

NewadjectiveUS /nuː/

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

nightnounUS /naɪt/

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

NightsnounUS /naɪts/

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

noonnounUS /nuːn/

the middle of the day

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

NorthnounUS /nɔːrθ/

the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading “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

notadverbUS /nɑːt/

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

notesnounUS /noʊts/

plural of “note” — a brief written record

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

NothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

not one thing; not anything

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

OnounUS /oʊ/

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading “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

OaknounUS /oʊk/

the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

OdenounUS /oʊd/

a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

OhnounUS /oʊ/

a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

From this reading “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

OldadjectiveUS /oʊld/

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

onprepositionUS /ɑːn/

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Oriana

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

outwearverb

last longer than others

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

OwlnounUS /aʊl/

nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

PalacenounUS /ˈpæləs/

a large and stately mansion

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

pallidadjectiveUS /ˈpæləd/

abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

PartnounUS /pɑːrt/

something determined in relation to something that includes it

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

passingnounUS /ˈpæsɪŋ/

(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

From this reading “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

peaknounUS /piːk/

the most extreme possible amount or value

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

PicturesnounUS /ˈpɪktʃərz/

plural of “picture” — a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

PoemsnounUS /ˈpoʊəmz/

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

PoetnounUS /ˈpoʊət/

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Poet'snounUS /ˈpoʊəts/

possessive form of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

PolandnounUS /ˈpoʊlənd/

a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

From this reading “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

PrefacenounUS /ˈprefəs/

a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

presentverbUS /ˈprezənt/

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

PridenounUS /praɪd/

a feeling of self-respect and personal worth

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ProloguenounUS /ˈproʊlɑːɡ/

an introduction to a play

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

QueennounUS /kwiːn/

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

readingnounUS /ˈriːdɪŋ/

the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

readingsnounUS /ˈriːdɪŋz/

plural of “reading” — the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

RecollectionsnounUS /ˌrekəˈlekʃənz/

plural of “recollection” — the ability to recall past occurrences

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

RevivalnounUS /rɪˈvaɪvəl/

bringing again into activity and prominence

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

RoomnounUS /ruːm/

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling

From this reading “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

RopenounUS /roʊp/

a strong line

From this reading “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

Rosalind

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “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

SnounUS /es/

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SaintedadjectiveUS /ˈseɪntɪd/

marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SameadjectiveUS /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

satnounUS /sæt/

the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

sayverbUS /seɪ/

express in words

From this reading “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

scornnounUS /skɔːrn/

lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Sea-Fairies

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SecondnounUS /ˈsekənd/

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

sendverbUS /send/

cause to go somewhere

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

Shallmodal verbUS /ʃæl/

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Shalott

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

sighverbUS /saɪ/

heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SimeonnounUS /ˈsɪmiən/

(Old Testament) the 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SinnounUS /sɪn/

estrangement from god

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SirnounUS /sɜːr/

term of address for a man

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SistersnounUS /ˈsɪstərz/

plural of “sister” — a female person who has the same parents as another person

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SkippingverbUS /ˈskɪpɪŋ/

inflected form of “skip” — bypass

From this reading “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

SleepingnounUS /ˈsliːpɪŋ/

the state of being asleep

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SongnounUS /sɔːŋ/

a short musical composition with words

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SonnetnounUS /ˈsɑːnɪt/

a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SorrownounUS /ˈsɑːroʊ/

an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

sortnounUS /sɔːrt/

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SouthnounUS /saʊθ/

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

spiritnounUS /ˈspɪrət/

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

St

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

statenounUS /steɪt/

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

strengthnounUS /streŋkθ/

the property of being physically or mentally strong

From this reading “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

StylitesnounUS /stɪˈlaɪts/

plural of “stylite” — an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

SupposedadjectiveUS /səˈpoʊzd/

required or under orders

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

suppressedadjectiveUS /səˈprest/

kept from public knowledge by various means

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

SwanverbUS /swɑːn/

to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

SweetadjectiveUS /swiːt/

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

From this reading “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

sweetestadjectiveUS /ˈswiːtəst/

superlative of “sweet” — having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

From this reading “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

TalkingnounUS /ˈtɔːkɪŋ/

an exchange of ideas via conversation

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

TearsnounUS /terz/

the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

temporarilyadverbUS /ˌtempərˈerəli/

for a limited time only; not permanently

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

TennysonnounUS /ˈtenɪsən/

Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892)

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

Tennyson's

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From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

ThedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

ThingsnounUS /θɪŋz/

any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

thonounUS /ðoʊ/

a branch of the Tai languages

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

thoupronounUS /ðaʊ/

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

ThoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/

in spite of the fact that

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

throstlecock

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

thunderstricken

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

thydeterminerUS /ðaɪ/

an old word for “your”, speaking to one person

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Timbuctoo

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From this reading “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

ToparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

togetheradverbUS /təˈɡeðər/

in contact with each other or in proximity

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

transcriptnounUS /ˈtrænskrɪpt/

something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

TravelsnounUS /ˈtrævəlz/

plural of “travel” — the act of going from one place to another

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

trumpetverbUS /ˈtrʌmpət/

proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

From this reading “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

truthnounUS /truːθ/

a fact that has been verified

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

TwonounUS /tuː/

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

UlyssesnounUS /juːˈlɪsiz/

(Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

variedadjectiveUS /ˈverid/

characterized by variety

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

variousadjectiveUS /ˈveriəs/

of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

Vere

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

VisionnounUS /ˈvɪʒən/

a vivid mental image

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

VoicesnounUS /ˈvɔɪsəz/

plural of “voice” — the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

WalkingadjectiveUS /ˈwɔːkɪŋ/

close enough to be walked to

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

wantverbUS /wɑːnt/

feel or have a desire for; want strongly

From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.

WarnounUS /wɔːr/

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Waterproof's

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

WepronounUS /wiː/

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

whenconjunctionUS /wen/

at the time that

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

WhopronounUS /huː/

which person or people

From this reading “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

whosedeterminerUS /huːz/

belonging to which person

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

whynounUS /waɪ/

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

Willmodal verbUS /wɪl/

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

withprepositionUS /wɪð/

in the company of; together with

From this reading The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson edited with a critical introduction, commentaries and notes, together with the various readings, a transcript of the poems temporarily and finally suppressed and a bibliography Preface Introduction Part I—the editions Part II—comparison of the editions Part III—grouping the poems Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”

woenounUS /woʊ/

misery resulting from affliction

From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

WomennounUS /ˈwɪmən/

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

yepronounUS /jiː/

an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person

From this reading “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

YearnounUS /jɪr/

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

year'snounUS /jɪrz/

possessive form of “year” — a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

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From this reading Early Poems To the Queen Claribel—a Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”) Madeline Song—The Owl Second Song to the Same Recollections of the Arabian Nights Ode to Memory 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 Œnone The Sisters To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”) The Palace of Art Lady Clara Vere de Vere The May Queen New Year’s Eve Conclusion The Lotos-Eaters Dream of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death of the Old Year To J. S.

οἱ

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

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From this reading “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease” “Of old sat Freedom on the heights” “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought” The Goose The Epic Morte d’Arthur The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking to the Mail Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love and Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream:—Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L’Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue To ——, after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin “Come not, when I am dead” The Eagle “Move eastward, happy earth, and leave” “Break, break, break” The Poet’s Song Appendix—Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The “How” and the “Why” Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name !”) Song (“I’ the glooming light”) Song (“The lintwhite and the throstlecock”) Song (“Every day hath its night”) Nothing will Die All Things will Die Hero to Leander The Mystic The Grasshopper Love, Pride and Forgetfulness Chorus (“The varied earth, the moving heaven”) Lost Hope The Tears of Heaven Love and Sorrow To a Lady Sleeping Sonnet (“Could I outwear my present state of woe”) Sonnet (“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon”) Sonnet (“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good”) Sonnet (“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain”) Love The Kraken English War Song National Song Dualisms We are Free οἱ ῥέοντες.

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