1842
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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
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.”
(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
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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
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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.
Eleänore
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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.
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.
(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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
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IInoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
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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.”
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.
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
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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.
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
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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
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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
(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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.”
(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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.”
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading A Critical edition of Tennyson’s poems has long been an acknowledged want.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Œnone
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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.
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.