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THE SUPPRESSED POEMS

OF

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

1830-1868


Edited By J.C. Thomson




Contents


EDITOR'S NOTE


TIMBUCTOO


POEMS CHIEFLY LYRICAL

    i. The How and the Why
   ii. The Burial of Love
  iii. To ----
   iv. Song _'I' the gloaming light'_
    v. Song _'Every day hath its night'_
   vi. Hero to Leander
  vii. The Mystic
 viii. The Grasshopper
   ix. Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
    x. Chorus _'The varied earth, the moving heaven'_
   xi. Lost Hope
  xii. The Tears of Heaven
 xiii. Love and Sorrow
  xiv. To a Lady sleeping
   xv. Sonnet _'Could I outwear my present state of woe'_
  xvi. Sonnet _'Though night hath climbed'_
 xvii. Sonnet _'Shall the hag Evil die'_
xviii. Sonnet _'The pallid thunder stricken sigh for gain'_
  xix. Love
   xx. English War Song
  xxi. National Song
 xxii. Dualisms
xxiii. [Greek: ohi rheontes]
 xxiv. Song _'The lintwhite and the throstlecock'_


CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1831-32

   xxv. A Fragment
  xxvi. Anacreontics
 xxvii. _'O sad no more! O sweet no more'_
xxviii. Sonnet _'Check every outflash, every ruder sally'_
  xxix. Sonnet _'Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh'_
   xxx. Sonnet _'There are three things that fill my heart with sighs'_


POEMS, 1833

   xxxi. Sonnet _'Oh beauty, passing beauty'_
  xxxii. The Hesperides
 xxxiii. Rosalind
  xxxiv. Song _'Who can say'_
   xxxv. Sonnet _'Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar'_
  xxxvi. O Darling Room
 xxxvii. To Christopher North
xxxviii. The Lotos-Eaters
  xxxix. A Dream of Fair Women


MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1833-68

    xl. Cambridge
   xli. The Germ of 'Maud'
  xlii. _'A gate and afield half ploughed'_
 xliii. The Skipping-Rope
  xliv. The New Timon and the Poets
   xlv. Mablethorpe
  xlvi. _'What time I wasted youthful hours'_
 xlvii. Britons, guard your own
xlviii. Hands all round
  xlix. Suggested by reading an article in a newspaper
     l. _'God bless our Prince and Bride'_
    li. The Ringlet
   lii. Song _'Home they brought him slain with spears'_
  liii. 1865-1866


THE LOVER'S TALE, 1833.


INDEX OF FIRST LINES




_Note_

_To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may
seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those
poems written and published by him during his active literary career,
and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body
of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while
Tennyson's powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once
have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of
English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of
Tennyson's work should now be open, without restriction or impediment,
to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are
subjected._

_The bibliographical notes prefixed to the various poems give, in every
case, the date and medium of first publication._

_J.C.T._




=Timbuctoo=

A Poem Which Obtained The Chancellor's Medal At The
_Cambridge Commencement_  MDCCCXXIX

By
A. Tennyson
Of Trinity College

[Printed in Cambridge _Chronicle and Journal_ of Friday, July 10,
1829, and at the University Press by James Smith, among the
_Prolusiones Academicae Praemiis annuis dignatae et in Curia
Cantabrigiensi Recitatae Comitiis Maximis_, MDCCCXXIX. Republished in
_Cambridge Prize Poems_, 1813 to 1858, by Messrs. Macmillan in 1859,
without alteration; and in 1893 in the appendix to a reprint of _Poems
by Two Brothers_].


=Timbuctoo=

    Deep in that lion-haunted inland lies
    A mystic city, goal of high Emprize.[A]
      --CHAPMAN.

  I stood upon the Mountain which o'erlooks
  The narrow seas, whose rapid interval
  Parts Afric from green Europe, when the Sun
  Had fall'n below th' Atlantick, and above
  The silent Heavens were blench'd with faery light,
  Uncertain whether faery light or cloud,
  Flowing Southward, and the chasms of deep, deep blue
  Slumber'd unfathomable, and the stars
  Were flooded over with clear glory and pale.
  I gaz'd upon the sheeny coast beyond,
  There where the Giant of old Time infixed
  The limits of his prowess, pillars high
  Long time eras'd from Earth: even as the sea
  When weary of wild inroad buildeth up
  Huge mounds whereby to stay