Poetry Codex

Victorian

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809–1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain for over four decades and the most popular and representative poet of the Victorian age.

His work ranges from the intimate grief of In Memoriam A.H.H., written for a dead friend, to the martial narrative verse of Enoch Arden and the ballad-like Maud.

Major Works (2)

  1. Idylls of the King — Epic poem, 1859–1885
  2. The Princess — Narrative poem, 1847

Poems (462)

  1. Enoch Arden
  2. Sea Dreams
  3. The Grandmother
  4. Northern Farmer
  5. Tithonus
  6. Alcaics
  7. Hendecasyllabics
  8. I.
  9. VII
  10. VIII
  11. IX
  12. X.
  13. XI
  14. XII
  15. XIII
  16. XIV
  17. XV
  18. XVI
  19. XVII
  20. XVIII
  21. XIX
  22. XX
  23. XXI
  24. XXII
  25. II
  26. III
  27. IV
  28. V.
  29. VI
  30. The Letters
  31. Will
  32. In Memoriam
  33. I.
  34. II
  35. III
  36. IV
  37. V.
  38. VI
  39. VII
  40. VIII
  41. IX
  42. X.
  43. XI
  44. XII
  45. XIII
  46. XIV
  47. XV
  48. XVI
  49. XVII
  50. XVIII
  51. XIX
  52. XX
  53. XXI
  54. XXII
  55. XXIII
  56. XXIV
  57. XXV
  58. XXVI
  59. XXVII
  60. XXVIII
  61. XXIX
  62. XXX
  63. XXXI
  64. XXXII
  65. XXXIII
  66. XXXIV
  67. XXXV
  68. XXXVI
  69. XXXVII
  70. XXXVIII
  71. XXXIX
  72. XL
  73. XLI
  74. XLII
  75. XLIII
  76. XLIV
  77. XLV
  78. XLVI
  79. XLVII
  80. XLVIII
  81. XLIX
  82. L.
  83. LI
  84. LII
  85. LIII
  86. LIV
  87. LV
  88. LVI
  89. LVII
  90. LIX
  91. LX
  92. LXI
  93. LXII
  94. LXIII
  95. LXIV
  96. LXV
  97. LXVI
  98. LXVII
  99. LXVIII
  100. LXIX
  101. LXX
  102. LXXI
  103. LXXII
  104. LXXIII
  105. LXXIV
  106. LXXV
  107. LXXVI
  108. LXXVII
  109. LXXVIII
  110. LXXIX
  111. LXXX
  112. LXXXI
  113. LXXXII
  114. LXXXIII
  115. LXXXIV
  116. LXXXV
  117. LXXXVI
  118. LXXXVII
  119. LXXXVIII
  120. LXXXIX
  121. XC
  122. XCI
  123. XCII
  124. XCIII
  125. XCIV
  126. XCV
  127. XCVI
  128. XCVII
  129. XCVIII
  130. XCIX
  131. C.
  132. CI
  133. CII
  134. CIII
  135. CIV
  136. CV
  137. CVI
  138. CVII
  139. CVIII
  140. CIX
  141. CX
  142. CXI
  143. CXII
  144. CXIII
  145. CXIV
  146. CXV
  147. CXVI
  148. CXVII
  149. CXVIII
  150. CXIX
  151. CXX
  152. CXXI
  153. CXXII
  154. CXXIII
  155. CXXIV
  156. CXXV
  157. CXXVI
  158. CXXVII
  159. CXXVIII
  160. CXXIX
  161. The Grasshopper
  162. Song
  163. The Deserted House
  164. The Dying Swan
  165. A Dirge
  166. Love and Death
  167. The Ballad of Oriana
  168. Circumstance
  169. The Merman
  170. The Mermaid
  171. Eleänore
  172. The Miller’s Daughter
  173. Fatima
  174. The Sisters
  175. Lady Clara Vere de Vere
  176. The May Queen
  177. New Year’s Eve
  178. Added in 1842
  179. The Lotos Eaters
  180. Choric Song
  181. A Dream of Fair Women
  182. The Blackbird
  183. The Death of the Old Year
  184. The Goose
  185. The Epic
  186. Dora
  187. Audley Court
  188. The Talking Oak
  189. Love and Duty
  190. The Golden Year
  191. Ulysses
  192. The Two Voices
  193. Prologue
  194. The Sleeping Palace
  195. The Sleeping Beauty
  196. The Arrival
  197. The Revival
  198. The Departure
  199. Moral
  200. L’Envoi
  201. Epilogue
  202. Amphion
  203. Sir Galahad
  204. Edward Gray
  205. To——
  206. Lady Clare
  207. Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
  208. A Farewell
  209. The Beggar Maid
  210. The Vision of Sin
  211. The Poet’s Song
  212. The “How” and the “Why”
  213. Supposed Confessions
  214. The Burial of Love
  215. Nothing Will Die
  216. All Things Will Die
  217. Hero to Leander
  218. The Mystic
  219. Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
  220. Lost Hope
  221. The Tears of Heaven
  222. Love and Sorrow
  223. To a Lady Sleeping
  224. The Kraken
  225. English War Song
  226. National Song
  227. Dualisms
  228. We are Free
  229. Poems of MDCCCXXXIII
  230. V
  231. VI
  232. VII
  233. Buonoparte
  234. I.
  235. The Hesperides
  236. I
  237. II
  238. IV
  239. Rosalind
  240. O Darling Room
  241. Kate
  242. Poland
  243. To Christopher North
  244. The Skipping Rope
  245. Timbuctoo
  246. The Voyage
  247. In the Valley of Cauteretz
  248. The Flower
  249. Requiescat
  250. The Sailor Boy
  251. The Islet
  252. The Ringlet
  253. A Welcome to Alexandra
  254. Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition
  255. A Dedication
  256. Love Thou Thy Land, With Love Far-Brought
  257. Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights
  258. You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease
  259. A Character
  260. Adeline
  261. Claribel
  262. Isabel
  263. Lilian
  264. Madeline
  265. Margaret
  266. Mariana
  267. Mariana in the South
  268. Ode to Memory
  269. Oenone
  270. Recollections of the Arabian Nights
  271. Second Song: To the Same
  272. Song (A Spirit haunts the year's last hours)
  273. Song: The Owl
  274. Sonnet to J. M. K.
  275. The Lady of Shalott
  276. The Palace of Art
  277. The Poet
  278. The Poet's Mind
  279. To J. S.
  280. To ——— (Clear-headed friend)
  281. To ——— (With the Following Poem)
  282. Break, Break, Break
  283. Godiva
  284. Locksley Hall
  285. Morte d'Arthur
  286. Move Eastward, Happy Earth
  287. St. Agnes
  288. St. Simeon Stylites
  289. The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures
  290. The Lord of Burleigh
  291. Walking to the Mail
  292. Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue
  293. The Bugle Song
  294. Tears, Idle Tears
  295. Sweet and Low
  296. Turn, Fortune, Turn Thy Wheel
  297. Vivien's Song
  298. Songs from 'The Princess'
  299. Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums
  300. Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
  301. Come down, O Maid
  302. In the Garden at Swainston
  303. Crossing the Bar
  304. The Higher Pantheism
  305. Flower in the crannied wall
  306. The Human Cry
  307. From 'The Ancient Sage'
  308. Aylmer's Field: 1793
  309. Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse
  310. The Brook: An Idyl
  311. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
  312. The Daisy: Written at Edinburgh
  313. To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
  314. The Sea-Fairies
  315. Leonine Elegiacs
  316. Alexander
  317. Caress'd or Chidden
  318. The Form, the Form Alone Is Eloquent
  319. Wan Sculptor, Weepest Thou
  320. If I Were Loved, as I Desire to Be
  321. The Bridesmaid
  322. On a Mourner
  323. England and America in 1782
  324. Edwin Morris; or, The Lake
  325. The Captain
  326. The Eagle
  327. Come Not, When I Am Dead
  328. To E. L., on His Travels in Greece
  329. To the Queen
  330. Lucretius
  331. The Third of February, 1852
  332. The Charge of the Light Brigade
  333. A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
  334. Northern Farmer: New Style
  335. The City Child
  336. Minnie and Winnie
  337. The Spiteful Letter
  338. Literary Squabbles
  339. The Victim
  340. Wages
  341. The Voice and the Peak
  342. Boadicea
  343. On Translations of Homer: Hexameters and Pentameters
  344. On the Hill
  345. At the Window
  346. Gone
  347. Winter
  348. Spring
  349. The Letter
  350. No Answer (I)
  351. No Answer (II)
  352. The Answer
  353. Ay
  354. When
  355. Marriage Morning
  356. The Lover's Tale: Part I
  357. The Lover's Tale: Part II
  358. The Lover's Tale: Part III
  359. The Golden Supper
  360. To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson
  361. The First Quarrel
  362. Rizpah
  363. The Northern Cobbler
  364. The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
  365. The Sisters (1880)
  366. The Village Wife; or, The Entail
  367. In the Children's Hospital
  368. Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice
  369. The Defence of Lucknow
  370. Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham
  371. Columbus
  372. The Voyage of Maeldune
  373. De Profundis: The Two Greetings
  374. Prefatory Sonnet to the 'Nineteenth Century'
  375. To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield
  376. Montenegro
  377. To Victor Hugo
  378. The Battle of Brunanburh
  379. Achilles over the Trench
  380. To the Princess Frederica of Hanover on Her Marriage
  381. Sir John Franklin: On the Cenotaph in Westminster Abbey
  382. To Dante
  383. To E. FitzGerald
  384. Tiresias
  385. The Wreck
  386. Despair
  387. The Ancient Sage
  388. The Flight
  389. To-morrow
  390. The Spinster's Sweet-Arts
  391. Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
  392. Prologue to General Hamley
  393. The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava
  394. Epilogue (to The Charge of the Heavy Brigade)
  395. To Virgil
  396. The Dead Prophet
  397. Early Spring
  398. Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets
  399. Frater Ave atque Vale
  400. Helen's Tower
  401. Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
  402. Epitaph on General Gordon
  403. Epitaph on Caxton
  404. To the Duke of Argyll
  405. Hands All Round
  406. Freedom
  407. To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice
  408. The Fleet
  409. Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen
  410. Poets and Their Bibliographies
  411. To W. C. Macready
  412. To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
  413. On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
  414. To Professor Jebb, with the Following Poem
  415. Demeter and Persephone
  416. Owd Roa
  417. Vastness
  418. The Ring
  419. Forlorn
  420. Happy: The Leper's Bride
  421. To Ulysses
  422. To Mary Boyle
  423. The Progress of Spring
  424. Merlin and the Gleam
  425. Romney's Remorse
  426. Parnassus
  427. By an Evolutionist
  428. Old Age
  429. Far-Far-Away
  430. Politics
  431. Beautiful City
  432. The Roses on the Terrace
  433. The Play
  434. On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner
  435. To One Who Ran Down the English
  436. The Snowdrop
  437. The Throstle
  438. The Oak
  439. In Memoriam: William George Ward
  440. June Bracken and Heather
  441. To the Master of Balliol
  442. The Death of Oenone
  443. St. Telemachus
  444. Akbar's Dream
  445. The Bandit's Death
  446. The Church-warden and the Curate
  447. Charity
  448. Kapiolani
  449. The Dawn
  450. The Making of Man
  451. The Dreamer
  452. Mechanophilus
  453. Riflemen Form!
  454. The Tourney
  455. The Wanderer
  456. Poets and Critics
  457. A Voice Spake Out of the Skies
  458. Doubt and Prayer
  459. Faith
  460. The Silent Voices
  461. God and the Universe
  462. The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale

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