Numbers and alphanumerics (such as ‘1A’) before poem titles are those assigned by Christopher Ricks in his 1987 edition of Tennyson’s complete poems (see Preface). An asterisk following a poem number indicates that the poem appears in both the selected and the complete Ricks edition; its absence, that the poem appears only in the latter.

Preface		1

1A	Three Translations of Horace	17
1	Translation of Claudian’s ‘Rape of Proserpine’	18
2	The Devil and the Lady	24
3	Armageddon	30
4	The Coach of Death, A Fragment	35
5	Memory [Memory! dear enchanter!]	36
8	Remorse	37
9	The Dell of E—	37
10	Anthony and Cleopatra	39
16	‘Did not thy roseate lips outvie’	39
26	On Sublimity	39
27	Time: An Ode	41
30	The Walk at Midnight	41
45	‘Oh! ye wild winds, that roar and rave’	42
46	Babylon	42
47	Love [Almighty Love!]	43
48	Exhortation to the Greeks	44
50	‘Come hither, canst thou tell me if this skull’	44
51	The Dying Man to His Friend	45
54A	‘The musky air was mute’	45
55	The Outcast	45
58A	The Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Buonaparte	46
59	Playfellow Winds	48
61	Home	48
62	‘Among some Nations Fate hath placed too far’	48
63	To Poesy [O God, make this age great]	49
64	The Lark	49
67	Timbuctoo	49
73*	Mariana	50
75	Madeline	50
78*	Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind	51
79	The Burial of Love	53
83	Recollections of the Arabian Nights	53
84	Ode to Memory	53
87	Adeline	56
88*	A Character	57
91	The Poet	58
95	Hero to Leander	60
99	The Grasshopper	60
101	Chorus, in an Unpublished Drama, Written Very Early	60
106	To a Lady Sleeping	61
107	Sonnet [Could I outwear my present state of woe]	62
108	Sonnet [Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon]	63
109	Sonnet [Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good]	63
110	Sonnet [The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain]	65
124	Amy	65
126	Memory [Ay me!]	65
127	Ode: O Bosky Brook	66
128	Perdidi Diem	68
130	Sense and Conscience	69
132	‘In deep and solemn dreams’	70
140	Lines on Cambridge of 1830	70
143	A Fragment [Where is the Giant of the Sun]	71
144	‘O wake ere I grow jealous of sweet Sleep’	71
145	‘The constant spirit of the world exults’	71
146	Sonnet [When that rank heat of evil’s tropic day]	72
151	Sonnet [There are three things which fill my heart with sighs]	72
153	The Lover’s Tale	73
155	‘My life is full of weary days’	75
158	‘If I were loved, as I desire to be’	75
159*	The Lady of Shalott	75
160*	Mariana in the South	77
161	Eleänore	78
162	The Miller’s Daughter	81
163*	Fatima	81
164*	Œnone	83
166*	To — . With the Following Poem [The Palace of Art]	85
167*	The Palace of Art	86
169	The Hesperides	88
170*	The Lotos-Eaters	88
171	Rosalind	89
172	‘My Rosalind, my Rosalind’	89
173*	A Dream of Fair Women	90
174	Song [Who can say]	91
175	Margaret	91
176	Kate	91
179	To — [As when with downcast eyes]	93
185	Sonnet [Alas! how weary are my human eyes]	94
190	‘Pierced through with knotted thorns of barren pain’	94
192	The Ruined Kiln	95
193	The Progress of Spring	95
194	‘Hail Briton!’	96
200	Early Spring [1833]	97
207	The Ante-Chamber	98
208	The Gardener’s Daughter; Or, The Pictures	98
209*	The Two Voices	99
210*	St Simeon Stylites	104
212	St Agnes’ Eve	104
214	‘Hark! the dogs howl!’	104
215	Whispers	105
216*	On a Mourner	106
217*	Ulysses	107
218*	Tithon	109
219	Tiresias	110
220	Semele	112
223	Youth	112
225*	The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]	112
227*	‘Oh! that ’twere possible’	113
233	‘Fair is that cottage in its place’	114
238	‘I loving Freedom for herself’	114
240	The Blackbird	114
241*	The Day-Dream	115
246	Lady Clara Vere de Vere	118
250	Sonnet [Ah, fade not yet from out the green arcades]	118
251	To Rosa	119
254	Three Sonnets to a Coquette	119
255	Sonnet [How thought you that this thing could captivate?]	119
257	The Voyage	119
259	The Flight	122
263	‘The tenth of April! is it not?’	123
265*	A Farewell	123
267	Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue	123
270	Amphion	124
271*	Locksley Hall	124
275*	Edwin Morris or, The Lake	126
276*	The Golden Year	127
276A	‘Wherefore, in these dark ages of the Press’	128
277*	The Vision of Sin	129
279	Love and Duty	132
285B	The Wanderer	132
286*	The Princess, A Medley	133
289	To — , After Reading a Life and Letters	145
290	The Losing of the Child	147
291	The Sailor Boy	147
296*	In Memoriam A. H. H.	148
297	To the Vicar of Shiplake	185
299*	To the Queen	185
300	‘Little bosom not yet cold’	186
301*	To E. L., on His Travels in Greece	186
306	The Third of February, 1852	187
307	Hands All Round! [1852]	187
308	Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper	187
310*	Will	188
311*	The Daisy	189
312*	To the Rev. F. D. Maurice	189
313	The Brook	190
316*	Maud, A Monodrama	192
317	The Letters	197
324*	Tithonus	198
329	Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition	198
330*	Enoch Arden	199
337	Aylmer’s Field 1793	202
339	A Dedication	205
353	The Higher Pantheism	205
355	Lucretius	205
363	To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield	206
367	Prefatory Sonnet to the ‘Nineteenth Century’	207
377*	Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets	207
383	De Profundis	208
386	Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham	208
390	Prologue to General Hamley [The Charge of the Heavy Brigade]	209
392	Epilogue [The Charge of the Heavy Brigade]	209
394*	To Virgil	209
395	The Throstle	210
398*	To E. FitzGerald	210
399	Poets and their Bibliographies	210
400*	The Dead Prophet	210
407	Freedom	211
410	The Fleet	211
413	Vastness	211
415	The Ancient Sage	212
417*	Locksley Hall Sixty Years After	212
420	Demeter and Persephone	212
424	Happy, The Leper’s Bride	214
425*	To Mary Boyle	214
426*	Far — Far — Away	215
427*	To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava	215
431	Merlin and the Gleam	216
441	The Death of Œnone	217
443	St Telemachus	217
454	Kapiolani	218
462*	Crossing the Bar	218

Idylls of the King
464*	The Coming of Arthur	218
465*	Gareth and Lynette	219
466*	The Marriage of Geraint	220
467*	Geraint and Enid	221
468*	Balin and Balan	221
469*	Merlin and Vivien	222
470*	Lancelot and Elaine	222
471*	The Holy Grail	223
472*	Pelleas and Ettarre	223
473*	The Last Tournament	224
474*	Guinevere	226
475*	The Passing of Arthur	226

Alphabetical Index of Tennyson Poems Discussed		227
Index of Antecedent Writers and Works Discussed		233