TO THE QUEEN This poem was prefixed to the first Laureate Edition (1851), where it included the 'Crystal-Palace' stanza (see Notes) omitted in all subsequent editions. The 4th stanza was inserted in the next edition, and a few slight changes were made elsewhere. And statesmen at her council met 'By shaping some august decree Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea! March, 1851. JUVENILIA Under this head, in the one-volume and seven-volume editions of 1884 and all subsequent editions, Lord Tennyson included certain poems from the volumes of 1830 and 1833 (some of which were suppressed in 1842), with others that had not appeared in any earlier authorized edition of his works. For those not printed in 1830 (or then printed, and afterwards suppressed for a time) see the prefatory notes to the poems. All those without prefatory notes (or reference in other notes) were printed in 1830 and reprinted in 1842. When will the wind be aweary of blowing Over the sky? When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting? Never, O, never, nothing will die; The cloud fleets, Nothing will die; 'Tis the world's winter; Here and there, And the ground Shall be fill'd with life anew. The world was never made; For even and morn Ever will be Yet all things must die. Death waits at the door. In the dark we must lie. LEONINE ELEGIACS LOW-FLOWING breezes are roaming the broad valley dimm'd in the gloam ing; Thoro' the black-stemm'd pines only the far river shines. Creeping thro' blossomy rushes and bowers of rose-blowing bushes, Down by the poplar tall rivulets babble and fall. Barketh the shepherd-dog cheerly; the grasshopper carolleth clearly; Deeply the wood-dove coos; shrilly the owlet halloos; Winds creep; dews fall chilly: in her first sleep earth breathes stilly: Over the pools in the burn water-gnats murmur and mourn. Sadly the far kine loweth; the glimmering water outfloweth; Twin peaks shadow'd with pine slope to the dark hyaline. Low-throned Hesper is stayed between the two peaks; but the Naiad Throbbing in mild unrest holds him beneath in her breast. The ancient poetess singeth that Hesperus all things bringeth, Smoothing the wearied mind: bring me my love, Rosalind. Thou comest morning or even; she cometh not morning or even. False-eyed Hesper, unkind, where is my sweet Rosalind ? SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS OF A SECOND-RATE SENSITIVE MIND This poem, published in 1830, was suppressed for more than fifty years. In 1879 the Christian Signal,' an English journal, announced that its issue for September 6th would contain an early unpublished poem of over two hundred lines by Alfred Tennyson (P. L.), entitled "Confessions of a Sensitive Mind; but the publication was prevented by a legal injunction. In 1884 the poem was included in the complete edition of the Laureate's works. O GOD! my God! have mercy now. I faint, I fall. Men say that Thou Didst die for me, for such as me, |