In Memoriam
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Prologue
I [“I held it truth, with him who sings”]
II [“ Old Yew, which graspest at the stones”]
III [“O Sorrow, cruel fellowship”]
IV [“To Sleep I give my powers away”]
V [“I sometimes hold it half a sin”]
VI [“One writes, that `Other friends remain,'”]
VII [“Dark house, by which once more I stand”]
VIII [“A happy lover who has come”]
IX [“Fair ship, that from the Italian shore”]
X [“I hear the noise about thy keel”]
XI [“Calm is the morn without a sound”]
XII [“Lo, as a dove when up she springs”]
XIII [“Tears of the widower”]
XIV [“ If one should bring me this report”]
XV [“To-night the winds begin to rise”]
XVI [“What words are these have fall'n from me?”]
XVII [“Thou comest, much wept for”]
XVIII [“'Tis well; 'tis something; we may stand”]
XIX [“The Danube to the Severn gave”]
XX [“The lesser griefs that may be said”]
XXI [“I sing to him that rests below”]
XXII [“The path by which we twain did go”]
XXIII [“Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut”]
XXIV [“And was the day of my delight”]
XXV [“I know that this was Life”]
XXVI [“Still onward winds the dreary way”]
XXVII [“I envy not in any moods”]
XXVIII [“The time draws near the birth of Christ”]
XXIX [“With such compelling cause to grieve”]
XXX [“With trembling fingers did we weave”]
XXXI [“When Lazarus left his charnel-cave”]
XXXII [“Her eyes are homes of silent prayer”]
XXXIII [“O thou that after toil and storm”]
XXXIV [“My own dim life should teach me this”]
XXXV [“Yet if some voice that man could trust”]
XXXVI [“Tho' truths in manhood darkly join”]
XXXVII [“Urania speaks with darken'd brow”]
XXXVIII [“With weary steps I loiter on”]
XXXIX [“Old warder of these buried bones”]
XL [“Could we forget the widow'd hour”]
XLI [“Thy spirit ere our fatal loss”]
XLII [“I vex my heart with fancies dim”]
XLIII [“If Sleep and Death be truly one”]
XLIV [“How fares it with the happy dead?”]
XLV [“The baby new to earth and sky”]
XLVI [“We ranging down this lower track”]
XLVII [“That each, who seems a separate whole”]
XLVIII [“If these brief lays, of Sorrow born”]
XLIX [“From art, from nature, from the schools”]
L [“Be near me when my light is low”]
LI [“Do we indeed desire the dead”]
LII [“I cannot love thee as I ought”]
LIII [“How many a father have I seen”]
LIV [“Oh, yet we trust that somehow good”]
LV [“The wish, that of the living whole”]
LVI [“ÔSo careful of the type?Õ but no”]
LVII [“Peace; come away”]
LVIII [“In those sad words I took farewell”]
LIX [“O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me”]
LX [“He past; a soul of nobler tone”]
LXI [“In those sad words I took farewell”]
LXII [“Tho' if an eye that's downward cast”]
LXIII [“Yet pity for a horse o'er-driven”]
LXV [“Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt”]
LXVI [“You thought my heart too far diseased”]
LXVII [“When on my bed the moonlight falls”]
LXVIII [“When in the down I sink my head”]
LXVIX [“I dream'd there would be Spring no more”]
LXX [“I cannot see the features right”]
LXXI [“Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance”]
L
LXXIII [“So many worlds, so much to do”]
LXXIV [“As sometimes in a dead man's face”]
LXXV [“I leave thy praises unexpress'd”]
LXXVI [“Take wings of fancy, and ascend”]
LXXVII [“What hope is here for modern rhyme”]
LXXVIII [“Again at Christmas did we weave”]
LXXIX [“More than my brothers are to me”]
LXXX [“If any vague desire should rise”]
LXXXI [“Could I have said while he was here”]
LXXXII [“I wage not any feud with Death”]
LXXIII [“Dip down upon the northern shore”]
LXXXIV [“When I contemplate all alone”]
LXXXV [“his truth came borne with bier and pall”]
LXXXVI [“Sweet after showers, ambrosial air”]
LXXXVII [“I past beside the reverend walls”]
LXXXVIII [“He tasted love with half his mind”]
LXXXIX [“Witch-elms that counterchange the floor”]
XC [“He tasted love with half his mind”]
XCI [“When rosy plumelets tuft the larch”]
XCII [“If any vision should reveal”]
XCIII [“I shall not see thee. Dare I say”]
XCIV [“How pure at heart and sound in head”]
XCV [“By night we linger'd on the lawn”]
XCVI [“You say, but with no touch of scorn”]
XCVII [“My love has talk'd with rocks and trees;”]
XCVIII [“You leave us: you will see the Rhine”]
XCIX [“Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again”]
C [“I climb the hill: from end to end”]
CI [“Unwatch'd, the garden bough shall sway”]
CII [“We leave the well-beloved place”]
CIII [“On that last night before we went”]
CIV [“The time draws near the birth of Christ”]
CV [“To-night ungather'd let us leave”]
CVI [“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky”]
CVII [“I will not shut me from my kind”]
CVIII [“I will not shut me from my kind”]
CIX [“Heart-affluence in discursive talk”]
CX [“Thy converse drew us with delight”]
CXI [“The churl in spirit, up or down”]
CXII [“High wisdom holds my wisdom less”]
CXIII [“'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise”]
CXIV [“Who loves not Knowledge?”]
CXV [“Now fades the last long streak of snow”]
CXVI [“Is it, then, regret for buried time”]
CXVII [“O days and hours, your work is this”]
CXVIII [“Contemplate all this work of Time”]
CXIX [“Doors, where my heart was used to beat”]
CXX [“I trust I have not wasted breath”]
CXXI [“Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun”]
CXXII [“Oh, wast thou with me, dearest, then”]
CXXIII [“There rolls the deep where grew the tree”]
CXXIV [“That which we dare invoke to bless”]
CXXV [“Whatever I have said or sung”]
CXXVI [“Love is and was my Lord and King”]
CXXVII [“And all is well, tho' faith and form”]
CXXVIII [“The love that rose on stronger wings”]
CXXIX [“Dear friend, far off, my lost desire”]
Section CXXX [“Thy voice is on the rolling air”]
CXXXI [“Lo, as a dove when up she springs”]
Epilogue
Last modified 14 February 2010