Poems by Alfred Tennyson

I knew an old wife lean and poor,
Her rags scarce held together;
There strode a stranger to t...

I Voice of the summerwind,
Joy of the summerplain,
Life of the summerhours,
Carol clearly...

Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat
There in the holy house at Almesbury
Weeping, non...

Oh go not yet, my love,
The night is dark and vast;
The white moon is hid in her heaven abov...

From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done
In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale,
Whom Arth...

I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think ...

Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart...

Lord Ronald courted Lady Clare,
I trow they did not part in scorn;
Lord Ronald, her cousin, ...

PART I On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold a...

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,
High in her chamber...

Two children in two neighbour villages
Playing mad pranks along the healthy leas;
Two stranger...

A MELODY
1 Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fal...

Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen ...

Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,
Had one fair daughter, and none other child;
And she was ...

Could I outwear my present state of woe
With one brief winter, and indue i' the spring
Hues of...