One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,

Never doubted clouds would break,

Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.

No, at noonday in the bustle of man's worktime
Greet the unseen with a cheer!

Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,-fight on, fare ever There as here!"

And now? The lambent flame is-where?
Lost from the naked world: earth, sky,
Hill, vale, tree, flower,-Italia's rare
O'er-running beauty crowds the eye—
But flame? The Bush is bare.

Hill, vale, tree, flower-they stand distinct,
Nature to know and name. What then?
A Voice spoke thence which straight unlinked
Fancy from fact: see, all's in ken:
Has once my eyelid winked?

No, for the purged ear apprehends

Earth's import, not the eye late dazed:
The Voice said "Call my works thy friends!
At Nature dost thou shrink amazed?

God is it who transcends.”

ASOLO: Sept. 6, 1889.

EPILOGUE.

[Asolando 1889.]

Ar the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,

Will they pass to where-by death, fools think, imprisoned—

Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, -Pity me?

Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
What had I on earth to do

With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?

Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel

-Being-who?

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,

Never doubted clouds would break,

Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.

No, at noonday in the bustle of man's worktime
Greet the unseen with a cheer!

Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,-fight on, fare ever There as here!"

Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Lebensdaten.

1809, 6. Aug., geb. zu Somersby, Lincolnshire. 1828, Febr. 1831 Febr., Universität Cambridge. 1833, 15. Sept., † Arthur Henry Hallam (geb. 1811), T.'s Busenfreund.

1836. Verlobung mit Emily Sellwood.

1850, 13. Juni, Heirat mit E. S. (geb. 1813, gest. 1896). 19. Nov., Ernennung zum Poet Laureate.

1884. Erhebung in den erblichen Adelsstand. 1892, 6. Okt., † zu Aldworth, Sussex.

Werke in Buchform.

1. Gedichte.

1826 [Titel 1827]. Poems by Two Brothers.

Jugendgedichte der drei Brüder Frederick, Charles, Alfred. 1830. Poems, chiefly Lyrical [I]. 1832 [Tit. 1833]. Poems [II]. 1842. Poems, in two vols.

Umgearbeitete Auswahl aus Poems I und II, und neue
Gedichte.

1847. The Princess.

1850. In Memoriam.

1855. Maud, and other Poems.
1857. Enid and Nimuë [Privatdruck].
1859. Idylls of the King.

[Nr. 3 + 4, 6, 7, 11.] 1864. Enoch Arden, ETC.

1869 [Tit. 1870]. The Holy Grail, and other Poems. [Idylls of the King Nr. 8, 9, 1, 12]

1871.

The Last Tournament [Idyll Nr. 10], in: "Contemporary Review". Im selben Jahre auch separat als Privatdruck. 1872. Gareth and Lynette [Idyll Nr. 2], ETC. 1879. The Lover's Tale.

Umgearbeitete Jugenddichtung [1833 Privatdruck]. 1880. Ballads, and other Poems.

1885. Tiresias, and other Poems.

Darin: Idyll Nr. 5, gedichtet «bald nach Gareth» [1872] (Memoir pg. 685).

1886. Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, ETC. 1889. Demeter, and other Poems.

1892, 28. Okt., The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream,

and other Poems.

1894. The Complete Single-Volume Edition of the Works, with last alterations, etc. (Macmillan and Co.).

2. Dramen.

1875. Queen Mary.

1876 [Tit. 1877]. Harold.

1879 aufgeführt, 1884 gedruckt: The Falcon.

1881 aufgeführt, 1884 (mit dem vorigen) gedruckt: The

Cup.

1882 aufgeführt: The Promise of May.

Keine Separatausgabe.

1884. Becket.

Gedruckt, doch nicht veröffentlicht, bereits 1879.

1892. The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian.

Bibliographien

der Werke und Einzeldrucke etc.

The Bibliography of Tennyson, a Bibliographical List of the published and privately printed Writings of A. Lord T. from 1827 to 1894. By R. H. Shepherd 1896. [5/-].

T.'s Contributions to Periodical Literature, by T. J. Wise, im «Athenæum» 1897, Nr. 3622, -24, -26, -30.

Eine kürzere Liste auch im "Memoir" [s. S. 127].