A new selection of the archetypal Victorian poet's verse, edited by Christopher Ricks Contains poems which epitomize the Victorian age. Chronology ix Introduction xv Further Reading xxxv A Note on the Texts xxxviii Mariana 3 Song: 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours' 5 A Character 6 The Kraken 7 The Lady of Shalott 8 Mariana in the South 13 none 16 The Lotos-Eaters 24 The Epic 29 Morte d'Arthur 31 Audley Court 40 St. Simeon Stylites 42 Ulysses 49 Locksley Hall 51 The Two Voices 63 The Vision of Sin 81 'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave' 88 'Break break break' 89 The Golden Year 89 from The Princess: 'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean' 92 'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white' 93 'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height' 93 'The splendour falls on castle walls' 94 'Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea' 95 In Memoriam A.H.H. 96 To the Queen 199 Edwin Morris; or, The Lake 201 The Eagle 205 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 206 To E. L., on His Travels in Greece 214 The Charge of the Light Brigade 215 Maud; A Monodrama 217 The Daisy 266 To the Rev. F.D. Maurice 270 Will 272 from Merlin and Vivien: Idylls of the King 'In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours' 273 from Guinevere: Idylls of the King 'Many a time for hours' 273 Tithonus 274 Hendecasyllabics 276 In the Valley of Cauteretz 277 On a Mourner 277 Northern Farmer, New Style 279 'Flower in the crannied wall' 283 from The Passing of Arthur: Idylls of the King 'Then rose the King and moved his host by night' 283 To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson 284 Battle of Brunanburh 285 To Dante 289 Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets 290 To Virgil 291 'Frater Ave atque Vale' 293 To E. FitzGerald 293 To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava 295 To Ulysses 297 The Roses on the Terrace 299 June Bracken and Heather: To 299 Crossing the Bar 300 Notes 301 Index of Titles 375 Index of First Lines 379