From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)

• The 'How' and the 'Why'
• The Burial Of Love
• Hero to Leander
• The Mystic (Tennyson)
• The Grasshopper
• Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
• Lost Hope
• The Tears of Heaven
• Love and Sorrow
• To a Lady Sleeping
• English Warsong
• National Song
• Dualisms
• No More
• Anacreontics
• The Sleeping Beauty

Poems (1833)

• The Hesperides
• Note to Rosalind

• The New Timon, and the Poets
• Britons, Guard Your Own
• For the Penny-Wise
• Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper
• Stanzas on the Marriage of the Princess Royal
• Epitaph on the Duchess of Kent
• The Ringlet
• 1865-1866
• And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?
• Kate
• O Darling Room
• To Christopher North

Poems (1843)

The Princess; a Medley (1847)

• The Princess (1847) (transcription project)
  1. As thro' the Land
  2. Sweet and Low
  3. The Splendour Falls
  4. Tears, Idle Tears
  5. O Swallow, Swallow
  6. Thy Voice Is Heard
  7. Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
  8. Our Enemies have Fall'n
  9. Ask Me No More
  10. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  11. Come Down, O Maid

In Memoriam (1850)

• In Memoriam
  • Ring Out, Wild Bells, Canto CIV (based on 1st edition)
    • "Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New", hymn derived from this poem

Maud, and Other Poems (1855)

• Maud
• The Brook; an Idyl
• The Letters
• Ode On the Death of the Duke of Wellington
• The Daisy
• To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
• Will
• The Charge of the Light Brigade

Idylls of the King (1859)

• Idylls of the King (1856-1885)
  1. Dedication
  2. The Coming of Arthur
  3. Gareth and Lynette
  4. The Marriage of Geraint
  5. Geraint and Enid
  6. Balin and Balan
  7. Merlin and Vivien
  8. Lancelot and Elaine
  9. The Holy Grail
  10. Pelleas and Ettarre
  11. The Last Tournament
  12. Guinevere
  13. The Passing of Arthur
  14. To the Queen

Enoch Arden, etc. (1864)

• Enoch Arden
• Aylmer's Field
• Sea Dreams
• The Grandmother
• Northern Farmer
• Tithonus
• The Voyage
• In the Valley of Cauteretz
• The Flower
• Requiescat
• The Sailor Boy
• The Islet
• The Ringlet
• A Welcome to Alexandra
• A Dedication
• Experiments
  • Boädicéa

The Window; or, The Song of the Wrens (1871)

• The Window
  • Spring

The Lover's Tale, and Other Poems (1875)

• To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson
• The First Quarrel
• Rizpah
• The Northern Cobbler
• The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
• The Village Wife
• In the Children's Hospital
• "Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• "The Defence of Lucknow" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham
• Columbus
• The Voyage of Maeldune
• "De Profundis" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1877)
• Prefatory Sonnet to the 'Nineteenth Century'
• To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield
• "Montenegro" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1721)
• "To Victor Hugo" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726)

Tiresias, and Other Poems (1885)

• To E. Fitzgerald
• Tiresias
• The Wreck
• "Despair" in Littell's Living Age, 151 (1953)
• The Ancient Sage
• The Flight
• Tomorrow
• The Spinster's Sweet-Arts
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
• Prologue to General Hamley
• The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava
• Epilogue
• "To Virgil" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1998)
• The Dead Prophet
• Early Spring
• Prefatory poem to my Brother's Sonnets
• Frater Ave atque Vale
• Helen's Tower
• Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
• Epitaph on General Gordon
• Epitaph on Caxton
• To the Duke of Argyll
• Hands all Round
• Freedom
• To H. R. H. Princess Beatrice
• The Fleet
• Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen
• Poets and their Bibliographies
• To W. C. Macready

Demeter, and Other Poems (1889)

• To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
• On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
• To Professor Jebb
• Demeter and Persephone
• Owd Roä
• Vastness
• The Ring
• Forlorn
• Happy
• To Ulysses
• To Mary Boyle
• The Progress of Spring
• Merlin and the Gleam
• Romney's Remorse
• Parnassus
• By an Evolutionist
• Far—far—away
• Politics
• Beautiful City
• The Roses on the Terrace
• The Play
• On One who affected an Effeminate Manner
• To One who ran down the English
• The Snowdrop
• The Throstle
• The Oak
• In Memoriam-William George Ward
• Crossing the Bar

The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems (1892)

• June Bracken and Heather
• To the Master of Balliol
• The Death of Oenone
• St. Telemachus
• Akbar's Dream
• The Bandit's Death
• The Church-warden and the Curate
• Charity
• Kapiolani
• The Dawn
• The Making of Man
• The Dreamer
• Mechanophilus
• Riflemen Form!
• The Tourney
• The Bee and the Flower
• The Wanderer
• Poets and Critics
• A Voice spake out of the Skies
• Doubt and Prayer
• Faith
• The Silent Voices
• God and the Universe
• The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale

Others, to sort

• Song from Maud
• Nothing will Die
• All Things will Die
• Leonine Elegiacs
• Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind
• The Kraken
• Song (The winds as at their hour of birth)
• The Sea-Fairies
• The Deserted House
• Rosalind
• My Life is Full of Weary Days
• On a Mourner
• You ask me why
• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
• Love thou thy land
• England and America in 1782
• "Lucretius" in Littell's Living Age, 97 (1256)
• The Third of February 1852
• Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition
• A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
• Northern Farmer, New Style
• In the Garden at Swainston
• Child-Songs
• The Spiteful Letter
• Literary Squabbles
• The Victim
• Wages
• The Higher Pantheism
• The Voice and the Peak
• Flower in the Crannied Wall
• Edwin Morris; or, the Lake
• "The Golden Year" in Littell's Living Age, 160 (2069)
• The Captain
• The Eagle
• Come not, when I am dead
• To -, after reading a Life and Letters
• To E. L., on his Travels in Greece
• Crossing the Bar
• Timbuctoo
• Sonnet, (Check every outflash, every ruder sally)
• The Bugle Song (excerpt from The Princess)
• The Grandmother's Apology, 1859
• To the Queen

Translations, etc.

• Battle of Brunanburh
• Achilles over the Trench
• To Princess Frederica on her Marriage
• Sir John Franklin
• To Dante

Plays

• Queen Mary: A Drama
• Harold: A Drama
• Becket
• The Cup: A Tragedy
• The Falcon
• The Promise of May
• The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian

On his works

• Tennysoniana (1879, 2nd edition), by Richard Herne Shepherd
• "Princess, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "The Princess," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture (1909) by William Paton Ker

Bibliography

• The bibliography of Tennyson (1896) (transcription project)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 

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