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Preface Introduction Contents To The Queen Claribel: A Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana TO - - - - Madeline Song. - - The Owl Second Song Recollections Of The Arabian Nights Ode To Memory Song Adeline A Character The Poet The Poet's Mind The Sea - Fairies The Deserted House The Dying Swan A Dirge Love And Death The Ballad Of Oriana Circumstance The Merman The Mermaid Sonnet To J.M.K. The Lady Of Shalott Mariana In The South Eleanore The Miller's Daughter Fatima 'None The Sisters TO - - - - - The Palace Of Art Lady Clara Vere De Vere The May Queen New - Year's Eve Conclusion The Lotos - Eaters Choric Song A Dream Of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death Of The Old Year To J.S. "You Ask Me Why, Tho' Ill At Ease..." "Of Old Sat Freedom On The Heights..." "Love Thou Thy Land, With Love Far-Brought..." The Goose The Epic Morte D'Arthur The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking To The Mail The Early Poems Of Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love And Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure Moral L ' Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue TO - - - - After Reading A Life And Letters To E.L. Lady Clare The Lord Of Burleigh Sir Launcelot And Queen Guinevere A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision Of Sin Cone Not, When I Am Dead... The Eagle Move Eastward, Happy Earth... Break, Break, Break... The Poet's Song Appendix Sources

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First published in 1830.

In 1830 and in 1842 edd. the poem is in one long stanza, with a full stop in 1830 ed. after line 8; 1842 ed. omits the full stop. The name "Claribel" may have been suggested by Spenser ('F. Q.', ii., iv., or Shakespeare, 'Tempest').

1

Where Claribel low-lieth

The breezes pause and die,

Letting the rose-leaves fall:

But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,

Thick-leaved, ambrosial,

With an ancient melody

Of an inward agony,

Where Claribel low-lieth.

2

At eve the beetle boometh

Athwart the thicket lone:

At noon the wild bee [1] hummeth

About the moss'd headstone:

At midnight the moon cometh,

And looketh down alone.

Her song the lintwhite swelleth,

The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,

The callow throstle [2] lispeth,

The slumbrous wave outwelleth,

The babbling runnel crispeth,

The hollow grot replieth

Where Claribel low-lieth.

[Footnote 1: 1830. "Wild" omitted, and "low" inserted with a hyphen] before "hummeth".

[Footnote 2: 1851 and all previous editions, "fledgling" for "callow".]

Preface Introduction Contents To The Queen Claribel: A Melody Lilian Isabel Mariana TO - - - - Madeline Song. - - The Owl Second Song Recollections Of The Arabian Nights Ode To Memory Song Adeline A Character The Poet The Poet's Mind The Sea - Fairies The Deserted House The Dying Swan A Dirge Love And Death The Ballad Of Oriana Circumstance The Merman The Mermaid Sonnet To J.M.K. The Lady Of Shalott Mariana In The South Eleanore The Miller's Daughter Fatima 'None The Sisters TO - - - - - The Palace Of Art Lady Clara Vere De Vere The May Queen New - Year's Eve Conclusion The Lotos - Eaters Choric Song A Dream Of Fair Women Margaret The Blackbird The Death Of The Old Year To J.S. "You Ask Me Why, Tho' Ill At Ease..." "Of Old Sat Freedom On The Heights..." "Love Thou Thy Land, With Love Far-Brought..." The Goose The Epic Morte D'Arthur The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures Dora Audley Court Walking To The Mail The Early Poems Of Edwin Morris; or, The Lake St. Simeon Stylites The Talking Oak Love And Duty The Golden Year Ulysses Locksley Hall Godiva The Two Voices The Day-Dream The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure Moral L ' Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue TO - - - - After Reading A Life And Letters To E.L. Lady Clare The Lord Of Burleigh Sir Launcelot And Queen Guinevere A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision Of Sin Cone Not, When I Am Dead... The Eagle Move Eastward, Happy Earth... Break, Break, Break... The Poet's Song Appendix Sources

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