TENNYSON'S EARLY POEMS.
In the " Unpublished Early Poems " of Alfred Tennyson, edited by the poet's grandfather, Mr. Charles lennyson, are many lines which the author later utilised in poems that w;ere published. This fact is mentioned by the editor, but there are also lines, afterwards repeated, which he seems to have overlooked. In one of the early efforts Tennyson wrote, " Weak wings that every sophister can lime." This in the poem " Love and Duty," found in all collected editions, reads: — . . feeble wings That every sophister can lime. " The Ruined Kiln," an early poem, included the.lines: — A million gossamers in field and fold Were twinkling into green and gold. " In Memoriam " has this: — And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold. There is an- early sonnet describing with eloquent disgust a vacuous beauty with; A speech conventional, so void of weight That after it has buzzed about one's ear, 'Twere rich refreshment for a week to hear The dentist babble or the barber jsrate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)
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166TENNYSON'S EARLY POEMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)
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