LATER POEMS.
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"Cornhill" of the following month. Both of these poems have been slightly altered.
"The Sailor Boy" appeared in a volume of Miscellanies by various authors, entitled "The Victoria Regia," published by Emily Faithfull, Christmas, 1861.[1]
The "Attempts at Classic Metres in Quantity" appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine" for December, 1863.[2]
"A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson," published early in 1865, contained the following new poems:
- ↑ Even this little piece has been altered.
- ↑ It is noteworthy that some lines of the passage translated (from the end of the 8th "Iliad") are imitated also in an early poem:ὡς δ᾽ ὁτ᾿ ἐν ουρανῷ ἄστρα φαενὴν ἀμφὶ σελήνην
φαίνετ᾿ ἀριπρεπέα ὅτε τ᾿ ἔπλετο νήνεμος αἰθὴρ,
ἔκ τ᾿ ἔφανον τᾶσαι σκοπιαὶ, καὶ πρώονες ἄκροι,
καὶ νάπαι οὐρανόθεν δ᾽ ἄρ ὑπεῤῥάγη ἄσπετος αἰθὴρ,
πάντα δέ τ᾽ εἴδεται ἄστρα.
Iliad, viii. 551-555."The revelling elves, at noon of night,
Shall throng no more beneath thy boughs,
When moonbeams shed a solemn light
And every star intensely glows."
The Oak of the North.
("Poems by Two Brothers," p. 218.)
