THE THREE ROSES1 WHEN the buds began to burst, (Rose from that same stem) have told Carried home my tenderest lay: From her lap I now have heard Rhyme with nuptial wreath shall twine; Mute the tongue and closed the eye. 1858. LATELY OUR SONGSTERS LOITERED IN GREEN LANES LATELY our songsters loiter'd in green lanes, Content to catch the ballads of the plains; I fancied I had strength enough to climb A loftier station at no distant time, And might securely from intrusion doze Upon the flowers thro' which Ilissus flows. 1 See pages 428 and 441. "Rose the Third" was the daughter of "the Second Rose," and thus the grand-niece of Rose Aylmer. Hippolyta. And for what? To die disgraced. Strong as thou art, yet thou art not so Regal. Hippolyta. Am I a child? Give me my own, And keep for weaker heads thy diadems. Thermodon I shall never see again, Brightest of rivers, into whose clear depth My mother plunged me from her warmer breast, And taught me early to divide the waves With arms each day more strong, and soon to chase And overtake the father swan, nor heed be A fate like mine; which, O ye Gods, forbid! Theseus. I pity thee, and would assuage thy grief. Hippolyta. Pity me not: thy anger I could bear. Theseus. There is no place for anger where thou art. Commiseration even men may feel beasts Lick the sore-wounded of a kindred race, LIST OF REFERENCES EDITIONS COMPLETE WORKS, 6 volumes annotated by Alfred Lord Tennyson, edited by Hal lam Lord Tennyson, The Macmillan Co., 1908 (Eversley Edition). COMPLETE WORKS, with LIFE, 10 volumes, The Macmillan Co., 1899. — Works, 7 volumes, The Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904 (New Riverside Edition). POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS, 3 volumes, The Houghton Mifflin Co., 1906 (New Popular Edition). - WORKS, 10 volumes, edited by Eugene Parsons, T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1907 (Farringford Edition).—COMPLETE WORKS, 1 volume, 1893 (Globe Edition). -* POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS, 1 volume, edited by W. J. Rolfe, 1898 (Cambridge Edition). - WORKS, 1 volume, 1907 (Oxford Edition). - LYRICAL POEMS, selected by F. T. Palgrave (Golden Treasury Series). POEMS, chosen and edited by Henry van Dyke, Ginn & Co., 1903. BIOGRAPHY * TENNYSON (Hallam), Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a Memoir, 2 volumes, 1897; new edition, 1 volume, 1905 (the standard biography). HORTON (R. F.), Life of Tennyson, 1900.- LANG (A.), Alfred Tennyson, 1901 (Modern English writers).—LYALL (A. C.), Tennyson, 1902 (English Men of Letters Series). CHESTERTON (G. K.), Tennyson, 1904 (Bookman Biographies). WAUGH (Arthur), Life of Tennyson, 1893. *BENSON (A. C.). Alfred Tennyson, 1904 (Little Biographies). REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM * HALLAM (A. 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C.), Poems and Essays, Vol. II, 1860. - *TAINE (H.), Histoire de la Littérature anglaise, 1863, translated, 1871.- *BAGEHOT (W.), Literary Studies, Vol. II, 1879; Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning (essay of 1864). — FIELDS (J. T.), Yesterdays with Authors, 1872. FIELDS (Mrs. Annie), Authors and Friends, 1896. *RITCHIE (Anne Thackeray), Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, Browning, 1892. —*NAPIER (G. S.), Homes and Haunts of Tennyson, 1892. - VAN DYKE (Henry), The Voice of Tennyson, in the Century, Jan., 1893. *KNOWLES (J.), Personal Reminiscences of Tennyson; in the Nineteenth Century, Jan., 1893.-SYMONDS (J. A.), Recollections of Tennyson; in the Century, May, 1893. - RAWNSLEY (H. D.), Memories of the Tennysons, 1900. — FRISWELL (Laura H.), In the Sixties and Seventies, 1906. ELLISON (Edith N.), A Child's Recollections of Tennyson, 1906. CONWAY (M. D.), Autobiography, 1907 LATER CRITICISM BROOKE (S. A.), Tennyson, his Art and Relation to Modern Life, 1894. - CHESTERTON (G. K.), Twelve Types, 1902. *DOWDEN (Edward), Studies in Literature: Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning, 1878.- EVERETT (C. C.), Essays: Tennyson and Browning as Spiritual Forces, 1891.- *GATES (L. E.), Studies and Appreciations, 1900.GOSSE (E.), Questions at Issue: Tennyson- and after, 1893.-HARRISON (Frederic), Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and other literary Estimates, 1899. - *HUTTON (R. H.), Literary Essays, 1871, 1888. HENLEY (W. E.), Views and Reviews, 1890.- MACKIE (A.), Nature Knowledge in Modern Poetry, 1906.- MUSTARD (W. P.), Classical Echoes in Tennyson, 1904. MYERS (F. W. H.), Science and a Future Life, 1893 (essay of 1889). PAYNE (W. M.), The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century, 1907. *STEDMAN ROBERTSON (J. M.), Essays towards a Critical Method, 1889. *ROYCE (J.), Studies of Good and Evil: Tennyson and Pessimism, 1898. SAINTSBURY (G.), Corrected Impressions, 1895. - SHAIRP (J. C.), Aspects of Poetry, 1881.(E. 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