POEMS

 

Battle of Brunanburh

The Charge of the Light Brigade

See my Shockwave rendition of The Charge of the Light Brigade

An amazing experience: 22 seconds of an old wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading the opening of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Quicktime format)

Crossing the Bar

Demeter and Persephone

The Eagle

Check out the techno music setting of this poem.

Flower in the Crannied Wall

Hendecasyllabics

Idylls of the King

Dedication

The Coming of Arthur

The Round Table

Gareth and Lynette

The Marriage of Geraint

Geraint and Enid

Balin and Balan

Merlin and Vivien

Lancelot and Elaine

The Holy Grail

Pelleas and Ettarre

The Last Tournament

Guinevere

The Passing of Arthur

To the Queen

In Memoriam

The Lady of Shallot

Loreena McKennitt has a lovely rendering of this poem on her CD The Visit

The Lotos-Eaters

You can find Sir Edward Elgar's beautiful setting for one of the songs from this poem in the CD There Is Sweet Music

Lucretius

La Morte D'Arthur

The Progress of Spring (rtf, 8k)

The Palace of Art

Recollections Of The Arabian Nights

Song: A spirit haunts...

Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere

Tears, Idle Tears

Tiresias

Tithonus

Ulysses

There is an excellent reading of "Ulysses" by Sir Lewis Casson (2.2mb mp4, 24mb aiff)

Dr. J has created a techno setting of Tennyson's "Ulysses"(3mb mp4, 5mb mp3, 15mb mov, )

Crossing the Bar

Tennyson requested that this poem be placed at the conclusion of any collection of his poems.

Using the Shockwave plug-in you can view a rendering of the last stanza of "Crossing the Bar"

 


Marbleized page from an 1892 edition of Tennyson's works