page_title: Locksley Hall
section_title: Poetic form
hierarchical_section_title: Locksley Hall / Poetic form
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: worksalf02tenn (find matches) Title: Works Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 Subjects: Publisher: Boston&#160;: Estes and Lauriat Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: with the glow that slowly crimsond allThy presence and thy portals, while I lay,Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warmWith kisses balmier than half-opening budsOf April, and could hear the lips that kissdWhispering I knew not what of wild and sweet, 192 TITHONUS. Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing,While Ilion like a mist rose into towers. Yet hold me not for ever in thine East:How can my nature longer mix with thine?Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, coldAre all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feetUpon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steamFloats up from those dim fields about the homesOf happy men that have the power to die.And grassy barrows of the happier dead.Release me, and restore me to the ground;Thou seest all things, thou wilt see my grave:Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn;I earth in earth forget these empty courts,And thee returning on thy silver wheels. Tis the place, and all aioitiid it, as of old.The curlews call. LocKSLEY Hall. Etched by G. Mercier. Text Appearing After Image: LOCKS LEY HALL. 193 LOCKSLEY HALL. Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet t is early morn;Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn. T is the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call,Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts,And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. VOL. II. — 13 194 LOCKSLEY HALL. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro the mellow shade,Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wanderd, nourishing a youth sublimeWith the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time; When the centuries behind me Hke a fruitful land reposed;When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed: When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see;Saw the Vision of the world, and Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: "Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits.
  According to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat.
context_section_description: "Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated; moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. Each couplet is separated as its own stanza. The University of Toronto library identifies this form as "the old 'fifteener' line," quoting Tennyson, who claimed it was written in trochaics because the father of his friend Arthur Hallam suggested that the English liked the meter. The meter is reminiscent of that of the Nibelungenlied.
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