Centenary of American independence ...
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Isle of Jersey?
Language: eng
Notes: A 200-line poem beginning: Think you because I stand in sunny hours/ Upon the solitary shore ...

This piece was included in material purchased from Sir Charles Tennyson. The author says of himself "You deem me dreamer, misanthrope, and drowned/ In self ...", a description applicable to Frederick Tennyson who was living in seclusion on the Isle of Jersey at this time. The frequent use of the dash in punctuation, noticeable in this poem, is characteristic of Frederick Tennyson's verse.