Tiresias, and other poems / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
1885, 1st edition. London : Macmillan and Co. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #406714
Physical description; viii, 203, [1] pages 18 cm. Contents; To E. Fitzgerald -- Tiresias -- The wreck -- Despair -- The ancient sage -- The flight -- Tomorrow -- The spinster's sweet-arts -- Balin and Balan -- Prologue -- The charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava -- Epilogue -- To Virgil -- The dead prophet -- Early spring -- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets -- Frater ave atque vale -- Helen's tower -- Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe -- Epitaph on General Gordon -- Epitaph on Caxton -- To the Duke of Argyll -- Hands all round -- Freedom -- To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice -- Old poets foster'd under friendlier skies. Subjects; 1885. Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century. Tiresias (Greek mythology). Tobacco pipes. English poetry 19th century.
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