POEMS

BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L.

POET LAUREATE

Anchora Spai

STRAHAN AND CO., PUBLISHERS

56 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON

1872

LONDON:

BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

26 Ag 537 Foundation, Turner

20 May

821

1872

TO THE QUEEN.

REVERED, beloved-O you that hold
A nobler office upon earth

Than arms, or power of brain, or birth
Could give the warrior kings of old,

Victoria,―since your Royal grace
To one of less desert allows

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base ;

And should your greatness, and the care
That yokes with empire, yield you time
To make demand of modern rhyme
If aught of ancient worth be there;