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CHAPTER X.

LATER POEMS.

The volume of "Enoch Arden, and other Poems," first appeared in August, 1864. Several of the minor poems had been published separately at different periods during the previous five years.

"The Grandmother." This poem, under the title of "The Grandmother's Apology," with an illustration by Millais,[1] appeared in July, 1859, in "Once a Week."

"Sea Dreams: an Idyl," appeared in "Macmillan's Magazine" for January, 1860;[2] "Tithonus" in the

  1. Which illustration so beautifully embodies the pathos of the poem, and is so inseparably connected with it in the minds of those who first read it in the magazine, that it seems a pity the two should have ever been dissociated.
  2. There is a very wicked parody of this piece, under the title of "See-Saw: an Idyl," in the "West of Scotland Magazine and Review," for February, 1860.