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TENNYSONIANA.

the suppressed poems, and is notable as having called forth the lines, "To Christopher North," printed a few months afterwards in Alfred Tennyson's second volume.

Here is the proper place for mentioning some half-dozen pieces contributed about this time to various miscellanies by Alfred Tennyson, and for some unaccountable reason not reprinted in his second volume, to which I shall come presently. First, there are three poems printed in an annual entitled "The Gem" for 1831.[1] The first of these is entitled "No More":

"Oh sad No More! oh sweet No More!
Oh strange No More!"

in which may, I think, be traced the germ of Violet's "mournful song" in "The Princess," with the refrain:

"So sad, so strange, the days that are no more."

The second piece is entitled "Anacreontics." It will

    a narcotic dose administered to him by a crazy charlatan in the 'Westminster,' and after that he may sleep in safety with a pan of charcoal."—Blackwood's Magazine (May, 1832).

  1. "The Literary Gazette," which reviewed this little book in November, 1830, could find nothing better to say of Mr. Tennyson's contributions than that they were 'silly sooth.'"