Claribel
Claribel
Original Text
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poems, chiefly lyrical (London: E. Wilson, 1830). tenn/T366/P645/1830 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto).
1 Where Claribel low-lieth
2 The breezes pause and die,
3 Letting the rose-leaves fall:
4But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
5 Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
6 With an ancient melody
7 Of an inward agony,
8Where Claribel low-lieth.
9At eve the beetle boometh
10 Athwart the thicket lone:
11At noon the wild bee hummeth
12 About the moss'd headstone:
13At midnight the moon cometh,
14 And looketh down alone.
15Her song the lintwhite swelleth,
16The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,
17 The callow throstle lispeth,
18The slumbrous wave outwelleth,
19 The babbling runnel crispeth,
20The hollow grot replieth
21 Where Claribel low-lieth.
Publication Start Year
1830
RPO poem Editors
J. D. Robins
RPO Edition
2RP 2.353.
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