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TENNYSONIANA.

knowledged writings which we shall presently adduce, may with tolerable certainty be assigned to the Laureate:

  1. Antony to Cleopatra.
  2. The Old Sword.
  3. The Vale of Bones.
  4. Persia.
  5. Egypt.
  6. Midnight.
  7. Time: an Ode.
  8. On a Dead Enemy.
  9. Lines on hearing a description of the Scenery of Southern America.
  10. On the Moonlight shining upon a Friend's Grave.
  11. Switzerland.
  12. The Oak of the North.

The poem of "Antony to Cleopatra" is so beautiful in itself that we must quote a portion of it. Few students of Alfred Tennyson's poetry, after reading it, could, we think, doubt it to be his work. If further evidence were wanting, further evidence remains; and the stanzas in the "Dream of Fair Women" (a poem