Autograph manuscript of two poems, 'Come not, when I am dead' and 'The Eagle. Fragment', n.d. [after 1851]

Name: Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Brand: Autograph manuscript of two poems, 'Come not, when I am dead' and 'The Eagle. Fragment', n.d. [after 1851]
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Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)

Autograph manuscript of two poems, 'Come not, when I am dead' and 'The Eagle. Fragment', n.d. [after 1851]

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Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Autograph manuscript of two poems, 'Come not, when I am dead' and 'The Eagle. Fragment', n.d. [after 1851]
20 lines on one page, 187 x 115mm. Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 December 1985, lot 114.

Two of Tennyson's best-known short poems.

Come not, when I am dead,
To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
To trample round my fallen head,
And vex the unhappy dust thou would'st not save.
There let the wind sweep & the plover cry
But Thou, go by.

Child, if it were thine error or Thy crime
I care no longer, being all unblest:
Wed whom Thou wilt, but I am sick of Time,
And I desire to rest.
Pass on, weak heart, & leave me where I lie
Go by, go by.

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The Eagle.
Fragment.

He clasps the crag with hooked hands:
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt, he falls.

Both poems were first published in 1851: 'Come not, when I am dead' in The Keepsake, 'The Eagle (Fragment)' as an addition to the seventh edition of Tennyson's Poems.

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