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 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