Claribel (poem)

"Claribel: A Melody" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830.

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In the 1830 and 1842 editions the poem is in one long stanza, with a full stop in the 1830 edition after line 8; the 1842 edition omits the full stop. The name "Claribel" may have been suggested by Spenser, or Shakespeare. "Where Claribel low-lieth The breezes pause and die,   Letting the rose-leaves fall: But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,    Thick-leaved, ambrosial,  With an ancient melody  Of an inward agony, Where Claribel low-lieth.At eve the beetle boometh  Athwart the thicket lone: At noon the wild bee hummeth  About the moss’d headstone: At midnight the moon cometh,  And looketh down alone. Her song the lintwhite swelleth, The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,  The callow throstle lispeth, The slumbrous wave outwelleth,  The babbling runnel crispeth, The hollow grot replieth Where Claribel low-lieth."