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Song ­ “Every day hath its night...”

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Track 86 on The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson 
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Every day hath its night:
Every night its morn:
Thorough dark and bright
Wingèd hours are borne;
Ah! welaway!

Seasons flower and fade;
Golden calm and storm
Mingle day by day.
There is no bright form
Doth not cast a shade ­
Ah! welaway!

When we laugh, and our mirth
Apes the happy vein,
We're so kin to earth,
Pleasaunce fathers pain ­
Ah! welaway!
Madness laugheth loud:
Laughter bringeth tears:
Eyes are worn away
Till the end of fears
Cometh in the shroud,
Ah! welaway!

All is change, woe or weal;
Joy is Sorrow's brother;
Grief and gladness steal
Symbols of each other;
Ah! welaway!
Larks in heaven's cope
Sing: the culvers mourn
All the livelong day.
Be not all forlorn;
Let us weep, in hope ­
Ah! welaway!

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The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1899)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
  1. 1.
    The Queen
  2. 2.
    Claribel
  3. 3.
    Lilian
  4. 4.
    Isabel
  5. 5.
    Mariana
  6. 6.
    To ­ ­ (”Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”)
  7. 7.
    Madeline
  8. 8.
    Song ­ The Owl
  9. 9.
    Second Song to the Same
  10. 10.
    Recollections of the Arabian Nights
  11. 11.
    Song (”A spirit haunts the year’s last hours”)
  12. 12.
    Adeline
  13. 13.
    A Character
  14. 14.
    The Sea-Fairies
  15. 15.
    The Deserted House
  16. 16.
    The Dying Swan
  17. 17.
    A dirge
  18. 18.
    The Ballad of Oriana
  19. 19.
    Circumstance
  20. 20.
    The Merman
  21. 21.
    The Mermaid
  22. 22.
    Sonnet to J. M. K.
  23. 23.
    Mariana in the South
  24. 24.
    Eleänore
  25. 25.
    The Miller’s Daughter
  26. 26.
    Fatima
  27. 27.
    OEnone
  28. 28.
    The Sisters
  29. 29.
    To ­ ­ -(”I send you here a sort of allegory”)
  30. 30.
    The Palace of Art
  31. 31.
    Lady Clara Vere de Vere
  32. 32.
    The May Queen
  33. 33.
    New Year’s Eve
  34. 34.
    Conclusion
  35. 35.
    The Lotos Eaters
  36. 36.
    Margaret
  37. 37.
    The Blackbird
  38. 38.
    The Death of the Old Year
  39. 39.
    To J. S.
  40. 40.
    “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease”
  41. 41.
    “Of old sat Freedom on the heights”
  42. 42.
    “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought”
  43. 43.
    The Goose
  44. 44.
    The Epic
  45. 45.
    Morte d’Arthur
  46. 46.
    The Gardener’s Daughter
  47. 47.
    Dora
  48. 48.
    Audley Court
  49. 49.
    Walking to the Mail
  50. 50.
    Edwin Morris, or The Lake
  51. 51.
    St Simeon Stylites
  52. 52.
    The Talking Oak
  53. 53.
    Love and Duty
  54. 54.
    The Golden Year
  55. 55.
    Locksley Hall
  56. 56.
    Godiva
  57. 57.
    The Two Voices
  58. 58.
    The Sleeping Palace
  59. 59.
    The Sleeping Beauty
  60. 60.
    The Revival
  61. 61.
    The Departure
  62. 62.
    L’Envoi
  63. 63.
    Amphion
  64. 64.
    St. Agnes
  65. 65.
    Sir Galahad
  66. 66.
    Edward Grey
  67. 67.
    Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue
  68. 68.
    To E. L.
  69. 69.
    Lady Clare
  70. 70.
    The Lord of Burleigh
  71. 71.
    Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
  72. 72.
    A Farewell
  73. 73.
    The Beggar Maid
  74. 74.
    The Vision of Sin
  75. 75.
    Come not, when I am dead...
  76. 76.
    The Eagle
  77. 77.
    Move eastward, happy earth...
  78. 78.
    Break, break, break...
  79. 79.
    The Poet’s Song
  80. 80.
    Elegiacs
  81. 81.
    The “How” and the “Why”
  82. 82.
    Supposed Confessions...
  83. 83.
    The Burial of Love
  84. 84.
    Song ­ “I’the glooming light...”
  85. 85.
    Song ­ “The lintwhite and the throstlecock...”
  86. 86.
    Song ­ “Every day hath its night...”
  87. 87.
    Nothing Will Die
  88. 88.
    All Things Will Die
  89. 89.
    Hero to Leander
  90. 90.
    The Mystic
  91. 91.
    The Grasshopper
  92. 92.
    Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
  93. 93.
    Chorus: “The varied earth...”
  94. 94.
    Lost Hope
  95. 95.
    The Tears of Heaven
  96. 96.
    Love and Sorrow
  97. 97.
    To a Lady Sleeping
  98. 98.
    Sonnet ­ “Could I outwear my present state of woe...”
  99. 99.
    Sonnet ­ “Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon...”
  100. 100.
    Sonnet ­ “Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good...”
  101. 101.
    Sonnet ­ “The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain...”
  102. 102.
    Love
  103. 103.
    The Kraken
  104. 104.
    English War Song
  105. 105.
    National Song
  106. 106.
    Dualisms
  107. 107.
    We are Free
  108. 108.
    “Mine be the strength of spirit...”
  109. 109.
    To ­ ­ (”My life is full...”)alfred
  110. 110.
    Buonoparte
  111. 111.
    Sonnet ­ “Oh, beauty, passing beauty!...”
  112. 112.
    The Hesperides
  113. 113.
    Song ­ “The golden apple...”
  114. 114.
    Rosalind
  115. 115.
    Song ­ “Who can say...?”
  116. 116.
    Kate
  117. 117.
    Sonnet ­ “Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar...”
  118. 118.
    Poland
  119. 119.
    To ­ ­ (”As when, with downcast eyes...”)
  120. 120.
    O Darling Room
  121. 121.
    To Christopher North
  122. 122.
    The Skipping Rope
  123. 123.
    Timbuctoo
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