St. Agnes (poem)

St. Agnes' Eve
by Alfred Tennyson
St. Agnes Eve. Wood engraving by Dalziel after a design by J. E. Millais. Published in Moxon's edition of Tennyson (1857)
Genre(s)Romanticism
MeterIambic tetrameter
Iambic trimeter
Rhyme schemeABABCDCDEFEF
Publication date
  • 1837
  • 1842
  • 1857
Lines36
Full text
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Pen and ink drawing by Elizabeth Siddal, inscribed "By Lizzie R / Tennyson's St Agnes Eve" on the reverse of the mount (c. 1855)

"St. Agnes" is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1837, revised in 1842, and retitled "St. Agnes' Eve" in 1857.