ABSTRACT
Published 1880, with Charles Tennyson Turner’s Collected Sonnets, where the title was simply the subsequent subtitle; then 1885. In 1880 it has the subtitle only, which provides the date of composition; Charles died 25 April 1879. There are drafts in H. Nbk 33 (A below) and Lpr 186 (B). Cp. ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’ (p. 627). R. Evans (TRB iv, 1983, 81–91) relates T.’s poem to his brother’s poems, citing parallels (including in the movement of T.’s poem): ‘poised at that moment when day succeeds day, when June passes into July … for at midnight on 30 June we are exactly at the year’s centre’.
