ABSTRACT
Published 1889. It is not in the Virginia trial edition of 1889. As a late addition to a Lincoln trial edition, it had the title The Rose. Written into an earlier Lincoln trial edition, it consisted only of four lines which told how the memory ‘warms my heart today’. It is to Rosa Baring (see Thy rosy lips, II 59). Rader (p. 33) remarks that it may have been written in the spring — or summer — of 1889 after Tennyson heard the news of Rosa’s husband’s death in March, or perhaps at some time during the previous few years. T. combines the terrace at Aldworth with the terraced garden of Rosa’s Harrington Hall. Cp. the blush in Locksley Hall 25–6.
