The New Oxford book of Victorian verse.
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Table of Contents
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) --
A Crocodile --
Death Sweet --
Hymn --
Humble Beginnings --
Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty --
A Lake --
from Death's Jest-Book --
Song ['Squats on a toad-stool under a tree'] --
Song ['We have bathed, where none have seen us'] --
Dirge --
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) --
St Simeon Stylites --
Ulysses --
Morte d'Arthur --
The Eagle --
'Break, break, break' --
Audley Court --
from The Princess --
'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white' --
'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height' --
from In Memoriam A.H.H. --
II 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones' --
VII 'Dark house, by which once more I stand' --
XI 'Calm is the morn without a sound' --
L 'Be near me when my light is low' --
LIV 'Oh yet we trust that somehow good' --
LV 'The wish, that of the living whole' --
LVI '"So careful of the type?" but no' --
LXX 'I cannot see the features right' --
LXXXIII 'Dip down upon the northern shore' --
XCV 'By night we linger'd on the lawn' --
CXV 'Now fades the last long streak of snow' --
CXXIII 'There rolls the deep where grew the tree' --
The Daisy --
To the Rev. F.D. Maurice --
The Charge of the Light Brigade --
from Maud --
I. xi 'O let the solid ground' --
I. xviii 'I have led her home, my love, my only friend' --
I. xxii 'Come into the garden, Maud' --
II. iv 'O that 'twere possible' --
from Idylls of the King: Merlin and Vivien 'In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours' --
Tithonus --
Northern Farmer. New Style --
To E. FitzGerald --
Crossing the Bar.
Emily Jane Bronte (1818-1848) --
'Long neglect has worn away' --
'The night is darkening round me' --
'All hushed and still within the house' --
'It's over now; I've known it all' --
'It will not shine again' --
'O come with me, thus ran the song' --
'O Dream, where art thou now?' --
'How still, how happy! Those are words' --
'What winter floods, what showers of spring' --
'I know not how it falls on me' --
'She dried her tears, and they did smile' --
'Mild the mist upon the hill' --
'It is too late to call thee now' --
'Had there been falsehood in my breast' --
'Come, walk with me' --
Remembrance --
The Prisoner --
Emily Jane Bronte, Charlotte Bronte --
The Visionary --
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) --
Rondeau --
On the Death of His Son Vincent --
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) --
How to Read Me --
'Twenty years hence my eyes may grow' --
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher --
Age --
Pigmies and Cranes --
La Promessa Sposa --
Memory --
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) --
To Helen --
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
from Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg --
Her Christening --
Her Precious Leg --
Her Death --
William Barnes (1801-1886) --
Uncle an' Aunt --
Polly Be-En Upzides Wi' Tom --
The Vaices that Be Gone --
My Orcha'd in Linden Lea --
False Friends-Like --
Childhood --
Light or Sheade --
Slow to Come, Quick A-Gone --
The Turnstile --
The Rwose in the Dark --
The Zilver-Weed --
Lwonesomeness --
Leaves A-Vallen --
Jay A-Pass'd --
The Vierzide Chairs --
All Still --
The Vield Path --
Seasons and Times.
When We that Now Ha' children Wer children --
Walken Hwome at Night --
Which Road? --
Shop O' Meat-Weare --
The Stwonen Steps --
James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) --
Twenty Golden Years Ago --
Siberia --
A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales --
William Miller (1810-1872) --
'Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town' --
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) --
The Fine Old English Gentleman --
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
'The most alluring clouds that mount the sky' --
'The unremitting voice of nightly streams' --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) --
Grief --
from Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV 'Let the world's sharpness, like a closing knife' --
from Aurora Leigh from First Book --
The Best Thing in the World --
'Died ... ' --
Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
My Last Duchess --
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister --
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church --
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad --
Meeting at Night --
Memorabilia --
Andrea del Sarto --
Two in the Campagna --
Love in a Life --
A Toccata of Galuppi's --
'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' --
A Grammarian's Funeral --
Confessions --
Youth and Art --
Caliban upon Setebos --
Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus --
Never the Time and the Place --
Development --
Inapprehensiveness --
Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860) --
High Summer --
Whimper of Awakening Passion --
Eyeing the Eyes of One's Mistress --
John Clare (1793-1864) --
Love's Pains --
I've Had Many an Aching Pain --
Stanzas ['Black absence hides upon the past'] --
A Vision.
'The thunder mutters louder and more loud' --
The Old Year --
'I Am' --
The Winters Spring --
Hesperus --
An Invite to Eternity --
The Shepherd Boy --
Evening --
Sonnet: 'I Am' --
Stanzas ['The passing of a dream'] --
Song ['Soft falls the sweet evening'] --
To Miss B --
Hymn to the Creator --
'There is a charm in Solitude that cheers' --
Song ['I went my Sunday mornings rounds'] --
First Love --
Song ['I hid my love when young while I'] --
Song ['I wish I was where I would be'] --
Fragment ['Love's memories haunt my footsteps still'] --
The Yellowhammer --
Song ['The mist rauk is hanging'] --
An Anecdote of Love --
John Ruskin (1819-1900) --
La Madonna dell'Acqua --
The Zodiac Song --
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) --
Epitaph on a Jacobite --
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) --
Rules and Regulations --
'They told me you had been to her' --
'How doth the little crocodile' --
'"You are old, Father William," the young man said' --
Jabberwocky --
'The sun was shining on the sea' --
'In winter, when the fields are white' --
The Hunting of the Snark --
'He thought he saw ... ' (i-viii) --
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) --
'The Autumn day its course has run -- the Autumn evening falls' --
'The house was still -- the room was still' --
'I now had only to retrace' --
'The Nurse believed the sick man slept' --
Charlotte Bronte (perhaps Emily Jane Bronte) --
Stanzas ['Often rebuked, yet always back returning'] --
Edward Lear (1812-1888) --
'There was an Old Man who supposed' --
'There was a Young Lady whose eyes'.
'There was an Old Man on some rocks' --
'There was an old man who screamed out' --
The Dong with a Luminous Nose --
The New Vestments --
'"How pleasant to know Mr Lear!"' --
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) --
'When I was a greenhorn and young' --
The Invitation --
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) --
Natura Naturans --
'Say not the struggle nought availeth' --
'To spend uncounted years of pain' --
Amours de Voyage --
The Latest Decalogue --
from Dipsychus --
'As I sat at the cafe, I said to myself' --
'"There is no God," the wicked saith' --
'I dreamed a dream: I dreamt that I espied' --
'That there are powers above us I admit' --
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) --
The Blessed Damozel --
A Half-Way Pause --
Autumn Idleness --
Sudden Light --
A Match with the Moon --
The Woodspurge --
Even So --
Nuptial Sleep --
Smithereens --
Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894) --
Song ['When I am dead, my dearest'] --
Song ['Oh roses for the flush of youth'] --
Remember --
One Sea-Side Grave --
Echo --
The Bourne --
from the Antique ['It's a weary life, it is, she said'] --
May --
A Birthday --
Winter: My Secret --
A Better Resurrection --
By the Sea --
'They lie at rest, our blessed dead' --
Goblin Market --
Promises like Pie-Crust --
Somewhere or Other --
The Lowest Place --
Grown and Flown --
A Dirge --
A Christmas Carol --
'Summer is Ended' --
'Endure hardness' --
'Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine?' --
A Frog's Fate --
Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849) --
Epigram ['"Prepare to meet the King of Terrors," cried'].
Song ['Donought would have everything'] --
Epigram ['What is a communist? One who hath yearnings'] --
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) --
To Marguerite -- Continued --
Destiny --
Dover Beach --
The Scholar-Gipsy --
Growing Old --
The Progress of Poesy --
'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light' --
Geist's Grave --
William Allingham (1824-1889) --
A Dream --
The Fairies --
The Witch-Bride --
'The Boy from his bedroom-window' --
'Four ducks on a pond' --
'Everything passes and vanishes' --
Writing --
An Evening --
Express --
'No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone' --
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) --
from The Angel in the House --
Love at Large --
The Kiss --
Constancy rewarded --
The Rosy Bosom'd Hours --
The Toys --
Magna est Veritas --
Arbor vitce --
Ernest Jones (1819-1869) --
The Song of the Low --
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) --
Sorrows of Werther --
James Henry (1798-1876) --
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire --
Pain --
Old Man --
Very Old Man --
'Another and another and another' --
My Stearine Candles --
'Once on a time a thousand different men' --
'Two hundred men and eighteen killed' --
William Bell Scott (1811-1890) --
A Rhyme of the Sun-Dial --
Death --
The Witch's Ballad --
Music --
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) --
Lotos Eating --
To F.C. --
Shirley Brooks (1816-1874) --
Poem by a Perfectly Furious Academician --
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) --
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Elizabeth Siddal (later Rossetti) (1829-1862) --
A Silent Wood --
Dead Love --
William Morris (1834-1896).
Summer Dawn --
For the Briar Rose --
Another for the Briar Rose --
Pomona --
The End of May --
Thomas Ashe (1836-1889) --
Corpse-Bearing --
To Two Bereaved --
T.L. Peacock (1785-1866) --
Love and Age --
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) --
Envy --
Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900) --
Dream --
The Wizard's Funeral --
Dawning --
George Meredith (1828-1909) --
from Modern Love --
I 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes' --
V 'A message from her set his brain aflame' --
VI 'It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool' --
VII 'She issues radiant from her dressing-room' --
IX 'He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles' --
XVI 'In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour' --
XVII 'At dinner, she is hostess, I am host' --
XXI 'We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn' --
XXIII ''Tis Christmas weather, and a country house' --
XXV 'You like not that French novel? Tell me why' --
XXXI 'This golden head has wit in it. I live' --
XXXIV 'Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes' --
XXXVI 'My Lady unto Madam makes her bow' --
XXXVII 'Along the garden terrace, under which' --
XLII 'I am to follow her. There is much grace' --
XLVII 'We saw the swallows gathering in the sky' --
L 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat' --
When I would Image --
Lucifer in Starlight --
J. Stanyan Bigg (1828-1865) --
An Irish Picture --
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) --
Before Parting --
After Death --
A Leave-Taking --
Ilicet --
A Match --
The Leper --
The Garden of Proserpine --
'Why grudge them lotus-leaf and laurel'.
A Forsaken Garden --
John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley (1835-1895) --
Philoctetes --
The Power of Interval --
The Knight in the Wood --
Nuptial Song --
The Churchyard on the Sands --
Circe --
The Study of a Spider --
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875) --
A Croon on Hennacliff --
Charles Turner (formerly Tennyson) (1808-1879) --
The Lion's Skeleton --
A Brilliant Day --
On a Vase of Gold-Fish --
from Harvest to January --
Gout and Wings --
On Seeing a Little Child Spin a Coin of Alexander the Great --
Letty's Globe --
On Shooting a Swallow in Early Youth --
Calvus to a Fly --
A Country Dance --
Gerard M. Hopkins (1844-1889) --
'It was a hard thing to undo this knot' --
The Habit of Perfection --
The Wreck of the Deutschland --
Moonrise --
God's Grandeur --
Spring --
In the Valley of the Elwy --
The Windhover --
Pied Beauty --
'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' --
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo --
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe --
'The Child is Father to the Man' --
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves --
'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief' --
'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life' --
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' --
'Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray' --
'My own heart let me more have pity on; let' --
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend' --
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) --
from The Dream of Gerontius Fifth Choir of Angelicals --
Arthur Munby (1828-1910) --
The Serving Maid --
One Way of Looking at It --
Post Mortem.
Sebastian Evans (1830-1909) --
The Fifteen Days of Judgment --
James Thomson ('B.V.') (1834-1882) --
from Art III 'Singing is sweet; but be sure of this' --
'Once in a saintly passion' --
Mr MacCall at Cleveland Hall --
In the Room --
In a Christian Churchyard --
from The City of Dreadful Night --
IV 'He stood alone within the spacious square' --
XVIII 'I wandered in a suburb of the north' --
C.S. Calverley (1831-1884) --
Peace: A Study --
Changed --
Contentment --
'Forever' --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
Her Dilemma --
Neutral Tones --
Thoughts of Phena --
Friends Beyond --
At an Inn --
'I Look into My Glass' --
Drummer Hodge --
A Wife in London --
An August Midnight --
The Darkling Thrush --
Wives in the Sere --
The Subalterns --
Long Plighted --
A Commonplace Day --
To Lizbie Browne --
A Broken Appointment --
The Self-Unseeing --
Dora Greenwell (1821-1882) --
A Scherzo --
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848-1867) --
A Song --
W.H. Mallock (1849-1923) --
A Marriage Prospect --
Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker --
George Eliot (Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans) (1819-1880) --
from Brother and Sister --
VI 'Our brown canal was endless to my thought' --
VII 'Those long days measured by my little feet' --
VIII 'But sudden came the barge's pitch-black prow' --
George Augustus Simcox (1841-1905) --
Love's Votary --
T.E. Brown (1830-1897) --
The Well --
'High overhead' --
The Bristol Channel --
I Bended unto Me --
from Roman Women XIII 'O Englishwoman on the Pincian' --
A Sermon at Clevedon --
Dartmoor: Sunset at Chagford.
George MacDonald (1824-1905) --
Winter Song --
Professor Noctutus --
The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs --
No End of No-Story --
Frederick Locker-Lampson (formerly Locker) (1821-1895) --
A Terrible Infant --
Edward Dowden (1843-1913) --
Burdens --
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) --
'In Autumn when the woods are red' --
'I saw red evening through the rain' --
Browning --
'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style' --
Requiem --
Pirate Ditty --
A Mile an' a Bittock --
Fragment ['Thou strainest through the mountain fern'] --
'So live, so love, so use that fragile hour' --
To Mrs Will H. Low --
'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves' --
'It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth' --
'Fair Isle at Sea -- thy lovely name' --
'As with heaped bees at hiving time' --
'The morning drum-call on my eager ear' --
'I have trod the upward and the downward slope' --
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) --
Waiting --
To W.R. ['Madam Life's a piece in bloom'] --
Sydney Dobell (1824-1874) --
Perhaps --
E. Keary (fl. 1857-1882) --
Old Age --
Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887) --
After --
Louisa S. Guggenberger (formerly Bevington) (1845-1895) --
Afternoon --
Twilight --
'Egoisme a Deux' --
Love and Language --
Am I to Lose You? --
William Renton (fl. 1875-1905) --
The Foal --
The Shadow of Himself --
Crescent Moon --
After Nightfall --
Moon and Candle-light --
The Fork of the Road --
R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891) --
Past and Present --
Alice Meynell (1847-1922) --
After a Parting --
Cradle-Song at Twilight --
The Shepherdess.
'I Am the Way' --
The Lady Poverty --
Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849-1907) --
A Moth --
George R. Sims (1847-1922) --
A Garden Song --
Undertones --
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) --
The Long White Seam --
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) --
The Camera Obscura --
Robert Bridges (1844-1930) --
London Snow --
On a Dead Child --
'The evening darkens over' --
Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) --
'Get Up!' --
Not as Wont --
William Watson (1858-1935) --
An Epitaph --
William Frederick Stevenson (fl. 1883) --
Life and Impellance --
A Planet of Descendance --
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907) --
Sunken Gold --
Idle Charon --
Noon's Dream-Song --
Among the Firs --
Amy Levy (1861-1889) --
Epitaph --
On the Threshold --
A. Mary F. Robinson (MME Darmesteter, MME Duclaux) (1857-1944) --
Aubade Triste --
Pallor --
Neurasthenia --
An Orchard at Avignon --
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) --
Song ['Oh, baby, baby, baby dear'] --
Among His Books --
The Gray Folk --
Love's Guerdons --
The Claim --
Villeggiature --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
The Story of Uriah --
Danny Deever --
Gentlemen-Rankers --
In the Neolithic Age --
The Vampire --
Recessional --
William Canton (1845-1926) --
Day-Dreams --
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) --
Les Ballons --
Symphony in Yellow --
from The Ballad of Reading Gaol --
I 'He did not wear his scarlet coat' --
III 'In Debtors' Yard the stones are hard' --
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) --
The Last Chance --
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) --
Victory --
Lambeth Lyric --
A Stranger --
The Roman Stage --
The Dark Angel.
Gerald Massey (1828-1907) --
'As proper mode of quenching legal lust' --
The Diakka --
Womankind --
Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901) --
Any Soul to Any Body --
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
Pastel: Masks and Faces --
The Absinthe-Drinker --
Rain on the Down --
During Music --
At the Cavour --
At Dieppe --
Paris --
The Barrel-Organ --
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) --
A Cradle Song --
The Pity of Love --
The Sorrow of Love --
When You Are Old --
Who Goes with Fergus? --
He Thinks of Those who have Spoken Evil of His Beloved --
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven --
William Cory (formerly Johnson) (1823-1892) --
Hersilia --
James Logie Robertson (1846-1922) --
The Discovery of America --
A Schule Laddie's Lament on the Lateness o' the Season --
Dollie Radford (1858-?) --
Soliloquy of a Maiden Aunt --
J.K. Stephen (1859-1892) --
England and America --
On a Rhine Steamer --
On a Parisian Boulevard --
In the Backs --
A Remonstrance --
After the Golden Wedding --
Katharine Tynan (1861-1931) --
The Witch --
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) --
'You would have understood me, had you waited' --
Terre Promise --
Spleen --
'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' --
John Gray (1866-1934) --
Les Demoiselles de Sauve --
Wings in the Dark --
The Barber --
Mishka --
The Vines --
Poem --
Spleen --
Battledore --
'They say, in other days' --
Tobias and the Angel --
The Flying Fish --
On the South Coast of Cornwall --
Michael Field, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914), Edith Cooper (1862-1913) --
Cyclamens --
Noon --
John Davidson (1857-1909).
Thirty Bob a Week --
A Northern Suburb --
Mary E. Coleridge (1861-1907) --
An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar --
The Nurse's Lament --
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) --
The Three Musicians --
The Ballad of a Barber --
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) --
from A Shropshire Lad --
I 1887 --
XII 'When I watch the living meet' --
XVI 'It nods and curtseys and recovers' --
XXX 'Others, I am not the first' --
XL 'Into my heart an air that kills' --
XLVIII 'Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle' --
LX 'Now hollow fires burn out to black' --
'Because I liked you better' --
'Her strong enchantments failing' --
'Yonder see the morning blink' --
'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?' --
'Here dead lie we because we did not choose' --
'When the bells justle in the tower' --
'The laws of God, the laws of man' --
'When the eye of day is shut' --
'Some can gaze and not be sick' --
'The sigh that heaves the grasses' --
Victor Plarr (1863-1929) --
Shadows --
Of Change of Opinions --
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) --
The Justice of the Peace --
Francis Thompson (1859-1907) --
The End of It --
Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898) --
Old Age --
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918) --
The Wind on the Hills.
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xxxiv, 654 pages ; 22 cm
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Includes indexes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-627).
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An anthology of 560 poems from the Victorian era.
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Also issued online.
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Ricks, C. (1987). The New Oxford book of Victorian verse . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ricks, Christopher, 1933-. 1987. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ricks, Christopher, 1933-. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse Oxford University Press, 1987.
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