The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory

POETRY

Anonymous

• A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales

Ashe, Thomas (1770-1835)

• Corpse-Bearing
  To Two Bereaved

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

• For An Epitaph At Fiesole
  Ianthe Leaves
  Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
  Death’s Language
  Her Name
  A Foreign Ruler

Clare, John (1793-1864)

• “I Am”
  An Invite to Eternity
  The Old Year
  The Yellowhammer
  Sonnet: “I Am”
  Stanzas “The passing of a dream”
  “There is a charm in Solitude that cheers”
  Stanzas “Black absence hides upon the past”
  The Winters Spring
  An Anecdote of Love
  To Miss B.
  “The thunder mutters louder…”

Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)

• The Suloite Mother
  The Lady of The Castle
  To Wordsworth
  Casabianca
  Properzia Rossi
  The Memorial Pillar
  The Grave of a Poetess
  The Image In Lava
  The Indian With His Dead Child
  The Rock of Cader Idris

Henry, James

• “Two hundred men and eighteen killed … ”

Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)

• The Song of the Shirt

Barnes, William (1801-1886)

• Uncle an’ Aunt
  Polly Be-En Upzides Wi’ Tom
  The Vaïces that Be Gone
  Childhood
  The Turnstile
  Jay A-Pass’d

Landon, Letitia .E. (1802-1838)

• from The Improvisatrice
• Advertisement
  Sappho’s Song
• Erinna
  “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems
  The Nameless Grave
  The Factory
  Carthage
  Felicia Hemans
  Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake
  Infanticide in Madagascar

R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891)

• Past and Present

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• The Romaunt of the Page
  Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
  The Dead Pan
  The Cry of the Children
  A Man’s Requirements
  Sonnets From the Portuguese
• III
  XXII
  XXIX
  XLIII
• The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
  Aurora Leigh
• 1st Book
  2nd Book
  5th Book
• A Curse for a Nation (Prologue)
  A Musical Instrument

Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)

• Old Age

Caroline Norton (1808-1877)

• from Voice From the Factories
  The Creole Girl
  The Poet’s Choice
  Sonnet IV
  Sonnet VIII (To My Books)
  Sonnet XI The Weaver
  Edward Fitzgerald
  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

• Mariana
  Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
  The Poet
  The Poet’s Mind
  The Mystic
  The Kraken
  The Lady of Shalott
  To ——. With the following Poem [Palace of Art]
  The Palace of Art
  The Hesperides
  The Lotos-Eaters (107)
  The Two Voices
  St Simeon Stylites
  Ulysses
  Tiresias
  The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
  Morte d’Arthur
  “Break, break, break”
  Locksley Hall
  The Vision of Sin
  In Memoriam A.H.H. (33)
  The Charge of the Light Brigade
  Maud
  Tithonus
  The Higher Pantheism
  “Flower in the crannied wall”
  Crossing the Bar
  Idylls of the King
  The Coming of Arthur
  Lancelot and Elaine

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

• My Last Duchess
  Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  Johannes Agricola in Meditation
  Porphyria’s Lover
  Pictor Ignotus
  the Lost Leader
  The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
  The Laboratory
  Love Among the Ruins
  Fra Lippo Lippi
  A Toccata of Galuppi’s
  By the Fire-Side
  An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
  ”Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
  The Statue and the Bust
  How It Strikes a Contemporary
  The Last Ride Together
  Bishop Blougram’s Apology
  Andrea del Sarto
  Old Pictures in Florence
  In a Balcony
  Saul
  Cleon
  Two in the Campagna
  A Grammarian’s Funeral
  Dîs Aliter Visum or Le Byron de Nos Jours
  Abt Vogler
  Rabbi Ben Ezra
  Caliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
  The Ring and the Book
  The Ring and the Book: Book I
• Count Guido Franceschini: Book V
  Pompilia: Book VI
  Guido: Book XI
• Prologue (to Asolando)
  Development

Lear, Edward (1812-1888)

• The Owl and the Pussycat
  The Dong with a Luminous Nose
  How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

• The Missionary
  Master and Pupil
  On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë
  On the Death of Anne Brontë
  Reason
  “The house was still—the room was still”
  The Lonely Lady
  “Is this my tomb, this humble stone”
  “Obscure and little seem my way”

Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848)

• “Riches I hold in light esteem”
  To Imagination
  Plead For Me
  Remembrance
  The Prisoner
  “No coward soul is mine”
  Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”
  A Farewell to Alexandria
  “Long neglect has worn away”
  “The night is darkening round me”
  “What winter floods, what showers of spring”
  “She dried her tears, and they did smile”

Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)

• Lines
  The Waters
  The Ploughshare of Old England
  The Old Arm-Chair
  Song of the Red Indian
  Song of The Ugly Maiden
  My Old Straw Hat
  Lines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics Exhibition, 1846
  A Song For The Workers
  My Ladye Love

Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

• Duty—that’s to say complying
  Qui Laborat, Orat
  The Latest Decalogue
  “Say not the struggle nought availeth”
  Amours de Voyage

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

• “O, May I Join the Choir Invisible”
  The Spanish Gypsy
• Book I
  Book III
• Armgart
  Brother and Sister Sonnets
• I
  II
  III
  IV
  V
  VI
  VII
  VIII
  IX
  X

Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

• A Fragment—“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”
  Lines Written at Thorp Green
  “My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring”
  A Word to the Calvinists
  The Captive Dove
  Views of Life
  Self-Communion
  The Bluebell
  Dreams
  A Voice from the Dungeon

Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)

• Supper At The Mill
  Remonstrance
  A Lily And A Lute
  Gladys And Her Island
  On The Borders of Cannock Chase

Greenwell, Dora (1821-1882)

• The Singer
  The Railway Station
  The Picture and the Scroll
  The Broken Chain
  Old Letters
  To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
  To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861
  One Flower
  A Scherzo
  A Song to Call to Remembrance

Speranza (Lady Wilde) (1821?-1896)

• The Voice of the Poor
  A Remonstrance
  A Lament For the Potato
  Fatality
  Corinne’s Last Love-Song
  Tristan and Isolde
  The Poet’s Destiny
  An Appeal to Ireland

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

• To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore
  The Strayed Reveller
  Resignation
  The Forsaken Merman
  To Marguerite—Continued
  Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”
  Empedocles on Etna
  Memorial Verses
  Dover Beach
  The Buried Life
  Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
  The Scholar-Gipsy
  Philomela
  Thyrsis

Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)

• The Toys
  Magna est Veritas
  The Angel in the House

Allingham, William (1824-1889)

• The Fairies
  “Four Ducks on a Pond”
  Writing
  Express

Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874)

• The Botanist’s Vision
  To the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh”
  Perhaps
  Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert

MacDonald, George (1824-1905)

• Professor Noctutus
  No End of No-Story

Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864)

• The Cradle Song of the Poor
  Incompleteness
  My Picture Gallery
  An Appeal
  The Jubilee of 1850
  Homeless
  A Woman’s Question
  A Woman’s Answer
  A Woman’s Last Word
  Envy
  A Legend of Provence
  Philip and Mildred

Collins, Mortimer

• Lotos Eating

Bigg, J. Stantyon (1828-1865)

• An Irish Picture

Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

• Hope On, Hope Ever
  The Cry of the Unemployed
  A Song in the City
  “As proper mode of quenching legal lust…”
  Womankind

Meredith, George (1838-1909)

• Modern Love
  Lucifer in Starlight

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

• The Blessed Damozel
  My Sister’s Sleep
  Jenny
  The Portrait
  The Woodspurge
  The Ballad of Dead Ladies
  A Last Confession
  The Sea-Limits
  Found
  At the Sunrise in 1848
  The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence
• “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—”
  Nuptial Sleep
  The Portrait
  Silent Noon
  Willowwood
  The Soul’s Sphere
  The Landmark
  Autumn Idleness
  The Hill Summit
  Old and New Art
  Soul’s Beauty
  Body’s Beauty
  A Superscription
  The One Hope

Munby, Arthur (1828-1910)

• The Serving Maid
  Post Mortem
  A Husband’s Episodes
  T’ Runawaa Lass
  “Followers Not Allowed”
  Woman’s Rights

Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)

• The Lust of the Eyes
  Worn Out
  At Last
  Love and Hate

Brown, T.E. (1830-1870)

• A Sermon at Clevedon

Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

• Goblin Market
  A Birthday
  After Death
  An Apple Gathering
  Echo
  “No, Thank you, John”
  Song
  Uphill
  A Better Resurrection
  “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”
  Monna Innominata 1 – 14
  “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”
  In an Artist’s Studio

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

• Jabberwocky
  The Walrus and the Carpenter
  The Hunting of the Snark

Morris, William (1834-1896)

• The Defence of Guinevere
  The Haystack in the Floods
  Riding Together
  Near Avalon
  An Apology
  A Garden by the Sea
  The End of May

Thomson, James (1834-1882)

• The City of Dreadful Night
  E.B.B. 1861
  A Real Vision of Sin

Warren, John Leicester (Lord de Tabley) (1835-1895)

• The Strange Parable
  A Song of Faith Forsworn
  Echoes of Hellas
  L’Envoi
  Conclusion

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)

• Queen Guinevere
  At Last
  Waiting
  Under Ground
  Waking

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

• Atalanta in Calydon
  Laus Veneris
  The Triumph of Time
  Itylus
  Anactoria
  Hymn to Proserpine
  The Leper
  Dolores
  The Garden of Proserpine
  Hertha
  A Forsaken Garden
  At A Month’s End
  Ave Atque Vale
  A Jacobite’s Farewell
  The Lake of Gaube

Webster, Augusta (1837-1894)

• Circe
  A Castaway
  Mother and Daughter Sonnets
• Sonnet VI – VII
  Sonnet IX
  Sonnet XII
  Sonnet XIII – XVII
• The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870
  To-Day
  Her Memories
  A Coarse Morning
  Not To Be
  Once
  The Old Dream

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

• Hap
  Neutral Tones
  A Broken Appointment
  The Darkling Thrush
  The Self-Unseeing
  In Tenebris
  The Minute Before Meeting
  Night in the Old Home
  The Something that Saved Him
  Afterwards
  A Young Man’s Exhortation
  Snow in the Suburbs
  In a Wood

Dowden, Edward (1843-1913)

• Burdens
  Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa”
  Europa
  Seeking God
  In a June Night

Bridges, Robert (1844-1930)

• London Snow
  On a Dead Child

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1899)

• The Wreck of the Deutschland
  God’s Grandeur
  The Windhover
  Pied Beauty
  Harrahing in Harvest
  The Caged Skylark
  Peace
  Felix Randal
  “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
  The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
  Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
  Carrion Comfort
  “No worst, there is none”
  “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”
  Tom’s Garland
  Harry Ploughman
  It was a hard thing to undo this knot

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845-1907)

• The Keys of the Convent
  Introduction (Picciola)
  The New Medusa
  The Raft
  To the Muse
  River Babble
  Twilight
  What the Sonnet Is
  Sunken Gold
  The Ever Young
• I
  II
  III
• The Mandolin

Field, Michael

• Preface
  Drawing of Roses and Violets
  La Gioconda
  The Birth of Venus
  A Portrait
  A “Sant’ Imagine”
  The Magdalen
  A Pen-Drawing of Leda
  “Death, men say, is like a sea”
  “Ah, Eros doth not always smite”
  “Sometimes I do despatch my heart”
  An Apple-Flower
  “Solitary Death, make me thine own”
  “A curling thread”
  A Spring Morning By the Sea
  Love’rsquo;s Sour Leisure
  “It was deep April, and the morn”
  Noon
  An Aeolian Harp
  Cyclamens

Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)

• A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
  In February
• A Poet’s Fancies
• The Love of Narcissus
  To Any Poet
  Unlikned
• The Shepherdess
  Parentage
  Cradle-Song at Twilight
  In Manchester Square
  Maternity
  A Study
• Before Light
  About Noon
  At Twilight
• A Father of Women
  The Threshing Machine
  Reflections
• (I) In Ireland
  (II) In “Othello”
  (III) In Two Poets

Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)

• A Song
  A Poem Without A Name
  After Reading Aeschylus
  Good Friday
  Sister Death
  Pro Castitate

Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

• Waiting

Mallock, William H. (1849-1923)

• Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

• Bed in Summer
  Travel
  The Land of Counterpane
  The Land of Story-books
  Requiem
  The Celestial Surgeon
  “I have trod the upward and the downward slope”
  “So live, so love, so use that fragile hour”
  “I saw red evening through the rain”

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

• Requiescat
  Hélas!
  Impressions
  • le jardin
    la mer
• Symphony in Yellow

Davidson, John (1857-1909)

• Thirty Bob a Week
  A Ballad of a Nun
  A Ballad in Blank Verse
  A Northern Suburb
  A Woman and Her Son
  Yuletide

Robinson, A. Mary F. (1857-1944)

• The Scape-Goat
  The Idea
  Darwinism
  An Orchard at Avignon
  Love, Death, and Art
  Art and Life
  Song
  Neurasthenia
  To My Muse

Stephen, J.K. (1859-1907)

• In the Backs

Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)

• The Hound of Heaven

Coleridge, Mary (1861-1907)

• IX — The Other Side Of A Mirror
  XIV — Regina
  XXVII — Winged Words
  LX — Marriage
  LXIII — In Dispraise of the Moon
  LXXVI — The White Women
  XCVII — The Fire Lamp
  CXIV — To the writer of a poem on a bridge
  CXCI — Tar Ublia Chi Bien Eima
  CCVI — A Clever Woman

Levy, Amy (1861-1889)

• Xantippe
  Felo De Se
  To a Dead Poet
  A Minor Poet
  Magdalen
  A London Plane-Tree
  London Poets
  On The Threshold
  In The Black Forest
  To Vernon Lee
  To E.

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1889)

• Gentlemen-Rankers
  In the Neolithic Age
  Recessional
  The White Man’s Burden
  If

Gray, John

• The Barber
  Poem

Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900)

• Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
  Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
  Villanelle of Sunset
  To One in Bedlam
  Benedictio Domini
  Ad Manus Puellae
  Terre Promise
  Spleen
  Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam

Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902)

• The Dark Angel
  Summer Storm
  Dead
  The End
  Nihilism
  The Darkness
  In a Workhouse
  Bagley Wood
  The Destroyer of a Soul
  The Precept of Silence
  A Proselyte

Mew, Charlotte (1869-1909)

• The Farmer’s Bride
  The Fête
  In Nunhead Cemetery
  Ken
  Madeleine In Church
  The Road To Kérity
  I Have Been Through The Gates
  The Cenotaph
  V. R. I.
• i. January 22nd, 1901
  ii. January 2nd, 1901

POETIC THEORY

Fox, William Johnson (1786-1864)

• Tennyson — Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — 1830 Pub. 1831

Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833)

• On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson Pub. 1831

Landon, Letitia E. (1802-1838)

• On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry Pub. 1832

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

• “What is poetry?”
  “Two kinds of poetry” Pub. January and October 1833

Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886)

• Preface to Philip Van Artevelde Pub. 1834

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

• Hand and Soul Pub. 1850

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

• An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley Pub. 1851

Clough, Arthur Hugh

• Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Mathew Arnold, and others

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

• Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems Pub. 1853

Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

• Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel Pub. 1854

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

• Of the Pathetic Fallacy Pub. 1856

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Pub. 1864

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

• Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry Pub. 1864

Morley, John

• Mr. Swinburne’s New Poems: Poems and Ballards

Dallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828-1879)

• The Secrecy of Art Pub. 1888

Buchanan, Robert (1841-1901)

• The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti Pub. 1871

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

• The Stealthy School Of Criticism Pub. 1871

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

• Under The Microscope Pub. 1872

Pater, Walter (1839-1890)

• Preface to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Pub. 1873

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)

• Author’s Preface Pub. 1883

Levy, Amy

• James Thompson: A Minor Poet

Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)

• Ten O’Clock Pub. 1890

Morris, William

• Of the Origins of Ornamental Art

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

• The Critic as Artist Pub. 1890

Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)

• The Decadent Movement in Literature Pub. 1893
  The Symbolist Movement In Literature Pub. 1899

Meynell, Alice

• Tennyson
  Robert Browning
  The Rhythm of Life

Robins, Elizabeth

• Woman’s Secret

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

• Apology Pub. 1922

INDEXES

Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles