The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Front Cover
Daniel Karlin
Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1997 - 851 pages

Contents

Preface
xxix
i Anonymous
1
vi Mary Montgomerie Lamb 18431905
8
Sonnet To an Octogenarian
14
To a Cyclamen
16
LEIGH HUNT 17841859
22
The Shepherd Boy
28
HENRY FRANCIS LYTE 17931847
30
Forget Me Not
505
Song When I am dead my dearest
506
Song Oh roses for the flush of youth
507
From the Antique
508
A Wish
509
In an Artists Studio
510
Introspective
511
A Birthday
512

HARTLEY COLERIDGE 17961849
32
JAMES HENRY 17981876
34
Mans Universal Hymn
35
The human skull is of deceit
40
WILLIAM THOM ?17981848
41
THOMAS HOOD 17991845
44
MARY HOWITT 17991888
47
SIR HENRY TAYLOR 18001886
49
WILLIAM BARNES 180186
50
RICHARD HILL SANDYS 180192
52
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON 180238 45 Gossipping
53
The Power of Words
54
DreamPedlary
55
A NightScene
56
The PhantomWooer
57
Song on the Water
58
ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER 180375
59
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 180349
60
SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD 180445 55 A Song of Contradictions
62
R E EGERTONWARBURTON 180491
64
CHARLES WHITEHEAD 180462
65
GEORGE OUTRAM 180556
66
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 180661 59 Sonnets from the Portuguese
71
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point
93
Mother and Poet
102
My Heart and I
106
THOMAS MILLER 180774
109
CHARLES TURNER 180879
112
Joy Came from Heaven
113
Welsh Lucy
114
EDWARD FITZGERALD 180983
115
THOMAS GORDON HAKE 180995
131
JOHN HANMER 180981
132
Poetry by the WaySide
133
ALFRED TENNYSON 180992
134
Break break break
139
Ulysses
140
Tithonus
142
Audley Court
144
Morte dArthur
147
The Eagle
155
Now sleeps the crimson petal now the white
156
from In Memoriam
157
The Charge of the Light Brigade
186
from Maud
188
In the Valley of Cauteretz
191
Crossing the Bar
196
ALFRED DOMETT 181187
198
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT 181190
199
Silence
204
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 181163 91 The Three Sailors
205
ROBERT BROWNING 181289
207
Waring
209
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church
216
HomeThoughts from Abroad
220
The Lost Leader
221
Fra Lippo Lippi
222
A Toccata of Galuppis
232
Andrea del Sarto
241
A Grammarians Funeral
248
Two in the Campagna
253
Youth and Art
255
Caliban upon Setebos
258
Never the Time and the Place
266
Pan and Luna
267
Spring Song
270
Prologue to Asolando
271
Dubiety
272
Speculative
273
ELIZA COOK 181289
274
EDWARD LEAR 181288
275
There was an Old Man in a tree
276
There was an Old Man who said Hush
277
There was an Old Person of Cromer
278
There was an Old Person of Tring
279
The Owl and the PussyCat
280
The Courtship of the YonghyBonghyBò
281
W E AYTOUN 181365
285
Diving
286
SHIRLEY BROOKS 181674
288
Remembrance
289
High waving heather neath stormy blasts bending
290
The night is darkening round me
291
Upon her soothing breast
293
Often rebuked yet always back returning
295
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 181961
296
GEORGE ELIOT 181980
338
ERNEST JONES 181968
344
CHARLES KINGSLEY 181975
348
A Lament
349
Song We know where deepest lies the snow
351
ANNE EVANS 182070
352
JEAN INGELOW 182097
353
EBENEZER JONES 182060
355
MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY 182077
358
DORA GREENWELL 182182
360
A Valentine
361
FREDERICK LOCKERLAMPSON 182195 151 Beggars
362
MATTHEW ARNOLD 182288
364
To Marguerite Continued
372
Resignation
373
Dover Beach
380
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
381
Revolutions
383
Philomela
384
Rugby Chapel
385
Growing Old
391
ROBERT LEIGHTON 182269
393
ELIZA OGILVY 18221912
395
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY 182392
396
COVENTRY PATMORE 182396
397
Departure
398
The Toys
399
Magna Est Veritas
400
WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS 182382
402
WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE 182359 170 By the Seashore
407
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM 182489
408
The Fairy King
409
Everything passes and vanishes
410
SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL 182474 176 The Wounded
411
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 182564
422
EMILY PFEIFFER 182790
428
ARTHUR MUNBY 18281910
456
Nuptial Sleep
462
T E BROWN 183097
470
SEBASTIAN EVANS 18301909
472
CHRISTINA G ROSSETTI 183094
473
Monna Innominata
489
An OldWorld Thicket
499
My Secret
513
The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
514
UpHill
516
A Dirge
517
A Christmas Carol
518
My Mouse
520
Pastime
526
Johnny Sands
528
The Way to Live
529
S CALVERLEY 183184
531
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON 183191 227 Seaward
532
LEWIS CARROLL 183298
533
The Walrus and the Carpenter
534
JOSEPH SKIPSEY 18321903
538
Mother Wept
539
RICHARD WATSON DIXON 18331900
540
The Mystery of the Body
542
WILLIAM MORRIS 183496
543
Echoes of Loves House
548
JAMES THOMSON 183482
550
ALFRED AUSTIN 18351913
587
SIR ALFRED COMYNS LYALL 18351911 242 Badminton
588
JOHN LEICESTER WARREN Lord de Tabley 183595
589
The Study of a Spider
591
The Knight in the Wood
592
The Pilgrim Cranes
593
FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL 183679 248 Under the Surface
596
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 18371909 249 A Match
598
A Cameo
599
The Sundew
600
The Garden of Proserpine
601
Love and Sleep
604
Ilicet
605
A Rhyme
609
AUGUSTA WEBSTER 183794
611
DAVID GRAY 183861
625
JOHN TODHUNTER 18391916
626
THOMAS HARDY 18401928
627
Neutral Tones
628
Her Dilemma
629
I look into my glass
630
In the Old Theatre Fiesole
631
At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves
632
De Profundis I In Tenebris I
638
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SIMCOX
644
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 184489
650
Spelt from Sibyls Leaves
652
As kingfishers catch fire dragonflies draw flame
653
No worst there is none
654
Repeat that repeat
655
CAROLINE LADY LINDSAY 18441912
656
ALEXANDER ANDERSON 18451909
657
S BEVINGTON 184595
659
One More Bruised Heart
660
WILLIAM CANTON 18451926
661
The Crow
662
EUGENE LEEHAMILTON 18451907
663
MICHAEL FIELD Katherine Harris Bradley 18461914 and Edith Emma Cooper 18621913
664
A curling thread
665
Irises
666
JAMES LOGIE ROBERTSON 18461922
667
A BackLying Farm
670
A Dead Harvest
672
BackView
678
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 185094
685
CAERLEON fl 1876?
690
F B MONEYCOUTTS 18521923
691
An Infant
692
WILLIAM RENTON 1852? after 1905
693
The Fork of the Road
694
MAY PROBYN fl 1878?
695
OSCAR WILDE 18541900
696
The Harlots House
697
JAMES CHAPMAN WOODS fl 18791931
699
JANE BARLOW 18571917
701
JOHN DAVIDSON 18571909
702
A Labourers Wife
705
New Years Day
706
A MARY F ROBINSON 18571944
713
CONSTANCE NADEN 185889
715
EDITH NESBIT 18581924
716
DOLLIE RADFORD 18581920
717
SIR WILLIAM WATSON 18581935
719
A E HOUSMAN 18591936
720
It nods and curtseys and recovers
721
Into my heart an air that kills
722
I hoed and trenched and weeded
723
J K STEPHEN 185992
724
England and America
725
At Lords
728
Daphne
729
ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON 18601911 366 Aubade
730
MARY E COLERIDGE 18611907
731
Night is fallen within without
732
MAY KENDALL 1861c 1931
734
AMY LEVY 186189
737
BENSON 18621925
738
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 18621938
740
ROBERT FULLER MURRAY 186394
742
Βρεκεκεκεξ κοας Κοαζ
743
VICTOR PLARR 18631929
744
The Imperial Prayers
745
On Change of Opinions
746
Epitaphium Citharistriæ
747
Shadows
748
STEPHEN PHILLIPS 18641915
749
RUDYARD KIPLING 18651936
750
Tommy
751
The Widow at Windsor
752
Mandalay
754
W B YEATS 18651939
756
The Sorrow of Love
757
Aedh Laments the Loss of Love The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
758
The Valley of the Black Pig
759
ARTHUR SYMONS 18651945
761
JOHN GRAY 18661934
762
Spleen
763
ERNEST DOWSON 18671900
765
Spleen
766
To William Theodore Peters on His Renaissance Cloak
767
The Dark Angel
770
The Llama
776
Subject Index
812
Index of Proper Names
821
Index of Poets
827
Index of First Lines
835
Permissions
850
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