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The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
West wind awake! and comb / Our garden blade from blade— / We, in our little home, / Sit unafraid.
Upon New Year’s Eve, ll. 37–40.
Sir Arthur Thomas
Quiller-Couch

The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Chosen by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

These 779 selections from 273 English, American and others poets span the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bibliographic Record Preface

Contents

 OXFORD, NEW YORK: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1922
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2013

Walter Savage Landor.
(1775–1864).
Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra
The Yacht
Ianthe
Her Name
The Gifts Return’d
The Maid’s Lament
The Dragon-fly
To Miss Arundell
Rose Aylmer
On a Child
To His Verse
The Kiss
The Wall-flower
On the Death of Southey
On His Own Death
His Epitaph
Finis
Samuel Rogers.
(1763–1855).
A Wish
Ebenezer Elliott.
(1781–1849).
Plaint
William Stanley Roscoe.
(1782–1843).
To Spring: On the Banks of the Cam
Leigh Hunt.
(1784–1859).
The Nun
Jenny Kiss’d Me
Abou Ben Adhem
John Kenyon.
(1784–1856).
Champagne Rosée
Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall).
(1787–1874).
Hermione
For a Fountain
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby).
(1788–1845).
Last Lines
Sir Aubrey de Vere.
(1788–1846).
The Right Use of Prayer
Fitz-Greene Halleck.
(1790–1867).
On His Friend, Joseph Rodman Drake
John Keble.
(1792–1866).
Balaam
November
John Clare.
(1793–1864).
Graves of Infants
Song: ‘Love lives beyond the tomb
Written in Northampton County Asylum
John Gibson Lockhart.
(1794–1854).
Lines: ‘When youthful faith hath fled
William Cullen Bryant.
(1794–1878).
The Forest Maid
Thanatopsis
George Darley.
(1795–1846).
Song: ‘It is not Beauty I demand
The Phoenix
Love’s Likeness
The Lyre, I
The Lyre, II
On the Death of a Recluse
Song: ‘Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers
Thomas Carlyle.
(1795–1881).
The Sower’s Song
Hartley Coleridge.
(1796–1849).
Song: ‘She is not fair to outward view
To a Lofty Beauty, from her Poor Kinsman
May, 1840
Thomas Hood.
(1799–1845).
Ode to the Moon
Fair Ines
Time of Roses
The Death-bed
Ruth
The Bridge of Sighs
The Song of the Shirt
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.
(1800–1859).
A Jacobite’s Epitaph
Sir Henry Taylor.
(1800–1886).
Elena’s Song
Song: ‘The bee to the heather
Women Singing
Caroline Clive.
(1801–1873).
Conflict
William Barnes.
(1801–1886).
Woodlands
The Oak-tree
The Old House
The Turnstile
The Wife A-lost
Evening, and Maidens
The Head-stone
John Henry Newman.
(1801–1890).
Rest
Chorus of the Elements
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
(1802–1839).
The Vicar
Mater Desiderata
Sara Coleridge.
(1802–1852).
The Mother
Song: ‘He came unlook’d for, undesir’d
Gerald Griffin.
(1803–1840).
Eileen Aroon
James Clarence Mangan.
(1803–1849).
Dark Rosaleen
The Fair Hills of Eiré, O
The Karamanian Exile
The Three Khalandeers
Gone in the Wind
To Amine
Advice against Travel
The World: A Ghazel
The Nameless One
Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
(1803–1849).
Mariners’ Song
Dirge
Dream-Pedlary
Bridal Song to Amala
Wolfram’s Song
Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
(1803–1873).
Absent Yet Present
Nydia’s Song
Charles Swain.
(1801–1874).
The Field-path
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(1803–1882).
Wood-notes
Fore-runners
Days
Give All to Love
Brahma
Richard Henry Hengist Horne.
(1802–1884).
The Plough
Solitude and the Lily
Charles Whitehead.
(1804–1862).
The Lamp
Robert Stephen Hawker.
(1803–1875).
The First Fathers
The Song of the Western Men
Death Song
King Arthur’s Waes-hael
Lord Beaconsfield.
(1804–1881).
Wellington
Edward Walsh.
(1805–1850).
Lament
Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout).
(1804–1866).
The Bells of Shandon
Thomas Wade.
(1805–1875).
The True Martyr
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(1806–1861).
Farewells from Paradise
Cowper’s Grave
Praise of Earth
Confessions
The Mask
Grief
Mystery
A Musical Instrument
Sonnets from the Portuguese
  I. ‘Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!’
  II. ‘What can I give thee back, O liberal
  III. ‘Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
  IV. ‘If thou must love me, let it be for naught
  V. ‘When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Inclusions
My Kate
The Best
The North and the South
Nathaniel Parker Willis.
(1806–1867).
Two Women
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(1807–1882).
The Slave’s Dream
To an Old Danish Song-book
The Galley of Count Arnaldos
Simon Danz
The Flight into Egypt
Autumn
Chaucer
Richard Chenevix Trench.
(1807–1886).
I. Retirement
II. Gibraltar
John Greenleaf Whittier.
(1807–1892).
Memories
My Playmate
The Henchman
Song of Slaves in the Desert
The Barefoot Boy
The Friend’s Burial
All’s Well
In Memory of James T. Fields
Frederick Tennyson.
(1807–1898).
Harvest Home
The Holy Tide
Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan.
(1807–1867).
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton.
(1808–1877).
Love Not
Charles Tennyson Turner.
(1808–1879).
The Lattice at Sunrise
Letty’s Globe
Edgar Allan Poe.
(1809–1849).
To Helen
Annabel Lee
For Annie
The Sleeper
To One in Paradise
The Haunted Palace
Edward Fitzgerald.
(1809–1883).
Old Song: ‘’Tis a dull sight
The Three Arrows
From Omar Khayyám
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton.
(1809–1885).
The Men of Old
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(1809–1892).
The Lady of Shalott
Mariana
Sir Galahad
The Miller’s Daughter
Edward Gray
St. Agnes’ Eve
Songs from ‘The Princess’, I
Songs from ‘The Princess’, II
Songs from ‘The Princess’, III
Songs from ‘The Princess’, IV
Songs from ‘The Princess’, V
Come down, O Maid
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
Three Songs from ‘Maud’, I
Three Songs from ‘Maud’, II
Three Songs from ‘Maud’, III
The Daisy
In the Valley of Cauteretz
In the Garden at Swainston
Crossing the Bar
Frances Anne Kemble.
(1809–1893).
Dream Land
Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(1809–1894).
The Last Leaf
The Chambered Nautilus
John Stuart Blackie.
(1809–1895).
My Loves
Sir Samuel Ferguson.
(1810–1886).
Cean Dubh Deelish
The Fair Hills of Ireland
Cashel of Munster
The Welshmen of Tirawley
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle.
(1810–1888).
The Private of the Buffs
The Epicurean
William Makepeace Thackeray.
(1811–1863).
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
The King on the Tower
Henry Ellison.
(1811–1880).
Fall of the Year
Alfred Domett.
(1811–1887).
A Maori Girl’s Song
A Christmas Hymn, 1837
Robert Browning.
(1812–1889).
The Wanderers
Pippa’s Song
Misconceptions
The Laboratory
Love among the Ruins
Love in a Life
Life in a Love
In a Gondola
Parting at Morning
The Lost Mistress
The Last Ride together
Lyric Love
Home-thoughts, from Abroad
Home-thoughts, from the Sea
Johannes Agricola in Meditation
The Ancient Doctrine
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Prospice
Epilogue
William Bell Scott.
(1811–1890).
The Witch’s Ballad
William James Linton.
(1812–1897).
Faint Heart
William Edmondstoune Aytoun.
(1813–1865).
Hermotimus
Thomas Osborne Davis.
(1814–1845).
O, the Marriage!
Aubrey Thomas de Vere.
(1814–1902).
Song: ‘Seek not the tree of silkiest bark
The Sun-God
Epitaph
Frederick William Faber.
(1814–1863).
The World Morose
Thomas Westwood.
(1814–1888).
Night of Spring
Charles Mackay.
(1814–1889).
The Holly Bough
John Campbell Shairp.
(1819–1885).
The Bush aboon Traquair
Philip James Bailey.
(1816–1902).
My Lady
Henry David Thoreau.
(1817–1862).
The Great Adventure
Love
Denis Florence Mac Carthy.
(1817–1882).
Lament
Wathen Marks Wilks Call.
(1817–1890).
Hymn: ‘When by the marbled lake I lie and listen
The People’s Petition
Renunciation
John Mason Neale.
(1818–1866).
Jerusalem
Thomas Toke Lynch.
(1818–1871).
Reinforcements
Emily Brontë.
(1818–1848).
Stanzas: ‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning
The Old Stoic
The Prisoner
My Lady’s Grave
Warning and Reply
Last Lines
Ernest Charles Jones.
(1819–1869).
The Song of the Lower Classes
Arthur Hugh Clough.
(1819–1861).
Qua cursum ventus
Where Lies the Land?
Isolation
The Latest Decalogue
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
Charles Kingsley.
(1819–1875).
Hey, Nonny!
The Old Song
Julia Ward Howe.
(1819–1910).
Battle Hymn of the American Republic
George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross).
(1819–1880).
The Choir Invisible
James Russell Lowell.
(1819–1891).
The Courtin
Auspex
Walt Whitman.
(1819–1892).
The Beasts
On the Beach at Night
The Brown Bird
Charles Dent Bell.
(1818–1898).
Solemn Rondeau
John Ruskin.
(1819–1900).
Trust Thou Thy Love
Ebenezer Jones.
(1820–1860).
When the World Is Burning
The Hand
Menella Bute Smedley.
(1820–1877).
Wind Me a Summer Crown
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
(1821–1895).
To My Grandmother
At Her Window
Anonymous. Epitaph of Dionysia
Dora Greenwell.
(1821–1882).
The Battle-flag of Sigurd
The Man with Three Friends
William Benjamin Philpot.
(1823–1889).
Maritae Suae
Matthew Arnold.
(1822–1888).
The Forsaken Merman
The Song of Callicles
Cadmus and Harmonia
Dover Beach
Isolation
Requiescat
The Scholar-Gipsy
Thyrsis
Austerity of Poetry
Shakespeare
From the Hymn of Empedocles
The Last Word
William Caldwell Roscoe.
(1823–1859).
Parting
Spiritual Love
The Poetic Land
William Brighty Rands.
(1823–1882).
Praise and Love
The World: A Child’s Song
The Thought
The Flowers
George Henry Boker.
(1823–1890).
Dirge for a Soldier
William Johnson Cory.
(1823–1892).
An Invocation
Anterôs
Heraclitus
Remember
Coventry Patmore.
(1823–1896).
Woman
Thoughts
The Kiss
Departure
The Toys
A Farewell
Magna Est Veritas
The First Spousal
Auras of Delight
Sydney Dobell.
(1824–1874).
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston
Isabel
Return!
An Even-song
Eden-gate
Sonnets. America
William Allingham.
(1824–1889).
The Fairies
The Lover and Birds
A Memory
George MacDonald.
(1824–1905).
That Holy Thing
Dorcas
Mammon Marriage
Sonnet: ‘This infant world has taken long to make
Song: ‘Why do the houses stand
Walter Chalmers Smith.
(1824–1908).
Glenaradale
William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh.
(1824–1911).
From ‘A Vision of Oxford
The Birthday Crown
Adelaide Anne Procter.
(1825–1864).
The Warrior to His Dead Bride
Thomas Woolner.
(1825–1892).
My Beautiful Lady
Francis Turner Palgrave.
(1824–1897).
Eutopia
Richard Doddridge Blackmore.
(1825–1900).
Dominus Illuminatio Mea
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
(1826–1887).
Douglas
Mortimer Collins.
(1827–1876).
Queen and Slave
Robert Barnabas Brough.
(1828–1860).
An Early Christian
George Walter Thornbury.
(1828–1876).
The Court Historian
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
(1828–1882).
The Blessèd Damozel
Soul’s Beauty
Love Sight
The Choice
Gerald Massey.
(1828–1907).
Young Love
George Meredith.
(1828–1909).
Love in the Valley
Phoebus with Admetus
Melampus
Lucifer in Starlight
Dirge in Woods
Alexander Smith.
(1830–1867).
Scorned
Barbara
Henry Kingsley.
(1830–1876).
Magdalen
Emily Dickinson.
(1830–1886).
Parting
Christina Georgina Rossetti.
(1830–1894).
Bride Song
A Birthday
Song: ‘When I am dead, my dearest
Twice
Italia, Io Ti Saluto!
Uphill
Remember
Aloof
Rest
Bride Song
A Prayer
Passing Away
Marvel of Marvels
Wisdom
Last Prayer
Jean Ingelow.
(1820–1897).
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571
Apprenticed
For Exmoor
Thomas Edward Brown.
(1830–1897).
Opifex
Catherine Kinrade
The Organist in Heaven
Salve!
My Garden
Preparation
When Love Meets Love
E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith).
(1831–1891).
The Chess-board
Tempora Acta
The Last Wish
Joseph Skipsey.
(1832–1903).
The Violet and the Rose
A Merry Bee
Dewdrop, Wind and Sun
Mother Wept
Sir Edwin Arnold.
(1832–1904).
To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers
Adam Lindsay Gordon.
(1833–1870).
Whisperings in Wattle-boughs
The Sick Stockrider
After the Quarrel
Robert Francis St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn.
(1833–1890).
Bed-time
John Nicol.
(1833–1894).
Good Night
Richard Watson Dixon.
(1833–1900).
Song: ‘The feathers of the willow
Humanity
Sir Lewis Morris.
(1833–1907).
Tolerance
A Separation Deed
On a Thrush Singing in Autumn
Song: ‘Love took my life and thrill’d it
James Thomson.
(1834–1882).
Gifts
The Bridge
Songs
  I. ‘Like violets pale i’ the Spring o’ the year
  II. ‘My love is the flaming Sword
  III. ‘Let my voice ring out and over the earth
The Vine
Midsummer Courtship
Art
In the Room
William Blake
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel.
(1834–1894).
A Lady to a Lover
The Swimmer
The Water-Nymph and the Boy
Vale!
The Old
George du Maurier.
(1834–1896).
Music
William Morris.
(1834–1896).
Shameful Death
The Sailing of the Sword
The Eve of Crecy
The Judgement of God
Summer Dawn
Love Is Enough
Inscription for an Old Bed
The Message of the March Wind
Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren).
(1835–1895).
Nuptial Song
Ode: ‘Sire of the rising day
Chorus from ‘Medea
Fortune’s Wheel
The Two Old Kings
Richard Garnett.
(1835–1906).
Fading-leaf and Fallen-leaf
The Fair Circassian
Epigram: ‘Amid all Triads let it be confest
Nocturne
Sonnet—Age
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall.
(1835–1911).
Studies at Delhi
Alfred Austin.
(1835–1913).
Primroses
The Lover’s Song
Love’s Trinity
Thomas Ashe.
(1836–1889).
Meet We No Angels, Pansie?
The City Clerk
A Machine Hand
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
(1836–1907).
Prescience
Theodore Watts-Dunton.
(1832–1914).
Coleridge
Mother Carey’s Chicken
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(1837–1909).
Chorus from ‘Atalanta
The Death of Meleager
Hymn to Proserpine
A Match
A Leave-taking
Before the Mirror
Hesperia
A Forsaken Garden
To Victor Hugo
Super Flumina Babylonis
A Jacobite’s Exile
Child’s Song
William Dean Howells.
(1837–1920).
Earliest Spring
David Gray.
(1838–1861).
My Epitaph
Douglas Ainslie.
(b. 1838).
Two Songs from the Sanskrit
  I. Apprehension
  II. The Archer
Bret Harte.
(1836–1902).
What the Bullet Sang
Herman Charles Merivale.
(1839–1906).
Aetate XIX
John Todhunter.
(1839–1916).
Song: ‘Bring from the craggy haunts of birch and pine
The Black Knight
Maureen
Aghadoe
John Addington Symonds.
(1840–1893).
Le Jeune Homme Caressant Sa Chimère
[Koina ta ton philon]
Farewell
Augusta Webster.
(1837–1894).
Seeds
Thomas Hardy.
(1840–1928).
The Darkling Thrush
She, to Him
I need not go
Friends Beyond
Wilfred Scawen Blunt.
(1840–1922).
Song: ‘O fly not, Pleasure, pleasant-hearted Pleasure
The Desolate City
With Esther
To Manon, Comparing Her to a Falcon
St. Valentine’s Day
Gibraltar
Written at Florence
The Old Squire
Henry Austin Dobson.
(1840–1921).
A Garden Song
A Fancy from Fontenelle
Good Night, Babette!’
A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth
On a Fan That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour
In After Days
William Cosmo Monkhouse.
(1840–1901).
In Arcady
From ‘A Dead March
The Night Express
Sarah Williams.
(1837–1868).
Youth and Maidenhood
Henry Kendall.
(1839–1882).
September in Australia
Mooni
Mathilde Blind.
(1841–1896).
Hymn to Horus
Dare Quam Accipere
The Dead
Robert Buchanan.
(1841–1901).
The Faëry Reaper
The Pilgrim and the Herdboy
Judas Iscariot
John Payne.
(b. 1841).
Rococo
Of Three Damsels in a Meadow
Arthur Gray Butler.
(1831–1909).
Edith and Harold
Two Long Vacations: Grasmere
George Hookham.
(b. 1842).
Chamonix
Frederic William Henry Myers.
(1843–1901).
From ‘Teneriffe
Evanescence
Mary M. Singleton (‘Violet Fane’).
(1843–1905).
A May Song
Afterwards
Edward Dowden.
(1843–1913).
Renunciants
In the Cathedral Close
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy.
(1844–1881).
Ode
Song: ‘I made another garden, yea
The Fountain of Tears
Doom
Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(1844–1889).
The Starlight Night
John Boyle O’Reilly.
(1844–1890).
A White Rose
Experience
Andrew Lang.
(1844–1912).
Heliodore
The Odyssey
Almae Matres
Twilight on Tweed
Ernest Myers.
(1844–1921).
Fiorentina
Achilles
Robert Bridges.
(1844–1930).
Awake, my heart, to be loved
Spirits
A Passer-by
Elegy: On a Lady, Whom Grief for the Death of Her Betrothed Killed
Pater Filio
Weep Not To-day
Founder’s Day
Nightingales
Samuel Waddington.
(1844–1923).
The Inn of Care
Morning
Soul and Body
Emily Henrietta Hickey.
(1845–1924).
Song: ‘Belovèd, it is morn!’
Walter Crane.
(1845–1915).
A Seat for Three: Written on a Settle
Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
(1845–1907).
Song: ‘Under the Winter, dear
Fairy Godmothers
Lost Years
To My Tortoise [Anagki]
Elfin Skates
The Death of Puck
Idle Charon
What the Sonnet Is
Wood-Song
Emily Lawless.
(1845–1913).
Dirge of the Munster Forest. 1581
James Logie Robertson (‘Hugh Haliburton’).
(1846–1922).
Spring on the Ochils
George Barlow.
(1847–1914?).
The Soul
Spiritual Passion
The Dead Child
William Ernest Henley.
(1849–1903).
Collige Rosas
On the Way to Kew
Invictus
England, My England
Margaritae Sorori
Edmund Gosse.
(1849–1928).
Lying in the Grass
The Charcoal-Burner
Revelation
Epithalamium
Philip Bourke Marston.
(1850–1887).
The Rose and the Wind
The Old Churchyard at Bonchurch
Robert Louis Stevenson.
(1850–1894).
Romance
Alcaics: To H. F. B.
In the Highlands
Christmas at Sea
Wishes
Requiem
Bertram Dobell.
(1842–1914).
Microcosm
Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley.
(1851–1920).
The Old Parish Church, Whitby
Walter Herries Pollock.
(1850–1926).
A Conquest
Théophile Marzials.
(1850–1920).
Song: ‘There ’s one great bunch of stars in heaven
Francis William Bourdillon.
(1852–1921).
A Violinist
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Francis Burdett Money-Coutts.
(1852–1923).
The Dream
From ‘A Little Sequence
Any Father to Any Son
Empires
Mors, Morituri Te Salutamus
Two Epitaphs
Thomas Herbert Warren.
(1853–1930).
May-day on Magdalen Tower
Lines for a Sundial
Annie Matheson.
(1853–1924).
A Song of Handicrafts
Love’s Cosmopolitan
William James Dawson.
(1854–1928).
Deliverance
Oliver Madox Brown.
(1855–1874).
Laura’s Song
Fanny Parnell.
(1848–1882).
After Death
Edward Cracroft Lefroy.
(1855–1891).
Echoes from Theocritus
  I. Summer Day in Old Sicily
  II. Ageanax
  III. The Flute of Daphnis
  IV. The Epitaph of Eusthenes
A Cricket Bowler
On a Spring-board
Oscar Wilde.
(1856–1900).
Requiescat
Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp).
(1855–1905).
On a Nightingale in April
Shule, Agrah!
Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen.
(1856–1947).
Under the Wattle
Margaret L. Woods.
(1856–1945).
March Thoughts from England
The Mariners
Genius Loci
John Davidson.
(1857–1909).
Song: ‘The boat is chafing at our long delay
Holiday
The Merchantman
In Romney Marsh
A Runnable Stag
T. W. Rolleston.
(1857–1920).
The Dead at Clonmacnois
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Robinson-Darmesteter).
(1857–1944).
Le Roi est Mort
Cockayne Country
Celia’s Home-coming
Retrospect
May Probyn.
(1856–1909).
Is It Nothing to You
Christmas Carol
William Watson.
(1858–1935).
Song: ‘April, April
Ode in May
Autumn
Vita Nuova
The Great Misgiving
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe.
(1858–1945).
Seven Years
Sir James Rennell Rodd.
(1858–1941).
A Roman Mirror
Francis Thompson.
(1859–1907).
Daisy
The Mistress of Vision
From the Night of Forebeing
Ex Ore Infantium
Henry Charles Beeching.
(1859–1919).
Prayers
Going down Hill on a Bicycle
The Blackbird
Accidia
Knowledge after Death
Ernest Rhys.
(1859–1946).
Diana
An Autobiography
Amy Levy.
(1861–1889).
A London Plane-tree
New Love, New Life
London Poets
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.
(1861–1907).
Blue and White
Our Lady
A Huguenot
Punctilio
Unwelcome
Mortal Combat
Gone
The King
Bliss Carman.
(1861–1929).
The Joys of the Road
In the House of Idiedaily
A Northern Vigil
Why
Douglas Hyde.
(1860–1949).
My Grief on the Sea
The Cooleen
Maurice Hewlett.
(1861–1923).
Rosa Nascosa
Katharine Tynan Hinkson.
(1861–1931).
Of an Orchard
Sheep and Lambs
A Prayer
Matilda Betham-Edwards.
(1836–1919).
A Valentine
The Pansy and the Prayer-book
Louise Imogen Guiney.
(1861–1920).
In Leinster
Carol
Tryste Noel
Alice Meynell.
(1847–1922).
The Shepherdess
Renouncement
The Two Poets
At Night
Sir Henry John Newbolt.
(1862–1938).
Drake’s Drum
He fell among Thieves
Commemoration
Clifton Chapel
Arthur Christopher Benson.
(1862–1925).
Prelude
Lord Vyet
The Phoenix
Amen
Norman Gale.
(1862–1942).
The Country Faith
The Shaded Pool
Eden Phillpotts.
(1862–1960).
Man’s Days
Sir Gilbert Parker.
(1862–1932).
Reunited
Rosamund Marriott Watson.
(1860–1911).
A South Coast Idyll
The Farm on the Links
The Last Fairy
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
(1863–1944).
Upon New Year’s Eve
Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon
Alma Mater
Stephen Phillips.
(1868–1915).
The Apparition
Neil Munro.
(18648–1930).
The Heather
Herbert Trench.
(1865–1923).
A Charge
Come, let us make Love deathless
She comes not when Noon is on the Roses
William Butler Yeats.
(1865–1939).
Where My Books Go
The Rose of the World
The Rose of Peace
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Cap and Bells
The Fiddler of Dooney
When You Are Old
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Rudyard Kipling.
(1865–1936).
A Dedication
The Last Chantey
The Flowers
The Way through the Woods
L’Envoi
Recessional
Arthur Symons.
(1865–1945).
Rain on the Down
Emmy
The Shadow
Credo
Richard Le Gallienne.
(1866–1947).
Song: ‘She ’s somewhere in the sunlight strong
All Sung
The Second Crucifixion
Ernest Dowson.
(1867–1900).
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Lionel Johnson.
(1867–1902).
Winchester
Oxford
By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross
Cadgwith
‘A. E.’ (George William Russell).
(1867–1935).
The Man to the Angel
By the Margin of the Great Deep
A Farewell
A Memory of Earth
Laurence Housman.
(1865–1959).
The Settlers
Dora Sigerson Shorter.
(1866–1918).
Ireland
A Bird from the West
The Gypsies’ Road
Moira O’Neill.
(1864–1955).
A Broken Song
The Fairy Lough
Henry Dawson Lowry.
(1869–1906).
Holiday
Jane Barlow.
(1857–1917).
Christmas Rede
Laurence Binyon.
(1869–1943).
Invocation to Youth
The Little Dancers: A London Vision
The Statues
Amasis
Day’s End
T. Sturge Moore.
(1870–1944).
Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vinedresser
A Duet
Arthur Shearly Cripps.
(1869–1952).
Les Belles Roses Sans Mercie
Hilaire Belloc.
(1870–1953).
The South Country
Song, Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year
The Night
Alfred Douglas.
(1870–1945).
Impression de Nuit: London
To Olive
The Green River
Percy Addleshaw (‘Hemingway’).
(1866–1916).
The Happy Wanderer
John Millington Synge.
(1871–1909).
On an Island
A Question
John Swinnerton Phillimore.
(1873–1926).
In a Meadow
Walter de la Mare.
(1873–1956).
An Epitaph
The Listeners
Harold Monro.
(1879–1932).
The Wind
At a Country Dance in Provence
Alfred Noyes.
(1880–1958).
The World’s May-Queen
Our Lady of the Sea
A Japanese Love-song
On the Death of Francis Thompson
Creation
Rachel Annand Taylor.
(1876–1960).
The Knights to Chrysola
The Joys of Art
Henry Cust.
(1861–1917).
Non Nobis
Charles Granville. Traveller’s Hope
M. Compton Mackenzie.
(1883–1972).
A Song of Parting
The Lilies of the Field
Frances Cornford.
(1886–1960).
Autumn Morning at Cambridge
Edward William Thomson.
(1849–1924).
Aspiration
James Stephens.
(1882–1950).
The Red-haired Man’s Wife
Hate
The Watcher
Richard Middleton.
(1882–1911).
Pagan Epitaph
Any Lover, Any Lass
On a Dead Child
John Masefield.
(1878–1967).
Cargoes
Sea Fever
To His Mother, C. L. M.
Wilfrid Thorley.
(1878–1963).
Buttercups
Chant for Reapers
James Elroy Flecker.
(1884–1915).
Rioupéroux
War Song of the Saracens
Sidney Royse Lysaght.
(1860–1941).
First Pathways
Rupert Brooke.
(1887–1915).
Dust
The One Before the Last
Second Best
Maurice Baring.
(1874–1945).
[Deirioessa Kadyx]
William H. Davies.
(1871–1940).
Songs of Joy
Truly Great
Money
In May
Leisure
The Elements
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
(1878–1962).
Song: ‘If once I could gather in song
Flannan Isle
Alice Furlong.
(1866–1946).
My Share of the World
Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley).
(1846–1914).
The Woods Are Still
Renewal
James Joyce.
(1882–1941).
Song: ‘O, it was out by Donnycarney
Ezra Pound.
(1885–1972).
Portrait
Ballad for Gloom
Gordon Bottomley.
(1874–1948).
To Iron-Founders and Others
Lady Margaret Sackville.
(1881–1963).
The Apple
Elinor Sweetman. The Orchard by the Shore: A Pastoral
George Santayana.
(1863–1952).
The Rustic at the Play
Ernest Radford.
(1857–1919).
Quiet
John Drinkwater.
(1882–1937).
A Prayer
Lascelles Abercrombie.
(1881–1938).
Hymn to Love
Epilogue
Ceremonial Ode Intended for a University