| Joanna Baillie.
1762–1851. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Walter Whyte |
| Songs. I. “Saw ye Johnny Comin’?” |
| II. The Maid of Llanwellyn |
| III. Poverty Parts Gude Companie |
| IV. “Fy, let us a’ to the Wedding” |
| V. “The Gowan Glitters on the Sward” |
| VI. “It was on a Morn” |
| VII. Woo’d and Married and a’ |
| VIII. Good Night, Good Night! |
| Carolina, Lady Nairne.
1766–1845. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackenzie Bell |
| Songs. I. The Land o’ the Leal |
| II. Caller Herrin’ |
| III. “The Laird o’ Cockpen” |
| IV. The Lass o’ Gowrie |
| V. Huntingtower |
| VI. Wha’ll be King but Charlie? |
| VII. Charlie is my Darling |
| VIII. My Ain Kind Dearie, O |
| IX. Kind Robin Lo’es Me |
| X. Cauld Kail in Aberdeen |
| XI. “Saw Ye Ne’er a Lanely Lassie?” |
| XII. The Auld House |
| XIII. Gude Nicht, and Joy be wi’ ye a’ |
| XIV. “Would You be Young Again?” |
| XV. Rest is not Here |
| Caroline (Bowles) Southey.
1787–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Poems. I. The Primrose |
| II. The Pauper’s Death-bed |
| III. The Christian Mariner’s Hymn |
| IV. To a Dying Infant |
| V. To Death |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
1793–1835. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackenzie Bell |
| The Siege of Valencia (1823). I. Ballad: “Thou hast not been” |
| II. Dirge: “Calm on the Bosom of thy God” |
| Records of Women (1828). Gertrude; or, Fidelity till Death |
| Despondency and Aspiration (1835) |
| Miscellaneous Poems. I. England’s Dead |
| II. The Graves of a Household |
| III. The Treasures of the Deep |
| IV. The Hour of Death |
| V. Casabianca |
| VI. The Adopted Child |
| VII. The Better Land |
| Mary Howitt.
1799–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Ballads. I. The Fairies of the Caldon Low |
| II. An Old Man’s Story |
| III. The Voyage with the Nautilus |
| Lætitia Elizabeth Maclean
(“L. E. L.”).
1802–1838. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackenzie Bell |
| Miscellaneous Poems. I. Felicia Hemans |
| II. St. Valerie |
| III. Mont Blanc |
| IV. Juliet after the Masquerade |
| V. The Moorish Maiden’s Vigil |
| VI. Lines of Life |
| VII. The Unknown Grave |
| Sarah Coleridge.
1802–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale (1837). I. “Sylvan Stag, Securely Play” |
| II. “One Face Alone” |
| III. “Grief’s Heavy Hand” |
| IV. “O Sleep, My Babe” |
| V. “I Tremble when with Look Benign” |
| VI. “How High Yon Lark” |
| VII. “False Love, too long thou hast delay’d” |
| VIII. “He Came unlook’d for” |
| IX. “Yon Changeful Cloud” |
| X. “I was a Brook” |
| XI. “I Thought by Tears” |
| XII. “Full oft before some Gorgeous Fane” |
| XIII. “See yon Blithe Child” |
| XIV. “L’Envoy of Phantasmion” |
| Sarah Flower Adams.
1805–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| Vivia Perpetua (1841) (Act V, Scene II) |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1806–1861. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by James Ashcroft Noble |
| The Romance of the Swan’s Nest |
| The Romaunt of Margret |
| Bertha in the Lane |
| The Cry of the Children |
| Cowper’s Grave |
| The Cry of the Human |
| The Sleep |
| The Sea-Mew |
| A Song against Singing |
| Felicia Hemans |
| A Musical Instrument |
| A Child’s Grave at Florence |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) |
| Miscellaneous Sonnets. I. The Soul’s Expression |
| II. Bereavement |
| III. Consolation |
| IV. Grief |
| V. Substitution |
| VI. Work |
| VII. Futurity |
| VIII. Work and Contemplation |
| Aurora Leigh (1856). Selection from First Book |
| Selection from Seventh Book |
| Jane Welsh Carlyle.
1806–1866. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by H. J. Gibbs |
| To a Swallow Building under our Eaves (1832) |
| Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan.
1807–1867. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Songs. I. Lament of the Irish Emigrant |
| II. Terence’s Farewell |
| Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton.
1808–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Songs and Ballads. I. “Love Not” |
| II. The King of Denmark’s Ride |
| III. Dreams |
| IV. “I do not Love Thee!” |
| V. Bingen on the Rhine |
| VI. Crippled Jane |
| Songs and Ballads. The Child of the Islands (1845). A Mother’s Love |
| Frances Anne Kemble.
1809–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Poems. I. The Year’s Progress |
| II. Expostulation |
| III. The Black Wall-flower |
| IV. Written at Trenton Falls |
| V. Written on Cramond Beach |
| VI. Dream Land |
| VII. “Is it a Sin?” |
| VIII. “Whene’er I Recollect the Happy Time” |
| IX. Absence |
| X. Morning. By the Seaside |
| XI. “One after One, the Shield, the Sword, the Spear” |
| XII. Faith |
| XIII. “Lady, whom my Belovèd Loves” |
| XIV. Paolo and Francesca |
| XV. “If I Believed in Death, How Sweet a Bed” |
| XVI. “Cover Me with Your Everlasting Arms” |
| XVII. “I Hear a Voice Low in the Sunset Woods” |
| XVIII. Evening |
| Eliza Cook.
1818–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by John H. Ingram |
| Poems and Songs. I. The Englishman |
| II. They All Belong to Me |
| III. “God Speed the Plough” |
| IV. The Old Arm-chair |
| V. The Raising of the Maypole |
| Emily Brontë.
1818–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| Poems. I. The Night-wind |
| II. A Death-scene |
| III. Remembrance |
| IV. “Often Rebuked” |
| V. The Old Stoic |
| VI. Last Lines |
| George Eliot
(Mary Ann Cross).
1819–1880. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by James Ashcroft Noble |
| Brother and Sister (1869) |
| The Legend of Jubal (1869) (A Selection) |
| The Spanish Gypsy (1864–8) (From Book I) |
| “O May I Join the Choir Invisible” (1867) |
| Menella Bute Smedley.
1820–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Poems. I. The Lay of Sir William Wallace |
| II. “Wind Me a Summer Crown” |
| III. A Character |
| IV. The Little Fair Soul |
| V. A Discovery |
| VI. Slain |
| VII. Sonnet: Bishop Patteson |
| Dora Greenwell.
1821–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Poems. I. Home |
| II. The Battle-flag of Sigurd |
| III. Daria |
| IV. The Man with Three Friends |
| V. The Eternal Now |
| VI. Demeter and Cora |
| VII. “Bring Me Word How Tall She Is” |
| VIII. “Qui sait Aimer, sait Mourir” |
| IX. The Soul’s Parting |
| X. Gone |
| XI. Life Tapestry |
| XII. To Christina Rossetti |
| Adelaide Anne Procter.
1825–1864. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by H. J. Gibbs |
| Legends and Lyrics. I. Sent to Heaven |
| II. Hush! |
| III. The Story of the Faithful Soul |
| IV. A Legend of Bregenz |
| Dinah Maria Craik.
1826–1887. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Poems. I. Philip my King |
| II. A Silly Song |
| III. Semper Fidelis |
| IV. Lettice |
| V. Rothesay Bay |
| VI. A Christmas Carol |
| Jean Ingelow.
1820–1897. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackenzie Bell |
| Lyrical and Other Poems. I. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571) |
| II. Requiescat in Pace |
| III. Divided |
| IV. Echo and the Ferry |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti.
1830–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Arthur Symons |
| Goblin Market and Other Poems. I. Song: “When I Am Dead” |
| II. A Birthday |
| III. Up-hill |
| IV. An Apple Gathering |
| V. At Home |
| VI. Goblin Market |
| Miscellaneous Poems. I. “Yea, I Have a Goodly Heritage” |
| II. An Echo from Willowwood |
| III. Cardinal Newman |
| IV. A Death of a Firstborn |
| Time Flies. I. “Lord Babe, If Thou Art He” |
| II. “Laughing Life Cries at the Feast” |
| III. “Where Shall I Find a White Rose Blowing?” |
| IV. “Weigh All My Faults and Follies” |
| V. “Piteous My Rhyme Is” |
| VI. “Young Girls Wear Flowers” |
| VII. “Golden Haired, Lily White” |
| VIII. “Innocent Eyes Not Ours” |
| IX. “Man’s Life Is but a Working Day” |
| X. “Have I not Striven?” |
| XI. “Through Burden and Heat of the Day” |
| XII. “Sorrow Hath a Double Voice” |
| XIII. “Who Is This That Cometh up?” |
| XIV. “The Goal in Sight” |
| XV. “Bury Hope out of Sight” |
| XVI. “Behold the Bridegroom Cometh” |
| XVII. “The Tempest over and Gone” |
| Sing-Song |
| Ellen O’Leary.
1831–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by William Butler Yeats |
| Songs and Ballads. I. To God and Ireland True |
| II. “The Dead Who Died for Ireland” |
| III. A Legend of Tyrone |
| IV. Home to Carriglea |
| Isa (Craig) Knox.
1831–1903. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Poems. I. Ode on the Centenary of Burns |
| II. The Ballad of the Brides of Quair |
| III. Never to Know |
| IV. The Woodruffe |
| V. The Root of Love |
| VI. Wind and Stars |
| VII. Song: “A Greenness o’er My Vision Passed” |
| VIII. Thames |
| IX. Shadow |
| Harriet Eleanor Hamilton-King.
1840–1920. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Emily Henrietta Hickey |
| The Disciples (1878). I. Ugo Bassi’s Sermons—I. |
| Ugo Bassi’s Sermons—II. |
| A Book of Dreams (1882). I. A Haunted House |
| II. A Moonlight Ride |
| Ballads of the North (1889). I. The First of June |
| II. The Crocus |
| Augusta Webster.
1840–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Mackenzie Bell |
| Dramatic Studies (1866). The Snow Waste |
| A Woman Sold; and Other Poems (1867). I. To One of Many |
| II. Too Faithful |
| III. To and Fro |
| Portraits (1870). I. Tired (A Selection) |
| II. A Dilettante (A Selection) |
| From Yu-Pe-Ya’s Lute (1874). “Too Soon, So Fair, Fair Lilies” |
| A Book of Rhyme (1881). I. Pourlain the Prisoner |
| II. A Coarse Morning |
| III. Not to Be |
| IV. English Stornelli. Marjory |
| Isabella Harwood
(“Ross Neil”).
1840–1888. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| Lord and Lady Russell (1876). King Charles the Second and the French Ambassador |
| The Heir of Linne |
| Emily Pfeiffer.
1841–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Lyrics. I. “Love Came Knocking at My Door” |
| II. The Crown of Love |
| III. Broken Light |
| IV. In Extremis |
| V. A Song of Winter |
| VI. “When the Brow of June” |
| Sonnets. I. Evolution |
| II. To Nature (II) |
| III. Dreaming |
| IV. The Winged Soul |
| V.–VI. Peace to the Odalisque |
| VII. To the Herald Honeysuckle |
| VIII. Gordon |
| IX.–X. Shelley |
| XI.–XII. The Lost Light (George Eliot) |
| Sarah Williams (“Sadie”).
1841–1868. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Twilight Hours. I. Sospiri Volate (Selection) |
| II. The Life of a Leaf |
| III. At the Breach |
| IV. The Coast-guard’s Story |
| V. “Is It So, O Christ in Heaven?” |
| VI. By Command |
| VII. Marjory’s Wedding |
| VIII. Growth |
| IX. God’s Way |
| X. With God |
| XI. President Lincoln |
| Mary M. Singleton
(“Violet Fane”).
1843–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Poems. I. Time |
| II. Divided |
| III. A Reverie |
| Autumn Songs (1889). I. The Lament of a White Rose |
| II. Song: “I Wonder will you Twine for Me” |
| Emily H. Hickey.
1845–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Lyrics and Verse Tales. I. Beloved, It Is Morn |
| II. “Thank You” |
| III. “M.” to “N.” |
| IV. Her Dream |
| V. A Sea Story |
| Louisa S. Guggenberger.
1845–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Key Notes (1879). I. Morning |
| II. Afternoon |
| III. Twilight |
| IV. Midnight |
| V. Unfulfilled |
| Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets (1882). I. Bees in Clover. A Song |
| II. The Valley of Remorse |
| III. At Sabbath Dawn |
| IV. Am I to Lose You? |
| Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell).
1848– . |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Songs in Minor Keys (1884). I. Absolution |
| II. The Highland Glens |
| III. Thou Too Hast Suffered |
| IV. Jesus the Carpenter |
| V. Good-night |
| VI. Sonnet: A Day in June |
| Mathilde Blind.
1841–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| The Street-Children’s Dance |
| Love-Trilogy |
| Sonnets. I. The Dead |
| II. Nirvana |
| The Ascent of Man (1889) (Part III). The Leading of Sorrow |
| Love in Exile (Songs). I. “Thou Walkest with Me” |
| II. “I was again beside My Love” |
| III. (IV.) “I would I were the Glow-worm” |
| IV. (VII.) “Why will You Haunt me Unawares” |
| V. (X.) “On Life’s Long Round” |
| VI. “L’Envoi” |
| Michael Field
(Katherine Harris Bradley).
1846–1914. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Lionel Johnson |
| Callirrhoë (1884). Machaon and the Faun (Act III, Scene 6) |
| Canute the Great (1887). Canute and Gunhild (Act I, Scene 4) |
| The Tragic Mary (1890). Bothwell’s Soliloquy (Act IV, Scene 5) |
| Lyrics. I. A Summer Wind |
| II. Beloved |
| III. Yea, Gold Is Son of Zeus |
| Alice Meynell.
1847–1922. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by James Ashcroft Noble |
| Preludes (1875). I. San Lorenzo Giustiniani’s Mother |
| II. Builders of Ruins |
| III. In Early Spring |
| IV. Parted |
| V. To the Belovèd Dead |
| VI. A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age |
| VII. An Unmarked Festival |
| VIII. Song: “As the Inhastening Tide” |
| Miscellaneous Poems. I. The Modern Poet |
| II. My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden |
| III. Renouncement |
| Annie Matheson.
1853–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Selected Poems (1900). I. A Song for Women |
| II. Memory’s Song |
| III. Love and Kindness |
| IV. Sleep |
| V. To a Little Child |
| VI. Death and Life |
| Ada Bartrick Baker.
1854– . |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| A Palace of Dreams, and Other Verse (1901). I. Sonnets I, XXI, XL, XLIII |
| II. The Morning Star |
| III. Under the Sun |
| IV. In Hospital |
| V. Neighbours |
| VI. Lost Eden |
| VII. The Heart’s Winter |
| VIII. Triolet |
| Rosa Newmarch.
1857–1940. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Horæ Amoris: Songs and Sonnets (1903). I. At Sunset |
| II. The Heart-chamber |
| III. At the Piano |
| IV. To an Instrument |
| V. A Litany |
| VI. The City of Hope |
| VII. “Chance Brings Me to the Quiet Town Again” |
| Songs to a Singer, and Other Verses (1906). I. The Rose of Song |
| II. The Falling Star |
| III. Prelude to Day |
| IV. The Bitter Melody |
| A. Mary F. Robinson-Darmesteter.
1857–1944. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Arthur Symons |
| A Handful of Honeysuckle (1878). I. A Pastoral |
| II. Dawn-Angels |
| III. Paradise Fancies, I–IV |
| IV. Sonnet: “God Sent a Poet to Reform His Earth” |
| The Crowned Hippolytus (1881). I. Two Lovers |
| II. A Jonquil |
| The New Arcadia (1884). Tuscan Olives |
| An Italian Garden (1886). I. Florentine May |
| II. Venetian Nocturne |
| III. Tuscan Cypress |
| Songs, Ballads, and a Play (1888). I. Etruscan Tombs |
| II. Tuberoses |
| III. An Orchard at Avignon |
| Lyrics (1891). I. The Dead Friend |
| II. Twilight |
| Constance C. W. Naden.
1858–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett |
| Poems. I. The Pantheist’s Song of Immortality |
| II. The Confession |
| III. Friendship |
| IV. Natural Selection |
| Edith (Nesbit) Bland.
1858–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alexander Hay Japp |
| Lays and Legends (1886). I. Song, “Oh Baby, Baby, Baby Dear” |
| II. The Depths of the Sea |
| Leaves of Life (1888). I. Winter Violets |
| II. Among His Books |
| III. Morning Song |
| Miscellaneous Poems. I. Ballad of a Bridal |
| II. A Tragedy (I) |
| III. A Tragedy (II) |
| IV. The Ghost |
| Sonnets: Night and Morning. I. Night |
| II. Morning |
| Dollie Radford.
1858–1920. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Arthur Symons |
| A Light Load (1891). I. Spring Song |
| II. Song: “Amid a Crown of Radiant Hills” |
| III. “Night” |
| IV. Orpheus |
| V. By the Sea |
| A Ballad of Victory |
| Graham R. Thomson
(Rosamund Marriott Watson).
1860–1911. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard le Gallienne |
| The Bird-Bride: A Volume of Ballads and Sonnets (1889). I. Ballad of the Bird-Bride |
| II. The Smile of All-Wisdom |
| Sonnets. I. An Interlude |
| II. Omar Khayyám |
| III. Blind Man’s Holiday |
| IV. Hereafter |
| A Summer Night and Other Poems (1891). I. A Summer Night |
| II. Two Songs |
| III. In the Rain |
| IV. Chimæra |
| Jane Barlow.
1857–1917. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Katharine Tynan Hinkson |
| Ghost-Bereft (1901). I. A Misunderstanding |
| II. The Turn of the Road |
| III. A Long Day |
| IV. Outside the Toy Shop |
| V. Expectation |
| VI. In Sanctuary |
| Katharine Tynan Hinkson.
1861–1931. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Ballads and Lyrics (1892). I. The Children of Lir |
| II. Sheep and Lambs |
| Cuckoo Songs (1894). I. God’s Bird |
| II. Lament |
| A Lover’s Breast-Knot (1896). I. Love’s Trouble |
| II. Love Comfortless |
| Poems (1901). I. The Tree-Lover |
| II. Talisman |
| III. Maternity |
| Innocencies (1905). I. The Dead Child |
| II. The Meeting |
| III. The Mother |
| IV. The Desire |
| V. To the Mother |
| Cicely Fox-Smith.
1882–1954. |
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles |
| Songs of Greater Britain (1899). I. Red, White and Blue |
| II. The Colonists |
| III. The Skylark |
| IV. Autumn |
| The Foremost Trail (1900). I. The Foremost Trail |
| II. A Worshipper |
| Wings of the Morning (1904). I. London Pool |
| II. An Angel Unawares |
| III. Afterglow |
| IV. A Bird’s Call |
| V. Journey’s End |
