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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PRELUDE: TO VICTORIA

(i) Anonymous Queen Victoria (1837) (ii) Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Crowned and Wedded (1840) (iii) Thomas Cooper from The Purgatory of Suicides (1845) (iv) Alfred Tennyson To the Queen (1851) (v) A. E. Housman 1887 (vi) Mary Montgomerie Lamb Victoria (vii) Thomas Hardy V. R. 1819–1901

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF Victorian Verse

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)

1. Hark! ’tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest, 2. Upon the Sight of the Portrait of a Female Friend 3. Near Anio’s stream, I spied a gentle Dove 4. So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, 5. On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway 6. The unremitting voice of nightly streams 7. Sonnet (To an Octogenarian)

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775–1864)

8. Along this coast I led the vacant Hours 9. Where alders rise up dark and dense 10. The leaves are falling; so am I; 11. To a Cyclamen 12. Plays 13. Cottage Left for London 14. Malvolio 15. The Duke of York’s Statue 16. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;

WILLIAM STEWART ROSE (1775–1843)

17. Sonnet

EBENEZER ELLIOTT (1781–1849)

18. British Rural Cottages in 1842 19. Will It Rain? 20. Not die? Who saith that Nature cannot die?

LEIGH HUNT (1784–1859)

21. The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit 22. Rondeau

BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (1787–1874)

23. The Sexes

JOHN CLARE (1793–1864)

24. The Gipsy Camp 25. The red bagged bee on never weary wing 26. The thunder mutters louder and more loud 27. Look through the naked bramble and black thorn 28. I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows; 29. An Invite to Eternity 30. The Shepherd Boy

HENRY FRANCIS LYTE (1793–1847)

31. Abide with Me

HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796–1849)

32. Think upon Death, ’tis good to think of Death, 33. The Larch Grove

JAMES HENRY (1798–1876)

34. Breáthe not a murmur thou of querulous 35. Man’s Universal Hymn 36. The húman skull is of deceit 37. The són ’s a poor, wrétched, unfórtunate creáture,

WILLIAM THOM (?1798–1848)

38. Whisperings for the Unwashed

THOMAS HOOD (1799–1845)

39. The Song of the Shirt

MARY HOWITT (1799–1888)

40. The Dor-Hawk

SIR HENRY TAYLOR (1800–1886)

41. To the Author’s Wife

WILLIAM BARNES (1801–86)

42. Evenen in the Village 43. To Me

RICHARD HILL SANDYS (1801–92)

44. The Schoolboy at Home

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802–38)

45. Gossipping 46. The Marriage Vow 47. The Power of Words

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803–49)

48. Dream-Pedlary 49. A Night-Scene 50. The Phantom-Wooer 51. Song on the Water 52. The Slight and Degenerate Nature of Man

ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER (1803–75)

53. The Cornish Emigrant’s Song

JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN (1803–49)

54. Siberia

SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD (1804–45)

55. A Song of Contradictions

R. E. EGERTON-WARBURTON (1804–91)

56. Past and Present

CHARLES WHITEHEAD (1804–62)

57. A type of human life this forest old;

GEORGE OUTRAM (1805–56)

58. The Annuity

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–61)

59. Sonnets from the Portuguese 60. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point 61. Mother and Poet 62. My Heart and I

THOMAS MILLER (1807–74)

63. The Ant-Lion

CHARLES TURNER (1808–79)

64. A Brilliant Day 65. A Photograph on the Red Gold 66. Joy Came from Heaven 67. Wind on the Corn 68. Welsh Lucy

EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809–83)

69. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

THOMAS GORDON HAKE (1809–95)

70. Unrest

SIR JOHN HANMER (1809–81)

71. To an Eagle 72. Poetry by the Way-Side

ALFRED TENNYSON (1809–92)

73. The Lady of Shalott 74. Break, break, break, 75. Ulysses 76. Tithonus 77. Audley Court 78. Morte d’Arthur 79. The Eagle SONGS FROM THE PRINCESS

80. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 81. Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; 82. from In Memoriam A. H. H. 83. The Charge of the Light Brigade 84. from Maud 85. In the Valley of Cauteretz 86. The Voyage of Maeldune 87. Crossing the Bar

ALFRED DOMETT (1811–87)

88. Invisible Sights

WILLIAM BELL SCOTT (1811–90)

89. The Witch’s Ballad 90. Silence

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811–63)

91. The Three Sailors [Little Billee]

ROBERT BROWNING (1812–89)

92. My Last Duchess 93. Waring 94. The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 95. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 96. The Lost Leader 97. Fra Lippo Lippi 98. A Toccata of Galuppi’s 99. ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ 100. Andrea del Sarto 101. A Grammarian’s Funeral 102. Two in the Campagna 103. Youth and Art 104. Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island 105. Never the Time and the Place 106. Pan and Luna 107. Spring Song 108. Prologue 109. Dubiety 110. Speculative

ELIZA COOK (1812–89)

111. On Seeing a Bird-Catcher

EDWARD LEAR (1812–88)

112. There was an Old Man with a beard, 113. There was an Old Man in a tree, 114. There was a Young Lady of Tyre, 115. There was an Old Man who said, ‘Hush! 116. There was an Old Man of Cape Horn, 117. There was an Old Person of Cromer, 118. There was an Old Person of Troy, 119. There was an Old Person of Tring, 120. There was an Old Man on some rocks 121. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 122. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò

W. E. AYTOUN (1813–65)

123. La Mort D’Arthur

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816–55)

124. Diving 125. On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë

SHIRLEY BROOKS (1816–74)

126. The Mud-Fish

EMILY BRONTË (1818–48)

127. Remembrance 128. High waving heather ’neath stormy blasts bending 129. The night is darkening round me 130. I’m happiest when most away 131. How still, how happy! those are words 132. Upon her soothing breast 133. No coward soul is mine

EMILY BRONTË or CHARLOTTE BRONTË

134. Often rebuked, yet always back returning

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819–61)

135. Amours de Voyage

GEORGE ELIOT (1819–80)

136. Brother and Sister

ERNEST JONES (1819–68)

137. The Factory Town

CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819–75)

138. The Poetry of a Root Crop 139. Airly Beacon 140. A Lament 141. The Last Buccaneer

ANNE BRONTË (1820–49)

142. Song

ANNE EVANS (1820–70)

143. Over!

JEAN INGELOW (1820–97)

144. ‘Wake, baillie, wake! the crafts are out; 145. Loss and Waste

EBENEZER JONES (1820–60)

146. High Summer 147. The Poet’s Death

MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY (1820–77)

148. A Bird’s-Eye View

DORA GREENWELL (1821–82)

149. A Scherzo 150. A Valentine

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON (1821–95)

151. Beggars

MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–88)

152. The Sick King in Bokhara 153. To Marguerite – Continued 154. Resignation 155. Dover Beach 156. Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 157. Revolutions 158. Philomela 159. Rugby Chapel 160. Growing Old

ROBERT LEIGHTON (1822–69)

161. The Bunch of Larks

ELIZA OGILVY (1822–1912)

162. A Nightmare

WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY (1823–92)

163 [Heraclitus]

COVENTRY PATMORE (1823–96)

164. The Wife’s Tragedy 165. Departure 166. The Toys 167. Magna Est Veritas 168. A London Fête

WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS (1823–82)

169. Lilliput Levee

WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE (1823–59)

170. By the Seashore

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824–89)

171. By and by, we shall meet 172. Writing 173. In Snow 174. The Fairy King 175. Everything passes and vanishes;

SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL (1824–74)

176. The Wounded 177. The Botanist’s Vision

WALTER C. SMITH (1824–1908)

178. Found and Lost

ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER (1825–64)

179. Envy

HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON (1825–1901)

180. Man 181. Who Shall Deliver? 182. A Love-Letter

MORTIMER COLLINS (1827–76)

183. Hartley Coleridge

EMILY PFEIFFER (1827–90)

184. Triolet

ELIZABETH CHARLES (1828–96)

FROM THE UNNAMED WOMEN

185. The hand that might have drawn aside

GEORGE MEREDITH (1828–1909)

186. Modern Love

ARTHUR MUNBY (1828–1910)

187. The Serving Maid

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828–82)

188. The Blessed Damozel 189. Nuptial Sleep 190. A Superscription 191. He and I

ALEXANDER SMITH (1829–67)

192. Glasgow

T. E. BROWN (1830–97)

193. A Sermon at Clevedon

SEBASTIAN EVANS (1830–1909)

194. What the Trumpeter Said

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI (1830–94)

195. Goblin Market 196. Monna Innominata 197. An Old-World Thicket 198. Forget Me Not 199. Spring Quiet 200. Song 201. Song 202. Remember 203. From the Antique 204. ‘These All Wait Upon Thee’ 205. A Wish 206. May 207. In an Artist’s Studio 208. Fata Morgana 209. Introspective 210. In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 211. A Birthday 212. Winter: My Secret 213. ‘The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness’ 214. Up-Hill 215. Song 216. A Dirge 217. An ‘Immurata’ Sister 218. A Christmas Carol 219. from Sing-Song 220. My Mouse 221. ‘Summer Is Ended’ 222. Pastime 223. A Frog’s Fate

ANONYMOUS

224. Johnny Sands 225. The Way to Live

C. S. CALVERLEY (1831–84)

226. Peace

EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON (1831–91)

227. Seaward

LEWIS CARROLL (1832–98)

228. Jabberwocky 229. The Walrus and the Carpenter

JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832–1903)

230. ‘Get Up!’ 231. The Stars Are Twinkling 232. Mother Wept 233. A Golden Lot

RICHARD WATSON DIXON (1833–1900)

234. Dream 235. The Mystery of the Body 236. Song

WILLIAM MORRIS (1834–96)

237. The Haystack in the Floods 238. Echoes of Love’s House 239. Pomona

JAMES THOMSON (1834–82)

240. The City of Dreadful Night

ALFRED AUSTIN (1835–1913)

241. Give me October’s meditative haze,

SIR ALFRED COMYNS LYALL (1835–1911)

242. Badminton

JOHN LEICESTER WARREN, LORD DE TABLEY (1835–95)

243. On a Portrait of Sir John Suckling 244. The Study of a Spider 245. The Knight in the Wood 246. The Pilgrim Cranes 247. Lines to a Lady-Bird

FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL (1836–79)

248. Under the Surface

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837–1909)

249. A Match 250. A Cameo 251. The Sundew 252. The Garden of Proserpine 253. Love and Sleep 254. Ilicet 255. A Rhyme

AUGUSTA WEBSTER (1837–94)

256. Mother and Daughter

DAVID GRAY (1838–61)

257. The Brooklet

JOHN TODHUNTER (1839–1916)

258. Rain

THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928)

259. Friends Beyond 260. Neutral Tones 261. Her Dilemma 262. I look into my glass, 263. The Dead Drummer [Drummer Hodge] 264. In the Old Theatre, Fiesole 265. Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats 266. Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden. 11–12 p.m. 267. An August Midnight 268. The Darkling Thrush 269. The Ruined Maid 270. The Respectable Burgher 271. The Self-Unseeing 272. De Profundis I [In Tenebris I]

HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON KING (1840–1920)

273. A Dream Maiden

COSMO MONKHOUSE (1840–1901)

274. A Ballad of a Shield

MATHILDE BLIND (1841–96)

275. On Reading the ‘Rubáiyat’ of Omar Khayyam

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SIMCOX (1841–1905)

276. In the Jacquerie

EDWARD DOWDEN (1843–1913)

277. The Pool

MARY MONTGOMERIE LAMB (1843–1905)

278. ‘For One Man’s Pleasure’

ROBERT BRIDGES (1844–1930)

279. On a Dead Child

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–89)

280. Heaven-Haven 281. Spring and Fall 282. The Windhover 283. Pied Beauty 284. Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves 285. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; 286. That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 287. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, 288. Repeat that, repeat, 289. It was a hard thing to undo this knot.

CAROLINE, LADY LINDSAY (1844–1912)

290. Of a Bird-Cage

ALEXANDER ANDERSON (1845–1909)

291. Railway Dreamings

L. S. BEVINGTON (1845–95)

292. ‘Egoisme à Deux’ 293. One More Bruised Heart!

WILLIAM CANTON (1845–1926)

294. The Haunted Bridge 295. The Crow

EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON (1845–1907)

296. A Snails’ Derby

‘MICHAEL FIELD’ (KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY, 1846–1914, and EDITH EMMA COOPER, 1862–1913)

297. L’Indifférent 298. A curling thread 299. Cyclamens 300. Irises 301. It was deep April, and the morn

JAMES LOGIE ROBERTSON (1846–1922)

302. The White Winter – Hughie Snawed Up 303. A Back-Lying Farm

ALICE MEYNELL (1847–1922)

304. The Modern Mother 305. A Dead Harvest 306. Parentage 307. Renouncement 308. Cradle-Song at Twilight

DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN (1848–67)

309. Sister Death

W. E. HENLEY (1849–1903)

FROM IN HOSPITAL

310. Waiting 311. Interior 312. Music 313. Discharged 314. Back-View 315. To W. R. 316. On the way to Kew,

WILLIAM LARMINIE (1849–1900)

317. The Nameless Doon

PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON (1850–87)

318. Speechless 319. Grief’s Aspects 320. After

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–94)

321. The Light-Keeper 322. Love – what is love? A great and aching heart; FROM A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES

323. Bed in Summer 324. At the Seaside 325. Whole Duty of Children 326. Rain 327. Singing 328. The Land of Nod

‘CAERLEON’ (fl. 1876–?)

329. Aeschylus Homer and Shakespeare, souls

F. B. MONEY-COUTTS (1852–1923)

330. The Commonest Lot EPITAPHS

331. A Fair Woman 332. An Infant

WILLIAM RENTON (1852–? [after 1905])

333. The Foal 334. Peat Cutting 335. The Fork of the Road 336. Spring Floods

MAY PROBYN (fl. 1878–?)

337. A Mésalliance

OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)

338. Les Ballons 339. Symphony in Yellow 340. The Harlot’s House

JAMES CHAPMAN WOODS (fl. 1879–1931)

341. Fate

JANE BARLOW (1857–1917)

342. Honey-Harvest

JOHN DAVIDSON (1857–1909)

343. Thirty Bob a Week 344. A Labourer’s Wife 345. New Year’s Day

A. MARY F. ROBINSON (1857–1944)

346. Neurasthenia 347. Twilight

CONSTANCE NADEN (1858–89)

348. Christ, the Nazarene

EDITH NESBIT (1858–1924)

349. On Dit

DOLLIE RADFORD (1858–1920)

350. From the Suburbs

SIR WILLIAM WATSON (1858–1935)

351. The Play of ‘King Lear’ 352. Byron the Voluptuary 353. The Metropolitan Underground Railway

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859–1936)

354. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 355. When I was one-and-twenty 356. It nods and curtseys and recovers 357. Others, I am not the first, 358. Into my heart an air that kills 359. Far in a western brookland 360. I hoed and trenched and weeded,

J. K. STEPHEN (1859–92)

361. Poetic Lamentation on the Insufficiency of Steam Locomotion in the Lake District 362. England and America

FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859–1907)

363. At Lord’s 364. The End of It 365. Daphne

ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON (1860–1911)

366. Aubade

MARY E. COLERIDGE (1861–1907)

367. Winged Words 368. L’Oiseau Bleu 369. Marriage 370. Night is fallen within, without, 371. The White Women

MAY KENDALL (1861–1943)

372. Lay of the Trilobite

AMY LEVY (1861–89)

373. Epitaph

A. C. BENSON (1862–1925)

374. Thomas Gray 375. The Ant-Heap

SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (1862–1938)

376. Gillespie

ROBERT FULLER MURRAY (1863–94)

377. A Ballad of Refreshment 378. Bρεκεκεκεζ Kοαζ Kοαζ

VICTOR PLARR (1863–1929)

379. The Solitaries 380. The Imperial Prayers 381. On Change of Opinions 382. Twilight-Piece 383. Epitaphium Citharistriæ 384. Shadows 385. At Citoyenne Tussaud’s

STEPHEN PHILLIPS (1864–1915)

386. O thou art put to many uses, sweet!

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)

387. Danny Deever 388. Tommy 389. The Widow at Windsor 390. Mandalay

W. B. YEATS (1865–1939)

391. An Old Song Re-Sung [Down by the Salley Gardens] 392. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 393. The Sorrow of Love 394. Breasal the Fisherman [The Fish] 395. The Song of Wandering Aengus 396. Aedh Laments the Loss of Love [The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love] 397. The Valley of the Black Pig 398. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven [He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven] 399. The Fiddler of Dooney

ARTHUR SYMONS (1865–1945)

400. The Absinthe Drinker

JOHN GRAY (1866–1934)

401. Song of the Seedling 402. The Vines 403. Spleen

ERNEST DOWSON (1867–1900)

404. Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam 405. Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 406. Spleen 407. To William Theodore Peters on His Renaissance Cloak

LIONEL JOHNSON (1867–1902)

408. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross 409. The Dark Angel 410. Love’s Ways

GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (1867–1935)

411. The Mid-World

LAURENCE BINYON (1869–1943)

412. As I Walked Through London

HILAIRE BELLOC (1870–1953)

413. The Dodo 414. The Marmozet 415. The Camelopard 416. The Llama

Biographical and Textual Notes Subject Index Index of Proper Names Index of Poets Index of Titles Index of First Lines Permissions Footnotes

Preface

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Introduction

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JAMES THOMSON (1834–82)

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