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Title The New Oxford book of Victorian verse.

Imprint Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Description xxxiv, 654 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-627).
Note Includes indexes.
Form Also issued online.
Summary An anthology of 560 poems from the Victorian era.
Contents Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) -- A Crocodile -- Death Sweet -- Hymn -- Humble Beginnings -- Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty -- A Lake -- from Death's Jest-Book -- Song ['Squats on a toad-stool under a tree'] -- Song ['We have bathed, where none have seen us'] -- Dirge -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- St Simeon Stylites -- Ulysses -- Morte d'Arthur -- The Eagle -- 'Break, break, break' -- Audley Court -- from The Princess -- 'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white' -- 'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height' -- from In Memoriam A.H.H. -- II 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones' -- VII 'Dark house, by which once more I stand' -- XI 'Calm is the morn without a sound' -- L 'Be near me when my light is low' -- LIV 'Oh yet we trust that somehow good' -- LV 'The wish, that of the living whole' -- LVI '"So careful of the type?" but no' -- LXX 'I cannot see the features right' -- LXXXIII 'Dip down upon the northern shore' -- XCV 'By night we linger'd on the lawn' -- CXV 'Now fades the last long streak of snow' -- CXXIII 'There rolls the deep where grew the tree' -- The Daisy -- To the Rev. F.D. Maurice -- The Charge of the Light Brigade -- from Maud -- I. xi 'O let the solid ground' -- I. xviii 'I have led her home, my love, my only friend' -- I. xxii 'Come into the garden, Maud' -- II. iv 'O that 'twere possible' -- from Idylls of the King: Merlin and Vivien 'In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours' -- Tithonus -- Northern Farmer. New Style -- To E. FitzGerald -- Crossing the Bar.
Emily Jane Bronte (1818-1848) -- 'Long neglect has worn away' -- 'The night is darkening round me' -- 'All hushed and still within the house' -- 'It's over now; I've known it all' -- 'It will not shine again' -- 'O come with me, thus ran the song' -- 'O Dream, where art thou now?' -- 'How still, how happy! Those are words' -- 'What winter floods, what showers of spring' -- 'I know not how it falls on me' -- 'She dried her tears, and they did smile' -- 'Mild the mist upon the hill' -- 'It is too late to call thee now' -- 'Had there been falsehood in my breast' -- 'Come, walk with me' -- Remembrance -- The Prisoner -- Emily Jane Bronte, Charlotte Bronte -- The Visionary -- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) -- Rondeau -- On the Death of His Son Vincent -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- How to Read Me -- 'Twenty years hence my eyes may grow' -- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher -- Age -- Pigmies and Cranes -- La Promessa Sposa -- Memory -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) -- To Helen -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- from Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg -- Her Christening -- Her Precious Leg -- Her Death -- William Barnes (1801-1886) -- Uncle an' Aunt -- Polly Be-En Upzides Wi' Tom -- The Vaices that Be Gone -- My Orcha'd in Linden Lea -- False Friends-Like -- Childhood -- Light or Sheade -- Slow to Come, Quick A-Gone -- The Turnstile -- The Rwose in the Dark -- The Zilver-Weed -- Lwonesomeness -- Leaves A-Vallen -- Jay A-Pass'd -- The Vierzide Chairs -- All Still -- The Vield Path -- Seasons and Times.
When We that Now Ha' Childern Wer Childern -- Walken Hwome at Night -- Which Road? -- Shop O' Meat-Weare -- The Stwonen Steps -- James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) -- Twenty Golden Years Ago -- Siberia -- A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales -- William Miller (1810-1872) -- 'Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town' -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- The Fine Old English Gentleman -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- 'The most alluring clouds that mount the sky' -- 'The unremitting voice of nightly streams' -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- Grief -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV 'Let the world's sharpness, like a closing knife' -- from Aurora Leigh from First Book -- The Best Thing in the World -- 'Died ... ' -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- My Last Duchess -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister -- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church -- Home-Thoughts, from Abroad -- Meeting at Night -- Memorabilia -- Andrea del Sarto -- Two in the Campagna -- Love in a Life -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' -- A Grammarian's Funeral -- Confessions -- Youth and Art -- Caliban upon Setebos -- Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus -- Never the Time and the Place -- Development -- Inapprehensiveness -- Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860) -- High Summer -- Whimper of Awakening Passion -- Eyeing the Eyes of One's Mistress -- John Clare (1793-1864) -- Love's Pains -- I've Had Many an Aching Pain -- Stanzas ['Black absence hides upon the past'] -- A Vision.
'The thunder mutters louder and more loud' -- The Old Year -- 'I Am' -- The Winters Spring -- Hesperus -- An Invite to Eternity -- The Shepherd Boy -- Evening -- Sonnet: 'I Am' -- Stanzas ['The passing of a dream'] -- Song ['Soft falls the sweet evening'] -- To Miss B -- Hymn to the Creator -- 'There is a charm in Solitude that cheers' -- Song ['I went my Sunday mornings rounds'] -- First Love -- Song ['I hid my love when young while I'] -- Song ['I wish I was where I would be'] -- Fragment ['Love's memories haunt my footsteps still'] -- The Yellowhammer -- Song ['The mist rauk is hanging'] -- An Anecdote of Love -- John Ruskin (1819-1900) -- La Madonna dell'Acqua -- The Zodiac Song -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) -- Epitaph on a Jacobite -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) -- Rules and Regulations -- 'They told me you had been to her' -- 'How doth the little crocodile' -- '"You are old, Father William," the young man said' -- Jabberwocky -- 'The sun was shining on the sea' -- 'In winter, when the fields are white' -- The Hunting of the Snark -- 'He thought he saw ... ' (i-viii) -- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) -- 'The Autumn day its course has run -- the Autumn evening falls' -- 'The house was still -- the room was still' -- 'I now had only to retrace' -- 'The Nurse believed the sick man slept' -- Charlotte Bronte (perhaps Emily Jane Bronte) -- Stanzas ['Often rebuked, yet always back returning'] -- Edward Lear (1812-1888) -- 'There was an Old Man who supposed' -- 'There was a Young Lady whose eyes'.
'There was an Old Man on some rocks' -- 'There was an old man who screamed out' -- The Dong with a Luminous Nose -- The New Vestments -- '"How pleasant to know Mr Lear!"' -- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) -- 'When I was a greenhorn and young' -- The Invitation -- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) -- Natura Naturans -- 'Say not the struggle nought availeth' -- 'To spend uncounted years of pain' -- Amours de Voyage -- The Latest Decalogue -- from Dipsychus -- 'As I sat at the cafe, I said to myself' -- '"There is no God," the wicked saith' -- 'I dreamed a dream: I dreamt that I espied' -- 'That there are powers above us I admit' -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) -- The Blessed Damozel -- A Half-Way Pause -- Autumn Idleness -- Sudden Light -- A Match with the Moon -- The Woodspurge -- Even So -- Nuptial Sleep -- Smithereens -- Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894) -- Song ['When I am dead, my dearest'] -- Song ['Oh roses for the flush of youth'] -- Remember -- One Sea-Side Grave -- Echo -- The Bourne -- from the Antique ['It's a weary life, it is, she said'] -- May -- A Birthday -- Winter: My Secret -- A Better Resurrection -- By the Sea -- 'They lie at rest, our blessed dead' -- Goblin Market -- Promises like Pie-Crust -- Somewhere or Other -- The Lowest Place -- Grown and Flown -- A Dirge -- A Christmas Carol -- 'Summer is Ended' -- 'Endure hardness' -- 'Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine?' -- A Frog's Fate -- Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849) -- Epigram ['"Prepare to meet the King of Terrors," cried'].
Song ['Donought would have everything'] -- Epigram ['What is a communist? One who hath yearnings'] -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- To Marguerite -- Continued -- Destiny -- Dover Beach -- The Scholar-Gipsy -- Growing Old -- The Progress of Poesy -- 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light' -- Geist's Grave -- William Allingham (1824-1889) -- A Dream -- The Fairies -- The Witch-Bride -- 'The Boy from his bedroom-window' -- 'Four ducks on a pond' -- 'Everything passes and vanishes' -- Writing -- An Evening -- Express -- 'No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone' -- Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) -- from The Angel in the House -- Love at Large -- The Kiss -- Constancy rewarded -- The Rosy Bosom'd Hours -- The Toys -- Magna est Veritas -- Arbor vitce -- Ernest Jones (1819-1869) -- The Song of the Low -- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) -- Sorrows of Werther -- James Henry (1798-1876) -- Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire -- Pain -- Old Man -- Very Old Man -- 'Another and another and another' -- My Stearine Candles -- 'Once on a time a thousand different men' -- 'Two hundred men and eighteen killed' -- William Bell Scott (1811-1890) -- A Rhyme of the Sun-Dial -- Death -- The Witch's Ballad -- Music -- Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) -- Lotos Eating -- To F.C. -- Shirley Brooks (1816-1874) -- Poem by a Perfectly Furious Academician -- Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) -- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -- Elizabeth Siddal (later Rossetti) (1829-1862) -- A Silent Wood -- Dead Love -- William Morris (1834-1896).
Summer Dawn -- For the Briar Rose -- Another for the Briar Rose -- Pomona -- The End of May -- Thomas Ashe (1836-1889) -- Corpse-Bearing -- To Two Bereaved -- T.L. Peacock (1785-1866) -- Love and Age -- Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) -- Envy -- Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900) -- Dream -- The Wizard's Funeral -- Dawning -- George Meredith (1828-1909) -- from Modern Love -- I 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes' -- V 'A message from her set his brain aflame' -- VI 'It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool' -- VII 'She issues radiant from her dressing-room' -- IX 'He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles' -- XVI 'In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour' -- XVII 'At dinner, she is hostess, I am host' -- XXI 'We three are on the cedar-shadowed lawn' -- XXIII ''Tis Christmas weather, and a country house' -- XXV 'You like not that French novel? Tell me why' -- XXXI 'This golden head has wit in it. I live' -- XXXIV 'Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes' -- XXXVI 'My Lady unto Madam makes her bow' -- XXXVII 'Along the garden terrace, under which' -- XLII 'I am to follow her. There is much grace' -- XLVII 'We saw the swallows gathering in the sky' -- L 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat' -- When I would Image -- Lucifer in Starlight -- J. Stanyan Bigg (1828-1865) -- An Irish Picture -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) -- Before Parting -- After Death -- A Leave-Taking -- Ilicet -- A Match -- The Leper -- The Garden of Proserpine -- 'Why grudge them lotus-leaf and laurel'.
A Forsaken Garden -- John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley (1835-1895) -- Philoctetes -- The Power of Interval -- The Knight in the Wood -- Nuptial Song -- The Churchyard on the Sands -- Circe -- The Study of a Spider -- Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875) -- A Croon on Hennacliff -- Charles Turner (formerly Tennyson) (1808-1879) -- The Lion's Skeleton -- A Brilliant Day -- On a Vase of Gold-Fish -- from Harvest to January -- Gout and Wings -- On Seeing a Little Child Spin a Coin of Alexander the Great -- Letty's Globe -- On Shooting a Swallow in Early Youth -- Calvus to a Fly -- A Country Dance -- Gerard M. Hopkins (1844-1889) -- 'It was a hard thing to undo this knot' -- The Habit of Perfection -- The Wreck of the Deutschland -- Moonrise -- God's Grandeur -- Spring -- In the Valley of the Elwy -- The Windhover -- Pied Beauty -- 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' -- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo -- The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe -- 'The Child is Father to the Man' -- Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves -- 'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief' -- '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; let' -- 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend' -- John Henry Newman (1801-1890) -- from The Dream of Gerontius Fifth Choir of Angelicals -- Arthur Munby (1828-1910) -- The Serving Maid -- One Way of Looking at It -- Post Mortem.
Sebastian Evans (1830-1909) -- The Fifteen Days of Judgment -- James Thomson ('B.V.') (1834-1882) -- from Art III 'Singing is sweet; but be sure of this' -- 'Once in a saintly passion' -- Mr MacCall at Cleveland Hall -- In the Room -- In a Christian Churchyard -- from The City of Dreadful Night -- IV 'He stood alone within the spacious square' -- XVIII 'I wandered in a suburb of the north' -- C.S. Calverley (1831-1884) -- Peace: A Study -- Changed -- Contentment -- 'Forever' -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Her Dilemma -- Neutral Tones -- Thoughts of Phena -- Friends Beyond -- At an Inn -- 'I Look into My Glass' -- Drummer Hodge -- A Wife in London -- An August Midnight -- The Darkling Thrush -- Wives in the Sere -- The Subalterns -- Long Plighted -- A Commonplace Day -- To Lizbie Browne -- A Broken Appointment -- The Self-Unseeing -- Dora Greenwell (1821-1882) -- A Scherzo -- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848-1867) -- A Song -- W.H. Mallock (1849-1923) -- A Marriage Prospect -- Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker -- George Eliot (Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans) (1819-1880) -- from Brother and Sister -- VI 'Our brown canal was endless to my thought' -- VII 'Those long days measured by my little feet' -- VIII 'But sudden came the barge's pitch-black prow' -- George Augustus Simcox (1841-1905) -- Love's Votary -- T.E. Brown (1830-1897) -- The Well -- 'High overhead' -- The Bristol Channel -- I Bended unto Me -- from Roman Women XIII 'O Englishwoman on the Pincian' -- A Sermon at Clevedon -- Dartmoor: Sunset at Chagford.
George MacDonald (1824-1905) -- Winter Song -- Professor Noctutus -- The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs -- No End of No-Story -- Frederick Locker-Lampson (formerly Locker) (1821-1895) -- A Terrible Infant -- Edward Dowden (1843-1913) -- Burdens -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- 'In Autumn when the woods are red' -- 'I saw red evening through the rain' -- Browning -- 'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style' -- Requiem -- Pirate Ditty -- A Mile an' a Bittock -- Fragment ['Thou strainest through the mountain fern'] -- 'So live, so love, so use that fragile hour' -- To Mrs Will H. Low -- 'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves' -- 'It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth' -- 'Fair Isle at Sea -- thy lovely name' -- 'As with heaped bees at hiving time' -- 'The morning drum-call on my eager ear' -- 'I have trod the upward and the downward slope' -- William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) -- Waiting -- To W.R. ['Madam Life's a piece in bloom'] -- Sydney Dobell (1824-1874) -- Perhaps -- E. Keary (fl. 1857-1882) -- Old Age -- Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887) -- After -- Louisa S. Guggenberger (formerly Bevington) (1845-1895) -- Afternoon -- Twilight -- 'Egoisme a Deux' -- Love and Language -- Am I to Lose You? -- William Renton (fl. 1875-1905) -- The Foal -- The Shadow of Himself -- Crescent Moon -- After Nightfall -- Moon and Candle-light -- The Fork of the Road -- R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891) -- Past and Present -- Alice Meynell (1847-1922) -- After a Parting -- Cradle-Song at Twilight -- The Shepherdess.
'I Am the Way' -- The Lady Poverty -- Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849-1907) -- A Moth -- George R. Sims (1847-1922) -- A Garden Song -- Undertones -- Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) -- The Long White Seam -- John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) -- The Camera Obscura -- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) -- London Snow -- On a Dead Child -- 'The evening darkens over' -- Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) -- 'Get Up!' -- Not as Wont -- William Watson (1858-1935) -- An Epitaph -- William Frederick Stevenson (fl. 1883) -- Life and Impellance -- A Planet of Descendance -- Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907) -- Sunken Gold -- Idle Charon -- Noon's Dream-Song -- Among the Firs -- Amy Levy (1861-1889) -- Epitaph -- On the Threshold -- A. Mary F. Robinson (MME Darmesteter, MME Duclaux) (1857-1944) -- Aubade Triste -- Pallor -- Neurasthenia -- An Orchard at Avignon -- E. Nesbit (1858-1924) -- Song ['Oh, baby, baby, baby dear'] -- Among His Books -- The Gray Folk -- Love's Guerdons -- The Claim -- Villeggiature -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- The Story of Uriah -- Danny Deever -- Gentlemen-Rankers -- In the Neolithic Age -- The Vampire -- Recessional -- William Canton (1845-1926) -- Day-Dreams -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Les Ballons -- Symphony in Yellow -- from The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- I 'He did not wear his scarlet coat' -- III 'In Debtors' Yard the stones are hard' -- Andrew Lang (1844-1912) -- The Last Chance -- Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) -- Victory -- Lambeth Lyric -- A Stranger -- The Roman Stage -- The Dark Angel.
Gerald Massey (1828-1907) -- 'As proper mode of quenching legal lust' -- The Diakka -- Womankind -- Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901) -- Any Soul to Any Body -- Arthur Symons (1865-1945) -- Pastel: Masks and Faces -- The Absinthe-Drinker -- Rain on the Down -- During Music -- At the Cavour -- At Dieppe -- Paris -- The Barrel-Organ -- W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- A Cradle Song -- The Pity of Love -- The Sorrow of Love -- When You Are Old -- Who Goes with Fergus? -- He Thinks of Those who have Spoken Evil of His Beloved -- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven -- William Cory (formerly Johnson) (1823-1892) -- Hersilia -- James Logie Robertson (1846-1922) -- The Discovery of America -- A Schule Laddie's Lament on the Lateness o' the Season -- Dollie Radford (1858-?) -- Soliloquy of a Maiden Aunt -- J.K. Stephen (1859-1892) -- England and America -- On a Rhine Steamer -- On a Parisian Boulevard -- In the Backs -- A Remonstrance -- After the Golden Wedding -- Katharine Tynan (1861-1931) -- The Witch -- Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) -- 'You would have understood me, had you waited' -- Terre Promise -- Spleen -- 'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' -- John Gray (1866-1934) -- Les Demoiselles de Sauve -- Wings in the Dark -- The Barber -- Mishka -- The Vines -- Poem -- Spleen -- Battledore -- 'They say, in other days' -- Tobias and the Angel -- The Flying Fish -- On the South Coast of Cornwall -- Michael Field, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914), Edith Cooper (1862-1913) -- Cyclamens -- Noon -- John Davidson (1857-1909).
Thirty Bob a Week -- A Northern Suburb -- Mary E. Coleridge (1861-1907) -- An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar -- The Nurse's Lament -- Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) -- The Three Musicians -- The Ballad of a Barber -- A.E. Housman (1859-1936) -- from A Shropshire Lad -- I 1887 -- XII 'When I watch the living meet' -- XVI 'It nods and curtseys and recovers' -- XXX 'Others, I am not the first' -- XL 'Into my heart an air that kills' -- XLVIII 'Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle' -- LX 'Now hollow fires burn out to black' -- 'Because I liked you better' -- 'Her strong enchantments failing' -- 'Yonder see the morning blink' -- 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?' -- 'Here dead lie we because we did not choose' -- 'When the bells justle in the tower' -- 'The laws of God, the laws of man' -- 'When the eye of day is shut' -- 'Some can gaze and not be sick' -- 'The sigh that heaves the grasses' -- Victor Plarr (1863-1929) -- Shadows -- Of Change of Opinions -- Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) -- The Justice of the Peace -- Francis Thompson (1859-1907) -- The End of It -- Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898) -- Old Age -- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918) -- The Wind on the Hills.
Subject English poetry -- 19th century.
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
English poetry -- 1800-1899 (19th century)
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Indexed Term Poetry in English, 1837-1900 - Anthologies
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Ricks, Christopher, 1933- editor.
Other Form: Online version: New Oxford book of Victorian verse. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987 (OCoLC)571320454
ISBN 0192141546
9780192141545
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