The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) [Paperback]

Various (Author), Daniel Karlin (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin | Publication Date: June 1, 1999

Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, this volume offers generous selections from other major poets such as Arnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

Editorial Reviews

Review

By And By, We Shall Meet by William Allingham
The Fairy King by William Allingham
In Snow by William Allingham
Writing by William Allingham
Railway Dreamings by Alexander Anderson
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Growing Old by Matthew Arnold
Isolation: To Marguerite - Continued by Matthew Arnold
Lines Written In Kensington Gardens by Matthew Arnold
Philomela by Matthew Arnold
Resignation by Matthew Arnold
Revolutions by Matthew Arnold
Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold
The Sick King In Bokhara by Matthew Arnold
Give Me October's Meritative Haze by Alfred Austin
La Mort D'arthur by William Edmonstoune Aytoun
Honey-harvest by Jane Barlow
Evenen In The Village by William Barnes
To Me by William Barnes
Dream-pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Night-scene by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Phantom-lover [or, Wooer] by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Slight And Degenerate Nature Of Man by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song On The Water (2) by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Camelopard by Hilaire Belloc
The Dodo by Hilaire Belloc
The Llama by Hilaire Belloc
The Marmozet by Hilaire Belloc
The Ant-heap by Arthur Christopher Benson
Thomas Gray by Arthur Christopher Benson
'egoisme A Deux' by Louisa S. Bevington
Sonnet: One More Bruised Heart by Louisa S. Bevington
As I Walked Through London by Laurence Binyon
A Song Of Contrdictions by Samuel Laman Blanchard
On Reading The 'rubaiyat' Of Omar Khayyam In A Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind
A Curling Thread by Katherine Harris Bradley
Cyclamens by Katherine Harris Bradley
Irises by Katherine Harris Bradley
It Was Deep April by Katherine Harris Bradley
L'indifferent; Watteau; The Louvre by Katherine Harris Bradley
On A Dead Child by Robert Seymour Bridges
Song by Anne Bronte
Diving by Charlotte Bronte
On The Death Of Emily Bronte by Charlotte Bronte
Stanzas by Charlotte Bronte
High Waving Heather, 'neath Stormy Blasts Bending by Emily Jane Bronte
How Still, How Happy! Those Are Words by Emily Jane Bronte
I'm Happiest When Most Away by Emily Jane Bronte
The Night Is Darkening Round Me by Emily Jane Bronte
No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Jane Bronte
Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte
Upon Her Soothing Breast by Emily Jane Bronte
The Mud-fish, By An Indignant Tory Footman by Charles William Shirley Brooks
A Sermon At Clevedon; Good Friday by Thomas Edward Brown
Mother And Poet; Turin, After The News From Gaeta, 1861 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Heart And I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Peasants' Blessings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim's Point by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese (1-44, Complete) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Andrea Del Sarto (called The Faultless Painter) by Robert Browning
Asolando: Dubiety by Robert Browning
Asolando: Prologue by Robert Browning
Asolando: Speculative by Robert Browning
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church by Robert Browning
Caliban Upon Setebos; Or, Natural Theology In The Island by Robert Browning
'childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning
A Grammarian's Funeral by Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Never The Time And The Place by Robert Browning
Pan And Luna by Robert Browning
Spring Song by Robert Browning
A Toccata Of Galuppi's by Robert Browning
Two In The Campagna by Robert Browning
Waring by Robert Browning
Youth And Art by Robert Browning
Seaward by Edward Robert Bulwer-lytton
Aeschylus Homer And Shakespeare, Souls by Caerleon [pseud.]
Heraclitus by Callimachus
Peace; A Study by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Crow by William Canton
The Haunted Bridge by William Canton
The Unnamed Women, Sels. by Elizabeth Rundell Charles
The Gipsy Camp by John Clare
I Am by John Clare
An Invite To Eternity by John Clare
Look Through The Naked Bramble And Black Thorn by John Clare
The Red Bagged Bee On Never Weary Wing by John Clare
The Shepherd Boy (2) by John Clare
The Thunder Mutters Louder And More Loud by John Clare
Amours De Voyage: Canto 1 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 2 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 3 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 4 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 5 by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Larch Grove by David Hartley Coleridge
Think Upon Death, 'tis Good To Think Of Death by David Hartley Coleridge
L'oiseau Bleu by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Night Is Fallen Within, Without by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The White Women by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Winged Words by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge by Edward James Mortimer Collins
On Seeing A Bird-catcher by Eliza Cook
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 7 by Thomas Cooper
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 8 by Thomas Cooper
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 9 by Thomas Cooper
'for One Man's Pleasure' by Mary M. Singleton Currie
Victoria by Mary M. Singleton Currie
A Labourer's Wife by John Davidson
New Year's Day by John Davidson
Thirty Bob A Week by John Davidson
Dream by Richard Watson Dixon
The Mystery Of The Body by Richard Watson Dixon
Song by Richard Watson Dixon
The Botanist's Vision by Sydney Thompson Dobell
The Wounded by Sydney Thompson Dobell
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Sister Death by Digby Mackworth Dolben
Invisible Sights by Alfred Domett
The Pool by Edward Dowden
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Spleen; For Arthur Symons by Ernest Dowson
To William Theodore Peters On His Renaissance Cloak by Ernest Dowson
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare by Ernest Dowson
Past And Present by Rowland Eyles Egerton-warburton
British Rural Cottages In 1842 by Ebenezer Elliott
Not Die? Who Saith That Nature Cannot Die? by Ebenezer Elliott
Will It Rain? by Ebenezer Elliott
Over! by Anne Evans
Brother And Sister by Mary Ann Evans
What The Trumpeter Said by Sebastian Evans
The Brooklet by David (1838-1861) Gray
Song Of The Seedling; To Arthur Sewell Butt by John Gray
Spleen by John Gray
The Vines; To Andre Chverillon by John Gray
A Scherzo (a Shy Person's Wishes) by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
A Valentine by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
Unrest by Thomas Gordon Hake
Poetry By The Way-side by John Hanmer
To An Eagle by John Hanmer
An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
De Profundis 1 by Thomas Hardy
The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy
Friends Beyond by Thomas Hardy
Her Dilemma; In Church by Thomas Hardy
I Look Into My Glass by Thomas Hardy
In The Old Theatre, Fiesole by Thomas Hardy
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Respectable Burgher, On 'the Higher Criticism' by Thomas Hardy
Rome. At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley by Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
The Self-unseeing by Thomas Hardy
V.r. 1819-1901; A Reverie by Thomas Hardy
Under The Surface by Frances Ridley Havergal
The Cornish Emigrant's Song by Robert Stephen Hawker
Back-view by William Ernest Henley
Echoes: 38 by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 2. Waiting by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 23. Music by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 28. Discharged by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 3. Interior by William Ernest Henley
To W.r. by William Ernest Henley
The Song Of The Shirt by Thomas Hood
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Immanent by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Repeat That, Repeat by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire & Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Shropshire Lad: 1. 1887 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 13 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 16 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 30 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 40 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 52 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 63 by Alfred Edward Housman
The Dor-hawk by Mary (botham) Howitt
The Fish, The Man, And The Spirit (complete) by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Rondeau by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Loss And Waste by Jean Ingelow
Mopsa The Fairy: Winding-up Time by Jean Ingelow
Breathe Not A Murmur Thou Of Querulous by Henry James
The Human Skull Is Of Deceit by Henry James
Man's Universal Hymn by Henry James
The Son's A Poor, Wretched, Unfortunate Creature by Henry James
By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross by Lionel Pigot Johnson
The Dark Angel by Lionel Pigot Johnson
Love's Ways by Lionel Pigot Johnson
High Summer by Ebenezer Jones
The Poet's Death by Ebenezer Jones
The Factory Town by Ernest Charles Jones
Lay Of The Trilobite by May Kendall
A Dream Maiden by Harriet Eleanor Hamilton (baille) King
Airly Beacon by Charles Kingsley
Lament by Charles Kingsley
The Last Buccaneer by Charles Kingsley
The Poetry Of A Root Crop by Charles Kingsley
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
Tommy [atkins] by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow At Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
Gossiping by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Marriage Vow by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Power Of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Along This Coast I Led The Vacant Hours by Walter Savage Landor
Cottage Left For London by Walter Savage Landor
The Duke Of York's Statue by Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech Of An Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
Malvolio by Walter Savage Landor
To A Cyclamen by Walter Savage Landor
Where Alders Rise Up Dark And Dense by Walter Savage Landor
The Nameless Doon [or, Ruin] by William Larminie
The Courtship Of The Yonghy-bonghy-bo by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear
A Snail's Derby by Eugene Lee-hamilton
The Bunch Of Larks by Robert Leighton
Epitaph (on A Commonplace Person Who Died In Bed) by Amy Levy
Of A Bird-cage by Caroline Lindsay
Beggars by Frederick Locker-lampson
Badminton by Alfred Comyns Lyall
Hymn by Henry Francis Lyte
Siberia by James Clarence Mangan
After by Philip Bourke Marston
Grief's Aspects by Philip Bourke Marston
Speechless; Upon The Marriage Of Two Deaf And Dumb Persons by Philip Bourke Marston
Modern Love (complete) by George Meredith
Cradle Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell
A Dead Harvest (in Kensington Gardens) by Alice Meynell
The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell
Parentage by Alice Meynell
Renouncement by Alice Meynell
The Ant-lion by Thomas Miller
The Commonest Lot by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
Epitaph On A Fair Woman by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
Epitaph On An Infant by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
A Ballad Of A Shield by Cosmo Monkhouse
Echoes Of Love's House by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Haystack In The Floods by William (1834-1896) Morris
Pomona by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Serving Maid by Arthur Joseph Munby
A Ballad Of Refreshment by Robert Fuller Murray
Brekekekex Koax Koax by Robert Fuller Murray
Christ, The Nazarene by Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden
On Dit by Edith Bland Nesbit
Gillespie by Henry Newbolt
A Nightmare by Eliza Ogilvy
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition. (complete) by Omar Khayyam
The Annuity by George Outram
Departure by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
A London Fete by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Magna Est Veritas by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Toys by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Wife's Tragedy by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Triolet by Emily Jane (davis) Pfeiffer
Lyrics: 3 by Stephen Phillips
At Citoyenne Tussaud's by Victor Gustave Plarr
Epitaphium Citharistriae by Victor Gustave Plarr
The Imperial Prayers by Victor Gustave Plarr
On Change Of Opinions by Victor Gustave Plarr
Shadows by Victor Gustave Plarr
The Solitaires by Victor Gustave Plarr
Twilight-piece by Victor Gustave Plarr
Triolet: A Mesalliance by May Probyn
Envy by Adelaide Anne Procter
The Sexes by Bryan Waller Procter
From The Suburbs by Dollie (maitland) Radford
Lilliput Levee by William Brighty Rands
The Foal by William Renton
The Fork Of The Road by William Renton
Peat Cutting by William Renton
Spring Floods (in Normandy) by William Renton
A Back-lying Farm by James Logie Robertson
The White Winter - Hughie Snawed Up by James Logie Robertson
Neurastenia by Agnes Mary F. Robinson
Twilight by Agnes Mary F. Robinson
By The Seashore (fragment) by William Caldwell Roscoe
Sonnet Occasioned By A Visit To Torzelo, A Venetian Isle by William Stewart Rose
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Christmas Carol (1) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Dirge by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fata Morgana by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Forget Me Not! by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Frog's Fate by Christina Georgina Rossetti
From The Antique (1) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
'the Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness' (2) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
An Immurata Sister by Christina Georgina Rossetti
In An Artist's Studio by Christina Georgina Rossetti
In The Round Tower At Jhansi, June 8, 1857 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Introspective by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Last Rites by Christina Georgina Rossetti
May (1) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 1 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 10 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 11 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 12 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 13 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 14 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 2 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 3 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 4 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 5 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 6 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 7 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 8 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Monna Innominata, A Sonnet Of Sonnets: 9 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
My Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti
An Old-world Thicket by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pastime by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 105 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 14 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 3 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 45 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 48 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 63 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 72 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 88 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 92 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 94 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song (10) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song (2) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song (9) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Spring Quiet by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Summer Is Ended (2) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
These All Wait Upon Thee by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Up-hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Winter: My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Wish by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 6a. Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 97. A Superscription by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 98. He And I by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Mid-world by George William Russell
The Schoolboy At Home by Richard Hill Sandys
Silence by William Bell Scott
The Witch's Ballad by William Bell Scott
In The Jacquerie by George Augustus Simcox
Get Up by Joseph Skipsey
A Golden Lot by Joseph Skipsey
Mother Wept by Joseph Skipsey
The Stars Are Twinkling In The Sky by Joseph Skipsey
A Bird-eye's View by Menella Bute Smedley
Glasgow by Alexander Smith
Found And Lost by Walter Chalmers Smith
England And America: 1. On A Rhine Steamer by James Kenneth Stephen
England And America: 2. On A Parisian Boulevard by James Kenneth Stephen
Poetic Lamentation Insufficiency Of Steam Locomotion Lake District by James Kenneth Stephen
At The Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land Of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Light-keeper by Robert Louis Stevenson
Love - What Is Love? A Great And Aching Heart by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson
Singing by Robert Louis Stevenson
Whole Duty Of Children by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Love-letter by Henry Septimus Sutton
Man by Henry Septimus Sutton
Who Shall Deliver? by Henry Septimus Sutton
A Cameo by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden Of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ilicet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love And Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Rhyme by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Sundew by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Absinthe-drinker by Arthur Symons
To The Author's Wife by Henry (1800-1886) Taylor
Audley Court by Alfred Tennyson
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
Crossing The Bar by Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle; A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 1 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 10 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 106 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 11 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 119 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 12 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 13 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 130 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 131 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 14 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 15 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 16 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 17 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 18 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 19 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 2 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 20 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 21 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 22 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 23 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 24 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 25 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 26 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 27 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 28 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 29 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 3 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 30 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 4 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 48 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 5 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 50 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 54 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 55 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 56 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 6 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 7 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 77 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 8 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 86 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 88 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 9 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 93 by Alfred Tennyson
In The Valley Of Cauteretz by Alfred Tennyson
The Lady Of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson
Maud: Part 1, 22. The Garden Song by Alfred Tennyson
Morte D'arthur by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson
To The Queen by Alfred Tennyson
Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
The Voyage Of Maeldune by Alfred Tennyson
The Three Sailors by William Makepeace Thackeray
Whisperings For The Unwashed by William Thom
At Lord's [cricket Ground] by Francis Thompson
Daphne by Francis Thompson
The End Of It by Francis Thompson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 1 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 10 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 11 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 12 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 13 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 14 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 15 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 16 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 17 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 18 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 19 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 2 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 20 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 21 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 3 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 4 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 6 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 7 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 8 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 9 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: Proem by James (1834-1882) Thomson
Rain by John Todhunter
A Brilliant Day by Charles Tennyson Turner
Joy Came From Heaven by Charles Tennyson Turner
A Photograph On The Red Gold; Jersey by Charles Tennyson Turner
Welsh Lucy, Or The Duke Of Monmouth's Mother by Charles Tennyson Turner
Wind On The Corn by Charles Tennyson Turner
Johnny Sands (1) by Anonymous
Queen Victoria by Anonymous
The Way To Live by Anonymous
The Knight In The Wood by John Byrne Leicester Warren
Lines To A Lady-bird by John Byrne Leicester Warren
On A Portrait Of Sifr John Suckling by John Byrne Leicester Warren
The Pilgrim Cranes by John Byrne Leicester Warren
The Study Of A Spider by John Byrne Leicester Warren
Aubade by Rosamund Marriott Watson
Byron The Voluptuary; Epigram by William Watson
Epigram: The Play Of King Lear by William Watson
The Metropolitan Underground Railway by William Watson
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 1 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 10 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 11. Love's Mourn by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 12 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 13 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 14 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 15 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 16 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 17 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 18 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 19 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 2 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 20 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 21 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 22 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 23 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 24 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 25 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 26 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 27 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 3 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 4 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 5 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 6 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 7 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 8 by Augusta Davies Webster
Mother And Daughter; An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence: 9 by Augusta Davies Webster
A Type Of Human Life This Forest Old by Charles Whitehead
The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde
Les Balloons by Oscar Wilde
Symphony In Yellow by Oscar Wilde
Fate by James Chapman Woods
Hark! 'tis The Thrush, Undaunted, Undeprest by William Wordsworth
Near Anio's Stream I Spied A Gentle Dove by William Wordsworth
On The Projected Kendal And Windermere Railway by William Wordsworth
Sonnet To An Octogenarian by William Wordsworth
Suggested At Noon On Loughrigg Fell by William Wordsworth
The Unremitting Voice Of Nightly Streams by William Wordsworth
Upon The Sight Of The Portrait Of A Female Friend by William Wordsworth
Aedh Laments The Loss Of Love by William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Breasal The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
An Old Song Resung by William Butler Yeats
The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
The Sorrow Of Love (1) by William Butler Yeats
The Valley Of The Black Pig by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Daniel Karlin is Professor of English Literature at University College London. He is co-editor, with John Woolford, of 'The Poems of Browning' and editor of the selection of Browning's poetry published in the Penguin Poetry Library.

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• Paperback: 928 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140445781
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1.0 out of 5 stars Victorian Verse Flops Again, March 19, 2001

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J. Farrell (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Paperback)

Penguin has brought out this new volume to replace George MacBeth's eccentric and useless volume in the Penguin Classics series. But Karlin's production is equally dismal. These books, though theoretically aimed at a non-specialist audience, seem actually constructed for the amusement of exclusively donnish readers. Many of the most powerful and important achievements in Victorian poetry are ignored by this volume. Among the missing are: "The Scholar-Gypsy," "The Triumph of Time," "The Defense of Guenevere," and "Wessex Heights." The Ring and the Book is entirely unrepresented as is Empedocles on Etna. At the same time the volume includes great lumps of unpoetic babble. Clough's dull prosings are allotted 40 pages by Karlin while D. G. Rossetti is ludicrously restricted to 6! The Arnold selection is hopelessly unrepresentative, but Karlin manages room for such waxwork poetry as the following: I can read of thee,and find out/How thou fliest fast or slow;/Of thee in the north and south too,/Of thy great moustachioed mouth too,/And thy Latin name also (from Mary Howitt, The Dor-Hawk). Or the reader can thrill to Thomas Miller's The Ant-Lion: Then get into the sand his head,/Give it a bite and he is dead. The Ant-Lion has, perhaps, had some say in the construction of this anthology.After the misfire of MacBeth's volume, I would have thought Penguin would have been careful to publish a volume that its potential readers would have welcomed. They won't welcome this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not to yield, November 1, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Paperback)

For the non-expert in Victorian poetry there is a rich and varied selection. Not only the heart of Victorian poetry, that is Browning and Tennyson, but also those whose place is really before but lived in the period as Wordsworth and those whose place is after but had their beginnings there, as Yeats. There are many names and poems of those whose work is not much read today.
There is however also Meredith's full Sonnet sequence, and a considerable amount of Elizabeth Barret Browning, and Rossetti.
I conclude the review with favorite lines of mine from my favorite Victorian Poem, Tennyson's 'Ulysses'
"Thou much is taken/much abides/ And thou we are not that strength/which moved Heaven/That which we are we are/ One equal temper of heroic hearts/ Made weak by time and fate/But strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find/And not to yield.