A fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde. An annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. It features works by major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde. Suggested Contents by Theme and Genre.Alphabetical List of Authors.List of Plates.Abbreviations.Chronology.Acknowledgements.Introduction.Poetry included (short titles)..Thomas Macaulay (1800 59).`Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX .Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 61).`Bertha in the Lane .`The Cry of the Children .`Rime of the Duchess May .`The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim s Point .`Hiram Powers Greek Slave .Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):.`I thought once how Theocritus had sung .`I never gave a lock of hair away .`If I leave all for thee .`How do I love thee? Let me count the ways .`Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers .`Lord Walter s Wife .`A Musical Instrument .`Amy s Cruelty .Alfred Tennyson (1809 92).`The Dying Swan .`Mariana .`The Lotos Eaters .`The Lady of Shalott .`The Epic/Morte d Arthur .`Ulysses .`Now sleeps the crimson petal .In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII.`The Charge of the Light Brigade .`To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava .`Crossing the Bar .Robert Browning (1812 89).`Porphyria s Lover .`My Last Duchess .`The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed s Church .`Fra Lippo Lippi .`Andrea del Sarto .` Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came .`A Toccata of Galuppi s .`Two in the Campagna .`Caliban upon Setebos .`Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton .`Inapprehensiveness .Emily Brontë (1818 48).`High waving heather .`The Night Wind.`Shall earth no more inspire thee[?] .`To Imagination .`Remembrance .`The Prisoner: A Fragment .`No coward soul is mine .Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 61).`Say not the struggle nought availeth .Amours de Voyage.`The Latest Decalogue .Matthew Arnold (1822 88).`A Summer Night .`To Marguerite Continued .`Empedocles on Etna .`The Buried Life .`The Scholar Gipsy .`Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse .`Dover Beach .Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 64).`Philip and Mildred .`A Legend of Provence .George Meredith (1828 1909).Modern Love.Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 82).`The Burden of Nineveh .`Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni .`Jenny .`Nuptial Sleep .`Song 8: The Woodspurge .Christina G. Rossetti (1830 94).`In an Artist s Studio .`An Apple Gathering .`A Birthday .`Goblin Market .`Song: When I am dead, my dearest .`Winter: My Secret .`The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860 .`Shut Out .`The World .`A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid winter .`In life our absent friend .`Resurgam .`Babylon the Great .James Thomson, `B. V. (1834 82).The City of Dreadful Night.William Morris (1834 96).`The Haystack in the Floods .`The Defence of Guenevere .`Concerning Geffray Teste Noire .`Iceland First Seen .Alfred Austin (1835 1913).`Henry Bartle Edward Frere .Augusta Webster (1837 94).`Circe .`A Castaway .`Faded .Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 1909).`Hymn to Proserpine .`Anactoria .`Laus Veneris .`Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire .`A Forsaken Garden .Thomas Hardy (1840 1928).`Hap .`Drummer Hodge .`The Darkling Thrush .`In the Old Theatre, Fiesole .`The Ruined Maid .`The Self Unseeing .`In Tenebris I .`Shelley s Skylark .`Lausanne: In Gibbon s Old Garden .`The Revisitation .Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844 89).`Spring and Fall .`The Wreck of the Deutschland .`As kingfishers catch fire .`God s Grandeur .`Pied Beauty .`The Windhover .`Inversnaid .`That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection .`Harry Ploughman .`Binsey Poplars .`No worst, there is none .`My own heart let me more have pity on .Eugene Lee Hamilton (1845 1907).`The New Medusa .Imaginary Sonnets: `Laura to Petrarch .`Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice .`Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife .`Charles Edward to his Last Friend .Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846 1914] and Edith Cooper [1862 1913]).`Maids, not to you my mind doth change .`La Gioconda .`A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto .`A Girl .`Cyclamens .`Sometimes I do despatch my heart .`It was deep April .`Nests in Elms .Four Victorian Hymns.`The day thou gavest (Ellerton).`Take my life and let it be (Havergal).`Onward Christian soldiers (Baring Gould).`My God how wonderful thou art (Faber).W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849 1903).In Hospital.Oscar Wilde (1854 1900).`Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons .`Symphony in Yellow .The Ballad of Reading Gaol.John Davidson (1857 1909).`Thirty Bob a Week .`A Woman and her Son .`Snow .`The Crystal Palace .May Kendall (1861 ?1943).`Lay of the Trilobite .Amy Levy (1861 89).`Xantippe: A Fragment .`A Minor Poet .`A Ballad of Religion and Marriage .Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936).`Fuzzy Wuzzy .`Gunga Din .`Tommy .`Recessional, A Victorian Ode .`The White Man s Burden .`If .`The Way through the Woods .Arthur Symons (1865 1945).`From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry .`The Absinthe Drinker .`Javanese Dancers .`Prologue .`Paris .`Hands .`White Heliotrope .`Stella Maris .Ernest Dowson (1867 1900).`Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration .`Extreme Unction .`Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae .`Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam .Lionel Johnson (1867 1902).`Oxford .`By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross .`The Dark Angel .Charlotte Mew (1869 1928).`The Forest Road .`Madeleine in Church .`The Trees are Down .Select Bibliography.Index of titles.Index of First Lines
