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 |
