Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology,9780631176091

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

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ISBN13: 9780631176091
ISBN10: 0631176098
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Pub. Date: 1995-09-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

Victorian Women Poets aims to recover the lost map of Victorian women's poetry. In its sheer variety and energy it in fact offers nothing less than a complete refiguring of the Victorian poetic canon.

Table of Contents

List of Poets
xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgements xxii
Introduction xxv
Margaret Reynolds
Angela Leighton xxxv
Note on the text xli
Felicia Hemans (1793--1835)
1(19)
The Last Song of Sappho
4(1)
Corinne at the Capitol
5(1)
To a Wandering Female Singer
6(1)
Woman and Fame
7(1)
Properzia Rossi
8(3)
The Grave of a Poetess
11(2)
Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School
13(1)
The Image in Lava
14(1)
Casabianca
15(1)
Song of Emigration
16(2)
The Chamois Hunter's Love
18(1)
The Stranger's Heart
19(1)
A Parting Song
19(1)
Mary Howitt (1799--1888)
20(5)
The Dying Child
22(2)
The Cry of the Animals
24(1)
Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800--1833)
25(11)
To My Own Heart
30(2)
A Farewell to the Muse
32(1)
A Summer Eve's Vision
33(1)
Verses
34(2)
`My Heart in the kitchen, my heart is not here'
36(1)
Caroline Clive (`V') (1801--1873)
36(25)
The Mother
38(1)
Old Age
39(1)
L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) (1802--1838)
from The Improvisatrice
39(3)
Sappho's Song
42(1)
Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans
43(2)
A History of the Lyre
45(10)
A Girl at Her Devotions
55(1)
The Dying Child from Fragments
56(5)
Secrets
58(1)
Small Miseries
58(1)
The Marriage Vow
58(1)
Gifts Misused
58(1)
The Poor
59(1)
Stern Truth
59(1)
The Mask of Gaiety
59(1)
The Power of Words
60(1)
The Farewell
60(1)
Song: `Farewell-and never think of me'
60(1)
Sara Coleridge (1802--1852)
61(2)
` ``Father no amaranths e'er shall wreathe my brow'' '
62(1)
`Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade'
62(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)
63(66)
Felicia Hemans
67(1)
L.E.L.'s Last Question
68(2)
The Romance of the Swan's Nest
70(4)
Grief
74(1)
To George Sand: A Desire
74(1)
To George Sand: A Recognition
75(1)
The Cry of the Children
75(5)
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
80(8)
Flush or faunus
88(1)
The Mask
from Sonnets from the Portuguese
88(3)
`Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor' IV
90(1)
`I Lift my heavy heart up solemnly' V
90(1)
`And wilt thou have me fashion into speech' XIII
90(1)
`How do I love thee Let me count the ways' XLIII
from Casa Guidi Windows
91(1)
Part one (II 1--48)
from Aurora Leigh
91(26)
Book II (II 1--816)
92(19)
Book VI (II 419--694)
111(6)
from A Curse for a Nation
117(2)
Lord Walter's Wife
119(3)
My Heart and I
122(2)
The Best Thing in the World
124(1)
A Musical Instrument
124(2)
Mother and Poet
126(3)
Helen Dufferin (1807--1867)
129(5)
The Charming Woman
131(1)
The Mother's Lament
132(2)
Caroline Norton (1808--1877)
134(12)
The Picture of Sappho
136(3)
Obscurity of Woman's Worth
139(1)
Sonnet VII: `Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs'
139(1)
from Marriage and Love
140(2)
from A Voice from the Factories
142(4)
Frances Anne Kemble (1809--1893)
146(4)
To Mrs. Norton
148(1)
Lines: On Reading with Difficulty Some of Schiller's Early Love Poems
148(1)
Sonnet: `If there were any power in human love'
149(1)
Farewell to Italy
149(1)
Charlotte Bronte (1816--1855)
150(17)
Young Man Naughty's Adventure
155(1)
The Lonely Lady
156(1)
My Dreams
157(1)
`Obscure and little seen my way'
158(1)
`Is this my tomb, this humble stone'
158(2)
The Orphan Child
160(1)
`Like wolf--and black bull or goblin hound'
161(1)
Pilate's Wife's Dream
161(4)
Reason
165(1)
On the Death of Emily Jane Bronte
166(1)
On the Death of Anne Bronte
167(1)
Isa Blagden (1816--1873)
167(4)
To George Sand on her Interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
169(2)
Frances Brown (E) (1816--1879)
171(3)
from the Australian Emigrant
173(1)
Eliza Cook (1817--1889)
174(21)
The Old Arm-Chair
177(1)
Song of the Rushlight
178(1)
The Idiot-Born
179(1)
`'Tis Well to Wake the Theme of Love'
180(1)
On Seeing a Bird-Catcher
181(1)
Song of the Imprisoned Bird
181(2)
The Surgeon's Knife
183(1)
To My Lyre
184(1)
Song of the Modern Time
185(1)
Song of the Ugly Maiden
186(2)
To Charlotte Cushman
188(1)
A Song for the Workers
189(2)
`Our Father'
191(1)
Lines: Suggested by the Song of a Nightingale
192(2)
To the Late William Jerdan
194(1)
The Mouse and the Cake
194(1)
Emily Jane Bronte (1818--1848)
195(19)
R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida
199(1)
`The night is darkening round me'
200(1)
`Why do I hate that lone green dell'
200(1)
`The linnet in the rocky dells'
201(1)
`Loud without the wind was roaring'
201(2)
`A little while, a little while'
203(2)
`Shall Earth no more inspire thee'
205(1)
`In summer's mellow midnight'
205(1)
`Riches I hold in light esteem'
206(1)
`Aye there it is It wakes tonight'
207(1)
`If grief for grief can touch thee'
207(1)
```Well, some may hate and some may scorn'''
208(1)
My Comforter
209(1)
To Imagination
210(1)
`O thy bright eyes must answer now'
211(1)
`Ah why, because the dazzling sun'
212(1)
`No coward soul is mine'
213(1)
`Stanzas': `Often rebuked, yet always back returning'
214(1)
Henrietta Tindal (1818--1879)
214(3)
The Cry of the Oppressed
215(1)
The Birth Wail
216(1)
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818--1895)
217(2)
`All things bright and beauteous'
218(1)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819--1880)
219(30)
Brother and Sister (Sonnets)
222(5)
from Armgart
Scene II
227(9)
Scene V
236(13)
Anne Bronte (1820--1849)
249(7)
A Fragment
252(1)
`My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring'
253(1)
The Captive Dove
254(1)
Home
255(1)
Night
255(1)
Menella Bute Smedley (1820--1877)
256(12)
A Face from the Past
257(1)
The Irish Fairy
257(3)
The Sorrowful Sea-Gull
260(1)
A Contrast
261(6)
Cavour
267(1)
Jean Ingelow (1820--1897)
268(7)
Divided
270(3)
from Mopsa the Fairy
Winding-up Time
273(1)
A Story
274(1)
`Little Babe, while burns the west'
274(1)
Dora Greenwell (1821--1882)
275(16)
Christina
277(9)
The Broken Chain
286(1)
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in 1851
286(1)
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in 1861
287(1)
Demeter and Cora
287(2)
The Sun-Flower
289(1)
Fidelity Rewarded
290(1)
To Christina Rossetti
291(1)
Jane Francesca Wilde (Speranza) (1821--1896)
291(8)
Who Will Show Us Any Good
294(4)
Corrinne's Last Love-Song
298(1)
The Poet's Destiny
299(1)
Desillusion
299(1)
Eliza Ogilvy (1822--1912)
299(4)
A Natal Address to My Child, March 19th 1844
300(1)
Newly Dead and Newly Born
301(1)
Grannie's Birthday
302(1)
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825--1864)
303(35)
A Woman's Question
306(1)
My Journal
307(2)
A Legend of Provence
309(7)
A Lost Chord
316(1)
A Woman's Answer
317(1)
A Woman's Last Word
318(1)
Three Evenings in a Life
319(12)
Philip and Mildred
331(5)
Homeless
336(1)
Envy
337(1)
Emily Pfeiffer (1827--1890)
338(6)
from From Out of the Night
339(3)
Any Husband to Many a Wife
342(1)
`Peace to the odalisque, the facile slave'
342(1)
The Lost Light
343(1)
Elizabeth Siddal (1829--1862)
344(3)
The Lust of the Eyes
345(1)
At Last
346(1)
Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829--1925)
347(6)
For Adelaide
348(1)
To an Author who loved Truth More Than Fame
349(1)
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning
350(1)
from Summer Sketches
Lillian's Second Letter
350(3)
Christina G. Rossetti (1830--1894)
353(53)
Sappho
357(1)
Song: `When I am dead, my dearest'
357(1)
Three stages
358(2)
Remember
360(1)
A Pause
361(1)
A Study (A Soul)
361(1)
Echo
361(1)
My Dream
362(1)
Cobwebs
363(1)
A Chilly Night
363(2)
A Bed of Forget-me-nots
365(1)
In an Artist's Studio
365(1)
Introspective
366(1)
`Reflection'
366(2)
A Birthday
368(1)
Winter: My Secret
368(1)
A Better Resurrection
369(1)
`The heart knoweth its own bitterness'
369(2)
Autumn
371(1)
At Home
372(1)
The Convent Threshold
373(4)
L.E.L.
377(1)
Goblin market
378(12)
Cousin Kate
390(1)
Noble Sisters
391(2)
On the Wing
393(1)
Twice
393(1)
Under Willows
394(1)
A Sketch
395(1)
From Sunset to star Rise
395(1)
`Italia, Io Ti Saluto'
396(1)
A Christmas Carol
396(1)
from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
`Why did baby die'
397(1)
`If a pig wore a wig'
398(1)
`A Pin has a head, but has no hair'
398(1)
`Hopping frog, hop here and be seen'
398(1)
`When fishes set umbrellas up'
398(1)
`The peacock has a score of eyes'
399(1)
`Who has seen the wind'
399(1)
`Baby lies so fast asleep'
399(1)
`A handy Mole who plied no shovel'
from Later Life
399(1)
Sonnet 26: `This Life is full of numbness and of balk'
400(1)
Soeur Louise de la Misericorde (1674)
400(1)
An Old-World Thicket
401(5)
Ellen Johnston (1835--1873)
406(8)
A Mother's Love
408(1)
Lines: To a Young Gentleman of Surpassing Beauty
409(1)
The Working Man
410(1)
Nelly's Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat
410(2)
Lines to Ellen, the Factory Girl
412(1)
An Address to Nature on its Cruelty
413(1)
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836--1879)
414(3)
Just When Thou Wilt
416(1)
Enigma No. 6
417(1)
Augusta Webster (1837--1894)
417(33)
By the Looking-Glass
419(5)
Faded
424(4)
Circe
428(5)
A Castaway
433(15)
Sonnets from Mother and Daughter
`A Little Child she, half defiant came'
448(1)
Love's Mourner
448(1)
`That some day Death who has us all for jest'
449(1)
`There's one I miss. A little questioning maid'
449(1)
`Since first my little one lay on my breast'
450(1)
Harriet Hamilton King (1840--1920)
450(4)
A Dream Maiden
451(1)
A Moonlight Ride
452(1)
Summer Lost
453(1)
Mathilde Blind (1841--1896)
454(18)
The Russian Student's Tale
456(4)
A Fantasy
460(1)
Entangled
461(1)
The Beautiful Beeshareen Boy
462(3)
On a Forsaken Lark's Nest
from The Ascent of Man
465(7)
Chaunts of Life
465(4)
The Leading of Sorrow
469(3)
`Violet Fane' (1843--1905)
472(3)
In an Irish Churchyard
472(2)
The Siren
474(1)
Caroline Lindsay (1844--1912)
475(2)
Love or Fame
476(1)
To My Own Face
476(1)
L. S. Bevington (1845--1895)
477(4)
`Egoisme a Deux'
479(1)
Measurements
479(1)
One More Bruised Heart
480(1)
`Dreamers'
480(1)
In Memoriam
481(1)
Emily Hickey (1845--1924)
481(6)
`For Richer, For Poorer'
from Michael Villiers, Idealist
482(5)
Book V
483(4)
Michael Field (Katherine Bradley, 1846--1914, and Edith Cooper, 1862--1913)
487(22)
`Maids, not to you my mind doth change'
490(1)
`Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place'
490(1)
A Portrait
491(1)
`O Wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees'
492(1)
`Ah, Eros doth not always smite'
493(1)
`Sometimes I do despatch my heart'
493(1)
`So jealous of your beauty'
493(1)
`Love rises up some days'
494(1)
`Already to mine eyelids' shore'
495(1)
`A Girl'
495(1)
`I sing thee with the stock-dove's throat'
495(1)
Unbosoming
496(1)
`It was deep April'
496(1)
`As two fair vessels side by side'
496(1)
Cyclamens
497(1)
A Flaw
497(1)
Penetration
497(1)
To the Winter Aphrodite
498(1)
Embalmment
498(1)
After Soufriere
498(1)
Fifty Quatrains
499(1)
Nests in Elms
499(1)
`I love you with my life'
499(1)
The Mummy Invokes his Soul
500(1)
Sullenness
500(1)
Leaves
501(1)
Ebbtide at Sundown
501(1)
Life Plastic
501(1)
Eros
502(1)
Elsewhere
502(1)
Nightfall
502(1)
Constancy
503(1)
Sweet-Briar in Rose
503(1)
Your Rose is Dead
503(1)
A Palimpsest
504(1)
Trinity
505(1)
The Goad
505(1)
To Christina Rossetti
506(1)
`Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased'
506(1)
`She is singing to thee, Domine'
506(1)
`Loved, on a sudden thou didst come to me'
506(1)
An Almoner
507(1)
A Picture
507(1)
`Lo, my loved is dying'
508(1)
They Shall Look on Him
508(1)
Fellowship
508(1)
Alice Meynell (1847--1922)
509(16)
To the Beloved
511(1)
A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age
512(1)
To a Daisy
513(1)
A Study
Before Light
514(1)
About Noon
515(3)
At Twilight
518(2)
Renouncement
520(1)
Parentage
520(1)
Cradle-Song at Twilight
521(1)
The Modern Mother
521(1)
The Watershed
521(1)
Maternity
522(1)
Christ in the Universe
522(1)
A Father of Women
523(1)
To Silence
524(1)
The Girl on the Land
524(1)
May Probyn (dates unknown)
525(13)
The Model
526(3)
`As the Flower of the Grass'
529(1)
Barcarolle
530(1)
Ballade of Lovers
530(1)
Blossom
531(1)
Anniversaries
532(1)
The End of the Journey
532(1)
A Song Out of Season
533(1)
Changes
534(1)
`More than they that Watch for the Morning'
534(1)
Rondelet: ` ``Which way he went'' '
535(1)
Rondelet: `Say what you please'
535(1)
Triolets
535(2)
Tete-a-Tete
535(1)
China Maniacs
536(1)
Before
536(1)
After
536(1)
Love in Mayfair
536(1)
Masquerading
537(1)
Frustrated
537(1)
Lai
537(1)
Kyrielle
537(1)
Mary F. Robinson (1857--1944)
538(20)
Venetian Nocturne
539(1)
Stornelli and Strambotti
540(1)
An Oasis
541(1)
A Search for Apollo
541(1)
Tuscan Olives
542(1)
Love, Death, and Art
543(1)
Song: `Oh for the wings of a dove'
544(1)
The Dead Friend
544(2)
Celia's Home-Coming
546(1)
To My Muse
546(1)
Darwinism
547(1)
The Valley
547(2)
Unum est Necessarium
549(2)
Art and Life
551(1)
The Sibyl
552(1)
The Idea
552(1)
Personality
553(1)
The Scape-Goat
554(1)
The Wise-Woman
554(3)
Posies
557(1)
Pallor
557(1)
Constance Naden (1858--1889)
558(13)
The Sister of Mercy
560(1)
The Pantheist's Song of Immortality
560(2)
Love Versus Learning
562(1)
Moonlight and gas
563(1)
The Two Artists
564(1)
Love's Mirror
565(1)
Scientific Wooing
565(2)
Natural Selection
567(1)
Solomon Redivivus, 1886
568(2)
The Pessimist's Vision
570(1)
Poet and Botanist
570(1)
E. Nesbit (1858--1924)
571(10)
Song: `Oh, baby, baby, baby dear'
573(1)
The Husband of To-Day
573(1)
The Wife of All Ages
574(1)
Vies Manquees
575(1)
The Goose-Girl
576(1)
Haunted
576(1)
The Things That Matter
577(1)
The Dead to the Living
578(2)
A Great Industrial Centre
580(1)
Rosamund Marriott Watson
581(8)
`Graham R. Tomson'
Nirvana
582(1)
Ballad of the Bird-Bride
583(2)
A Ballad of the Were-Wolf
585(1)
The White Bird
586(1)
Children of the Mist
587(1)
The White Lady
588(1)
The Cage
589(1)
Amy Levy (1861--1889)
589(21)
Xantippe
591(7)
A Minor Poet
598(4)
Magdalen
602(2)
A Cross-Road Epitaph
604(1)
Epitah (On a Commonplace Person who Died in Bed)
605(1)
A March Day in London
605(1)
Straw in the Street
606(1)
A Reminiscence
606(1)
The Sequel to `A Reminiscence'
607(1)
Twilight
607(1)
The Old House
608(1)
Felo de Se
608(1)
To Vernon Lee
609(1)
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage
609(1)
Mary E. Coleridge (1861--1907)
610(17)
The Other Side of a Mirror
613(1)
A Clever Woman
614(1)
Impromptu
614(1)
Solo
614(1)
`I envy not the dead that rest'
615(1)
Gone
615(1)
`True to myself am I, and false to all'
616(1)
Mortal Combat
616(1)
Friends-With a Difference
616(1)
Master and Guest
617(1)
Gifts
617(1)
The Witch
618(1)
The Contents of an Ink-bottle
618(1)
L 'Oiseau Bleu
619(1)
In London Town
619(1)
The Witches' Wood
620(1)
An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar
620(1)
A Day-dream
621(1)
Unwelcome
622(1)
Wilderspin
622(1)
The Lady of Trees
623(1)
Broken Friendship
624(1)
Shadow
624(1)
The White Women
624(1)
Marriage
625(1)
` ``But in that Sleep of Death what Dreams may Come'' '
625(1)
`The Fire, the lamp, and I, were alone together'
626(1)
`Only a little shall we speak of thee'
626(1)
May Kendall (1861--1931)
627(14)
A Fossil
629(1)
Legand of the Crossing-Sweeper
629(1)
Lay of the Trilobite
630(2)
Woman's Future
632(1)
Underground
633(1)
A Pure Hypothesis
634(1)
Education's Martyr
635(1)
The Philanthropist and the Jelly-fish
636(1)
The Vision of Noah
637(2)
The Lower Life
639(1)
Failures
640(1)
Dora Sigerson (1866--1918)
641(3)
The Skelton in the Cupboard
642(1)
The Mother
643(1)
Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)
644(17)
At the Convent Gate
647(1)
The Farmer's Bride
647(1)
Fame
648(1)
Ken
649(2)
A Quoi Bon Dire
651(1)
On the Asylum Road
651(1)
The Forest Road
652(1)
Madeleine in Church
653(5)
Not for That City
658(1)
Ne Me Tangito
659(1)
The Trees are Down
659(2)
Selected Bibliography of Poets' Works 661(13)
Selected Bibliography of Anthologies and Criticism 674(3)
Index to the Notes 677(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines 681

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