University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Zea E-Books Zea E-Books 12-1-2019 British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century Beverley Rilett University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation Rilett, Beverley, "British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century" (2019). Zea E-Books. 81. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/81 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Zea E-Books at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Zea E-Books by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century A Selection for College Students Edited by Beverley Park Rilett, PhD. CHARLOTTE SMITH WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE GEORGE GORDON BYRON PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY JOHN KEATS ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ALFRED TENNYSON ROBERT BROWNING EMILY BRONTË GEORGE ELIOT MATTHEW ARNOLD GEORGE MEREDITH DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI CHRISTINA ROSSETTI OSCAR WILDE MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE ZEA BOOKS LINCOLN, NEBRASKA ISBN 978-1-60962-163-6 DOI 10.32873/UNL.DC.ZEA.1096 British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century A Selection for College Students Edited by Beverley Park Rilett, PhD. University of Nebraska —Lincoln Zea Books Lincoln, Nebraska Collection, notes, preface, and biographical sketches copyright © 2017 by Beverly Park Rilett. All poetry and images reproduced in this volume are in the public domain. ISBN: 978-1-60962-163-6 doi 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1096 Cover image: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, 1888 Zea Books are published by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. 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Please go to http://www.unl.edu/equity/notice-nondiscrimination i Contents vii Preface 1 Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 2 Written at the Close of Spring 3 To Sleep 4 To Night 5 Written in the Church-yard at Middleton, in Sussex 6 On Being Cautioned against Walking over a Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic 7 The Sea View 8 Huge Vapours Brood above the Clifted Shore 9 To Hope 10 On the Departure of the Nightengale 11 To the Shade of Burns 12 Thirty-Eight 14 from Beachy Head 18 William Blake (1757-1827) from Songs of Innocence 19 The Ecchoing Green 20 The Lamb 21 The Little Black Boy 22 The Chimney Sweeper 23 The Divine Image 24 Holy Thursday 25 Nurse’s Song 26 Infant Joy 26 The Shepherd from Songs of Experience 27 Earth’s Answer 28 The Clod and the Pebble 29 Holy Thursday ii 30 The Chimney Sweeper 31 Nurse’s Song 31 The Sick Rose 32 The Tyger 33 London 34 A Poison Tree 35 A Divine Image 35 Love’s Secret 36 Auguries of Innocence 40 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 41 We Are Seven 44 Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 49 Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known 50 She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 50 My Heart Leaps Up 51 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 51 Lucy Gray 54 I Travelled among Unknown Men 55 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 56 Ode to Duty 58 Character of the Happy Warrior 61 The World Is Too Much with Us 62 Mutability 62 Scorn Not the Sonnet 63 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 64 This Lime-tree Bower My Prison 67 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 88 Kubla Khan 90 The Pains of Sleep 92 Frost at Midnight 95 George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) 96 When We Two Parted 97 Girl of Cadiz iii 99 Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore 100 She Walks in Beauty 101 Prometheus 103 Darkness 105 So We’ll Go No More a Roving 106 The Isles of Greece 109 On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year 111 Stanzas to Augusta 113 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 114 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 117 Mutability 118 To Wordsworth 119 Mont Blanc 124 Ozymandias 125 England in 1819 126 Ode to the West Wind 129 Love’s Philosophy 130 To a Skylark 134 To Night 135 Music, When Soft Voices Die (To —) 136 To the Moon 136 The Waning Moon 137 Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples 139 Lift Not the Painted Veil 140 John Keats (1795-1821) 141 Ode to a Nightingale 144 Ode to Psyche 146 Ode to a Grecian Urn 148 Ode to Indolence 150 La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 152 To Autumn 153 To Homer 154 To Sleep 155 When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be 156 Bright Star 157 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles iv 158 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 159 Grief 160 To George Sand: A Desire 161 To George Sand: A Recognition from Sonnets from the Portuguese 162 1: I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung 163 5: I Lift My Heavy Heart up Solemnly 164 14: If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be for Nought 165 20: Beloved, My Beloved, When I Think 166 22: When Our Two Souls Stand Up Erect and Strong 167 35: If I Leave All for Thee, Wilt Thou Exchange 168 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways 169 44: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers 170 from Aurora Leigh: Book One 174 from Aurora Leigh: Book Five 177 A Musical Instrument 179 Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) 180 The Kraken 181 Mariana 184 The Lady of Shalott 190 Ulysses 192 Break, Break, Break 193 Locksley Hall 201 Tears, Idle Tears 202 In Memoriam A.H.H. 203 Charge of the Light Brigade 205 Crossing the Bar 206 Robert Browning (1812-1889) 207 The Real and Sure and True 208 Porphyria’s Lover 210 My Last Duchess 212 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 215 The Lost Leader 216 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 220 Fra Lippo Lippi v 232 Emily Brontë (1818-1848) 233 Remembrance 234 Song 235 The Prisoner 238 The Old Stoic 239 Hope 240 How Clear She Shines 242 The Night-Wind 243 No Coward Soul is Mine 244 Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun 246 Fall, Leaves, Fall 247 I Am the Only Being Whose Doom 248 Long Neglect Has Worn Away 249 Love and Friendship 250 The Night Is Darkening Round Me 251 Often Rebuked, yet Always Back Returning 252 Plead for Me 254 Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee 255 Stanzas 256 The Two Children 258 George Eliot (1819-1880) 259 I Grant You Ample Leave 260 In a London Drawingroom 261 Count That Day Lost 262 Brother and Sister 268 Stradivarius 271 Two Lovers 272 Arion 274 O May I Join the Choir Invisible 276 Bright, O Bright Fedalma 277 Sweet Springtime 278 Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 279 To a Friend 280 The Forsaken Merman 284 Lines Written in Kensington Garden 286 The Buried Life vi 289 Isolation: To Marguerite 291 The Scholar-Gipsy 299 The Last Word 300 Dover Beach 302 George Meredith (1828-1909) 303 Love in the Valley 309 Lucifer in Starlight 310 The Woods of Westermain 324 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) 325 The Blessed Damozel 330 My Sister’s Sleep 332 Soul’s Beauty 333 Body’s Beauty 334 Nuptial Sleep 335 The Woodspurge 336 Penumbra 337 The Sea Limits 338 The Sonnet from House of Life 339 3: Love’s Testament 340 4: Lovesight 341 11: The Love-Letter 342 19: Silent Noon 343 22: Heart’s Haven 344 27: Heart’s Compass 345 36: Life-in-Love 346 41: Through Death to Love 347 43: Love and Hope 348 48: Death-in-Love 349 49: Willowwood 1 350 50: Willowwood 2 351 51: Willowwood 3 352 52: Willowwood 4 353 53: Without Her 354 66: The Heart of the Night 355 71: The Choice 1 356 72: The Choice 2 vii 357 73: The Choice 3 358 97: A Superscription 359 Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 360 A Triad 361 A Birthday 362 Remember 363 After Death 364 An Apple Gathering 365 Winter: My Secret 366 No, Thank You, John 368 Song 369 She Sat and Sang Always 370 A Portrait 371 Cobwebs 372 In an Artist’s Studio 372 Later Life: Sonnet 17 373 Sleeping at Last 374 Promises like Pie Crust 375 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 376 Impressions 377 Her Voice 379 E Tenebis 380 Endymion 381 Amor Intellectualis 382 Ava Maria Plena Gratia 383 Garden of Eros 392 To Milton 393 The Harlot’s House 395 House of Judgement 397 The Disciple 398 The Artist 399 The Master 400 The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 421 Flower of Love 423 Symphony in Yellow viii 424 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) 425 The Other Side of a Mirror 426 A Moment 426 In Dispraise of the Moon 427 The Poison Flower 428 An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar 429 Marriage 430 Affection 431 The White Women 432 To Memory 433 The Deserted House 434 The Witch 435 I Ask of Thee, Love, Nothing but Relief 435 My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His 436 L’Oiseau Bleu ix Preface British Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century was created specifically for a university English course that introduces students to influential texts of nineteenth- century British literature. While there are suitable anthologies available, they are either inconveniently divided into separate volumes for “Romantic” and “Victorian” poets, or far more comprehensive (and expensive) than necessary for the relatively short span of time my students study the poetry of the period.
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