Anthologies

Nineteenth-Century Women Poets

An Oxford Anthology

Edited by Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow with Cath Sharrock

London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

CONTENTS

Note on the Texts

Introduction

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)

1. Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq. On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing Slave Trade, 1791
2. On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792
3. To Dr Priestley, December 29, 1792
4. The Rights of Woman
5. Inscription for an Ice-House
6. To the Poor
7. To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
8. To Mr S. T. Coleridge: 1797
9. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; A poem
10. The Snowdrop

HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)
11. from Sensibility
12. from The Black Slave Trade
13. Will Chip's True Rights of Man, in Opposition to the New Rights of Man
14. The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman's Lamentation

ANNA SEWARD (?1747-1809)
15. The Ghost of Cuchullin

CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
16. Elegaic Sonnets, No. 44. Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex
17. Elegaic Sonnets, No. 70. On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
18. Elegaic Sonnets, No. 77. To the Insect of the Gossamer
19. Fragment. Descriptive of the Miseries of War; from a Poem Called 'The Emigrants,' Printed in 1793
20. Beachy Head

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)
21. A Winter's Day
22. A Summer's Day
23. To a Child
24. London
25. Lines to a Teapot
26. Address to a Steamvessel
27. Volunteer's Song, Written in 1803

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (1762-1827)
28. from Peruvian Tales. Tale II, Alzira
29. To Sensibility
30. From On the Bill which Was Passed in England for Regulating the Slave Trade; a Short Time before Its Abolition
31. The Bastille, A Vision
32. Sonnet to the Strawberry
33. Sonnet to the Curlew
34. The Charter, Lines Addressed by Helena Maria Williams, to Her Nephew, Athanase C. L. Coquerel, On His Wedding Day

CAROLINA NAIRNE (1766-1845)
35. Cradle Song

AMELIA OPIE (1769-1853)
36. The Negro Boy's Tale
37. Consumption
38. The Despairing Wanderer
39. The Warrior's Return
40. The Mad Wanderer, A Ballad
41. Sketches of St. Michael's Mount. Sketch the First
42. Sketches of St. Michael's Mount. Sketch the Second
43. Sketches of St. Michael's Mount. Sketch the Third
44. Sketches of St. Michael's Mount. Sketch the Fourth
45. Sketches of St. Michael's Mount. The Skeleton

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)
46. Thoughts on my Sick-Bed
47. 'When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?'

MARY TIGHE (1772-1810)
48. from Psyche, Canto I
49. from Psyche, Canto III
50. from Psyche, Canto VI
51. The Lily.

CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON (1775-1850?)
52. Ode on Visiting the Retreat near York; a House Erected by the Society of Friends, for the Reception of Insane Persons
53. The Negro, Sept. 1806

LUCY AIKIN (1781-1864)
54. Epistles on the Character and Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, I

ANN TAYLOR (1782-1866) and JANE TAYLOR (1783-1824)
55. The Star
56. A Child's Hymn of Praise
57. The Folly of Finery

CAROLINE BOWLES (later SOUTHEY) (1786-1854)
58. from Ellen Fitzarthur: A Metrical Tale
59. The Father's Tale
60. from The Birthday, Book I
61. from The Birthday, Book II
62. from The Birthday, Book III
63. The Legend of Santarem

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787-1855)
64. To a Yellow Butterfly, April 8th, 1808

CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT (1789-1871)
65. 'Just as I am'

EMMA ROBERTS (c.1794-1840)
66. A Scene in the Doaab

JANET HAMILTON (1795-1873)
67. Civil War in America-Expostulation
68. Lines Addressed to Mrs H. B. Stowe, on the Occasion of Her Visit to Glasgow, April 13, 1853
69. The Sunday Rail-I. On the Opening of the North British Railway for Running Sunday Trains, September 3, 1865
70. A Lay of the Tambour Frame

FELICIA HEMANS (1795-1835)
71. England's Dead
72. The Sword of the Tomb. A Northern Legend
73. from The Forest Sanctuary
74. Joan of Arc in Rheims
75. The Homes of England
76. Arabella Stuart
77. Properzia Rossi
78. Indian Woman's Death-Song
79. The Image in Lava
80. Casabianca
81. The Shadow of a Flower

MARIA ABDY (c.1797-1867)
82. A Governess Wanted

MARY SEWELL (1797-1884)
83. The Bad Manager

LOUISA STUART COSTELLO (1799-1870)
84. The Maid of the Cyprus Isle. A Ballad
85. On Reading the Account of the Battle of Waterloo
86. from The Lay of the Stork

MARY HOWITT (1799-1888)
87. The Spider and the Fly. An Apologue
88. The Lady Magdalene. A Legend of English Hall

MARY LEMAN GRIMSTONE (?1800-1866)
89. The Poor Woman's Appeal to Her Husband

MARIA JANE JEWSBURY (1800-1866)
90. Joan of Arc
91. Song of the Hindoo Women, While Accompanying a Widow to the Funeral Pile of Her Husband
92. The First Sacrifice
93. Oceanides, I. The Outward-Bound Ship
94. Oceanides, II. My Sea-Hermitage
95. Oceanides, IV. The Sunken Rock
96. Oceanides, IX. The Eden of the Sea
97. Oceanides, XII. The Haven Gained

CAROLINE CLIVE ('V') (1801-1873)
98. The Grave
99. Written in Illness
100. Former Home

SARA COLERIDGE (1802-1852)
101. 'The Sun May Speed or Loiter on His Way'
102. 'O Sleep, My Babe, Hear Not the Rippling Wave'
103. 'The Winds Were Whispering, the Waters Glistering'

L.E.L. (LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON) (1802-1838)
104. Different Thoughts; Suggested by a Picture by G. S. Newton, No. 16 in the British Gallery, and Representing a Girl Looking at Her Lover's Miniature
105. The Phantom Bride
106. The Haunted Lake: The Irish Minstrel's Legend
107. Revenge
108. The Princess Victoria
109. The Pirate's Song off the Tiger Island
110. Hurdwar, a Place of Hindoo Pilgrimage
111. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
112. Calypso Watching the Ocean
113. A Supper of Madame de Brinvilliers
114. The Factory
115. The Marriage Vow

SUSANNA STRICKLAND (later MOODIE) (1803-1885)
116. The Spirit of Motion

SARAH FLOWER ADAMS (1805-1848)
117. A Dream
118. Songs of the Months.-No. 3, March. Winds and Clouds
119. Nearer, My God, To Thee

MARY MARIA COLLING (1805-?)
120. The Moon and the Cloud

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
121. The Cry of the Children
122. Bertha in the Lane
123. To George Sand: A Desire
124. To George Sand: A Recognition
125. L.E.L.'s Last Question
126. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
127. Felicia Hemans
128. Sonnets from the Portuguese, I
129. Sonnets from the Portuguese, V
130. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XII
131. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV
132. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XXIX
133. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLII
134. from Aurora Leigh, First Book
135. from Aurora Leigh, First Book
136. From Aurora Leigh, Third Book
137. A Curse for a Nation
138. Lord Walter's Wife
139. A Musical Instrument

HELEN DUFFERIN (1807-1867)
140. The Charming Woman

ELIZA MARY HAMILTON (1807-1851)
141. The Moon Seen by Day
142. Lines Composed at Sea
143. A Young Girl Seen in Church

CAROLINE NORTON (1808-1877)
144. from The Sorrows of Rosalie, II
145. from The Sorrows of Rosalie, III
146. from The Undying One, Canto II
147. 'As When from Dreams Awaking'
148. The Name
149. from Recollections of a Faded Beauty
150. from A Voice from the Factories
151. Lines, Etc.

FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893)
152. Lines on a Young Woman, Who, after a Short and Wretched Marriage, Went Mad and Died

LADY JOHN SCOTT (1810-1900)
153. We've Lookit for Ye Lang

MARY ANN BROWNE (1812-1844)
154. Noon by the Sea Side
155. 'My Baby! My Baby! They've Told Me He Is Dead'

SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS (1812-1872)
156. from The Island Queen, I
157. from Janet: One of Many

ANN HAWKSHAW (1813-1885)
158. The Mother to Her Starving Child
159. Why Am I a Slave?

GRACE AGUILAR (1816-1847)
160. The Vision of Jerusalem

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855)
161. The Wife's Will
162. The Teacher's Monologue
163. Evening Solace

FRANCES BROWNE (1816-1879)
164. Words
165. The Last Friends

ELIZA COOK (1818-1889)
166. Lines to the Queen of England
167. The Old Arm-Chair
168. Oh! Dear to Memory Are Those Hours
169. The Englishman
170. Song of the Red Indian
171. Harvest Song

EMILY BRONTË (1818-1848)
172. Stars
173. The Philosopher
174. Remembrance
175. Song
176. The Prisoner. A Fragment
177. To Imagination
178. Sympathy
179. Death
180. Stanzas to-
181. My Comforter
182. The Old Stoic

GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) (1819-1880)
183. 'O May I Join the Choir Invisible'
184. A Minor Prophet
185. Brother and Sister

ANNE BRONTË (1820-1849)
186. The Arbour
187. If This Be All
188. A Word to the 'Elect'

ANNE EVANS (1820-1870)
189. Over!
190. Fragments
191. Outcry
192. from Orinda: A Ballad

JEAN INGELOW (1820-1897)
193. Divided
194. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571)
195. Gladys and Her Island (On the Advantages of the Poetical Temperament)
196. Echo and the Ferry
197. Perdita

MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY (1820-1877)
198. Garibaldi at Varignano
199. Lines on the Greek Massacre

DORA GREENWELL (1821-1882)
200. Christina
201. Madana
202. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
203. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861
204. A Scherzo (A Shy Person's Wishes)

'SPERANZA' (JANE FRANCESCA WILDE) (1821-1896)
205. A Supplication
206. The Exodus
207. The Fisherman

ELIZA KEARY (c.1822-c.1889)
208. Disenchanted
209. Through the Wood
210. A Mother's Call
211. A Flower to the Moon
212. Doctor Emily
213. from Christine and Mary: A Correspondence

ANNA LETITIA WARING (1823-1910)
214. 'Father, I Know that All My Life'

LOUISA SHORE (1824-1895)
215. War Music

ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER (1825-1864)
216. Now
217. The Lesson of the War (1855)
218. A Tomb in Ghent
219. A Woman's Question
220. Envy
221. A Lost Chord
222. The Requital
223. A Comforter
224. A Woman's Last Word
225. Homeless

DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK(1826-1887)
226. Only a Woman
227. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Her Later Sonnets. 1856

EMILY PFEIFFER (1827-1890)
228. A Rhyme for the Time
229. Longing and Asking
230. 'Peace to the Odalisque,' I
231. 'Peace to the Odalisque,' II
232. Ode to the Teuton Women
233. Kassandra, I
234. Kassandra, II
235. Klytemnestra, I
236. Klytemnestra, II

'CLARIBEL' (CHARLOTTE ALINGTON, later BARNARD) (1829-1869)
237. I Remember It

BESSIE RAYNER PARKES (MADAME BELLOC) (1829-1925)
238. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning
239. For Adelaide

ELIZABETH SIDDAL (1829-1862)
240. True Love
241. Dead Love
242. He and She and Angels Three
243. Love and Hate

LOUISA A. HORSFIELD (1830-?1865)
244. To My Departed Baby
245. Lines to a Friend in Australia

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
246. Song
247. My Dream
248. My Secret
249. Winter Rain
250. Goblin Market
251. Up-Hill
252. A Royal Princess
253. The Lowest Room
254. L.E.L.
255. Under the Rose
256. Autumn Violets
257. Monna Innominata
258. The Thread of Life

ISA CRAIG-KNOX (1831-1903)
259. The Building of the City

MARIANNE FARNINGHAM (MARY ANNE HEARN) (1834-1909)
260. It is Well

M.E. BRADDON (1835-1915)
261. Queen Guinevere
262. To a Coquette

ELLEN JOHNSTON (1835-1873)
263. The Last Sark. Written in 1859

'A FACTORY GIRL' (dates not known)
264. from The Cotton Famine and the Lancashire Operatives

RUTH WILLS (dates not known)
265. Anne Boleyn
266. A New Gospel

FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL (1836-1878)
267. The Ministry of Song
268. An Indian Flag

ANNIE LOUISA WALKER (1836-1907)
269. The Night Cometh

AGNES MAULE MACHAR (1837-1927)
270. Canada to the Laureate. In Response to Tennyson's Lines
271. Our Lads to the Front! Embarkation of the Canadian Contingent for South Africa;-Quebec, October 31, 1899

AUGUSTA WEBSTER (1837-1894)
272. Circe
273. The Happiest Girl in the World
274. A Castaway
275. Mother and Daughter, VI
276. Mother and Daughter, VII
277. Mother and Daughter, IX
278. Mother and Daughter, XII
279. Mother and Daughter, XIII
280. Mother and Daughter, XIV
281. Mother and Daughter, XV
282. Mother and Daughter, XVI
283. Mother and Daughter, XVII

CHARLOTTE ELLIOT ('FLORENZ') (1839-1880)
284. The Pythoness

HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON KING (1840-1920)
285. The Execution of Felice Orsini, March 13th, 1858

MATHILDE BLIND (1841-1896)
286. The Street-Children's Dance
287. Chaunts of Life (from The Ascent of Man)
288. The Russian Student's Tale
289. On a Torso of Cupid

VIOLET FANE (MARY MONTGOMERIE LAMB, later SINGLETON, later CURRIE) (1843-1905)
290. Lancelot and Guinevere
291. The Irish 'Patriots.' (To Wilfred Scawen Blunt)
292. At Christie's

MARGARET VELEY (1843-1887)
293. A Japanese Fan
294. A Game of Piquet

L. S. BEVINGTON (later GUGGENBERGER) (1845-1895)
295. Love and Pride
296. Bees in Clover. A Song
297. The Unpardonable Sin
298. Hated
299. Revolution

E. H. HICKEY (1845-1924)
300. A Sculptor
301. A Weak-Minded Woman's Comparisons

LUCY KNOX (1845-1884)
302. Sonnet. A Cry to Men
303. Sonnet. Lament of the Loyal Irish, 1869

EMILY LAWLESS (1845-1913)
304. After Aughrim

MICHAEL FIELD (KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY, 1846-1914, and EDITH EMMA COOPER, 1862-1913)
305. Long Ago, XVII
306. Long Ago, XXXV
307. Long Ago, LIV
308. Spring. Sandro Botticelli. The Accademia of Florence
309. The Rescue. Tintoretto. The Dresden Gallery
310. Saint Sebastian. Antonello da Messina. The Dresden Gallery
311. A Pen-Drawing of Leda. Sodoma. The Grand Duke's Palace at Weimar
312. The Sleeping Venus. Giorgione. The Dresden Gallery

ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922)
313. In Autumn
314. A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
315. 'Soeur Monique.' A Rondeau by Couperin

L. ORMISTON CHANT (1848-1923)
316. Hope's Song

ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN (1850-post-1897)
317. Hereafter
318. A Woman's Strength
319. Hope
320. A Little Child's Wreath, XXX

ANNIE MATHESON (1853-1924)
321. A Song for Women

TORU DUTT (1856-1877)
322. On the Fly-Leaf of Erckmann-Chatrian's Novel Entitled 'Madame Thérèse'
323. Sonnet-Baugmaree

MARGARET L. WOODS (1856-1945)
324. L'Envoi
325. from Aëromancy

A. MARY F. ROBINSON (later DARMESTETER, later DUCLAUX) (1857-1944)
326. Tuscan Olives (Rispetti)
327. Etruscan Tombs
328. Darwinism
329. The Idea
330. The Bookworm
331. Liberty

CONSTANCE NADEN (1858-1889)
332. The Lady Doctor
333. Scientific Wooing

E. NESBIT (1858-1924)
334. The Wife of All Ages
335. Under Convoy
336. Indiscretion
337. The Despot

KATHARINE TYNAN (later HINKSON) (1859-1931)
338. The Irish Hills
339. Our Lady of Pity

ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON (GRAHAM R. TOMSON) (1860-1912)
340. Ballad of the Bird-Bride (Eskimo)
341. 'Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?'
342. The Story of Marpessa (As Heard in Hades)

M. E. COLERIDGE (1861-1907)
343. To Memory
344. Gone
345. The Other Side of a Mirror
346. Eyes
347. Mortal Combat
348. A Mother to a Baby
349. Contradictions
350. Mistaken
351. A Clever Woman

MAY KENDALL (1861-1943)
352. Lay of the Trilobite
353. Education's Martyr
354. Woman's Future
355. An Incident in Real Life, Related by an Eye-Witness in Marble
356. The Sandblast Girl and the Acid Man

AMY LEVY (1861-1889)
357. Xantippe (A Fragment)
358. Magdalen
359. To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)
360. Borderland
361. At a Dinner Party
362. A Ballad of Religion and Marriage

LAURENCE HOPE (ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON) (1865-1904)
363. The Regret of the Ranee in the Hall of Peacocks
364. Camp Follower's Song, Gomal River

ETHNA CARBERY (ANNA MACMANUS) (1866-1902)
365. Mo Chraoibhín Cno
366. The Well o' the World's End

ALICE MILLIGAN (1866-1953)
367. A Song of Freedom
368. When I Was a Little Girl
369. The Dark Palace (The Palace of Aileach, Seat of The O'Neill)
370. Cormacan Sings (Cormacan an Eigeas, 10th Century)

DORA SIGERSON (later SHORTER) (1866-1918)
371. With a Rose
372. The Wind on the Hills

NORA HOPPER (later CHESSON) (1871-1906)
373. Finvarragh
374. Two Women
375. Marsh Marigolds
376. Hertha

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