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Robert Southey

12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her. The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal, 184299
2: Birth-Day Ode, 1793. Small is the new-born plant scarce seen 69322
3: Birth-Day Ode, 1796. And wouldst thou seek the low abode 50290
4: Donica. High on a rock, whose castled shade 115292
5: Eclogue I. The Old Mansion-House. Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty, 164263
6: Eclogue II. The Grandmothers Tale. Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round 132277
7: Eclogue III. The Funeral. The coffin as I past across the lane 156267
8: Eclogue IV. The Sailor's Mother. Sir for the love of God some small relief 167292
9: Eclogue V. The Witch. Father! here father! I have found a horse-shoe! 180254
10: Eclogue VI. The Ruined Cottage. Aye Charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye, 113321
11: Elinor. Once more to daily toil--once more to wear 90260
12: Frederic. Where shall I turn me? whither shall I bend 89272
13: Henry The Hermit. It was a little island where he dwelt, 58290
14: Humphrey And William. See'st thou not William that the scorching Sun 154256
15: Hymn To The Penates. Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain 299264
16: Inscription I. For A Tablet At Godstow Nunnery. Here Stranger rest thee! from the neighbouring towers 14276
17: Inscription II. For A Column At Newbury. Art thou a Patriot Traveller? on this field 12326
18: Inscription III. For A Cavern That Overlooks The River Avon. Enter this cavern Stranger! the ascent 20241
19: Inscription IV. For the Apartment in CHEPSTOW-CASTLE where HENRY MARTEN the Regicide was imprisoned Thirty Years. For thirty years secluded from mankind, 16281
20: Inscription V. For A Monument At Silbury-Hill. This mound in some remote and dateless day 12312
21: Inscription VI. For A Monument In The New Forest. This is the place where William's kingly power 17337
22: Inscription VII. For A Tablet On The Banks Of A Stream. Stranger! awhile upon this mossy bank 16283
23: Inscription VIII. For The Cenotaph At Ermenonville. STRANGER! the MAN OF NATURE lies not here: 14267
24: Jaspar Jaspar was poor, and want and vice 180303
25: John, Samuel, & Richard. Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away, 128275
26: Lord William. No eye beheld when William plunged 140293
27: Mary. Who is she, the poor Maniac, whose wildly-fix'd eyes 105290
28: Metrical Letter, Written from London. Margaret! my Cousin!--nay, you must not smile; 68287
29: Musings On A Landscape Of Gaspar Poussin. Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur'd scenes 73395
30: Ode Come melancholy Moralizer--come! 1794 56293
31: Ode Tho' now no more the musing ear 43289
32: Ode Go thou and seek the House of Prayer! 37304
33: On The Death Of A Favourite Old Spaniel. And they have drown'd thee then at last! poor Phillis! 37296
34: Rudiger. Bright on the mountain's heathy slope 176277
35: Sappho. A Monodrama. This is the spot:--'tis here Tradition says 72253
36: Sonnet I Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain 14259
37: Sonnet I. Go Valentine and tell that lovely maid 14290
38: Sonnet II Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair, 14262
39: Sonnet II. Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way 14282
40: Sonnet III Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run 14275
41: Sonnet III. Not to thee Bedford mournful is the tale 14291
42: Sonnet IV Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep 14247
43: Sonnet IV. What tho' no sculptur'd monument proclaim 14306
44: Sonnet IX. Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky 14276
45: Sonnet V Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword 14263
46: Sonnet V. Hard by the road, where on that little mound 14306
47: Sonnet VI High in the air expos'd the Slave is hung 14249
48: Sonnet VI As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream 14273
49: Sonnet VII. To The Evening Rainbow. Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky 14256
50: Sonnet VIII. With many a weary step, at length I gain 14251
51: Sonnet X. How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns 14352
52: Sonnet. With wayworn feet a Pilgrim woe-begone 14250
53: The Complaints Of The Poor. And wherefore do the Poor complain? 48315
54: The Cross Roads. There was an old man breaking stones 135293
55: The Pauper's Funeral What! and not one to heave the pious sigh! 26292
56: The Race Of Banquo. Fly, son of Banquo! Fleance, fly! 26320
57: The Rose. Nay EDITH! spare the rose!--it lives--it lives, 97312
58: The Sailor, who had served in the Slave Trade. He stopt,--it surely was a groan 124268
59: The Soldier's Wife. Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart 12279
60: The Surgeon's Warning. The Doctor whispered to the Nurse 168258
61: The Triumph Of Woman. Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost 412257
62: The Victory. Hark--how the church-bells thundering harmony 47307
63: The Vision of The Maid of Orleans. The First Book. Orleans was hush'd in sleep. Stretch'd on her couch 373286
64: The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans. The Second Book. She spake, and lo! celestial radiance beam'd 388270
65: The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans. The Third Book. The Maiden, musing on the Warrior's words, 315255
66: The Widow. Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snows fell, 28297
67: To Contemplation. Faint gleams the evening radiance thro' the sky, 72260
68: To Horror. Dark HORROR, hear my call! 68314
69: To Mary Wollstonecraft. The lilly cheek, the "purple light of love," 13283
70: To My Own Miniature Picture Taken At Two Years Of Age. And I was once like this! that glowing cheek 38284
71: To The Chapel Bell. Lo I, the man who erst the Muse did ask 42282
72: To The Genius Of Africa O thou who from the mountain's height 66243




About:
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity.


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