The Chartist Circular (Chartist) 1840

An unstamped weekly (28 September 1839 – 9 July 1842), one of the most popular Chartist publications, published in Glasgow by the Universal Suffrage Committee for Scotland, and aimed at a lower and middle-class readership.

Poems appearing in this periodical

1840

Total poems: 54
Poem title Poet(s) Date Vol etc. Transcribed? id #
Songs for the People. No. III Donald, George (1800-1851) 1840-01-04 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 15, Page 60 yes 12
Songs for the People. No. IV Donald, George (1800-1851) 1840-01-11 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 16, Page 64 yes 13
The Age of Harmony Thomson, William 1840-01-18 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 17, Page 68 yes 14
Songs for the People. No. V Donald, George (1800-1851) 1840-01-25 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 18, Page 72 yes 15
Harry Brougham Teufelsdrockh (pseudonym) 1840-02-01 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 19, Page 76 yes 16
For the Chartists—A New Song. I Hae a Cot, a Wee Kail-Yard Symons, Jelinger Cookson 1840-02-08 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 20, Page 80 yes 20
A Song for the Millions E. P. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-02-15 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 21, Page 84 yes 21
The Selfish, Tyrannical Whig 1840-02-22 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 22, Page 88 yes 22
Songs for the People.—No. VI Donald, George (1800-1851) 1840-02-29 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 23, Page 92 yes 23
Song. Wallace, Knight of Elderslie 1840-03-07 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 24, Page 100 yes 24
Unenfranchised Southey, Robert 1840-03-14 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 104 yes 7914
The Press Elliott, Ebenezer 1840-03-14 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 104 yes 25
The Emigrant’s Farewell E. P. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-03-21 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 26, Page 108 yes 26
Hymns for the Unenfranchised Linton, William James 1840-03-28 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 27, Page 112 yes 27
Song McDouall, Peter Murray (also McDowall) 1840-04-04 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 28, Page 116 yes 28
Scotland’s Laurels—a Song S. W. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-04-11 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 29, Page 120 yes 29
The Vision of Famine. Part I Mitchell, John 1840-04-18 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 30, Page 124 yes 1976
The Vision of Famine. Part Second Mitchell, John 1840-04-25 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 31, Page 128 yes 1977
The Hero Nicoll, Robert 1840-05-02 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 32, Page 132 yes 30
Fragmentary Stanzas S. (The Chartist Circular) 1840-05-09 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 33, Page 136 yes 31
Song, The Scottish Emigrant’s Farewell H. M’D. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-05-16 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 34, Page 140 yes 32
Song, Hurrah for the Charter H. M’D. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-05-16 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 34, Page 140 yes 33
Whig Malignity. A Simile Argus (pseudonym) 1840-05-23 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 35, Page 144 yes 34
On Poland W. M. S. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-05-30 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 36, Page 148 yes 35
The Black and the White Slave 1840-06-07 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 37, Page 152 yes 36
Stanzas, Suggested by a Conversation with a Friend, On the Battle of Bannockburn J. M’C. Junr. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-06-13 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 38, Page 156 yes 37
Song M’Douall, W. 1840-06-20 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 39, Page 160 yes 38
The Land of Freedom Arbington (Dr. Arbington) 1840-06-27 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 40, Page 164 yes 39
Land of Kings and Queens 1840-07-04 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 41, Page 168 yes 40
The Poor Man’s Wedding 1840-07-11 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 42, Page 172 yes 41
Liberty’s Tree Allan, Robert 1840-07-18 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 43, Page 176 yes 42
The League of Crime Mitchell, John 1840-07-25 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 44, Page 180 yes 43
The King of the Radical Islands. Written a little after the death of George IV King, James 1840-08-08 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 46, Page 168 yes 44
My Scottish Boy C. F. (poet; The Chartist Circular) 1840-08-15 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 47, Page 192 yes 45
Invocation to the Memory of Sir William Wallace Argus (pseudonym) 1840-08-22 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 48, Page 196 yes 46
Questions from the Loom Davlin, Charles 1840-08-29 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 49, Page 200 yes 47
Scotland’s Song of Liberty, to William Lovett, John Collins, and Dr P. M. M’Douall, On their liberation from the Prisons of England, July and August, 1840 Polin, Edward 1840-09-05 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 50, Page 204 yes 1184
“Give Us this Day our Daily Bread” Binns, George 1840-09-12 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 51, Page 208 yes 49
The Auld State Kirk. New Song 1840-09-19 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 52, Page 212 yes 50
The Battle Field Allan, Robert 1840-09-19 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 52, Page 212 yes 51
A Voice from Beverley Peddie, Robert 1840-09-26 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 53, Page 216 yes 52
Stanzas Cook, Eliza 1840-10-03 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 54, Page 220 yes 53
The Freeman and the Slave Polin, Edward 1840-10-10 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 55, Page 224 yes 54
Touch not that Sword King, James 1840-10-17 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 56, Page 228 yes 55
The Complaints of the Poor Southey, Robert 1840-10-24 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 57, Page 232 yes 56
The March of Intellect McQueen, Thomas (also MacQueen) 1840-10-31 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 58, Page 236 yes 57
The Marseillaise Hymn Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph 1840-11-07 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 59, Page 240 yes 58
The Spirit of the Times Holland, John 1840-11-14 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 60, Page 244 yes 59
The Toilers’ Homes of England Polin, Edward 1840-11-21 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 61, Page 248 yes 60
To the Memory of John Tait, Late Editor of the Liberator. Written at his Grave in the Necropolis, Glasgow Brown, William 1840-11-28 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 62, Page 252 yes 61
The White Slave’s Murmurs Whitelocke, Samuel 1840-12-05 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 63, Page 258 yes 62
Address to the Enslaved Millions Polin, Edward 1840-12-12 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 64, Page 262 yes 63
The Poor of the City 1840-12-19 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 65, Page 266 yes 64
“A Voice from Beverley.” No. II Peddie, Robert 1840-12-26 The Chartist Circular Volume 1, Issue 66, Page 280 yes 65