Collins, Mortimer (M)

Surname: Collins
Forename(s): Edward James Mortimer
b. 29 June 1827. d. 7 July 1876. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, editor, and journalist. Taught mathematics at Queen Elizabeth College, Guernsey, from 1849-1856. Started the Channel Islands Magazine in 1853, but only published three issues before folding. Started writing for the Leamington Mercury in 1856, before moving to the Plymouth Mail in 1859, and eventually editing the Nottingham Guardian in 1861. Appointed joint editor of the London Globe in 1866, and regularly contributed to other journals, including Punch and the British Quarterly. Poetry volumes include Idyls and Rhymes (1855) and The Inn of Strange Meetings and Other Poems (1871). Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 41
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Under the Cliffs 1860-12 Temple Bar Poet 16940
Christmas 1861-01 Temple Bar Poet 16946
Through the Bar 1861-03 Temple Bar Poet 16952
Amy 1861-06 Temple Bar Poet 16964
Other Worlds 1861-08 Temple Bar Poet 16976
A Castle in Spain 1862-01 Temple Bar Poet 16990
Gladys the Lost 1862-07 Temple Bar Poet 17020
Medmenham Abbey: A Thames Lyric 1863-08 Temple Bar Poet 17055
In the Summer Afternoon 1863-10 Temple Bar Poet 17061
My Thrush 1864-08 Temple Bar Poet 17094
Waiting for Thee 1864-10 Temple Bar Poet 17104
By the Fountain 1865-01 Temple Bar Poet 17112
A Poet’s Philosophy 1865-08 Temple Bar Poet 17127
River of Dart 1865-09 Temple Bar Poet 17129
Wargrave Ferry: A Rhyme of Thames 1865-10 Temple Bar Poet 17130
Brighton in October 1865-11 Temple Bar Poet 17134
Winter Wooing 1865-12 Temple Bar Poet 17140
Lilawati 1866-01 Temple Bar Poet 17142
Stormy 1866-03 Temple Bar Poet 17147
Calm 1866-03 Temple Bar Poet 17146
June Music 1866-06 Temple Bar Poet 17151
One Thing Only 1866-08 Temple Bar Poet 17156
False! 1866-09 Temple Bar Poet 17157
The Magic Mere 1866-10 Temple Bar Poet 17159
Antaeus 1866-11 Temple Bar Poet 17161
The Two Alices 1866-12 Temple Bar Poet 17166
“Don’t Let Him Catch You!” 1867-06 Temple Bar Poet 17174
The Schoolmaster 1869-05-22 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7396
Yesterday 1869-06 Temple Bar Poet 17332
Saint Pudentiana 1870-12 Temple Bar Poet 17365
Perfect Weather 1872-01 The Dark Blue Poet 624
I. The Dairy-Maid 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10224
IV. A Dinner to Remember 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10227
V. Love 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10228
III. May 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10226
VII. School-Girl Rebels 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10230
II. Dawn 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10225
VI. By the Well 1874-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10229
A Robin Perched on a Sun-dial 1878-09 Temple Bar Poet 17636
The Lark 1879-09 Temple Bar Poet 17677
Chloe, M. A.—Ad Amantem Suum 1888-12 Temple Bar Poet 17966