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Category: Gesture
Non-verbal gesture.
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Total poems: 215
Poem title
Poet(s)
Date
Periodical
id #
The Testimonium, A Prize Poem
Lockhart, John Gibson
1820-07
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
8533
February
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15877
January
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15876
June
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15881
March
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15878
November
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15886
October
1823
Forget-Me-Not
15885
Sacontala. A Tale
H. N. (translator;
Forget-Me-Not
)
1825
Forget-Me-Not
15078
The Lover’s Tomb
Neele, Henry
1825
Forget-Me-Not
15064
The Parting Charge
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1825
Forget-Me-Not
15065
Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School
Hemans, Felicia
1826
Forget-Me-Not
13924
First Love, A Dramatic Scene
Fraser, W. (pseudonym
Randolph Fitz-Eustace
)
1827
Forget-Me-Not
15613
Love and Duty, a Rural Sketch
Wilson, Margaret (née Harries) (Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson)
1827
Forget-Me-Not
15662
Princess Elizabeth at Woodstock
Barton, Bernard
1827
Forget-Me-Not
15670
Sir Roger de Coverley in Love
1827
Forget-Me-Not
15658
The Logicians
Hood, Thomas
1828
Forget-Me-Not
14116
The Seventh Plague of Egypt. The Tempest
Έσπερος (pseudonym)
1828
Forget-Me-Not
14084
The Sister’s Dream
Hemans, Felicia
1828
Forget-Me-Not
13970
The Wedding Ring
Mitford, Mary Russell
1828
Forget-Me-Not
13988
Alice
Harrison, William Henry
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15602
Ellen Strathallan. A Fairy Legend
Pickersgill, Maria
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15526
Frolic in a Palace
Harrison, William Henry
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15562
Marcus Curtius
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15519
The Proposal
Wilson, Margaret (née Harries) (Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson)
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15572
Undine. Versification of Part of de la Motte Fouqué’s Romance, in Illustration of a Painting by M. Retzsch, in the Collection of His Serene Highness Prince Esterhazy
Balmanno, Mary
1830
Forget-Me-Not
14478
Chacun a Son Gout
Hook, Theodore Edward
1831
The Keepsake
3394
Esther
Eωҁ (pseudonym)
1831
Forget-Me-Not
15683
The False One
Bayly, Thomas Haynes
1831
Forget-Me-Not
15686
The Stage-Struck Hero
Hood, Thomas
1832
Forget-Me-Not
15285
The Thunderstorm
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1832
Forget-Me-Not
15277
The Triumph of Mordecai
Eωҁ (pseudonym)
1832
Forget-Me-Not
15260
Scene from the Odyssey. From the MS. Translation
Homer
1833
Forget-Me-Not
15241
Cupid Caught Tripping
Hervey, Thomas Kibble
1834
Forget-Me-Not
15737
The Love-Suit
McNaghten, Robert Adair
1835
Forget-Me-Not
15213
The Trysting Hour
Wilson, Margaret (née Harries) (Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson)
1835
Forget-Me-Not
15223
Cromwell and His Daughter. A Dramatic Sketch
Serle, Thomas James
1836
Forget-Me-Not
15329
Dance of the Peasants, in the Winter’s Tale
Blanchard, Samuel Laman
1836
Forget-Me-Not
15334
The Confession
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1836
Forget-Me-Not
15326
The Favourite Flower
Norton, Caroline
1836
The Keepsake
4197
The Reprieve
Norton, Caroline
1836
The Keepsake
4206
The Lovers
Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline
1837
The Keepsake
4433
The Sleeping Beauty
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1837
Forget-Me-Not
15779
A Fragment
Fairlie, Louisa
1840
The Keepsake
4776
Ascent of the Spirit
Howitt, Mary
1840
Forget-Me-Not
15173
Foscari
Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline
1840
The Keepsake
4789
The Captive Princess
Browne, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Grey)
1840
Forget-Me-Not
15179
Mahammed’s Lament for His Mother, Who Died a Pagan
Stapleton, Miles
1841
The Keepsake
4876
The Doom of Cheynholme
Garrow, Theodosia
1842
The Keepsake
4888
Imogen
Swain, Charles
1846
Forget-Me-Not
15489
Elfrida
Shipton, Anna (née Savage)
1850
The Keepsake
5687
Evening
Power, Marguerite Agnes
1850
The Keepsake
5683
Parting Words
V. (poet; The Keepsake)
1850
The Keepsake
5680
The Three Maidens
Meredith, George
1859-07-30
Once a Week
203
The Fortune-Teller. A Seaport Ditty
Brotherton, Mary
1859-09-10
Once a Week
214
The King of Thule. From Goethe
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1859-09-24
Once a Week
218
Bradmere Pool
Stewart, Louisa
1859-10-22
Once a Week
228
“Six of One and Half-a Dozen of the Other”
Roy, J.
1859-11-06
Once a Week
233
Fairy May
Goodhart, C. W.
1859-11-12
Once a Week
234
Footsteps of Day
Hill, Alsager Hay
1859-11-19
Once a Week
236
The Shadow Kiss
Stedman, John
1859-12-17
Once a Week
246
Fair Drinking
Hopkins, Manley
1860-01-07
Once a Week
251
Unspoken Dialogue
Milnes, Richard Monckton
1860-02
The Cornhill Magazine
11933
The Mistake. (An Old Gem Reset)
Johnson, James W.
1860-02-11
Once a Week
257
Florinda
Fonblanque, Albany Jr.
1860-03-03
Once a Week
262
The Secret That Can’t Be Kept
Bell, Robert
1860-05-05
Once a Week
268
The Lone One
Teulon, Harriet Mary
1860-08
Good Words
345
A Story of Olden Time
Greenwell, Dora
1860-09
Good Words
348
Ariadne at Naxos
Davidson, Thomas
1860-12
The Cornhill Magazine
11950
Love’s Photograph
Fonblanque, Albany Jr.
1861-01-19
Once a Week
428
Swift and the Mohawks
Thornbury, George Walter
1861-03-16
Once a Week
436
The Mill-Fiend
Munby, Arthur J.
1861-08-03
Once a Week
839
Shades
F. G. (poet;
Good Words
)
1861-09
Good Words
388
Coming Hame
Craik, Dinah
1861-10
Good Words
389
The Three Statues of Ægina
Thornbury, George Walter
1861-10-26
Once a Week
856
Evander
Munby, Arthur J.
1861-12-21
Once a Week
866
Schwerting of Saxony. (Translated from the German of Ebert)
Ebert, Karl Egon von
1862-01-04
Once a Week
871
The Battle of Gilboa
Forsyth, William
1862-02
Good Words
398
The Old Chartist
Meredith, George
1862-02-08
Once a Week
878
The King at the Gate
Thornbury, George Walter
1862-03-15
Once a Week
886
The Fairies. (Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine)
Heine, Heinrich
1862-03-29
Once a Week
890
“Until her Death”
Craik, Dinah
1862-05
Good Words
405
The Chase of the Siren. A Doric Legend
Thornbury, George Walter
1862-05-31
Once a Week
898
The Bishop and the Knight
M. (poet; Cornhill)
1862-07
The Cornhill Magazine
12062
My Treasure
Mulholland, Rosa
1862-08
Good Words
412
Sea-Weeds
1862-09
Good Words
414
The Veiled Bride
Robertson, William
1862-10
Good Words
415
Out Among the Wild-Flowers
W. S. F. (“A Police Constable”) (poet; Good Words)
1862-11
Good Words
418
The Parting of Ulysses
1862-12-06
Once a Week
935
A Pastoral
Greenwell, Dora
1863-01
Good Words
1568
Ballad of the Page and the King’s Daughter. (Translated from Giebel)
Geibel, Emmanuel
1863-06-06
Once a Week
492
The Night Before the Morrow
Smith, William
1863-07
The Cornhill Magazine
12199
The Viking’s Serf
Thornbury, George Walter
1863-07-04
Once a Week
498
A Missionary Cheer
Massey, Gerald
1863-08
Good Words
12354
The Sheep and the Goat
MacDonald, George
1863-09
Good Words
1591
After the Storm
Colomb, George Hatton
1864
Good Words
1624
At the Sepulchre
Murray, E. M.
1864
Good Words
1622
The Way in the Wood
Craig (Knox), Isa
1864
Good Words
1616
Turberville, and the Heiress of Coity
Williams, Charles H.
1864-03-26
Once a Week
571
Eriphanis
Pember, Edward Henry
1864-12-03
Once a Week
710
Janet’s Question
I. C. (poet; Good Words)
1865
Good Words
1753
“Le Toit S’Egaie et Rit.” (From Victor Hugo)
Hugo, Victor
1865-02-11
Once a Week
736
Auray
Black, William
1865-06-03
Once a Week
762
Moses Saved from the Waters. (From Victor Hugo)
Hugo, Victor
1865-07-01
Once a Week
942
“In the Clouds”
Thornbury, George Walter
1865-12-02
Once a Week
979
Metamorphosis. (From the German of Robert Reinick)
Reinick, Robert
1865-12-16
Once a Week
983
From Theocritus. Idyll the First
Theocritus
1866-02-24
Once a Week
13409
April
Ellis, B. Trapp
1866-04-07
Once a Week
13423
Helen and Cassandra
Richards, Alfred B.
1866-04-28
Once a Week
13429
Eldorado
1866-07-07
Once a Week
13493
Cleopatra
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
1866-09
The Cornhill Magazine
12206
The Satrap
Smith, W. Frank
1867-03
The Cornhill Magazine
12050
A Hindoo Legend
Thornbury, George Walter
1867-03-09
Once a Week
12124
St. Patrick’s Day
Lover, Samuel
1867-03-16
Once a Week
12127
The Three Maidens. (From the German of Uhland)
Uhland, Johann Ludwig
1867-04-13
Once a Week
12144
A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
Smedley, Menella Bute
1867-05-01
Good Words
1864
Cassandra
Mew, James
1867-09-21
Once a Week
13549
Michaelmas Day
Goddard, Julia
1867-09-28
Once a Week
13552
The Laplander’s Song. (From the Swedish of Franzen)
Franzen, Frans Michael
1867-10-01
Good Words
1875
All Hallow Eve
Goddard, Julia
1867-10-26
Once a Week
13564
The Strollers
Reece, Robert (Jr.)
1867-11-23
Once a Week
13575
A Christmas Carol. “Gloria In Exelsis”
Goddard, Julia
1867-12-28
Once a Week
13586
“Good Words” to the Pitcairn Islanders
1868-01-01
Good Words
1891
Yesterday and To-Day
Moresby, Jane
1868-11-01
Good Words
1920
III. Promising. (A Man Speaks)
Ingelow, Jean
1869-03-01
Good Words
11899
The Widow and the Priest
Leighton, Robert
1869-08-01
Good Words
1994
Sun and Rain
1870-01-08
Once a Week
13807
The Bell
1870-01-22
Once a Week
13809
The Meeting
1870-05-14
Once a Week
13599
Edith. Chapter III.—The Stranger
Ashe, Thomas
1870-10-22
Once a Week
13717
The Mariner’s Cave
Ingelow, Jean
1870-12-01
Good Words
2104
Edith. Part II.—Chapter III.—Little Ethel
Ashe, Thomas
1870-12-24
Once a Week
13725
An Ocean Grave
Warren, John Byrne Leicester
1871
Good Words
2123
The Mother and the Angel
Anderson, Alexander
1871
Good Words
2128
The Prayer of a Dying Sufferer
1871
Good Words
2113
Orpheus and Eurydice
Graves, Alfred Perceval
1871-09
The Dark Blue
598
Super Flumina
Alexander, William
1872
Good Words
2226
Going Away
Craik, Dinah
1873
Good Words
2420
Matthias to Albertus
Betham-Edwards, Matilda
1873
Good Words
2431
Memories
Japp, Alexander Hay
1873
Good Words
2446
The Golden Thread. An incident so narrated in a very early French Fabliau.—(See Sir Walter Scott’s “Essay on Romantic Literature.”)
Greenwell, Dora
1873
Good Words
2423
Unica
Simcox, William Henry
1873
Good Words
2427
Nora’s Farewell
1873-12
Good Words
2468
A Street Idyll
Green, Saretta
1874
Good Words
2480
Faith’s Healing
Reid, P. T.
,
Reid, P. Y.
1874
Good Words
2501
Two Lots
Patrick, Mary
1874
Good Words
2495
Respect the Burthen. An Incident
Craik, Dinah
1875
Good Words
2566
Mrs. Jones’s Lodger. A Legend of Southend
Coller, Edwin
1875-01-30
Once a Week
13646
I. First Impressions
Henley, William Ernest
1875-07
The Cornhill Magazine
12313
Mervaunee. In Two Parts. Part II
Allingham, William
1876-08
The Cornhill Magazine
12335
A Japanese Fan
Veley, Margaret
1876-09
The Cornhill Magazine
12336
A Sailor’s Sweetheart
Langbridge, Frederick
1878
Good Words
2761
“Would to God!”
Meynell, Wilfred
1878
Good Words
2739
Harvest
Japp, Alexander Hay
1879
Good Words
2797
III.—A Summer Morning
A. H. J. (poet;
Good Words
)
1880
Good Words
13119
The Sunset’s Gate
J. C. A. (poet; Good Words)
1881
Good Words
3896
A Friend
Sergeant, Adeline
1882
Good Words
3938
When the Boats Come Home
Doudney, Sarah
1885
Good Words
4347
Gold and Silver
Langbridge, Frederick
1887
Good Words
5428
Horatian Echo. (To an Ambitious Friend)
Arnold, Matthew
1887-07
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8809
All Contrary
Strachey, Jane Maria
1887-10
Atalanta
1646
The Wise Men of Gotham
Power, Harriet
1887-11
Atalanta
1685
The Mother’s Choice
Weatherly, Frederic Edward
1887-12
Atalanta
1687
In a London Square
Richardson, Robert
1888
Good Words
5489
Notre Dame
MacDonald, Mosse
1888
Good Words
5491
A Morning Song for Christmas Day. For Music
Horne, Herbert P.
1888-01
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8816
Ballads of All Countries. England. Robin Hood and the Widow’s Sons
1888-01
Atalanta
1711
Of Certain White Doves
Maitland, Ella Fuller
1888-01
Atalanta
1708
St. George of England: A National Legend
Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth
1888-02
Atalanta
1714
Kilcolman Castle
Spofford, Harriet Prescott
1888-03
Atalanta
1768
The Story of An Ambuscade. A Frontier Ballad
Hayne, Paul Hamilton
1888-03
Atalanta
1766
Ballads of All Countries. Ireland. Kincora
MacLiag, Muircheartach mac Con Ceartaich
1888-06
Atalanta
1776
Little Alix. A Story of the Children’s Crusade
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (pseudonym
Susan Coolidge
)
1888-11
Atalanta
1834
A Castle In Spain
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
1888-12
Atalanta
1839
Old Song
1888-12
Atalanta
1837
The Christmas Fleet
Strachey, Jane Maria
1888-12
Atalanta
1840
The First Night of the Year
Gillington, May Clarissa
1889-01
Woman’s World
660
Two Babes. A Midwinter Bucolic
Image, Selwyn
1889-01
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8847
The Ballad of Bitter Fruit. (After Théodore de Banville)
de Banville, Théodore
1889-04
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8852
The Ballad of Pandava
Robinson, Agnes Mary Francis
1889-05
Atalanta
1930
The Shearing at the Stepping-Stones
Gillington, May Clarissa
1889-05
Woman’s World
668
“Et Sunt Commercia Coeli”
Horne, Herbert P.
1889-07
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8854
A Sonnet
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
1889-10
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8865
To a Child of Quality 5 Years Old
Prior, Matthew
1889-10
Woman’s World
681
Woods of Warwick
Spofford, Harriet Prescott
1889-10
Atalanta
1946
Olaf The Sea-King A Scandanavian Ballad
Osgood, Kate Putnam
1889-12
Atalanta
1956
The Friar of Orders Gray
Percy, Thomas
1890-06
Atalanta
2036
“Yea, I Have A Goodly Heritage”
Rossetti, Christina G.
1890-10
Atalanta
2047
Will O’ The Wisp
Macleod, Mary
1890-11
Atalanta
2053
Sir Walter’s Honor
Preston, Margaret J.
1890-12
Atalanta
2059
Town Cats In The Country
Macleod, Mary
1890-12
Atalanta
2060
Singing to a Star. (His Mother’s Song)
Piatt, Sarah M. B.
1891-03
Atalanta
2072
West End Fair September 1806
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
1891-06
Atalanta
2085
The Flying Dutchman
Wagner, Richard
1891-07
Atalanta
2088
Lohengrin
Wagner, Richard
1891-12
Atalanta
2168
The Enemies. A Picture and a Parable for Children
Salmon, Arthur Leslie
1892
Good Words
4213
The Joke
Nesbit, Edith
,
E. N. (poet;
Atalanta
)
1892-01
Atalanta
2171
The Angels
Hallward, Reginald
1892-03
Atalanta
2179
The Sad Ryme of Queen Valentine
Andrews, E. A.
1892-03
Atalanta
2177
April and I
Langbridge, Frederick
1892-04
Atalanta
2181
May
Heber, Reginald
1892-05
Atalanta
2193
The Corn-Keeper
Housman, Laurence
1892-10
Atalanta
2232
Youth Will Neads Have Dalliance, attributed to King Henry VIII
King Henry VIII
1892-10
Atalanta
2227
The Owl-d Homestead
Macleod, Mary
1892-12
Atalanta
2247
“Come, here’s to the Knights of the true royal oak”
1892-12
Atalanta
2243
Nell Latore: A Tale of the Canadian Rebellion of 1885
Parker, Gilbert
1893
Good Words
5031
Summer Day Break
Salmon, Arthur Leslie
1893
Good Words
5046
Queen Elizabeth’s Verses, While prisoner at Woodstock, Writ with charcoal on a chutter
Queen Elizabeth I
1893-10
Atalanta
2279
Sir Lancelot at the Forest Chapel
Tuttiett, Mary Gleed (pseudonym
Maxwell Gray
)
1893-10
Atalanta
2281
Lullaby
Japp, Alexander Hay
1894-08
Atalanta
2311
Mount Arafa. In Two Parts
Blackmore, Richard D. (1825-1900)
1894-10
Atalanta
2314
Mount Arafa. In Two Parts
Blackmore, Richard D. (1825-1900)
1894-11
Atalanta
2319
Egeria’s Daughter
Mackay, Jessie
1894-12
Atalanta
2324
The Lost Embassy
Nesbit, Edith
1895-02
Atalanta
2328
“The God of love & benedicite”
Clanvowe, John
1895-03
Atalanta
2331
Triolets
Rowland, May
1897-03
Atalanta
2400