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Category: Sleeping
Depiction of a living thing sleeping.
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Total poems: 74
Poem title
Poet(s)
Date
Periodical
id #
Ellen; A Fragment
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1824
Forget-Me-Not
15898
A Child’s Dream
Barton, Bernard
1826
Forget-Me-Not
13915
Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School
Hemans, Felicia
1826
Forget-Me-Not
13924
The Sister’s Dream
Hemans, Felicia
1828
Forget-Me-Not
13970
The Faithful Guardian
Bird, John
1829
Forget-Me-Not
15531
Diana and Endymion
Φασν (pseudonym)
1835
Forget-Me-Not
15203
The Dying Sister
Howitt, Mary
1836
Forget-Me-Not
15320
The Sleeping Beauty
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1837
Forget-Me-Not
15779
The Rich and the Poor
Howitt, Mary
1838
Forget-Me-Not
15806
The Noontide Dream
Browne, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Grey)
1844
Forget-Me-Not
15443
The Exile’s Wife to Her Sleeping Child
Wood, Ellen
1850
The Keepsake
5678
The Sprig of Lavender
Memor (pseudonym)
1859-11-12
Once a Week
235
The Gloves
Langford, John Alfred
1860-04-28
Once a Week
267
Swift and the Mohawks
Thornbury, George Walter
1861-03-16
Once a Week
436
An Artisan’s Story
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1861-04
Good Words
376
An Hour with the Dead
Crow, Louisa
1861-04-27
Once a Week
443
The Young Mother
Sere, A. L.
1861-10
Good Words
390
The Fairies. (Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine)
Heine, Heinrich
1862-03-29
Once a Week
890
Three Score and Ten
Baldwin, Astley H.
1862-05-31
Once a Week
899
The Drowning of Kaer-Is. (Literally Translated from the Breton)
1862-06-14
Once a Week
901
Highland Flora
1862-07
Good Words
409
My Treasure
Mulholland, Rosa
1862-08
Good Words
412
The Bands of Love
Greenwell, Dora
1862-10
Good Words
417
Endymion on Latmos
Smith, R. N.
1863-01-03
Once a Week
457
Soul-Gardening
Greenwell, Dora
1863-04
Good Words
1578
Gifts
Hopkins, Manley
1863-06-20
Once a Week
495
Sleep
Greenwell, Dora
1863-08
Good Words
1588
An Orphan Family’s Christmas
Massey, Gerald
1863-12
Good Words
1596
“The Little Lovers”
Thompson, D. M.
1863-12-19
Once a Week
542
Proserpine
Mew, James
1864-02-20
Once a Week
559
The Harp of Invermorn
Black, William
1864-09-03
Once a Week
689
The River
Goddard, Julia
1864-12-24
Once a Week
719
Macdhonuil’s Coronach
Black, William
1865-01-28
Once a Week
731
The Breton Mother
Taylor, Tom
1866-02-10
Once a Week
13404
Larthon of Inis-Huna. A Tale of the Green Children
Hervey, Eleanora Louisa
1866-05-26
Once a Week
13439
The Herdsman’s Repose
Goddard, Julia
1866-12-01
Once a Week
13483
The Satrap
Smith, W. Frank
1867-03
The Cornhill Magazine
12050
The Old Shepherd on His Pipe
Burnand, Francis Cowley
1867-08-24
Once a Week
13539
From Victor Hugo. (Feuilles d’Automne)
Hugo, Victor
1867-09-07
Once a Week
13543
Hero Harold
Smedley, Menella Bute
1868-03-01
Good Words
1897
Hero Harold
Smedley, Menella Bute
1868-04-01
Good Words
1899
The Devil’s Rafter. A Legend of Appleby
1869-09-25
Once a Week
13789
II.–The Snowdrop Monument (In Lichfield Cathedral)
Ingelow, Jean
1870-08-01
Good Words
11901
Edith. Part II.—Chapter III.—Little Ethel
Ashe, Thomas
1870-12-24
Once a Week
13725
“Tiger Bay:” A Windy Night’s Dream
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1871
Good Words
2119
Will O’the Wisp. (A ballad written for Clari, on a Stormy Night)
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1872
Good Words
2140
Birth-Song
Freeland, William
1873
Good Words
2422
Daylight
Hart, Elizabeth Anna
1875
Good Words
2532
Mervaunee. In Two Parts. Part I
Allingham, William
1876-07
The Cornhill Magazine
12333
Born at Jerusalem. (Gladys Mulock Holman Hunt, born Sept. 20, 1876)
Craik, Dinah
1878
Good Words
2743
Thinking of Michael
Anderson, Alexander
1882
Good Words
3956
Sent Back by the Angels. A Ballad
Langbridge, Frederick
1883
Good Words
3979
Pine and Palm
Canton, William
1885
Good Words
4366
The Mother’s Choice
Weatherly, Frederic Edward
1887-12
Atalanta
1687
A Child Asleep
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
1888-01
Atalanta
1724
A Castle In Spain
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
1888-12
Atalanta
1839
Ingé, the Boy-King
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
1889-01
Atalanta
1844
The Ballad of Pandava
Robinson, Agnes Mary Francis
1889-05
Atalanta
1930
“Et Sunt Commercia Coeli”
Horne, Herbert P.
1889-07
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8854
Olaf The Sea-King A Scandanavian Ballad
Osgood, Kate Putnam
1889-12
Atalanta
1956
A Christmas Song
Bain, Charlotte
1890-12
Atalanta
2055
Town Cats In The Country
Macleod, Mary
1890-12
Atalanta
2060
A Lullaby
McEwan, Tom
1891
Good Words
4109
The Charity of the Countess Kathleen
Tynan (Hinkson), Katharine
1891-02
Atalanta
2065
The Doleful Death and Dirge of Harpalus. (Continued)
1891-02
Atalanta
2069
“What shall I do to please my Queen”
Strachey, Jane Maria
1892-01
Atalanta
2173
The Corn-Keeper
Housman, Laurence
1892-10
Atalanta
2232
Royal Heart
Housman, Laurence
1893-01
Atalanta
2250
Sir Lancelot at the Forest Chapel
Tuttiett, Mary Gleed (pseudonym
Maxwell Gray
)
1893-10
Atalanta
2281
April Voices
Canton, William
1894
Good Words
5061
Autumn
Briss, Vida
1896
Good Words
5112
The Lion And The Mouse. Versified from Aesop’s Fables
Bates, Clara Doty
1896-12
Atalanta
2390
A Song of Seasons
Hopper, Nora
1897-09
Atalanta
2418
A Fisher-Boy
McKendrick, John Gray
1900
Good Words
15011