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Category: Being
A non-human entity.
↑ Parent category
Fantasy and Supernatural
↓ Subcategories
Cherub
Fairy
Angel
Poems assigned to this category
Total poems: 212
Poem title
Poet(s)
Date
Periodical
id #
The Lover’s Tomb
Neele, Henry
1825
Forget-Me-Not
15064
Love’s Motto
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1827
Forget-Me-Not
15608
Hylas
1828
The Keepsake
2811
The Sister’s Dream
Hemans, Felicia
1828
Forget-Me-Not
13970
Good Angels
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1832
The Keepsake
3566
Night and Love
1833
Forget-Me-Not
15231
Cupid Caught Tripping
Hervey, Thomas Kibble
1834
Forget-Me-Not
15737
Diana and Endymion
Φασν (pseudonym)
1835
Forget-Me-Not
15203
The Love-Suit
McNaghten, Robert Adair
1835
Forget-Me-Not
15213
The Flower Spirit
Swain, Charles
1837
Forget-Me-Not
15755
The Sleeping Beauty
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym
L. E. L.
)
1837
Forget-Me-Not
15779
The Unearthly Visitant
Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline
1839
The Keepsake
4466
Ascent of the Spirit
Howitt, Mary
1840
Forget-Me-Not
15173
On the Portraits of The Princess Marie of Baden, Marchioness of Douglas, and The Earl of Angus
Chorley, Henry F.
1851
The Keepsake
5569
Eckart the Trusty. (From Goethe)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1859-07-30
Once a Week
202
A Penny for Your Thought
Fuller, James Franklin
1859-08-06
Once a Week
205
Baron Jauïoz. (From the Breton)
1859-08-06
Once a Week
204
Lament for Eros
Kortright, Frances Aikin
1859-08-27
Once a Week
210
Shoreward
Cayley, George John
1859-10-15
Once a Week
227
“Six of One and Half-a Dozen of the Other”
Roy, J.
1859-11-06
Once a Week
233
The Sprig of Lavender
Memor (pseudonym)
1859-11-12
Once a Week
235
Young Nimrod’s First Love. July
Benson, Ralph Augustus
1859-11-19
Once a Week
237
The Palimpsest
Hopkins, Manley
1859-12-03
Once a Week
241
Bought and Sold
Benson, Ralph Augustus
1859-12-10
Once a Week
243
Sad Words
Hopkins, Manley
1859-12-10
Once a Week
244
The Gloves
Langford, John Alfred
1860-04-28
Once a Week
267
Seeking
Greenwell, Dora
1860-06
Good Words
337
A Musical Instrument
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
1860-07
The Cornhill Magazine
11946
Ariadne at Naxos
Davidson, Thomas
1860-12
The Cornhill Magazine
11950
Fair and False
Montgomery, Bartholomew Sparrow
1860-12-22
Once a Week
306
She Never Told Her Love
Shaw, John Begg
1861-01-26
Once a Week
429
Thorr’s Hunt for his Hammer
1861-01-26
Once a Week
543
Aux Bien-Amiées
Benson, Ralph Augustus
1861-02-09
Once a Week
431
Fair Rosamond. A Fragment.
Bulwer-Lytton, Robert (pseudonym
Owen Meredith
)
1861-03-09
Once a Week
435
An Hour with the Dead
Crow, Louisa
1861-04-27
Once a Week
443
Student’s Song
Valentine, F.
1861-06-29
Once a Week
833
Tannhäuser
Duff-Gordon, Lucie
1861-08-17
Once a Week
842
The Angel and The Infant. (From the French of Jean Reboullé, of Nismes)
Reboul, Jean
1861-09-21
Once a Week
847
The Three Statues of Ægina
Thornbury, George Walter
1861-10-26
Once a Week
856
King Dyring. (Translated and Versified from the Prose of Emile Souvestre)
Goldie, G.
1861-11-16
Once a Week
859
Evander
Munby, Arthur J.
1861-12-21
Once a Week
866
“Taken from Life”
Baldwin, Astley H.
1862-01-18
Once a Week
876
Lady Barbara
Elton, Charles Isaac
1862-02-15
Once a Week
880
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
Sea-Weeds
1862-09
Good Words
414
The Mistake of the Loves
Bennett, William Cox
1862-10-04
Once a Week
921
Popular Epithalamium on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales
Massey, Gerald
1863-02
Good Words
1572
“My Emma and Cupid”
Walford, Edward (pseudonym
Ralph de Peverel
)
1863-10-31
Once a Week
526
“The Sirens”
Mew, James
1863-11-21
Once a Week
535
“The Little Lovers”
Thompson, D. M.
1863-12-19
Once a Week
542
At the Sepulchre
Murray, E. M.
1864
Good Words
1622
Calypso
Watkins, Morgan George
1864-02-06
Once a Week
558
Proserpine
Mew, James
1864-02-20
Once a Week
559
The Mermaid. (An Old Galloway Ballad Re-Written)
Thornbury, George Walter
1864-03-05
Once a Week
564
Una, the Moon-Fay; Or, the Vision of Chastity
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1864-09-24
Once a Week
694
Lost Syrinx (B.C. 100)
Thornbury, George Walter
1864-10-08
Once a Week
699
Childe Gottfried
Crow, Louisa
1865-06-24
Once a Week
939
Ondine
Baldwin, Astley H.
1865-09-16
Once a Week
961
Metamorphosis. (From the German of Robert Reinick)
Reinick, Robert
1865-12-16
Once a Week
983
Larthon of Inis-Huna. A Tale of the Green Children
Hervey, Eleanora Louisa
1866-05-26
Once a Week
13439
A Dead Man’s Message. (Paraphrased from Arabic Verses Quoted By Mogreeth, at Bahrein.—See Palgrave’s Arabia)
1866-08-25
Once a Week
13466
St. George and the Dragon. An Ancient Myth Modernized
Craik, Dinah
1866-12-01
Once a Week
13506
The Birth of the Rose: A Phantasy
Burnley, James
1866-12-01
Once a Week
13508
Sir Ralph de Blanc-Minster
Hawker, Robert Stephen
1867-02-09
Once a Week
12084
May Day
Goddard, Julia
1867-05-04
Once a Week
12154
1865—1866
Tennyson, Alfred
1868-03-01
Good Words
1896
Carol
Lemon, Mark
1868-12-25
Once a Week
12255
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Brooks, Shirley
1868-12-25
Once a Week
12252
Music
Simcox, George Augustus
1869-02-01
Good Words
1982
II. Sleep (A Woman Speaks)
Ingelow, Jean
1869-03-01
Good Words
11898
Winged Seeds. With an Illustration by the Author
Halse, George (pseudonym
Rattlebrain
)
1869-09-18
Once a Week
13787
The Devil’s Rafter. A Legend of Appleby
1869-09-25
Once a Week
13789
Epitaph on Agnes Jones. Buried in Fahan Churchyard near Lough Swilly
Alexander, William
1869-11-01
Good Words
1998
Michael Scott
1869-12-25
Once a Week
13816
My Timepiece
Turner, Charles Tennyson
1870-01-01
Good Words
2007
From Home to Home
Simcox, George Augustus
1870-07-01
Good Words
2023
I.–Fancy
Ingelow, Jean
1870-11-01
Good Words
2098
The Mariner’s Cave
Ingelow, Jean
1870-12-01
Good Words
2104
A Retrospect
Fraser-Tytler, Christina Catherine
1871
Good Words
2118
In the Harvest Field
Fyvie Mayo, Isabella
1871
Good Words
2121
The Mother and the Angel
Anderson, Alexander
1871
Good Words
2128
The Prayer of a Dying Sufferer
1871
Good Words
2113
Basilides
Greenwell, Dora
1872
Good Words
2192
Loose Leaves
Massey, Gerald
1872
Good Words
2152
Super Flumina
Alexander, William
1872
Good Words
2226
The Death of Columba
Blackie, John Stuart
1872
Good Words
2205
The Legend of the Holly
1872
Good Words
2229
The Remonstrance
Warren, John Byrne Leicester
1872
Good Words
2203
The Sea
Monsell, John Samuel Bewley
1872
Good Words
2138
Vanity Fair
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1872
Good Words
2143
Will O’the Wisp. (A ballad written for Clari, on a Stormy Night)
Buchanan, Robert Williams
1872
Good Words
2140
Canada to the Laureate
Machar, Agnes Maule
1873
Good Words
2442
In the Woods
Jenner, Alice Hay
1873
Good Words
2441
Progress of Our New Church
Turner, Charles Tennyson
1873
Good Words
2421
Sonnet—Love for the Young
Smedley, Menella Bute
1873
Good Words
2438
The Legend of St. Christopher
Doherty, Francis Malcolm
1873
Good Words
2432
Thoughts
1873
Good Words
2450
Dead Dreams
H. (poet;
Good Words
)
1874
Good Words
2506
Echoes
Japp, Alexander Hay
1874
Good Words
2508
Hymn to the Saviour
Palgrave, Francis Turner
1874
Good Words
2510
I.—The Young Sailor’s Song
M. B. (poet; Good Words)
1874
Good Words
2478
II.—The Old Sailor’s Song
M. B. (poet; Good Words)
1874
Good Words
12391
In Memory of Dr. Livingstone
Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
1874
Good Words
2493
IV.—A Foundling’s Prayer
Betham-Edwards, Matilda
1874
Good Words
16080
No, Love, No!
Bendall, Gerard
1874
Good Words
2505
The Easter Decorations
Cambridge, Ada
1874
Good Words
2489
A Quartette of Sonnets
Marston, Philip Bourke
1875
Good Words
2544
Mrs. Jones’s Lodger. A Legend of Southend
Coller, Edwin
1875-01-30
Once a Week
13646
The Apparition
Bennett, William Cox
1875-02-20
Once a Week
13653
In Essex
1875-04-03
Once a Week
13736
A Lament
A. C. C. (poet;
Good Words
)
,
Cambridge, Ada
1876
Good Words
2592
A Year Ago
Nesbit, Edith
1876
Good Words
2624
Church Music
Cooper, Katharine (also Katherine) (née Saunders)
1876
Good Words
2604
My Broad Domains
Capern, Edward
1876
Good Words
2590
Sonnet on a foreign warship’s salute to the Queen’s standard at Osborne, 1875
Campbell, John
1876
Good Words
2614
A Woman’s “No”
James, F.
1877
Good Words
2649
Died Happy
Craik, Dinah
1877
Good Words
2651
Spring’s Secret
Green, Saretta
1877
Good Words
2646
The Death Chant of Regnar Lod-Brok
Greenwell, Dora
1877
Good Words
2635
The Erle Queen. On London, Westminster, or any other Bridge.
Greenwell, Dora
1877
Good Words
3399
The Evening Time
A. C. C. (poet;
Good Words
)
,
Cambridge, Ada
1877
Good Words
2643
The Legend of Loch Uisk in the Island of Mull
Campbell, John
1877
Good Words
2640
Valley Streams
G. (poet;
Good Words
)
1877
Good Words
2636
Winter Tokens
Capern, Edward
1877
Good Words
2663
“The Wheels of God”
Outram, George S.
1877
Good Words
2630
A Picture
Blackmore, W. P.
1878
Good Words
2666
A Song of Arran
Brown, David
1878
Good Words
2665
Followers with Him
Greenwell, Dora
1878
Good Words
2768
One June Morning
Langbridge, Frederick
1878
Good Words
2751
Our Dream
Noble, James Ashcroft
1878
Good Words
2752
“Blessed are they that mourn”
Fyvie Mayo, Isabella
1878
Good Words
2674
Beside a Little Grave
Spens, Walter C.
1879
Good Words
2793
Importunity
Ingham, Jane Sarson Cooper
1879
Good Words
2795
On Hearing a Lark in January
J. A. P. (poet; Good Words)
1879
Good Words
2782
Street Arabs
Hart, Elizabeth Anna
,
Smedley, Menella Bute
1879
Good Words
2798
Summer
Japp, Alexander Hay
1879
Good Words
2788
You’ll Never Guess
Langbridge, Frederick
1879
Good Words
2779
“Thine They Are”
Garnett, E.
1879
Good Words
2789
A Maiden’s Message
L. G. M. (poet; Good Words)
1880
Good Words
3606
A Plea for the Dumb Animals
Drury, Anna H.
1880
Good Words
3555
The Sunset’s Gate
J. C. A. (poet; Good Words)
1881
Good Words
3896
To A Cowslip
Hedderwick, James
1886
Good Words
5297
A Christmas Carol
Image, Selwyn
1886-01
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8756
A Climb at Rouen
Betham-Edwards, Matilda
1887
Good Words
5448
A Christmas Carol
Rossetti, Christina G.
1887-01
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8801
An Open Secret
M. E. B. (poet; Atalanta)
1887-10
Atalanta
1645
Flower Fairies
Marston, Philip Bourke
1887-10
Atalanta
1643
Lines Written in the Glen at Penkill
Horne, Herbert P.
1887-10
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8815
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
Legend of the Blush Roses
Crane, Beatrice
1888-02
Woman’s World
647
St. George of England: A National Legend
Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth
1888-02
Atalanta
1714
Kilcolman Castle
Spofford, Harriet Prescott
1888-03
Atalanta
1768
Triolets
Cross, Edythe H.
1888-04
Woman’s World
649
Hail! Bounteous May!
1888-05
Atalanta
1775
Ballads of All Countries. Ireland. Kincora
MacLiag, Muircheartach mac Con Ceartaich
1888-06
Atalanta
1776
The Ivory Gate
Leith, Emily
1888-06
Atalanta
1777
Flowers from the South
Chapman, Elizabeth Rachel
1888-07
Woman’s World
651
The Little Princess
Butt, Geraldine
1888-07
Atalanta
1781
The Mer-Baby. (Suggested by a Picture by Miss Dorothy Tennant)
Currie, Mary Montgomerie (pseudonym
Violet Fane
)
1888-08
Woman’s World
652
A View Near Taranto
Ross, Janet
1888-10
Woman’s World
655
A Castle In Spain
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
1888-12
Atalanta
1839
The Christmas Fleet
Strachey, Jane Maria
1888-12
Atalanta
1840
The Shepherd
Hollins, Dorothy
1888-12
Woman’s World
659
Two Babes. A Midwinter Bucolic
Image, Selwyn
1889-01
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8847
St. Valentine’s Day
Gillington, May Clarissa
1889-02
Woman’s World
661
The Ballad of Pandava
Robinson, Agnes Mary Francis
1889-05
Atalanta
1930
The Birch-Tree at Loeschwitz
Levy, Amy
1889-06
Woman’s World
671
The Soul to the Ideal
Nesbit, Edith
1889-07
Woman’s World
674
A Sonnet
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
1889-10
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8865
Christmas Eve
Gillington, May Clarissa
1889-10
Woman’s World
682
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
Whittington’s Advancement
1889-12
Atalanta
1960
Peace
Levy, Amy
1890
Woman’s World
1042
Dolly’s Garden
Browne, Marie Hedderwick
1890-02
Atalanta
1971
The Friar of Orders Gray
Percy, Thomas
1890-06
Atalanta
2036
A Song
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
1890-07
The Century Guild Hobby Horse
8875
“Yea, I Have A Goodly Heritage”
Rossetti, Christina G.
1890-10
Atalanta
2047
Will O’ The Wisp
Macleod, Mary
1890-11
Atalanta
2053
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
The Rival Bard. A Protest
Leatherdale, V. J.
1891-02
Atalanta
2068
Playing Truant
C. I. M. B. (poet; Atalanta)
1891-05
Atalanta
2079
West End Fair September 1806
Barbauld, Anna Letitia
1891-06
Atalanta
2085
White or Grey
Coxhead, Ethel
1891-06
Atalanta
2084
Of Love And Life
Macleod, Mary
1891-10
Atalanta
2157
For The Master
Bain, Charlotte
1891-12
Atalanta
2165
“What shall I do to please my Queen”
Strachey, Jane Maria
1892-01
Atalanta
2173
Arabic Serenade
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
1892-03
Victorian Magazine
1528
The Angels
Hallward, Reginald
1892-03
Atalanta
2179
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
Charlotte Corday
Hopkins, Everard
1892-11
Atalanta
2235
The Violin Player
Plarr, Victor Gustave
1892-11
Atalanta
2237
A Picardy Pastoral
Richardson, Robert
1893
Good Words
5044
The Coming of May
Cotterell, George
1893
Good Words
5726
1893. The New Year
Hallward, Reginald
1893-01
Atalanta
2249
The Land of Cocaigne
Bain, Charlotte
1893-09
Atalanta
2272
Sir Lancelot at the Forest Chapel
Tuttiett, Mary Gleed (pseudonym
Maxwell Gray
)
1893-10
Atalanta
2281
The School Mistress
Bain, Charlotte
1893-12
Atalanta
2287
A Man’s Thought
Cotterell, George
1894
Good Words
5056
Evening
Miller, Frank
1894
Good Words
5073
The Day is Done
Slimon, James MacKintosh
1894
Good Words
5069
“Why Fail We Ever of the Best?”
Hill, William K.
1894-08
Atalanta
2309
Mount Arafa. In Two Parts
Blackmore, Richard D. (1825-1900)
1894-10
Atalanta
2314
Pallas and the Centaur. After a Picture by Botticelli
Moore, T. Sturge
1896
Pageant
1100
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
January
Vyse, Maude J.
1899-01
Atalanta
15936