Category: Being

A non-human entity.

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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