Category: Elder

Elderly person. Can be used with man and/or woman tags.

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Poems assigned to this category

Total poems: 157
Poem title Poet(s) Date Periodical id #
Bishop Hubert Barton, Bernard 1824 Forget-Me-Not 15904
The Lover’s Tomb Neele, Henry 1825 Forget-Me-Not 15064
Maria de Torquemada Taking the Veil Croly, George 1827 Forget-Me-Not 15624
Death in the Kitchen Hood, Thomas 1828 Forget-Me-Not 14075
Constancy Bird, James 1829 Forget-Me-Not 15551
Frolic in a Palace Harrison, William Henry 1829 Forget-Me-Not 15562
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
The False One Bayly, Thomas Haynes 1831 Forget-Me-Not 15686
The Use of Tears Howard, George William Frederick 1831 The Keepsake 3146
The Merchant and his Daughter Fitzgerald, Edward 1834 The Keepsake 3864
The Widowed Mother Gardiner, Marguerite 1835 The Keepsake 3868
Dance of the Peasants, in the Winter’s Tale Blanchard, Samuel Laman 1836 Forget-Me-Not 15334
King Alfred’s Return from the Danish Camp Laurence, H. 1836 Forget-Me-Not 15316
The Bribe Amos, Isaac Doré 1836 The Keepsake 4202
Faithful Carlo Bayly, Thomas Haynes 1837 Forget-Me-Not 15767
Alice Lee Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseudonym L. E. L.) 1839 Forget-Me-Not 15357
The First-Born Dalton, James Forbes 1841 Forget-Me-Not 15375
Glovers and Rovers One Who Has Known Poets 1846 The Keepsake 5182
The Glee-Maiden’s Spell Chorley, Henry F. 1856 The Keepsake 5739
The Grandmother’s Apology Tennyson, Alfred 1859-07-16 Once a Week 199
The Fortune-Teller. A Seaport Ditty Brotherton, Mary 1859-09-10 Once a Week 214
The Song of the Survivor Calvert, William 1859-10-22 Once a Week 229
Maude Clare Rossetti, Christina G. 1859-11-06 Once a Week 232
Fairy May Goodhart, C. W. 1859-11-12 Once a Week 234
The Sprig of Lavender Memor (pseudonym) 1859-11-12 Once a Week 235
The Return of the Firefly Münster, Mary C. F. 1860-01-14 Once a Week 252
The Mistake. (An Old Gem Reset) Johnson, James W. 1860-02-11 Once a Week 257
A Cloister Legend 1860-04 Good Words 323
Once Upon a Time Cook, Eliza 1860-06-30 Once a Week 277
Contrasts Fuller, James Franklin 1860-07-14 Once a Week 280
Jolly Anglers S. (poet; Once a Week) 1860-09-01 Once a Week 287
The Minstrel’s Curse Uhland, Johann Ludwig 1860-09-22 Once a Week 292
Won! Fonblanque, Albany Jr. 1860-11-24 Once a Week 301
The Christmas Tree Greenwell, Dora 1860-12 Good Words 366
The Dying Heroes, From Uhland Uhland, Johann Ludwig 1861-01-12 Once a Week 425
The Bells of Lorloches Greenwell, Dora 1861-02 Good Words 371
A Life Story Mara (pseudonym) 1861-02-02 Once a Week 430
Take Warning N. J. (poet; Once a Week) 1861-02-16 Once a Week 433
The Maiden Masque Lover, Samuel 1861-02-23 Once a Week 434
“Oh, It’s Hard to Die Frae Hame” Macleod, Norman 1861-03 Good Words 373
The Beggar’s Soliloquy Meredith, George 1861-03-30 Once a Week 545
An Artisan’s Story Buchanan, Robert Williams 1861-04 Good Words 376
Crowned Heads Teulon, Harriet Mary 1861-05 Good Words 379
On Her Death-bed. A Lullaby Munby, Arthur J. 1861-05-25 Once a Week 447
A Song Which None but the Redeemed can Sing Greenwell, Dora 1861-07 Good Words 384
The Mill-Fiend Munby, Arthur J. 1861-08-03 Once a Week 839
The Robber Saint. A Cornish Legend Stackhouse, Jonathan Lett 1861-09-28 Once a Week 849
Coming Hame Craik, Dinah 1861-10 Good Words 389
The Three Statues of Ægina Thornbury, George Walter 1861-10-26 Once a Week 856
The Patriot Engineer Meredith, George 1861-12-14 Once a Week 864
Evander Munby, Arthur J. 1861-12-21 Once a Week 866
The Battle of Gilboa Forsyth, William 1862-02 Good Words 398
“The Battle of the Thirty.” A Breton Ballad 1862-02-01 Once a Week 877
The King at the Gate Thornbury, George Walter 1862-03-15 Once a Week 886
The Chase of the Siren. A Doric Legend Thornbury, George Walter 1862-05-31 Once a Week 898
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
The Sabbath Day 1862-07 Good Words 410
Out Among the Wild-Flowers W. S. F. (“A Police Constable”) (poet; Good Words) 1862-11 Good Words 418
St. Elmo Craig (Knox), Isa 1863-01 Good Words 1569
He Heeded Not MacDonald, George 1863-03 Good Words 1575
The Norse Princess Smith, Alexander 1863-03 Good Words 1574
Mawgan of Melluach. The Cornish Wrecker Hawker, Robert Stephen 1863-05-23 Once a Week 487
A Missionary Cheer Massey, Gerald 1863-08 Good Words 12354
Hacho, the Dane; or the Bishop’s Ransom. (A Legend of Llandaff) Williams, Charles H. 1863-10-24 Once a Week 525
Reconciled Ingelow, Jean 1863-11 Good Words 1595
A Christmas Carol. 1863 Greenwell, Dora 1864 Good Words 1600
“Blessed to Give” Wilson, F. E. 1864 Good Words 1620
The Romaunt of the Rose. (A Cornish Legend) Watkins, Morgan George 1864-05-21 Once a Week 587
T’Runawaa Lass. (In the Dialect of the North Riding) Munby, Arthur J. 1864-05-28 Once a Week 588
The Legend of Saint Vitus Thornbury, George Walter 1864-10-01 Once a Week 697
Janet’s Question I. C. (poet; Good Words) 1865 Good Words 1753
Iliad Ω. 692, ad fin Homer 1865-01-21 Once a Week 728
“Le Toit S’Egaie et Rit.” (From Victor Hugo) Hugo, Victor 1865-02-11 Once a Week 736
“The Travellers.” (From the French of Victor Hugo) Hugo, Victor 1865-03-04 Once a Week 741
The Old King Dying Jackson, Blomfield 1865-04-15 Once a Week 751
Auray Black, William 1865-06-03 Once a Week 762
The Legends of “St. Leonard’s Foreste” G. (poet; Once a Week) 1865-07-29 Once a Week 948
Achilles Cotterell, George 1865-08-19 Once a Week 954
The Legend of the Lockharts Thornbury, George Walter 1865-12-16 Once a Week 984
The Dying Viking Thornbury, George Walter 1866-03-03 Once a Week 13411
At the Gate. (A Sequel to “One Hour”) Hawcroft, Joseph Mowbray 1866-05-19 Once a Week 13438
In Church on Christmas Day Jackson, Blomfield 1866-12-01 Once a Week 13510
The Old Astronomer Williams, Sarah 1867-01-01 Good Words 1820
“Sweet Home” Cook, Eliza 1867-01-12 Once a Week 12078
Lord Aythan Williams, Charles H. 1867-04-20 Once a Week 12147
May Day Goddard, Julia 1867-05-04 Once a Week 12154
The Singer of the Sea. A Legend of the Orkneys Hervey, Eleanora Louisa 1867-05-25 Once a Week 12158
The Cabin-Boy Freeland, William 1867-06-01 Good Words 1866
In the Choir Fyvie Mayo, Isabella 1867-08-01 Good Words 1872
The Child-Queen Thornbury, George Walter 1867-08-03 Once a Week 13530
The Old Shepherd on His Pipe Burnand, Francis Cowley 1867-08-24 Once a Week 13539
All Hallow Eve Goddard, Julia 1867-10-26 Once a Week 13564
The Strollers Reece, Robert (Jr.) 1867-11-23 Once a Week 13575
Christmas Goddard, Julia 1867-12-28 Once a Week 13587
The Victim Tennyson, Alfred 1868-01-01 Good Words 1888
1865—1866 Tennyson, Alfred 1868-03-01 Good Words 1896
The Harvest Home Strahan, John 1868-08-01 Good Words 1908
Dance, My Children! Macleod, Norman 1868-09-01 Good Words 1914
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
The Sailor Boy One of the Authors of Child World , Hart, Elizabeth Anna, Smedley, Menella Bute 1869-07-01 Good Words 1992
Serenade Massey, Gerald 1869-09-01 Good Words 12356
The Wedding Massey, Gerald 1869-09-01 Good Words 12355
Wedded Love Massey, Gerald 1869-09-01 Good Words 1996
The Bell 1870-01-22 Once a Week 13809
I.—A Winter Song Ingelow, Jean 1870-05-01 Good Words 2017
Dame Martha’s Well. (After Christian Winther) Winther, Christian 1870-10-01 Good Words 2097
A Gentlewoman of the Old School Dobson, Austin 1871 Good Words 2137
I.—A Frosty Day Warren, John Byrne Leicester 1871 Good Words 2107
Love Wood, Ellen 1871 Good Words 2111
The Neighbour Buchanan, Robert Williams 1871 Good Words 2131
The Death of Columba Blackie, John Stuart 1872 Good Words 2205
The Legend of the Holly 1872 Good Words 2229
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
Thoughts 1873 Good Words 2450
A Music Lesson Japp, Alexander Hay 1874 Good Words 2517
Sabbath Songs Gough, Benjamin 1874 Good Words 2520
The Little Bauble. A Story of a Street-Arab Kaye, John William 1875 Good Words 2561
In Essex 1875-04-03 Once a Week 13736
I. First Impressions Henley, William Ernest 1875-07 The Cornhill Magazine 12313
Beside a Tomb Craik, Dinah 1876 Good Words 2618
In the Snow Drift Japp, Alexander Hay 1876 Good Words 2591
Off to “The House” Fyvie Mayo, Isabella 1879 Good Words 2799
Charity Japp, Alexander Hay 1880 Good Words 3553
The Death of Huss Austin, Alfred 1882 Good Words 3939
A Lay of a Cracked Fiddle Langbridge, Frederick 1883 Good Words 3992
When the Boats Come Home Doudney, Sarah 1885 Good Words 4347
An Unconventional Sermon Stock, Elliot 1886 Good Words 5300
Left Alone McEwan, Tom 1887 Good Words 5447
The Old Knife-Grinder Langbridge, Frederick 1888 Good Words 5515
Ballads of All Countries. England. Robin Hood and the Widow’s Sons 1888-01 Atalanta 1711
In Winter Macleod, Mary 1888-01 Atalanta 1709
St. George of England: A National Legend Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth 1888-02 Atalanta 1714
The Little Princess Butt, Geraldine 1888-07 Atalanta 1781
Little Alix. A Story of the Children’s Crusade Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (pseudonym Susan Coolidge) 1888-11 Atalanta 1834
Old Song 1888-12 Atalanta 1837
The Christmas Fleet Strachey, Jane Maria 1888-12 Atalanta 1840
Two Babes. A Midwinter Bucolic Image, Selwyn 1889-01 The Century Guild Hobby Horse 8847
The Ballad of Pandava Robinson, Agnes Mary Francis 1889-05 Atalanta 1930
To a Child of Quality 5 Years Old Prior, Matthew 1889-10 Woman’s World 681
Olaf The Sea-King A Scandanavian Ballad Osgood, Kate Putnam 1889-12 Atalanta 1956
Whittington’s Advancement 1889-12 Atalanta 1960
The Angel of Eventide Lamont, Alexander 1892-09 Victorian Magazine 1544
The Corn-Keeper Housman, Laurence 1892-10 Atalanta 2232
“There once was a famous physician” 1892-10 Atalanta 2231
Light at Eventide Reid, John 1893 Good Words 5030
The Apple-Trees 1893 Good Words 15911
Royal Heart Housman, Laurence 1893-01 Atalanta 2250
The School Mistress Bain, Charlotte 1893-12 Atalanta 2287
Sunday in the Highlands St. Vincent, John 1894 Good Words 5057
Two Toilers Hendry, Hamish 1894 Good Words 5059
The Old Year Davies, J. H. 1894-01 Atalanta 2289
A Caravansarai. (Done into verse from Addison) F. A. (poet; Atalanta) 1895-06 Atalanta 2340