Keene, Henry George (M)

Surname: Keene
Forename(s): Henry George
b. 1825. d. 1915. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, translator, and Indian civil servant. Alternative signature: H. G. Keene. Employed with the Bengal Civil Service as a magistrate and judge (1847-1882). Returned to England and lectured on Indian history at the Oxford University Extension in 1889. Much of his poetry was written in India. Biographical information: Curran Index; Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p, 252. (CE, CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 45
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
IV. Stand by the ocean 1851-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9150
I. To— 1851-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9132
II. Where Summer is 1851-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9140
III. Earth is the realm of death 1851-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9145
VI. To— 1851-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9157
VIII. Dream on 1851-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9159
V. Sigh thou not for a happier lot 1851-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9154
VII. Oft in a night of April 1851-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9158
IX. Colonisation, two sonnets 1851-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9160
The Gold-Finder 1852-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9186
The Homes. (To My Constant Reader.) 1852-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9189
Credo 1852-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9188
The Days Gone By 1852-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9191
The World Grows Old 1852-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9190
The Bridegroom 1852-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9195
“Vox Clamantis in Eremo” 1852-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9192
A Farewell 1852-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9194
To My Daughter 1852-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9193
Summer. From the German 1852-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9196
Evening Song 1852-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9200
Oribates 1852-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9198
Music 1852-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9199
The Aged Disciple Comforting 1853-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9209
VII. Άуνωστῳ ϴεῳ 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9220
Introductory 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9210
I. Proem 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9211
IV. Setting-Out 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9214
VIII. Ad Sodales 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9221
VI. The Hyphen 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9217
V. The Same 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9215
X. Peace 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9225
III. The Path 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9213
II. A Voice 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9212
IX. Resignation 1853-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9223
Movement. (India, 1853.) 1853-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9229
A Confession 1853-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9228
The Poet and the Passions 1853-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9230
From the Tents of Kedar 1853-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9227
God in Nature 1854-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9293
The Lesson. Ex Oriente Lux 1854-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9292
Clive’s Dream Before the Battle of Plassey 1854-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9291
The Uses of Beauty 1854-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9298
The Opening of the Ganges Canal 1854-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9297
The Cloud. (From Gautier.) 1886-07 Temple Bar Translator 17883
From the Persian 1900-04 Temple Bar Translator 18400