Launched by Bradbury and Evans, the publisher of Household Words, after their split with Dickens, Once a Week (1859-1880) was a weekly middle-class family magazine that prominently featured illustrations. Published in 5 series: First Series (1859-1865), Second Series (“New Series”) (1866-1867), Third Series (“new series”) (1868-1874), Fourth Series (1874-1879), Fifth series (1880).
| Poem title | Poet(s) | Date | Vol etc. | Transcribed? | id # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desiderium | C. M. I. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-01-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 14 | no | 13394 |
| Odin | Goddard, Julia | 1866-01-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 20 | no | 13395 |
| January 1866. “Out in the Snow” | R. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-01-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 28 | no | 13396 |
| Winter. A Picture. (From the Magyar Poet Petöfi) | Petőfi, Sándor | 1866-01-13 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 48–49 | no | 13397 |
| The Fatal Tryst | C. C. H. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-01-20 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 70–72 | no | 13398 |
| A Dream | X. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-01-20 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 82 | no | 13399 |
| The Anniversary of Burns’ Birthday. January 25th, 1866 | Whiting, Sydney | 1866-01-27 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 4, Page 92 | no | 13400 |
| The Gypsies’ Song. (Translated from the Russian) | 1866-01-27 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 4, Page 103 | no | 13401 | |
| A Tryste of Old | Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) |
1866-02-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 5, Page 126 | no | 13402 |
| February. The Hunting Field | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-02-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 5, Page 140 | no | 13403 |
| The Breton Mother | Taylor, Tom | 1866-02-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 6, Page 155–156 | no | 13404 |
| Annan Water | Watkins, Morgan George | 1866-02-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 6, Page 168 | no | 13405 |
| The King and the Bishop | M. T. F. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-02-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 7, Page 183–184 | no | 13406 |
| Rest | Stonehewer, Agnes | 1866-02-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 7, Page 192 | no | 13407 |
| Faded Laurels | Calverley, Charles Stuart, C. S. C. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-02-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 7, Page 195–196 | no | 13408 |
| From Theocritus. Idyll the First | Theocritus | 1866-02-24 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 8, Page 210–212 | no | 13409 |
| Over the River | Dafforne, J. | 1866-02-24 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 8, Page 218 | no | 13410 |
| The Dying Viking | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-03-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 9, Page 238–239 | no | 13411 |
| March | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-03-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 9, Page 252 | no | 13412 |
| Violets. (A Patch-Work Sonnet) | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-03-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 10, Page 263 | no | 13413 |
| The Echo | Goddard, Julia | 1866-03-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 10, Page 266–268 | no | 13414 |
| The Stag-Hound | Mackay, Charles | 1866-03-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 11, Page 294–296 | no | 13415 |
| “Alone” | Mills, Frederick S. | 1866-03-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 11, Page 308 | no | 13416 |
| The Unburied Babe | Crow, Louisa | 1866-03-24 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 12, Page 315–316 | no | 13417 |
| Thunnor’s Slip. A Legend of Thanet | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-03-31 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 13, Page 349–351 | no | 13418 |
| Song of the Flower-Girl | C. W. C. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-03-31 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 13, Page 359 | no | 13419 |
| Isles of Light | H. R. W. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-04-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 14, Page 375 | no | 13420 |
| The Maiden’s Heart | Castleman, E. | 1866-04-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 14, Page 379 | no | 13421 |
| An Allegory | Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) |
1866-04-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 14, Page 388 | no | 13422 |
| April | Ellis, B. Trapp | 1866-04-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 14, Page 392 | no | 13423 |
| A Spring Dream | Watkins, Morgan George | 1866-04-14 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 15, Page 399 | no | 13424 |
| Lost for Gold | Alexander, Cecil Frances | 1866-04-14 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 15, Page 407–408 | no | 13425 |
| Killed at the Ford | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1866-04-14 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 15, Page 420 | no | 13426 |
| The Triumph of Envy | X. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-04-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 16, Page 431 | no | 13427 |
| King Erick.—(From the German) | 1866-04-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 16, Page 435–436 | no | 13428 | |
| Helen and Cassandra | Richards, Alfred B. | 1866-04-28 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 17, Page 454–455 | no | 13429 |
| “In Statu Quo” | Penn Venn | 1866-04-28 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 17, Page 463 | no | 13430 |
| Swallow Song | Watkins, Morgan George | 1866-04-28 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 17, Page 476 | no | 13431 |
| Day-Dreams | J. F. J. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-05-05 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 18, Page 487 | no | 13432 |
| Ancient Clan Dirge | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-05-05 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 18, Page 490–492 | no | 13433 |
| May | Ellis, B. Trapp | 1866-05-05 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 18, Page 504 | no | 13434 |
| From a Cantata by Salvator Rosa | Rosa, Salvator | 1866-05-12 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 19, Page 517 | no | 13435 |
| A Confession | 1866-05-12 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 19, Page 532 | no | 13436 | |
| Green Fields and Shady Lanes | Mills, Frederick S. | 1866-05-19 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 20, Page 543 | no | 13437 |
| At the Gate. (A Sequel to “One Hour”) | Hawcroft, Joseph Mowbray | 1866-05-19 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 20, Page 559–560 | no | 13438 |
| Larthon of Inis-Huna. A Tale of the Green Children | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-05-26 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 21, Page 574 | no | 13439 |
| Vogel-Lied | Pye, R. H. | 1866-05-26 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 21, Page 588 | no | 13440 |
| June | Goddard, Julia | 1866-06-02 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 22, Page 589–590 | no | 13441 |
| The Little Knight. (A Lay of Domestic Chivalry) | F. W. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-06-02 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 22, Page 599–600 | no | 13442 |
| Wait On | C. E. I. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-06-09 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 23, Page 630–631 | no | 13443 |
| The Reason | Lawrence, Walter J. | 1866-06-16 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 24, Page 653 | no | 13444 |
| A Raid | Clarke, Henry Savile | 1866-06-16 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 24, Page 658–660 | no | 13445 |
| “Mabel” | 1866-06-16 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 663 | no | 13446 | |
| An Idyll of the Hayfield | F. E. C. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-06-23 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 686–688 | no | 13447 |
| To A. Petöfi | Bowring, John | 1866-06-23 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 700 | no | 13448 |
| “The corn is ripe already” | Petőfi, Sándor | 1866-06-23 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 700 | no | 13450 |
| “What boots it with the plough to trace” | Petőfi, Sándor | 1866-06-23 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 25, Page 700 | no | 13449 |
| “Germania.” Suggested by a Picture | Swayne, George Carless | 1866-06-30 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 26, Page 706 | no | 13451 |
| The Fight on Rhu-Carn | Williams, Charles H. | 1866-06-30 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 26, Page 712–714 | no | 13452 |
| From Victor Hugo | Hugo, Victor | 1866-06-30 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 1, Issue 26, Page 724 | no | 13453 |
| A Cry from the Vineyard | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1866-07-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 27, Page 11 | no | 13454 |
| Eldorado | 1866-07-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 27, Page 14–16 | no | 13493 | |
| La Desolazione | Stonehewer, Agnes | 1866-07-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 27, Page 23 | no | 13455 |
| July | Goddard, Julia | 1866-07-07 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 27, Page 28 | no | 13494 |
| The Spoiler Despoiled | Goddard, Julia | 1866-07-14 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 28, Page 43–44 | no | 13495 |
| Docendo Discimus | E. H. E. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-07-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 29, Page 60 | no | 13456 |
| Kunegunda | 1866-07-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 29, Page 71–72 | no | 13457 | |
| Sweets of Woman’s Life | Swayne, Margaret Sarah | 1866-07-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 29, Page 84 | no | 13496 |
| Luther’s Gardener. [A.D. 1544] | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-07-28 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 30, Page 99–100 | no | 13458 |
| Ariadne | Tate, William J. | 1866-08-04 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 31, Page 126–128 | no | 13459 |
| August | Goddard, Julia | 1866-08-04 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 31, Page 140 | no | 13460 |
| The Feast of Almhuin. A Legend of Erin and Lochlin | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-08-11 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 32, Page 148–149 | no | 13461 |
| The Curse of the Gudmunds. A Legend of Iceland | 1866-08-11 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 32, Page 155–156 | no | 13462 | |
| Old Ralph | Goddard, Julia | 1866-08-18 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 33, Page 176–178 | no | 13463 |
| The Learned Wife | B. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-08-18 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 33, Page 183–184 | no | 13497 |
| The Madman of Corinth | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-08-18 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 33, Page 196 | no | 13464 |
| A Dirge from a Long Vacation Reading Party | F. M. H. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-08-25 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 34, Page 205 | no | 13465 |
| A Dead Man’s Message. (Paraphrased from Arabic Verses Quoted By Mogreeth, at Bahrein.—See Palgrave’s Arabia) | 1866-08-25 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 34, Page 210–211 | no | 13466 | |
| Lady Julia | W. T. M. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-09-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 35, Page 239–240 | no | 13467 |
| September | Goddard, Julia | 1866-09-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 35, Page 252 | no | 13498 |
| The Last Wolf in Gwentland | Williams, Charles H. | 1866-09-08 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 36, Page 266–268 | no | 13499 |
| The Beaten Commander | Craik, Dinah | 1866-09-15 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 37, Page 292–293 | no | 13468 |
| On the Cliffs | A. M. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-09-15 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 37, Page 307–308 | no | 13500 |
| The Mulberry Tree | Craik, Dinah | 1866-09-22 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 38, Page 323–324 | no | 13501 |
| To the Evening Star. [From Bion, Idyl XVI] | Bion of Smyrna | 1866-09-22 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 38, Page 336 | no | 13469 |
| Désillusionné | Crossman, W. | 1866-09-29 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 39, Page 359 | no | 13470 |
| Dorette | Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) |
1866-10-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 40, Page 379–380 | no | 13502 |
| The Year’s Crown | Watkins, Morgan George | 1866-10-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 40, Page 385 | no | 13471 |
| October | Goddard, Julia | 1866-10-06 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 40, Page 392 | no | 13503 |
| “Without Hope of Change.” Tennyson’s Mariana | J. C. H. J. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-10-13 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 41, Page 403 | no | 13472 |
| The Rough Old Squire’s Young Bride | 1866-10-20 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 42, Page 434–436 | no | 13473 | |
| The Tun Unvisited. (Vide Wordsworth’s “Yarrow Unvisited”) | de Wilde, George James | 1866-10-20 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 42, Page 448 | no | 13474 |
| The Gift of Clunnog Vawr. A Tale of Caer Arvon | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-10-27 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 43, Page 462–464 | no | 13475 |
| The Hidden Gem | M. W. S. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-10-27 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 43, Page 476–477 | no | 13476 |
| Vanitas Vanitatum? | J. F. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-11-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 44, Page 495–496 | no | 13504 |
| The Black Dog of Ardenne | Potter, Frederick Scarlett (also Scarlet) | 1866-11-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 44, Page 499–500 | no | 13477 |
| November | Goddard, Julia | 1866-11-03 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 44, Page 504 | no | 13505 |
| The Knave of Bergen. (From the German of Wilhelm Smets) | Smets, Wilhelm | 1866-11-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 45, Page 523–524 | no | 13478 |
| “Experientia Docet;” Or, the Pleasures of Farming | A. C. W. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-11-10 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 45, Page 531–532 | no | 13479 |
| Alice | Blagden, Isa | 1866-11-17 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 46, Page 546–548 | no | 13480 |
| When? | Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) |
1866-11-21 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 47, Page 573 | no | 13481 |
| Tranquility. A Study | Calverley, Charles Stuart | 1866-11-24 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 47, Page 574–575 | no | 13482 |
| St. George and the Dragon. An Ancient Myth Modernized | Craik, Dinah | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 1–2 | no | 13506 |
| The Seasons | Stonehewer, Agnes | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 11 | no | 13507 |
| The Birth of the Rose: A Phantasy | Burnley, James | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 20–21 | no | 13508 |
| The Stromkarl | Collinson, Septimus | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 32 | no | 13509 |
| In Church on Christmas Day | Jackson, Blomfield | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 40 | no | 13510 |
| The Good People | Thornbury, George Walter | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 50–51 | no | 13511 |
| Christmas Eve in the Country | Watkins, Morgan George | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 58 | no | 13512 |
| A Winter Piece | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 63–64 | no | 13513 | |
| The Horrors of Housekeeping. Especially in the Festive Season. Reviewed by a Young Married Lady | Silver, H. | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, SpecialIssue Christmas issue, Page 73–74 | no | 13514 |
| The Herdsman’s Repose | Goddard, Julia | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 48, Page 602–604 | no | 13483 |
| The Welcome Guest. (From the French of Henry Mürger) | Murger, Henri | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 48, Page 607 | no | 13484 |
| December | Goddard, Julia, G. (poet; Once a Week) | 1866-12-01 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 48, Page 616 | no | 13485 |
| Love the Runaway. [From Moschus, Idyll I] | Moschus | 1866-12-08 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 49, Page 637 | no | 13486 |
| The Moorish Girl at Her Father’s Grave | Betham-Edwards, Matilda | 1866-12-08 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 49, Page 644 | no | 13487 |
| Acrostic | Walford, Edward (pseudonym Ralph de Peverel) |
1866-12-15 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 50, Page 656 | no | 13488 |
| Drift on, My Bark! | Crossman, W. | 1866-12-15 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 50, Page 659 | no | 13489 |
| The Vision of Caedmon | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-12-22 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 51, Page 679 | no | 13490 |
| The Dying Year’s Requiem | Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) |
1866-12-22 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 51, Page 700 | no | 13491 |
| The Huntress of Armorica. A Tale of St. Michael’s Mount. Carey Luz in Leuz | Hervey, Eleanora Louisa | 1866-12-29 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 52, Page 706–708 | no | 13492 |
| New Year’s Eve | Atkinson, Richard | 1866-12-29 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 52, Page 713–714 | no | 13515 |
| The Burial of the Old Year | Goddard, Julia | 1866-12-29 | Once a Week Series 2, Volume 2, Issue 52, Page 724 | no | 13516 |