Sterling, John (M)

Surname: Sterling
Forename(s): John
b. 20 July 1806. d. 18 September 1844. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, editor, translator, writer. Pseudonym: Archæus, Jacob Sternwall. Educated at the University of Glasgow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles). Co-founder of the Metropolitan Quarterly Magazine, and an editor of the Athenaeum. Close friends with Coleridge and well connected with other leading literary figures. Suffered from consumption. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 191
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Thought and Love 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14662
The Future 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14649
Hope and Faith 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14655
One Life in All 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14656
Something and Nothing 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14651
Faith and Friendship 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14642
Earth and Heaven 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14641
Light and Darkness 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14643
Where to Look 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14659
Nature and God 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14660
Faith in Peril 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14661
Substance and Shadow 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14650
Joy in Evil 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14658
Plants and Men 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14653
Enquiry 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14652
The Pains of Knowledge 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14654
The Flower and Star 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14657
Good and Ill 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14648
Remorse 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14664
This World 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14644
Nature Inevitable 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14663
Alfred the Harper 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14665
Hope and Memory 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14666
Thought and Deed 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14645
Time and Eternity 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14646
Life 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14647
Apes and Eagles 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14342
Atlas and Jove 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14346
Dreaming and Waking 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14299
The Two Mirrors 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14308
The Mariners 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14359
On Reading a Newspaper 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14307
The Husbandman 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14357
The Power of Words 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14344
The Two Oceans 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14312
The Solitary 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14318
Night and Dawn 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14336
The Rule of Action 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14340
Leaves and Seed 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14314
The Destroyers 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14343
Sceptics and Spectres 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14337
The Beggar 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14317
The Oak of Judah 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14339
An Epitaph 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14302
Cares and Days 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14313
The Poet 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14300
Seeing and Doing 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14347
The Round of the Wheel 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14353
Calm and Storm 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14354
The Dreams of Ocean 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14334
The Spinner 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14315
The Penitent 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14304
The Part and the Whole 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14348
Mirabeau 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14363
Eleven Triads 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14356
The Silkless Worm 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14349
The Shafts of Song 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14298
The Worth of Life 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14319
The Spice Tree 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14309
Cant 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14341
The Lady of the Castle 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14361
The Astronomer 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14350
Eyes and Stars 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14335
Earth and Air 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14311
The Happy Hour 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14305
Steam Land 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14345
A Book 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14338
The Husbandman 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14316
The Cloud Embracer and the Cloud Compeller 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 15916
Louis XV. 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14362
Joan D’Arc 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14364
Smiles 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14355
The Tomb of Simonides 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14301
The Desert’s Use 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14351
Prose and Song 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14297
The Hunter 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14358
Pompeii 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14352
The Poet’s Home 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14303
The Rose and the Gauntlet 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14360
To a Child 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14306
Ixion and the Centaurs 1837-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14310
Inward Gratitude 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14695
An Hour in the Mountains 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14725
Scorn and Repentance 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14703
The Locked Gate 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14706
The Human Couplet 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14709
Coleridge 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14733
Milo’s Destiny 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14715
To a Lady 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14721
The Torch 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14723
The Funeral Torch 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14698
Self and Selfishness 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14716
Shakspeare 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14732
Delos 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14699
The Earthen Lamp 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14708
The Scytheman 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14711
Drink and Think 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14724
The Hermit’s Lamp 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14697
Stars 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14704
Smoke and Cloud 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14700
The World and the Pebble 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14717
The Song of Eve to Cain 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14726
The Shadow 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14722
Christ and Mahommed 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14720
Pearls and Bubbles 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14705
Delicate Sensibility 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14710
Sin and Reason 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14701
To-Day and To-Morrow 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14702
Snuffers 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14712
The World and the Dewdrop 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14718
The Wounds of Life 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14719
The Well of Truth 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14713
Art and Conscience 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14707
The Voyage of Earth 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14696
The Lady Jane Grey 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14731
The Magic Lantern 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14714
Statues 1838-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14694
The Sexton’s Daughter. A Poem 1838-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11597
Otho III 1839-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11500
Hymn VI 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11420
Hymn III 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11413
Hymn I 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11408
Hymn II 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11412
Hymn V 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11418
Hymn IV 1840-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11415
Hymn VIII 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11430
Hymn X 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11432
Hymn XI 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11433
Wellington 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11435
Hymn IX 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11431
Hymn VII 1840-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11429
Hymn XV 1840-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11458
Hymn XII 1840-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11455
Hymn XIII 1840-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11456
Hymn XIV 1840-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11457
Hymn XVI 1840-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11461
Hymn XVII 1840-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11462
Hymn XVIII 1840-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11463
XXXIV. The Belvedere Apollo 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11290
XXXIII. The Medicean Venus 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11289
VIII. “Sweet notes, to all but him unspoken” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11264
XLIV. “Speak not, but mutely think !—the cynic cries” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11299
V. “How fair the summer day of joy and light” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11261
XXXVI. “Old flaming Ages full of struggling” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11292
XIX. “Loud sceptic cock, I see thee stand” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11275
XXVII. “I stood amid the Pitti’s gilded halls” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11283
XX. “How many giants, each in turn, have sought” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11276
XIII. “That mountains gather clouds I know” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11269
IV. “Would Beatrice unto thee, O friend” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11260
I. “My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11257
XLV. “A sage in rapture is a seer” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11300
XL. “The working fire is Action strong and true” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11296
XXXIX. “Many work to gain their wages” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11295
XXXVIII. “Candle that in deepest dark” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11294
XXIV. “A sleeper, sunk in dark discordant woes” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11280
XVI. “Thou whose mental eye is keen” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11272
XXI. “Good friend, so worthlessly complete” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11277
X. “I look’d upon a steam-engine, and thought” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11266
IX. “The region known to men as England” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11265
XLIII. “Think’st thou, friend, that legends lying” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11304
XXVIII. “True, O Sage! that mortal man” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11284
XXV. “I saw a flower-girl selling brightest flowers” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11281
XI. “Poor affluence of Words, how weak thy power” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11267
XVIII. “A Russian, looking at a map of earth” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11274
III. Epitaph on a young Swiss who Died at Madeira 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11259
XXII. “A Frenchman gather’d salad for his dinner” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11278
XXXV. San Miniato, Near Florence 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11291
XLI. “One without stockings may wear a shoe” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11297
XXX. Raphael’s Madonna Del Cardellino 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11286
XXXII. Michael Angelo’s Statues on the Tombs of the Medici 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11288
XXXVII. “Yellow, small Canary bird” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11293
XXXI. The Tribune in the Florence Gallery 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11287
XVII. “If all the forest leaves had speech” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11273
II. “Bid, at starry midnight’s hour” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11258
XV. “The world sent forth a stately ship that long in glory sail’d” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11271
XXVI. “In Florence Dante’s voice no more is booming” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11282
XLII. “Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11298
XXIX. On the Faun in the Tribune of the Florence Gallery 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11285
XLVII. “To build a temple, more we need than toil” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11302
XLVIII. “I’ve known great wits whose wisdom all has lain” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11303
XIV. “When the Titan brought fire to men on earth” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11270
XLVI. ”’Mid all the tribes of airy foul” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11301
XXIII. “When he who told Ulysses’ tale in song” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11279
VII. “When reason serves at passion’s will” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11263
XII. “A troop went pacing by in easy ken” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11268
VI. “Think thou no more of Words, exclaim’d my friend” 1840-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11262
The Olympic Jupiter 1844-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10544
A Roman Idyl 1844-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10545
The Luckless Lover 1844-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10548
Hymn of a Hermit 1844-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10547
Goethe 1844-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10546