Poetry Codex

Victorian

Robert Buchanan

1841–1901

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist, born at Caverswall in Staffordshire and brought up in Glasgow. His books of verse include Undertones (1863), London Poems (1866) and The Book of Orm (1870), and in 1871 he published the attack on Rossetti and his circle called 'The Fleshly School of Poetry'.

Lyra Celtica calls him the foremost Scoto-Celtic poet of his time and takes four poems from him, including 'The Dream of the World without Death' from The Book of Orm. This file also holds his 'Ballad of Judas Iscariot' and 'Phil Blood's Leap' from Popular British Ballads (1894), songs from Victorian Songs (1895), and a broad selection of his shorter poems and ballads from The Complete Poetical Works (London: Chatto & Windus, 1901).

Poems (298)

  1. Flower of the World
  2. The Strange Country
  3. The Dream of the World without Death
  4. The Faëry Foster-Mother
  5. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot
  6. Phil Blood's Leap
  7. Serenade
  8. Song
  9. Down the River
  10. The Summer Pool
  11. Up the River
  12. Snow
  13. To the Luggie
  14. Fra Giacomo
  15. Cloudland
  16. Cuckoo Song
  17. The White Deer
  18. Convent-Robbing
  19. The Ballad of the Wayfarer
  20. In Spring-Time
  21. The Fisherman
  22. The Churchyard
  23. Sea-Wash
  24. Earth and the Soul
  25. A Curl
  26. Love and Time
  27. Poet's Prologue: To David in Heaven
  28. Proteus; or, a Prelude
  29. Ades, King of Hell
  30. Pan
  31. The Naiad
  32. The Satyr
  33. Venus on the Sun-Car
  34. Selene the Moon
  35. Iris the Rainbow
  36. Orpheus the Musician
  37. Penelope
  38. Sappho: on the Leucadian Rock
  39. A Voice from Academe
  40. Pygmalion the Sculptor
  41. Antony in Arms
  42. Fine Weather on the Digentia
  43. Fine Weather by Baiae
  44. The Swan-Song of Apollo
  45. Poet's Epilogue: To Mary on Earth
  46. The Lowland Village
  47. Willie Baird
  48. Lord Ronald's Wife
  49. Poet Andrew
  50. The English Huswife's Gossip
  51. The Green Gnome
  52. Hugh Sutherland's Pansies
  53. The Dead Mother
  54. The Widow Mysie
  55. The Minister and the Elfin
  56. January Wind
  57. April Rain
  58. Summer Moon
  59. December Snow
  60. Bexhill, 1866
  61. The Little Milliner; or, Love in an Attic
  62. Liz
  63. The Starling
  64. Jane Lewson
  65. Langley Lane
  66. Edward Crowhurst; or, "A New Poet"
  67. Artist and Model
  68. Nell
  69. Attorney Sneak
  70. Barbara Gray
  71. The Blind Linnet
  72. Tiger Bay: The Tigress
  73. Ratcliffe Meg
  74. Intercession
  75. The City Asleep
  76. Up in an Attic
  77. To the Moon
  78. Spring Song in the City
  79. In London, March 1866
  80. A Lark's Flight
  81. De Berny
  82. The Wake of Tim O'Hara
  83. Kitty Kemble
  84. The Swallows
  85. Tom Dunstan; or, the Politician
  86. O'Murtogh
  87. The Bookworm
  88. The Last of the Hangmen
  89. London, 1864
  90. The Modern Warrior
  91. Pan: Epilogue
  92. L'Envoi to London Poems
  93. The Death of Roland
  94. Clari in the Well
  95. The Asrai
  96. The Changeling
  97. To Clari
  98. Meg Blane
  99. The Battle of Drumliemoor
  100. The Northern Wooing
  101. The Scaith o' Bartle
  102. The Glamour
  103. Sigurd of Saxony
  104. A Poem to David
  105. Hakon
  106. Lord, Is It Thou?
  107. We Are Fatherless
  108. We Are Children
  109. When We Are All Asleep
  110. But the Hills Will Bear Witness
  111. Desolate!
  112. Lord, Art Thou Here?
  113. God Is Beautiful
  114. The Motion of the Mists
  115. Coruisk
  116. But Whither?
  117. God Is Pitiless
  118. Yea, Pitiless
  119. Could God Be Judged?
  120. The Hills on Their Thrones
  121. King Blaabhein
  122. Blaabhein in the Mists
  123. The Fiery Birth of the Hills
  124. The Changeless Hills
  125. O Mountain Peak of a God
  126. God the Image
  127. The Footprints
  128. We Are Deathless
  129. A Voice in the Whirlwind
  130. Cry of the Little Brook
  131. The Happy Hearts of Earth
  132. Father, Forgive Thy Child
  133. God's Loneliness
  134. The Cup of Tears
  135. The Light of the World
  136. Earth's Eldest Born
  137. What Spirit Cometh?
  138. Stay, O Spirit!
  139. Quiet Waters
  140. The Teuton Monologue
  141. The Reply
  142. The City of Man
  143. Ode to the Spirit of Auguste Comte
  144. A Dirge for Kings
  145. The Perfect State
  146. Ode before Paris
  147. The Prayer in the Night
  148. The Spirit of France
  149. The Farm in the Valley: Sunset
  150. Lone House
  151. Storm and Calm
  152. Without and Within
  153. Napoleon
  154. Abraham Lincoln
  155. Walt Whitman
  156. O Faces!
  157. To Triflers
  158. The Wanderers
  159. The Watcher of the Beacon
  160. "And the Spirit of God Moved upon the Waters"
  161. To Harriett
  162. The Lights of Leith
  163. The Wedding of Shon Maclean
  164. Hans Vogel
  165. The 'Midian-Mara'
  166. O'Connor's Wake
  167. Highland Lament
  168. James Avery
  169. Daybreak
  170. Euphrosyne; or, the Prospect
  171. Stanley Farm
  172. On a Young Poetess's Grave
  173. Will o' the Wisp
  174. Giant Despair
  175. The Mountain Well
  176. The Song of the Shealing
  177. The Secret of the Mere
  178. Mnemosyne; or, the Retrospect
  179. Vanity Fair
  180. Ad Matrem
  181. Ad Carissimam Puellam
  182. Fides Amantis
  183. The Wandering Jew
  184. The Devil's Case
  185. The Litany: De Profundis
  186. Shepherds, Wake, 'Tis Christmas-Tide
  187. The Ballad of Mary the Mother
  188. Ad Madonnam
  189. The Love of God
  190. Contra Christum
  191. My Enemy
  192. Resurrection
  193. Proem: To David in Heaven (Thirty Years After)
  194. Carmen Deific
  195. The Image in the Forum
  196. The Augurs
  197. The Jew Passes
  198. A Song of Jubilee
  199. Tommie Atkins
  200. Nelson's Day
  201. Song of the Slain
  202. The Charter'd Companie
  203. The Ballad of Kiplingson
  204. To Olive Schreiner
  205. The Dreamer of Dreams
  206. Be Pitiful
  207. Man of the Red Right Hand
  208. Song of the Fur-Seal
  209. God Evolving
  210. 'Patriotism'
  211. The Grand Old Man
  212. 'The Union'
  213. 'Peace, Not a Sword'
  214. 'Hark Now, What Fretful Voices'
  215. The Irishman to Cromwell
  216. The Wearing of the Green
  217. Victory
  218. Vox Populi
  219. Vox Dei
  220. Old Rome
  221. The Last Bivouac
  222. The Fairy Queen
  223. The Lords of the Bread
  224. Last Night
  225. The Sphinx
  226. 'These Voices'
  227. Sisters of Midnight
  228. The Lost Women
  229. A Morning Invocation
  230. To Juvenal
  231. Lydia at the Savoy
  232. Lesbia (To Catullus)
  233. Bicycle Song
  234. The Shower
  235. Seraphina Snowe
  236. Maeterlinck
  237. Storm in the Night
  238. 'Hallelujah Jane'
  239. L'Envoi to 'Hallelujah Jane'
  240. 'Annie;' or, the Waif's Jubilee
  241. L'Envoi to 'Annie'
  242. The True Song of Fairyland
  243. Justinian; or, the New Creed
  244. The New Buddha
  245. Nietzsche
  246. The Last Faith
  247. Ad Carissimam Amicam
  248. Spring Song after Snow
  249. On the Shore
  250. The Mermaid
  251. The Tramp's Ditty
  252. The Cry from the Mine
  253. The Lead-Melting
  254. To a Poet of the Empire
  255. The Gnome
  256. The White Robe; or, Zola in a Nutshell
  257. Carlyle
  258. 'Mark Now, How Close They Are Akin'
  259. Atys
  260. Doctor B
  261. Socrates in Camden
  262. Walt Whitman (In the Library)
  263. The Dismal Throng
  264. The Gift of Burns
  265. The Robin Redbreast
  266. To George Bernard Shaw
  267. The Sad Shepherd
  268. L'Envoi in the Library
  269. AGAIN among the Mountains, and again
  270. Unchanged, CORUISK, thou liest!— Time hath made
  271. Tho* Time which leaves thee whole hath rent and worn
  272. Now hearken! — Led, methought, by God's own Hand
  273. How could I doubt the lark and nightingale
  274. The Mirage! ah, the Mirage, O how fair
  275. I charge Thee now, O God, if God indeed
  276. Thou wilt not melt them! Never in sun or rain
  277. Pat Muldoon; or, Jack the Giant-Killer up to Date
  278. The Widow: A War Song
  279. The Burial of Parnell
  280. The Good Professor's Creed
  281. A Dedication: To an Old Enemy
  282. To Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  283. Colonel Shark
  284. The Fisher Boy: A Song in Time of War
  285. The Dumb Bairn
  286. Proem to 'The Shadow of the Sword'
  287. Proem to 'God and the Man'
  288. Proem to 'The New Abelard'
  289. Proem to 'The Moment After'
  290. L'Envoi: I End as I Began
  291. The Last Cry
  292. Charmian
  293. The Faery Reaper
  294. The Pilgrim and the Herdboy
  295. The Tree of Life
  296. From 'The City of Dream' (1)
  297. From 'The City of Dream' (2)
  298. Two Sons

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