Poetry Codex

Victorian

C. S. Calverley

1831–1884

Charles Stuart Calverley (22 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit, a Cambridge man often called the literary father of the 'university school of humour'.

He is remembered for parody and light verse, collected in Verses and Translations (1862) and Fly Leaves (1872), and for his translations, including of Theocritus.

Poems (55)

  1. Morning
  2. Evening
  3. Shelter
  4. In the Gloaming
  5. The Palace
  6. Peace
  7. The Arab
  8. Lines on Hearing the Organ
  9. Changed
  10. First Love
  11. Wanderers
  12. Sad Memories
  13. Companions
  14. Ballad
  15. Precious Stones
  16. Disaster
  17. Contentment
  18. The Schoolmaster Abroad with His Son
  19. Arcades Ambo
  20. Waiting
  21. Play
  22. Love
  23. Thoughts at a Railway Station
  24. On the Brink
  25. “Forever”
  26. Under the Trees
  27. Motherhood
  28. Mystery
  29. Flight
  30. On the Beach
  31. Lovers, and a Reflection
  32. The Cock and the Bull
  33. Visions
  34. Gemini and Virgo
  35. “There Stands a City”
  36. Striking
  37. Voices of the Night
  38. Lines Suggested by the 14th of February (I)
  39. A, B, C.
  40. To Mrs. Goodchild
  41. Ode—‘On a Distant Prospect’ of Making a Fortune
  42. Isabel
  43. Dirge
  44. Lines Suggested by the 14th of February (II)
  45. “Hic Vir, Hic Est”
  46. Beer
  47. Ode to Tobacco
  48. Dover to Munich
  49. Charade I
  50. Charade II
  51. Charade III
  52. Charade IV
  53. Charade V
  54. Charade VI
  55. Proverbial Philosophy

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