Poetry Codex

Victorian

Sydney Dobell

1824–1874

Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874) was an English poet and critic, associated with the so-called "Spasmodic" school of the 1850s. He made his name with the dramatic poem The Roman (1850, as "Sydney Yendys") and followed it with Balder (1854) and, with Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War (1855).

He was a frail man who spent his later years in the Cotswolds and on the Continent in search of health; his collected Poems appeared in 1875, after his death.

Poems (123)

  1. Keith of Ravelston
  2. Daft Jean
  3. The Army Surgeon
  4. The Common Grave
  5. Isabel
  6. Return I
  7. Even-Song
  8. Eden-Gate
  9. Sonnets, America
  10. A Musing on a Victory
  11. To a Cathedral Tower, on the Evening of the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Waterloo
  12. Crazed
  13. The Snowdrop in the Snow
  14. The Harps of Heaven
  15. L'Avenir
  16. The Wounded (I)
  17. The Wounded (II)
  18. Vox Populi
  19. Czar Nicholas
  20. Cavalry Charge at Balaclava
  21. Home, in War-time
  22. Warning
  23. America (II)
  24. A Statesman
  25. Poland. Italy. Hungary
  26. Jerusalem
  27. Austrian Alliance
  28. Childless
  29. Esse et Posse
  30. Good-night in War-time
  31. Desolate
  32. The Market-wife's Song
  33. The Little Girl's Song
  34. 'He is Safe'
  35. The Sodger's Lassie
  36. Lady Constance
  37. How's my Boy
  38. Farewell (I)
  39. The Milkmaid's Song
  40. The German Legion
  41. A Health to the Queen
  42. Woe is Me
  43. The Young Man's Song
  44. Dead-Maid's-Pool
  45. The Sailor's Return
  46. The Widow's Lullaby
  47. The Gaberlunzie's Walk
  48. Liberty to M. le Diplomate
  49. An Evening Dream
  50. In War-time. A Psalm of the Heart
  51. A Shower in War-time
  52. In War-time. A Prayer of the Understanding
  53. A Hero's Grave
  54. In War-time. An Aspiration of the Spirit
  55. Home, Wounded
  56. A Nuptial Eve
  57. The Mother's Lesson
  58. Alone
  59. Farewell (II)
  60. Sleeping and Waking
  61. He Loves and he Rides Away
  62. The Captain's Wife
  63. Grass from the Battle-field
  64. Afloat and Ashore
  65. The Ghost's Return
  66. The Recruit's Ball
  67. For Charity's Sake
  68. Wind
  69. When the Rain is on the Roof
  70. The Botanist's Vision
  71. The Orphan's Song
  72. Tommy's Dead
  73. The Magyar's New-Year-Eve
  74. The Youth of England to Garibaldi's Legion
  75. Love. To a Little Girl
  76. An Autumn Mood
  77. On a Portrait Presented to J. Y. Simpson, M.D.
  78. On the Death of Edward Forbes
  79. On a Recently Finished Statue
  80. The Convalescent to her Physician
  81. On the Death of Samuel Brown
  82. To Professor and Mrs. J. S. Blackie
  83. To the Authoress of 'Aurora Leigh'
  84. To Mrs. J. S. Blackie
  85. Dedicatory
  86. Sister to Sister: On Receiving a Portrait in a Locket
  87. On the Death of Mrs. Browning
  88. On the Death of Prince Albert (I)
  89. On the Death of Prince Albert (II)
  90. To 1862 (I)
  91. To 1862 (II)
  92. To 1862 (III)
  93. To 1862 (IV)
  94. To 1862 (V): A Queen's Speech
  95. To Tochterchen, on her Birthday
  96. To the Same (Tochterchen)
  97. To a Friend in Bereavement
  98. At the Grave of a Spanish Friend
  99. To an American Embassy
  100. John Bohun Martin
  101. Deprecating a Gift
  102. Perhaps
  103. To James H.
  104. On Reading a Dictated Letter
  105. Under Especial Blessings
  106. On Receiving a Book from X. H.
  107. To James Y. Simpson
  108. On Receiving a Book from Dante Rossetti
  109. To a Promessa Sposa
  110. To the Same (Promessa Sposa)
  111. To a Fair Woman, Unsatisfied with Woman's Work
  112. To the Tiber
  113. England's Day: A War-Saga
  114. The Olive
  115. Song of a Mad-girl, whose Lover has Died at Sea
  116. Fragment of a Sleep-Song
  117. Ballad: 'Oh Ladye fair'
  118. Lord Robert
  119. Fragment of Ballad: 'How shall I sing?'
  120. Bayonet Song
  121. Mentana
  122. Snowdrops
  123. New-Year's Eve

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