Poetry Codex

Victorian

Edward Dowden

1843–1913

Edward Dowden was born in Cork and became Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin. He is best known for his Shakespeare criticism and his Life of Shelley.

He also published several volumes of verse.

Poems (166)

  1. Lady Margaret's Song
  2. The Wanderer
  3. The Fountain
  4. In the Galleries: I. The Apollo Belvedere
  5. In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos
  6. In the Galleries: III. Antinous Crowned as Bacchus
  7. In the Galleries: IV. Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa”
  8. In the Galleries: V. St Luke Painting the Virgin
  9. On the Heights
  10. “La Révélation par le Désert”
  11. The Morning Star
  12. A Child’s Noonday Sleep
  13. In the Garden: I. The Garden
  14. In the Garden: II. Visions
  15. In the Garden: III. An Interior
  16. In the Garden: IV. The Singer
  17. In the Garden: V. A Summer Moon
  18. In the Garden: VI. A Peach
  19. In the Garden: VII. Early Autumn
  20. In the Garden: VIII. Later Autumn
  21. The Heroines: Helena
  22. The Heroines: Atalanta
  23. The Heroines: Europa
  24. The Heroines: Andromeda
  25. The Heroines: Eurydice
  26. By the Sea: I. The Assumption
  27. By the Sea: II. The Artist’s Waiting
  28. By the Sea: III. Counsellors
  29. By the Sea: IV. Evening
  30. By the Sea: V. Joy
  31. By the Sea: VI. Ocean
  32. By the Sea: VII. News for London
  33. Among the Rocks
  34. To a Year
  35. A Song of the New Day
  36. Swallows
  37. Memorials of Travel: I. Coaching
  38. Memorials of Travel: II. In a Mountain Pass
  39. Memorials of Travel: III. The Castle
  40. Memorials of Travel: IV. Άισθητιχή φαντασία
  41. Memorials of Travel: V. On the Sea-cliff
  42. Memorials of Travel: VI. Ascetic Nature
  43. Memorials of Travel: VII. Relics
  44. Memorials of Travel: VIII. On the Pier of Boulogne
  45. Memorials of Travel: IX. Dover
  46. An Autumn Song
  47. Burdens
  48. By the Window
  49. Sunsets
  50. Oasis
  51. Foreign Speech
  52. In the Twilight
  53. The Inner Life: I. A Disciple
  54. The Inner Life: II. Theists
  55. The Inner Life: III. Seeking God
  56. The Inner Life: IV. Darwinism in Morals
  57. The Inner Life: V. Awakening
  58. The Inner Life: VI. Fishers
  59. The Inner Life: VII. Communion
  60. The Inner Life: VIII. A Sonnet for the Times
  61. The Inner Life: IX. Emmausward
  62. The Inner Life: X. A Farewell
  63. The Inner Life: XI. Deliverance
  64. The Inner Life: XII. Paradise Lost
  65. The Resting Place
  66. New Hymns for Solitude: I
  67. New Hymns for Solitude: II
  68. New Hymns for Solitude: III
  69. New Hymns for Solitude: IV
  70. New Hymns for Solitude: V
  71. New Hymns for Solitude: VI
  72. In the Cathedral Close
  73. First Love
  74. The Secret of the Universe
  75. Beau Rivage Hotel
  76. In a June Night
  77. From April to October: I. Beauty
  78. From April to October: II. Two Infinities
  79. From April to October: III. The Dawn
  80. From April to October: IV. The Skylark
  81. From April to October: V. The Mill-race
  82. From April to October: VI. In the Wood
  83. From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening
  84. From April to October: VIII. In July
  85. From April to October: IX. In September
  86. From April to October: X. In the Window
  87. From April to October: XI. An Autumn Morning
  88. Sea Voices
  89. Aboard the “Sea-Swallow”
  90. Sea-Sighing
  91. In the Mountains
  92. “The Top of a Hill Called Clear”
  93. The Initiation
  94. Renunciants
  95. Speakers to God
  96. Poesia
  97. Musicians
  98. Miscellaneous Sonnets: A Day of Defection
  99. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Song and Silence
  100. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Love-Tokens
  101. Miscellaneous Sonnets: A Dream
  102. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Michelangelesque
  103. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Life’s Gain
  104. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Compensation
  105. Miscellaneous Sonnets: To a Child Dead as Soon as Born
  106. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Brother Death
  107. Miscellaneous Sonnets: The Mage
  108. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Wise Passiveness
  109. Miscellaneous Sonnets: The Singer’s Plea
  110. Miscellaneous Sonnets: The Trespasser
  111. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Ritualism
  112. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Prometheus Unbound
  113. Miscellaneous Sonnets: King Mob
  114. Miscellaneous Sonnets: The Modern Elijah
  115. Miscellaneous Sonnets: David and Michal
  116. Windle-Straws: I
  117. Windle-Straws: II
  118. Windle-Straws: III
  119. Windle-Straws: IV
  120. Windle-Straws: V
  121. Windle-Straws: VI
  122. Windle-Straws: VII
  123. Windle-Straws: VIII
  124. At the Oar
  125. The Divining Rod
  126. Salome
  127. Watershed
  128. The Guest
  129. Moriturus
  130. Alone
  131. Fame
  132. Where Wert Thou?
  133. A Wish
  134. The Gift
  135. Recovery
  136. If It Might Be
  137. Winter Noontide
  138. The Pool
  139. The Desire to Give
  140. A Beech-Tree in Winter
  141. Judgment
  142. Dürer’s “Melencholia”
  143. Millet’s “The Sower”
  144. At Mullion (Cornwall)
  145. The Winnower to the Winds
  146. Emerson
  147. Sent to an American Shakespeare Society
  148. Nocturne
  149. The Whirligig
  150. Paradise Lost and Found
  151. After Metastasio
  152. The Corn-Crake
  153. In the Cathedral
  154. Edgar Allan Poe
  155. Deus Absconditus
  156. Subliminal
  157. Louisa Shore
  158. Flowers from the South of France
  159. To Hester
  160. Unuttered
  161. Imitated from J. Soulary’s “Le Fossoyeur”
  162. Imitated from Goethe’s “Ganymede”
  163. With a Copy of My “Poems”
  164. Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl’s Version of Vigny’s “Chatterton”
  165. A Song
  166. Love's Lord

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