Poetry Codex

Victorian

Thomas Gordon Hake

1809–1895

Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895) was an English physician and poet. His verse appeared over more than fifty years, from The Piromides (1839) through Madeline, Parables and Tales and The New Day (1890), and was admired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who reviewed his work and drew his portrait.

He wrote long, solemn narrative poems in short stanzas, often about dream, sleep and the passage of the soul. The poems here are taken from the 1894 selection published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, with a prefatory note by Alice Meynell.

Poems (30)

  1. Alone
  2. Old Souls
  3. Venus Urania
  4. The Cripple
  5. The Infant Medusa
  6. The Lily of the Valley
  7. The Lover’s Day
  8. The Deadly Nightshade
  9. Flowers on the Bank
  10. The Blind Boy
  11. When I Think of Thee, Brother
  12. Ecce Homo!
  13. The Snake Charmer
  14. Pythagoras
  15. The First Saved
  16. Reminiscence
  17. The Shepherdess
  18. Farewell to Nature
  19. The Poet’s Feast
  20. The Exile
  21. The Sibyl
  22. The Painter
  23. The Sun-Worshipper
  24. The Inscrutable
  25. The Wedding Ring
  26. Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
  27. The Golden Wedding
  28. Deaf and Dumb
  29. The New Day: Sonnet X
  30. The New Day: Sonnet XXXII

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