Poetry Codex

Victorian

Andrew Lang

1844–1912

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scottish man of letters, folklorist, and translator, remembered today chiefly for his coloured Fairy Books but also a prolific poet.

His verse favours French forms revived by the 1870s ballade craze, along with translations and tributes to French and English poets he admired.

Poems (336)

  1. Grass of Parnassus
  2. Deeds of Men
  3. Seekers for a City
  4. HERMOTIMUS (Mr Pater’s Version)
  5. The White Pacha
  6. Midnight, January 25, 1886
  7. On the Offer of Help from the Australians After the Fall of Khartoum
  8. Colonel Burnaby
  9. (the Place of the Little Hand.)
  10. Rhodocleia
  11. Ave
  12. Clevedon Church
  13. Twilight on Tweed
  14. Metempsychosis
  15. Lost in Hades
  16. A Star in the Night
  17. A Sunset on Yarrow
  18. Another Way
  19. The Seekers for Phæacia
  20. A Song of Phæacia
  21. The Phæacians
  22. The Seekers
  23. A Ballad of Departure. {39}
  24. They Hear the Sirens for the Second Time
  25. Circe’s Isle Revisited
  26. The Limit of Lands
  27. Martial in Town
  28. April on Tweed
  29. Tired of Towns
  30. Scythe Song
  31. Pen and Ink
  32. A Dream
  33. The Singing Rose
  34. A Review in Rhyme
  35. Colinette
  36. Elle
  37. Lui
  38. Nightingale Weather
  39. Love and Wisdom
  40. Good-bye
  41. An Old Prayer
  42. After Ronsard
  43. In Memory of Gérard De Nerval
  44. A Lost Path
  45. The Shade of Helen
  46. She
  47. Herodotus in Egypt
  48. Ronsard
  49. Love’s Miracle
  50. Dreams
  51. Pontus De Tyard, 1570
  52. Du Bellay, 1550
  53. Jacques Tahureau
  54. Victor Hugo
  55. Du Bellay
  56. Rémy Belleau, 1560
  57. Gérard De Nerval
  58. Henri Murger
  59. A Lady of High Degree
  60. Romaic Folk-song
  61. French Volks-lied
  62. (antiphilus.)
  63. (pompeius.)
  64. (leonidas of Tarentum.)
  65. (rufinus.)
  66. (asclepiades.)
  67. (meleager.)
  68. (paulus Silentiarius.)
  69. The Limit of Life
  70. (from the Latin of Ménage.)
  71. The Last Chance
  72. Ballade of Middle Age
  73. The Angler’s Apology
  74. (after Richepin.)
  75. Ballade of Summer
  76. Ballade of Christmas Ghosts
  77. Sonnet
  78. Ballade of the Girton Girl
  79. Ronsard’s Grave
  80. San Terenzo
  81. Romance
  82. Ballade of His Own Country
  83. Villanelle
  84. Triolets After Moschus
  85. Ballade of Cricket
  86. The Last Maying
  87. Homeric Unity
  88. Lui
  89. Elle
  90. Pisidicê
  91. From the East to the West
  92. Love the Vampire
  93. Ballade of the Book-man’s Paradise
  94. Ballade of a Friar
  95. Ballade of Neglected Merit. {78}
  96. Ballade of Railway Novels
  97. Ballade of Literary Fame
  98. Envoy
  99. A Very Woful Ballade of the Art Critic
  100. Art’s Martyr
  101. The Palace of Bric-à-brac
  102. The Barbarous Bird-gods: a Savage Parabasis
  103. A Morality
  104. Ballade of the Primitive Jest
  105. Sonnets from the Antique
  106. Cameos
  107. Helen on the Walls
  108. The Isles of the Blessed
  109. Death
  110. Nysa
  111. I.
  112. II
  113. The Passing of Œdipous
  114. The Taming of Tyro
  115. To Artemis
  116. Criticism of Life
  117. Amaryllis
  118. A.d. 160
  119. Invocation of Isis
  120. The Coming of Isis
  121. Love’s Cryptogram
  122. Poscimur!
  123. French Peasant Songs: I
  124. French Peasant Songs: II
  125. French Peasant Songs: III
  126. A Ballad of the Sound of Mull
  127. Lines
  128. Ode to Golf
  129. Freshman’s Term
  130. A Toast
  131. To Correspondents
  132. Ballade of Difficult Rhymes
  133. Envoi
  134. To Robert Louis Stevenson
  135. Rhymes Made in a Dream
  136. The Haunted Homes of England
  137. The Disappointment
  138. Sir John Davys
  139. The Sonnet
  140. Ballad of the Philanthropist
  141. Moral
  142. In Ercildoune
  143. French Folk-song
  144. Modern Greek
  145. From Charles D’orléans
  146. From Victor Hugo
  147. From Ronsard
  148. The Poet’s Apology
  149. Clearista
  150. Charles D’orleans, 1391–1465
  151. Francois Villon, 1460
  152. L’envoy
  153. Ballad of the Gibbet
  154. Du Bellay, 1550
  155. Ronsard, 1550
  156. Jacques Tahureau, 1527–1555
  157. Passerat, 1580
  158. Victor Hugo
  159. Alfred De Musset
  160. Henri Murger
  161. Henri Murger. 1850
  162. The Three Captains
  163. The Bridge of Death
  164. Ballad of the Isle of France
  165. A Lady of High Degree
  166. Lost for a Rose’s Sake
  167. The Brigand’s Grave
  168. The Sudden Bridal
  169. Iannoula
  170. The Tell-tales
  171. Twilight on Tweed
  172. One Flower
  173. Metempsychosis
  174. A Star in the Night
  175. The Seekers for Phæacia
  176. The Phæacians
  177. A Ballad of Departure. {110}
  178. Circe’s Isle Revisited
  179. Colinette
  180. A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli
  181. Two Homes
  182. Summer’s Ending
  183. Nightingale Weather
  184. Love and Wisdom
  185. The Broken Heart
  186. An Old Prayer
  187. ODYSSEY, xiii. 59
  188. Fairy Land
  189. I.
  190. II
  191. In Memory of Gérard De Nerval
  192. A Lost Path
  193. The Shade of Helen
  194. Jacques Tahureau. 1530
  195. François Villon. 1450
  196. Pierre Ronsard. 1560
  197. Gérard De Nerval
  198. The Death of Mirandola. 1494
  199. Ballade to Theocritus, in Winter
  200. Ballade of Cleopatra’s Needle
  201. Ballade of Roulette
  202. Ballade of Sleep
  203. Ballade of the Midnight Forest
  204. Ballade of the Tweed
  205. Ballade of the Book-Hunter
  206. Ballade of the Voyage to Cythera
  207. Ballade of the Summer Term
  208. Ballade of the Muse
  209. Ballade Against the Jesuits
  210. Ballade of Dead Cities
  211. Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf
  212. Double Ballade of Primitive Man
  213. Ballade of Autumn
  214. Ballade of True Wisdom
  215. Ballade of Worldly Wealth
  216. Ballade of Life
  217. Ballade of Blue China
  218. Ballade of Dead Ladies
  219. Villon’s Ballade of Good Counsel, to His Friends of Evil Life
  220. Ballade of Rabbits and Hares
  221. Valentine in Form of Ballade
  222. Ballade of Old Plays
  223. Ballade of His Books
  224. Ballade of Æsthetic Adjectives
  225. Ballade of the Pleased Bard
  226. Ballade for a Baby
  227. Ballade Amoureuse
  228. Ballade of Queen Anne
  229. Ballade of Blind Love
  230. Ballade of His Choice of a Sepulchre
  231. Dizain
  232. A Portrait of 1783
  233. The Moon’s Minion
  234. In Ithaca
  235. Homer
  236. The Burial of Molière
  237. Bion
  238. Spring
  239. Before the Snow
  240. Villanelle (To Lucia)
  241. Stoker Bill
  242. Natural Theology
  243. The Odyssey
  244. Ideal
  245. Ballade Dedicatory
  246. The Fortunate Islands
  247. The New Millenium
  248. Almae Matres
  249. Desiderium
  250. In Tintagel
  251. The Cloud Chorus
  252. Rondeaux of the Galleries
  253. The Spinet
  254. A Scot to Jeanne D’Arc
  255. How They Held the Bass for King James—1691–1693
  256. Three Portraits of Prince Charles
  257. From Omar Khayyam
  258. Æsop
  259. Les Roses de Sâdi
  260. The Haunted Tower
  261. Boat-Song
  262. Lost Love
  263. The Promise of Helen
  264. The Restoration of Romance
  265. Central American Antiquities
  266. On Calais Sands
  267. Ballade of Yule
  268. Poscimur (From Horace)
  269. On His Dead Sea-Mew
  270. From Meleager
  271. Golden Eyes
  272. A Galloway Garland
  273. Celia’s Eyes
  274. Britannia
  275. Gallia
  276. The Fairy Minister
  277. To Robert Louis Stevenson (With Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth)
  278. For Mark Twain’s Jubilee
  279. Mist
  280. Lines Written under the Influence of Wordsworth
  281. Death in June
  282. The Tournay of the Heroes
  283. Silentia Lunae
  284. Of His Lady’s Old Age
  285. The Birth of Butterflies
  286. Dedicatory
  287. How the Maid Marched from Blois
  288. Lone Places of the Deer
  289. An Old Song
  290. Jacobite “Auld Lang Syne.”
  291. The Prince’s Birthday
  292. White Rose Day
  293. Red and White Roses
  294. The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond
  295. Kenmure
  296. Culloden
  297. The Last of the Leal
  298. Jeanne d’Arc
  299. To Helen
  300. Ballade of Dead Cricketers
  301. Brahma
  302. Gainsborough Ghosts
  303. A Remonstrance with the Fair
  304. Rhyme of Rhymes
  305. Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes
  306. Rococo
  307. The Food of Fiction
  308. Matrimony
  309. Piscatori Piscator
  310. The Contented Angler
  311. Off My Game
  312. The Property of a Gentleman who has given up Collecting
  313. The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
  314. Ballade of the Optimist
  315. Zimbabwe
  316. Keith of Craigentolly
  317. The Young Ruthven
  318. Ballade of the Bookworm
  319. Ballade of the Dream
  320. Ballade of the Southern Cross
  321. Ballade of Aucassin
  322. The Fairy’s Gift
  323. Benedetta Ramus
  324. Partant pour la Scribie
  325. St. Andrew’s Bay
  326. Woman and the Weed
  327. Tusitala
  328. Disdainful Diaphenia
  329. Tall Salmacis
  330. What Francesco Said of the Jubilee
  331. On Any Beach
  332. Ode of Jubilee
  333. Jubilee Before Revolution
  334. Heliodore
  335. Antipater of Sidon
  336. Anonymous

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