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Victorian

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

1845–1907

Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) was an English poet, born in London and brought up largely on the Continent; he was the half-brother of the writer Vernon Lee. A long illness left him an invalid for many years, a circumstance that colours much of his work, and he is remembered chiefly as a sonneteer, the author of Sonnets of the Wingless Hours (1894).

The poems here are taken from Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems (London: Elliot Stock, 1884): dramatic dialogues, narrative poems and odes, followed by a closing group of sonnets. The prose Introduction to the volume is not included.

Poems (49)

  1. Apollo and Marsyas
  2. Sister Mary of the Plague
  3. The Bride of Porphyrion
  4. Hunting the King
  5. Abraham Carew
  6. An Ode of the Tuscan Shore
  7. Sword and Sickle
  8. A Pageant of Siena
  9. The Wonder of the World
  10. Ipsissimus
  11. An Ode to the Travelling Thunder
  12. Idle Charon
  13. The Obol
  14. Lethe
  15. Acheron
  16. On Signorelli’s Fresco of the Resurrection
  17. On Signorelli’s Fresco of the Binding of the Lost
  18. Musset’s Louis d’Or
  19. The Phantom Ship
  20. Spring
  21. To V. P., About to Visit Oxford
  22. By the Fire
  23. Night
  24. River Babble
  25. Sunken Gold
  26. On Raphael’s Archangel Michael
  27. On a Surf-Rolled Torso of Venus, Found at Tripoli Vecchio, and Now in the Louvre
  28. On Mantegna’s Sepia Drawing of Judith
  29. Strangled
  30. Promethean Fancies
  31. The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood
  32. They brought thy body back to me quite dead
  33. The Last Doge to Fettered Venice
  34. Song
  35. Fairy Godmothers
  36. Lost Tears
  37. To My Tortoise
  38. Elfin Skates
  39. The Death of Tuck
  40. The Robin gave three hops, and chirp'd, and said
  41. What the Sonnet is
  42. Wood-Song
  43. Sir Walter Raleigh to a Caged Linnet
  44. Izaak Walton to River and Brook
  45. Charles II. of Spain to Approaching Death
  46. To My Tortoise Chronos
  47. A Flight from Glory
  48. On His "Sonnets of the Wingless Hours"
  49. What essences from Idumean palm

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