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Victorian

Amy Levy

1861–1889

Amy Levy (1861–1889) was an English poet and novelist, among the first Jewish women to study at Cambridge, who took her own life at twenty-seven.

Her poems of London street life, unrequited love, and urban melancholy anticipate the modern lyric's compression and irony.

Poems (81)

  1. A London Plane-Tree
  2. London Poets (In Memoriam)
  3. New Love, New Life (I)
  4. New Love, New Life (II)
  5. The First Extra (A Waltz Song)
  6. Jason
  7. Ægeus
  8. Medea
  9. Nikias
  10. Sinfonia Eroica (To Sylvia)
  11. Christopher Found (I)
  12. Christopher Found (II)
  13. Christopher Found (III)
  14. Christopher Found (IV)
  15. Christopher Found (V)
  16. Christopher Found (Epilogue)
  17. The Sick Man and the Nightingale (From Lenau)
  18. A June-Tide Echo (After a Richter Concert)
  19. To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)
  20. In a Minor Key (An Echo from a Larger Lyre)
  21. A Farewell (After Heine)
  22. Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)
  23. The Two Terrors
  24. London in July
  25. A March Day in London
  26. Ballade of an Omnibus
  27. Ballade of a Special Edition
  28. Straw in the Street
  29. Between the Showers
  30. Out of Town
  31. The Piano-Organ
  32. The Village Garden
  33. Impotens
  34. Youth and Love
  35. The Dream
  36. On the Threshold
  37. The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz
  38. In the Night
  39. Borderland
  40. At Dawn
  41. Last Words
  42. June
  43. A Reminiscence
  44. The Sequel to “A Reminiscence”
  45. In the Mile End Road
  46. Contradictions
  47. Twilight
  48. In September
  49. At a Dinner Party
  50. Philosophy
  51. A Game of Lawn Tennis
  52. To E.
  53. To Sylvia
  54. A Greek Girl
  55. Magdalen
  56. A Dirge
  57. To Death (From Lenau)
  58. A Cross-Road Epitaph
  59. Sonnet
  60. Translated from Geibel
  61. To a Dead Poet
  62. A Minor Poet
  63. Xantippe
  64. To Clementina Black
  65. The Old House
  66. Lohengrin
  67. Alma Mater
  68. In the Black Forest
  69. Captivity
  70. The Promise of Sleep
  71. The Last Judgment
  72. Felo de Se (With Apologies to Mr. Swinburne)
  73. The Lost Friend
  74. Cambridge in the Long
  75. To Vernon Lee
  76. The Old Poet
  77. On the Wye in May
  78. Oh, is it Love?
  79. In the Nower
  80. The End of the Day
  81. A Wall Flower

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