Poetry Codex

Victorian

Edward Bulwer Lytton

1803–1873

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), created Baron Lytton in 1866, was an English novelist, dramatist, politician and poet. He is remembered chiefly for his novels, but he wrote verse throughout his career and gathered it, revised, in several editions of his Poetical Works.

The poems here are taken from the Routledge edition of 1860: the satire The New Timon, the narrative poems Milton, Constance and The Fairy Bride, the twelve-book romance King Arthur, the “Narrative Lyrics” and the short lyrics of Corn-Flowers and Earlier Poems. His plays, prose notes and pieces headed as translations or imitations are not included.

Major Works (4)

  1. Constance — Narrative poem, 1860
  2. King Arthur — Epic poem, 1860
  3. Milton — Narrative poem, 1831
  4. The New Timon — Satirical poem, 1846

Poems (78)

  1. The Maiden’s Home
  2. The Idiot Boy
  3. Prayer of Arthur’s Father
  4. The Young Teacher
  5. The Stranger Suitor
  6. The Marriage
  7. The Hermit
  8. Desertion
  9. The Infant-Burial
  10. The Return
  11. Light and Darkness
  12. The Fairy Bride
  13. The Beacon
  14. The Lay of the Minstrel’s Heart
  15. Napoleon at Isola Bella
  16. Mazarin
  17. Andre Chenier
  18. Mary Stuart and Her Mourner
  19. The Last Days of Elizabeth
  20. Cromwell’s Dream
  21. The First Violets
  22. The Image on the Tide
  23. Is It All Vanity?
  24. The True Joy-Giver
  25. Belief; The Unknown Language
  26. The Pilgrim of the Desert
  27. The King and the Wraith
  28. Love and Death
  29. The Poet to the Dead
  30. Mind and Soul
  31. The Guardian Angel
  32. The Love of Maturer Years
  33. The Everlasting Grave-Digger
  34. The Dispute of the Poets
  35. Ganymede
  36. Memnon
  37. The Angel and the Child
  38. To a Withered Tree in June
  39. On the Reperusal of Letters Written in Youth
  40. The Desire of Fame
  41. The Loyalty of Love
  42. A Lament
  43. Lost and Avenged
  44. The Treasures by the Wayside
  45. Address to the Soul in Despondency
  46. The Sabbath
  47. The Hollow Oak
  48. Love and Fame
  49. Love at First Sight
  50. Love’s Sudden Growth
  51. The Love-Letter
  52. The Language of the Eyes
  53. Doubt
  54. The Assurance
  55. Memories, the Food of Love
  56. Absent, Yet Present
  57. Lovers’ Quarrels
  58. The Last Separation
  59. The Pope and the Beggar
  60. The Beautiful Descends Not
  61. The Mind and the Heart
  62. The Last Crusader
  63. Forebodings
  64. Orama; or, Fate and Freewill
  65. The Souls of Books
  66. La Rochefoucauld and Condorcet
  67. Jealousy and Art
  68. The Master to the Scholar
  69. The True Critic
  70. Talent and Genius
  71. Euripides
  72. The Bones of Raphael
  73. The Athenian and the Spartan
  74. The Philanthropist and the Misanthrope
  75. The Ideal World
  76. Epigraph
  77. The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose
  78. When Stars are in the Quiet Skies

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