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Gerald Massey

1828–1907

Gerald Massey (1828–1907) was an English poet of working-class origins, born at Tring in Hertfordshire. His early collections, such as Poems and Chansons (1846) and The Ballad of Babe Christabel (1854), won him a wide readership.

The poems here come from The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey (1861) and My Lyrical Life (1889).

Major Works (1)

A Tale of Eternity — Narrative poem, 1870

Poems (282)

Song
The Ballad of Babe Christabel
Old England
Long, Long Ago
That Merry, Merry May
To-Day and To-Morrow
The Kingliest Kings
A Lover's Fancy
The Chivalry of Labour
O Lay thy Hand in Mine, Dear
Song
Love's Fairy-Ring
There's no Dearth of Kindness
The Golden Wedding-Ring
No Jewelled Beauty is my Love
Now and Then
To Walter Savage Landor
Bridal Song
A Maiden's Song
Craigcrook Roses
The Singer
Only a Dream
War Waits
England Goes to Battle
Troops Leaving Edinburgh
Down in Australia
The Lilies of France and our own Red Rose
After Alma
Before Sebastopol
Twine a Garland for the Grave
The Death-Ride
Our Heroes
Our English Nightingale
Inkerman
Nicholas and the British Lion
A Soldier's Wife
A War Winter's-Night in England
The Martyr's Hill
The Austrian
The Exile to his Country
Cathcart's Hill
The Coalition and the People
England and Louis Napoleon
All Over
Hood
Lady Laura
The Bridegroom of Beauty
The Mother's Idol Broken
Long Expected
Wooed and Won
The Bridal
Wedded Love
To a Beloved One
When I Come Home
Ichabod
Husband and Wife
Love Me
Love-in-Idleness
Little Lilybell
A Ballad of the Old Time
In the Night
Sweet-and-Twenty
A Song of Happy Love
Kisses
A Poor Man's Wife
Love
I Love my Love, and my Love Loves me
Not Lost, but Gone Before
The Patriot's Bride
Sweet Spirit of my Love
Deserted
Desolate
Doomed
Dead
The Sunbeam and the Rose
Little Willie
A Day at Craigcrook Castle
The Three Spirits
New Year's Eve in Exile, 1854
Lines Inscribed to the Rev. F. D. Maurice
The Men of Forty-Eight
The Patriot
Our Fathers are Praying for Pauper-Pay
They are but Giants while we Kneel
Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Eight
They who fell for Hungary and Rome
A Cry of the Peoples
Hope on, Hope ever
The People's Advent
Our Land
The Cry of the Unemployed
Song of the Red Republican
Press on
Anathema Maranatha
The Lords of Land and Money
The Deserter from the Cause
All's Right with the World
The Awakening of the People
The Worker
God's World is worthy Better Men
Nebraska: or, the Slavery-Abolitionist to his Bride
It will End in the Right
A Welcome to Louis Kossuth
Eden
Onward and Sunward
The Three Voices
This World is Full of Beauty
A Song in the City
The Famine-Smitten
Peace
A Glimpse of Auld Lang-Syne
Merry Christmas Eve
The Chivalry of Labour Exhorted to the Worship of Beauty
To my Wife
A Greeting
Prefatory Poem
Cousin Winnie
Hesper
The Youth and the Angel
Love-Longing
The Nest
Hunt the Squirrel
The Glow-Worm
The Sunken City
How It Seems
The Wild-Flower
A Bird of Night
The Lady of Light
Little Pearl
The Maiden Marriage
Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself
An Apologue
Wedded Love
The Wedding
Arguing in a Circle
An April Wedding
Leave-Taking
As They Passed
Evoe
The Welcome Home
The Bonny Brideland Flower
A Lover's Song
The Married Life
The Kronian Gods
A Letter in Black
Pictures in the Fire
Old Friends
Sylvia May
In a Dream
The Two Roses
The Wedding-Ring
Love's Westward Ho!
My Love
Lullaby
Autumn Song
Robin's Song
The Only One
The Sailor's Orphan Child
On Deck Together
Parting
For Ever
Shakspeare
All Ready and All One
The Old Land
Sea-Song
Our Native Land
A National Anthem
Havelock's March
For Christie's Sake
Christie's Portrait
The Two Heavens
Sleep-Walking
Christie's Poor Old Gran
News of Christie
When Christie Comes Again
Children at Play
Our White Dove
The Diakka
They Sang a New Song
Flower and Fruit
Pegasus in Harness
Love and Death
Orphans
One of Shakspeare's Women
Imperfection
So It Goes
Growing Old
A Greek Reply
Man and His Two Masters
Womankind
A Very Early Riser
A Peculiar Person
Delia Bacon
A Painted Spray of Apple-Blossom
An Angel in the House
Souls of Animals
The Divine Likeness
The Hidden Life
Jerusalem the Golden
Poor Man's Sunday
At Eventide
A Cry in the Night
His Banner Over Me
Rest
At Last
Hymn of the Present
Faith and Fact
The Norseman
Old King Hake
The Banner-Bearer of King Olaf
Sir Richard Grenville's Last Fight
Robert Blake
An Old Man-O'-War's-Man's Yarn
Turner's Temeraire
Sir Robert's Sailor Son
The Stoker's Story
The Captain of the "Northfleet"
A Birthday on Board
The Sea Kings
A Daughter of the Sea-Kings
To a Bereaved Friend
Albert the Good
William Makepeace Thackeray
Across the Water
The English of It
Prideaux at Magdala
Camoens
Punch in a Grave Mood
A Reviewer Reviewed
An Old Custom Still Extant
A Forerunner
The Forerunner
Alexander Russel
A Personal Reply
At the Prison-Door
The Falsifiers of Mythology
Garibaldi on the March
One of Garibaldi's Men
Garibaldi at Aspromonte
France and Garibaldi
Garibaldi's Prophecy
My Bonny Lady
Matrimony
The Love-Letter
Jilted
A Village Courting
On a Wedding-Day
At Eventide
The Mistletoe Bough
Life and Death
Woman
Cries of 'Forty-Eight
The Battle-Call
The Earth for All
A Cry of the Unemployed
Scarlett's Three Hundred
The Old Flag
England and Louis Napoleon (May 1859)
Louis Napoleon: "A Berlin"
Moltke's Promise
The Mitrailleuse at Saarbrucken
A Grave Error
The Faith of the Philistine
Peace-at-Any-Price Men
A Plea for the Republic
Louis Napoleon and Some Cockney Working-Men
The Two Napoleons
An Imperial Reply
The Boy's Return
Waiting Foe the Verdict
The Great New Cause
A Leader!
Looking Before and After
False Marriage or True Union?
John Bright
The Primrose Dame
The League of Labour
Labourers' Election Song
The Last of Emergency Men
Hold Together, Boys
To-Morrow!
Light at Last

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