Poetry Codex

Victorian

Henry Newbolt

1862–1938

Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) was an English poet best known for patriotic and naval verse such as Vitài Lampada and Drake's Drum, written to celebrate duty, empire, and the sea.

His confident public rhetoric made him one of the most widely recited poets of the pre-1914 era.

Poems (118)

  1. Sailing at Dawn
  2. The Song of the Sou' Wester
  3. The Middle Watch
  4. The Little Admiral
  5. The Song of the Guns at Sea
  6. Farewell
  7. Ode for Trafalgar Day, 1905
  8. The Hundredth Year
  9. Drake's Drum
  10. The Fighting Temeraire
  11. Admirals All
  12. San Stefano
  13. Hawke
  14. The Bright Medusa
  15. The Old Suberb
  16. The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn
  17. Northumberland
  18. For a Trafalgar Cenotaph
  19. Craven
  20. Messmates
  21. The Death of Admiral Blake
  22. Vae Victis
  23. Minora Sidera
  24. Laudabunt Alii
  25. Admiral Death
  26. Homeward Bound
  27. Gillespie
  28. Seringapatam
  29. A Ballad of John Nicholson
  30. The Guides at Cabul
  31. The Gay Gordons
  32. He Fell Among Thieves
  33. Ionicus
  34. The Non-Combatant
  35. Sacramentum Supremum
  36. Clifton Chapel
  37. Vitaï Lampada
  38. The Vigil
  39. The Sailing of the Long-ships
  40. Waggon Hill
  41. The Volunteer
  42. The Only Son
  43. The Grenadier's Good-Bye
  44. The Schoolfellow
  45. On Spion Kop
  46. The School at War
  47. By the Hearth-Stone
  48. Peace
  49. April on Waggon Hill
  50. Commemoration
  51. The Echo
  52. The Best School of All
  53. England
  54. Victoria Regina
  55. The King of England
  56. The Nile
  57. Sráhmandázi
  58. Outward Bound
  59. Hope the Hornblower
  60. O Pulchritudo
  61. The Final Mystery
  62. Il Santo
  63. In July
  64. From Generation to Generation
  65. When I Remember
  66. Mors Janua
  67. Rondel
  68. Balade
  69. The Last Word
  70. The Viking's Song
  71. The Sufi in the City
  72. To Edward Fitzgerald
  73. Yattendon
  74. Devon
  75. Among the Tombs
  76. Gold
  77. A Sower
  78. The Mossrose
  79. Ave, Soror
  80. To a River in the South
  81. On the Death of a Noble Lady
  82. Midway
  83. Ad Matrem Dolorosam
  84. Vrais Amants
  85. The Sangreal
  86. Sir Hugh the Palmer
  87. The Presentation
  88. The Inheritance
  89. Amore Altiero
  90. The Pedlar's Song
  91. Benedick's Song
  92. Love and Grief.
  93. Egeria's Silence
  94. Against Oblivion
  95. Fond Counsel
  96. Youth
  97. The Wanderer
  98. The Adventurers
  99. To Clare
  100. The Return of Summer: An Eclogue
  101. Dream-Market
  102. The Cicalas: An Idyll
  103. The Faun
  104. Fidele's Grassy Tomb
  105. Moonset
  106. A Song of Exmoor
  107. Master and Man
  108. Gavotte
  109. Imogien
  110. Nel Mezzo Del Cammin
  111. The Invasion
  112. Rilloby-Rill
  113. Pereunt Et Imputantur
  114. Felix Antonius
  115. Ireland, Ireland
  116. Hymn
  117. The Building of the Temple
  118. Epistle

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