Poetry Codex

Victorian

Roden Noel

1834–1894

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834–1894) was an English poet, a younger son of the first Earl of Gainsborough. His volumes include Beatrice and Other Poems (1868), The Red Flag and Other Poems (1872), A Little Child's Monument (1881) and Songs of the Heights and Deeps (1885).

Lyra Celtica gives him seven poems, among them 'The Swimmer', 'The Dance' and 'The Pity of It', and counts him among its Anglo-Celtic poets.

Major Works (4)

  1. A Modern Faust — Narrative poem, 1888
  2. Beatrice — Narrative poem, 1868
  3. Livingstone in Africa — Narrative poem, 1874
  4. Melcha — Narrative poem, 1885

Poems (210)

  1. Lament for a Little Child
  2. The Swimmer
  3. The Dance
  4. From “The Water-Nymph and the Boy”
  5. A Casual Song
  6. The Pity of it
  7. The Old
  8. Lost
  9. Upon her Stone at Dead of Night
  10. Song: Like Her, but not the Same
  11. Kathleen
  12. June Roses
  13. And She was a Widow
  14. A Walk in Spring
  15. Blind and Deaf
  16. Summer Clouds and a Swan
  17. Autumn in Ireland
  18. The Grandmother's Story
  19. Another Version
  20. Cradle Song for Summer
  21. Leonardo's Christ
  22. A Confession
  23. A Child's Funeral
  24. Song: I went, Dear, by the Brook To-day
  25. Minnie
  26. The Two Friends
  27. Mencheres: A Vision of Old Egypt
  28. Ganymede
  29. On the Rhine
  30. A Long Mourning
  31. To My Mother: on her Recovery from a Dangerous Illness
  32. A New Light
  33. An Angel's Gift
  34. Heavenly Guest
  35. Consolation
  36. Dear Head, Lie Calm
  37. Leave God's own Ranks Drawn up to Fight
  38. To a Waterlily
  39. Before Raffaelle
  40. What the Old Church Said
  41. As a Tale that is Told
  42. To Whom shall we Go?
  43. Pan
  44. In Memoriam Thackeray
  45. On the Mountain
  46. Garibaldi: An Ode
  47. Palmyra
  48. The Red Flag
  49. April Gleams
  50. Song of Summer
  51. In Early Spring: to my Sister
  52. Harvest
  53. A Christian's Funeral
  54. A Cataract
  55. At Court
  56. A Vision of the Desert
  57. The Water-Nymph and the Boy
  58. Allerheiligen
  59. Come not very Soon, Love
  60. Death and Life
  61. The Old Piano
  62. On Richmond Hill
  63. Was it Well?
  64. Palingenesis
  65. The Dweller in Two Worlds
  66. A Song at a Waterfall
  67. Eric: A Dirge
  68. A Lady to a Lover
  69. A Sick Mother to her Blind Child
  70. Christ
  71. Siege
  72. Rulers
  73. Franc-Tireurs
  74. The Village
  75. Sedan
  76. The Wounded
  77. A Vision of War
  78. The Roses of Bazeilles
  79. Ode to England
  80. The Children's Grass
  81. The Children by the Sea
  82. Azrael: A Dream of Pleasure
  83. San Rocco
  84. To the Queen
  85. A Sea Symphony
  86. At his Grave
  87. Dark Spring
  88. Night and Morning
  89. A Tomb at Palmyra
  90. Dead
  91. The King and the Peasant
  92. A Milk-white Bloomed Acacia Tree
  93. Mountain Lyric
  94. Early Primrose
  95. Sleep
  96. In the Corsican Highlands
  97. In the Alps
  98. Only a Little Child
  99. God's Child
  100. Music and the Child
  101. Nature and the Dead
  102. The Toy Cross
  103. Azrael
  104. A Southern Spring Carol
  105. All Saints, and All Souls
  106. Vision of the Night
  107. In London
  108. The Sea shall give up her Dead
  109. Among the Mountains
  110. Guardian Angels of Children
  111. Last Victims from the Wreck of the Princess Alice
  112. Children and the Woods
  113. Old Scenes Revisited
  114. Lead Me where the Lily Blows
  115. That they All may be One
  116. Christmas Eve
  117. The Peace of God, which Passeth all Understanding
  118. The Cloud may Sail there
  119. De Profundis
  120. The Desert shall Blossom as the Rose
  121. Flower to Flower
  122. Vale!
  123. A Lay of Civilisation; or, London
  124. Early Love
  125. Love Hiding
  126. Rose and Butterfly
  127. Swing-Song
  128. Magic-Lantern
  129. The Temple of Sorrow
  130. The Gemonian Stairs
  131. Thalatta
  132. By the Sea
  133. Tintadgel
  134. Suspiria
  135. Autumn
  136. Monte Rosa
  137. To Eric from the Alps
  138. In the Dolomites
  139. The Agnostic
  140. The Death of Livingstone
  141. Byron's Grave
  142. Snowdrops
  143. Nocturne
  144. Beethoven
  145. Northern Spring
  146. The Two Magdalenes
  147. Winter
  148. In Italy
  149. Political Sonnets
  150. The Cathedral
  151. Very Death
  152. Madness
  153. The Sanctuary
  154. To My Mother
  155. Fowey
  156. The Merry-Go-Round
  157. Ah! Love Ye One Another Well!
  158. Lost Angel
  159. I Love You, Dear!
  160. Hands that Wander
  161. The Little Imbecile
  162. Arise! A Song of Labour
  163. The Child's Journey
  164. The True King
  165. The Month of the Nightingale
  166. Returning Thanks
  167. The Polish Mother: A Dramatic Monologue
  168. Poor People's Christmas
  169. To a Child, who Asked me for a Poem
  170. Early April
  171. The Secret of the Nightingale
  172. A Song of Nereids
  173. Sea Slumber-Song
  174. O Years!
  175. As of old the wildered dove
  176. Passion
  177. The Coast of Cornwall
  178. Ballad of the Dead Monk; or, Brother Benedict
  179. Severn, Friend of Keats
  180. The Call of the Caves
  181. The Spirit of Storm
  182. My Sea, My Sea
  183. Inconsistent
  184. Wild Love on the Sea
  185. Nocturne
  186. At Porthcurno
  187. Eros in May
  188. Isandula
  189. Midnight
  190. Light Love by the Sea—Glory
  191. Comrade beloved, and helpful soulfellow
  192. But once again, my spirit cries
  193. To a Comrade
  194. In memory’s garland have I set thee
  195. Grey Eyes
  196. Mystic Music
  197. Natura Naturans
  198. Bridal Song
  199. To J. H.
  200. Wreck
  201. Merely Friends
  202. Seabird of the Broken Wing
  203. Ye, Lovers Twain
  204. Only a Lock of Hair
  205. The Babes in the Snow
  206. Flowers at Easter
  207. The Death of Tennyson
  208. The Song of Tennyson
  209. The Signalman
  210. The Second Coming

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