Poetry Codex

Victorian

Coventry Patmore

1823–1896

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) was an English poet best known for The Angel in the House, a long narrative sequence idealizing married domestic love that became one of the era's most influential, and later most contested, poems.

A convert to Catholicism, his later odes turn toward mystical and religious themes.

Poems (188)

  1. Mary and Mildred
  2. Honoria
  3. The Morning Call
  4. The Violets
  5. The Dean
  6. Ætna and the Moon
  7. Sarum Plain
  8. Sahara
  9. Going to Church
  10. The Dance
  11. The Abdication
  12. The Prologue
  13. Accepted
  14. Preludes
  15. The Course of True Love
  16. The County Ball
  17. Love in Idleness
  18. The Queen’s Room
  19. The Love-letters
  20. The Revulsion
  21. The Koh-i-noor
  22. The Friends
  23. The Epitaph
  24. The Wedding
  25. Husband and Wife
  26. I
  27. Proem
  28. Saint Valentine's Day
  29. Wind and Wave
  30. Winter
  31. Beata
  32. The Day After To-Morrow
  33. Tristitia
  34. The Azalea
  35. Departure
  36. Eurydice
  37. The Toys
  38. Tired Memory
  39. Magna Est Veritas
  40. 1867
  41. 'If I Were Dead'
  42. Peace
  43. A Farewell
  44. 1880-85
  45. The Two Deserts
  46. Crest and Gulf
  47. 'Let Be!'
  48. 'Faint Yet Pursuing'
  49. Victory in Defeat
  50. Remembered Grace
  51. Vesica Piscis
  52. To the Unknown Eros
  53. The Contract
  54. Arbor Vitae
  55. The Standards
  56. Sponsa Dei
  57. Legem Tuam Dilexi
  58. To the Body
  59. 'Sing Us One of the Songs of Sion'
  60. Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore
  61. The Cry at Midnight
  62. Auras of Delight
  63. Eros and Psyche
  64. De Natura Deorum
  65. Psyche's Discontent
  66. Pain
  67. Prophets Who Cannot Sing
  68. The Child's Purchase
  69. Dead Language
  70. Amelia
  71. L'Allegro
  72. Regina Coeli
  73. The Open Secret
  74. Venus and Death
  75. Mignonne
  76. Alexander and Lycon
  77. Semele
  78. The Barren Shore
  79. Woman
  80. The Kiss
  81. Life of Life
  82. The Victories of Love: Book I, I. From Frederick Graham
  83. The Victories of Love: Book I, II. From Mrs. Graham
  84. The Victories of Love: Book I, III. From Frederick
  85. The Victories of Love: Book I, IV. From Frederick
  86. The Victories of Love: Book I, V. From Frederick
  87. The Victories of Love: Book I, VI. From Mrs. Graham
  88. The Victories of Love: Book I, VII. From Frederick
  89. The Victories of Love: Book I, VIII. From Frederick
  90. The Victories of Love: Book I, IX. From Frederick
  91. The Victories of Love: Book I, X. From Frederick
  92. The Victories of Love: Book I, XI. From Mrs. Graham
  93. The Victories of Love: Book I, XII. From Frederick
  94. The Victories of Love: Book I, XIII. From Lady Clitheroe to Mary Churchill
  95. The Victories of Love: Book I, XIV. From Jane to Her Mother
  96. The Victories of Love: Book I, XV. From Frederick
  97. The Victories of Love: Book I, XVI. From Jane to Mrs. Graham
  98. The Victories of Love: Book I, XVII. From Felix to Honoria
  99. The Victories of Love: Book I, XVIII. From Frederick
  100. The Victories of Love: Book I, XIX. From Jane
  101. The Victories of Love: Book II, I. From Jane to Her Mother
  102. The Victories of Love: Book II, II. From Lady Clitheroe to Mary Churchill
  103. The Victories of Love: Book II, III. From Jane to Mrs. Graham
  104. The Victories of Love: Book II, IV. From Frederick to Mrs. Graham
  105. The Victories of Love: Book II, V. From Mrs. Graham
  106. The Victories of Love: Book II, VI. From Jane to Mrs. Graham
  107. The Victories of Love: Book II, VII. From Jane to Frederick
  108. The Victories of Love: Book II, VIII. From Jane to Frederick
  109. The Victories of Love: Book II, IX. From Lady Clitheroe to Mrs. Graham
  110. The Victories of Love: Book II, X. From Frederick to Honoria
  111. The Victories of Love: Book II, XI. From Mary Churchill to the Dean
  112. The Victories of Love: Book II, XII. From Felix to Honoria
  113. The Victories of Love: Book II, XIII. From Lady Clitheroe to Emily Graham
  114. The Victories of Love: The Wedding Sermon
  115. The Rosy Bosom'd Hours
  116. Eros
  117. The Prologue (Book I)
  118. The Impossibility
  119. Love’s Really
  120. The Poet’s Confidence
  121. The Cathedral Close
  122. The Paragon
  123. Love at Large
  124. Love and Duty
  125. A Distinction
  126. The Lover
  127. Love a Virtue
  128. The Attainment
  129. The Rose of the World
  130. The Tribute
  131. Compensation
  132. The Comparison
  133. Love in Tears
  134. Prospective Faith
  135. Venus Victrix
  136. Perfect Love rare
  137. Love Justified
  138. Love Serviceable
  139. A Riddle Solved
  140. Love’s Immortality
  141. Heaven and Earth
  142. The Revelation
  143. The Spirit’s Epochs
  144. The Prototype
  145. The Praise of Love
  146. The Wife’s Tragedy
  147. Common Graces
  148. The Zest of Life
  149. Fool and Wise
  150. The Joyful Wisdom
  151. The Devices
  152. The Daughter of Eve
  153. Aurea Dicta
  154. The Chace
  155. Denied
  156. The Churl
  157. The Kites
  158. Orpheus
  159. Nearest the Dearest
  160. Perspective
  161. Love Ceremonious
  162. The Rainbow
  163. A Paradox
  164. Honour and Desert
  165. Love and Honour
  166. Valour Misdirected
  167. Rejected
  168. Rachel
  169. The Heart’s Prophecies
  170. Love’s Perversity
  171. The Power of Love
  172. Joy and Use
  173. In Love
  174. Love Thinking
  175. The Nursling of Civility
  176. Disappointment
  177. Frost in Harvest
  178. Felicity
  179. Marriage Indissoluble
  180. Platonic Love
  181. A Demonstration
  182. The Symbol
  183. Constancy Rewarded
  184. The Married Lover
  185. The Amaranth
  186. An Evening Scene
  187. The Girl of All Periods
  188. Night and Sleep

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