Poetry Codex

Victorian

Adelaide Anne Procter

1825–1864

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) was an English poet and social activist, a devout Catholic and one of the best-selling poets of the Victorian era after Tennyson himself.

Her collection Legends and Lyrics gathers narrative ballads and devotional verse, often concerned with charity, suffering, and quiet endurance.

Poems (158)

  1. The Spirit of the Past
  2. The Spirit of the Present
  3. Verse: a Little Longer
  4. Verse: Grief
  5. Verse: the Triumph of Time
  6. Verse: a Parting
  7. Verse: the Golden Gate
  8. Verse: Phantoms
  9. Verse: Thankfulness
  10. Verse: Home-sickness
  11. Verse: Wishes
  12. Verse: the Peace of God
  13. I.
  14. II
  15. Verse: Recollections
  16. Verse: Illusion
  17. Verse: a Vision
  18. Verse: Pictures in the Fire
  19. Verse: the Settlers
  20. Verse: Hush
  21. Verse: Hours
  22. Verse: the Two Interpreters
  23. Verse: Comfort
  24. Verse: Home at Last
  25. Verse: Unexpressed
  26. Verse: Because
  27. Verse: Rest at Evening
  28. Verse: a Retrospect
  29. Verse: True or False
  30. Verse: Golden Words
  31. Verse: a Legend of Provence
  32. Verse: Envy
  33. Verse: Over the Mountain
  34. Verse: a Warning
  35. Verse: Maximus
  36. Verse: Optimus
  37. Verse: a Lost Chord
  38. Verse: Too Late
  39. Verse: the Requital
  40. Verse: Returned--"missing" (five Years After)
  41. Verse: in the Wood
  42. Verse: Two Worlds
  43. Verse: a New Mother
  44. Verse: Give Place
  45. Verse: My Will
  46. Verse: King and Slave
  47. Verse: a Chant
  48. IV
  49. Verse: Dream-life
  50. Verse: Rest
  51. Verse: the Tyrant and the Captive
  52. Verse: the Carver's Lesson
  53. Verse: Three Roses
  54. Verse: Sent to Heaven
  55. Verse: Never Again
  56. Verse: Listening Angels
  57. Verse: Golden Days
  58. Verse: Philip and Mildred
  59. Verse: Borrowed Thoughts
  60. Verse: Light and Shade
  61. Verse: a Changeling
  62. Verse: Discouraged
  63. Verse: If Thou Couldst Know
  64. Verse: the Warrior to His Dead Bride
  65. Verse: a Letter
  66. XII
  67. Verse: Unseen
  68. Verse: a Remembrance of Autumn
  69. VII
  70. XIII
  71. VI
  72. VIII
  73. V.
  74. IX
  75. X.
  76. XI
  77. XIV
  78. XV
  79. XVI
  80. XVII
  81. XVIII
  82. Verse: the Wind
  83. Verse: Expectation
  84. Verse: an Ideal
  85. Verse: Our Dead
  86. Verse: a Woman's Answer
  87. Founded on an Old French Legend
  88. Verse: a Contrast
  89. Verse: the Bride's Dream
  90. Verse: the Angel's Bidding
  91. Verse: Spring
  92. Verse: Evening Hymn
  93. Verse: the Inner Chamber
  94. I.
  95. II
  96. III
  97. Verse: Two Loves
  98. Verse: a Woman's Last Word
  99. Verse: Past and Present
  100. Verse: for the Future
  101. Incompleteness
  102. The Angel's Story
  103. Echoes
  104. A False Genius
  105. My Picture
  106. Judge Not
  107. Friend Sorrow
  108. One by One
  109. True Honours
  110. A Woman's Question
  111. The Three Rulers
  112. A Dead Past
  113. A Doubting Heart
  114. A Student
  115. A Knight Errant
  116. Linger, Oh, Gentle Time
  117. Homeward Bound
  118. Life and Death
  119. Now
  120. Cleansing Fires
  121. The Voice of the Wind
  122. Treasures
  123. Shining Stars
  124. Waiting
  125. The Cradle Song of the Poor
  126. Be Strong
  127. God's Gifts
  128. A Tomb in Ghent
  129. The Angel of Death
  130. A Dream
  131. The Present
  132. Changes
  133. Strive, Wait, and Pray
  134. A Lament for the Summer
  135. The Unknown Grave
  136. Give Me Thy Heart
  137. The Wayside Inn
  138. Voices of the Past
  139. The Dark Side
  140. A First Sorrow
  141. Murmurs
  142. Give
  143. My Journal
  144. A Chain
  145. The Pilgrims
  146. A Legend of Bregenz
  147. A Farewell
  148. Sowing and Reaping
  149. The Storm
  150. Words
  151. A Love Token
  152. A Tryst with Death
  153. Fidelis
  154. A Shadow
  155. The Sailor Boy
  156. A Crown of Sorrow
  157. The Lesson of the War
  158. Per Pacem ad Lucem

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