Victorian

A. Mary F. Robinson

1857–1944


Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857–1944) was an English poet and scholar who later wrote under the names Madame Darmesteter and Madame Duclaux after her two marriages, to James Darmesteter (1888) and Emile Duclaux (1901). She lived much in France.

Her early volumes include A Handful of Honeysuckle (1878), The Crowned Hippolytus (1881) and An Italian Garden (1886). Four of her poems appear in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).

  1. Darwinism
  2. The Idea
  3. Prelude
  4. Janet Fisher
  5. Captain Gold and French Janet
  6. Sir Eldric
  7. The Mowers
  8. The Tower of St Maur
  9. A Pastoral
  10. All night I watched awake for morning
  11. Paradise Fancies
  12. Two Lovers
  13. Out of the place of death
  14. Florentine May
  15. An Italian Garden
  16. An Orchard at Avignon
  17. The Dead Friend
  18. Twilight
  19. Le Rot est Mort
  20. Cockayne Country
  21. Celia's Home-Coming
  22. Retrospect
  23. Rhythm
  24. Antiphon to the Holy Spirit
  25. Rosa Rosarum
  26. A Ballad of Orleans
  27. Temple Garlands

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