Poetry Codex

Victorian

William Bell Scott

1812–1890

William Bell Scott (1812–1890; dates as printed in the anthology) was a Scottish painter and poet, a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and master of the government school of design at Newcastle. His verse was gathered in Poems (1875).

The poems given here are taken from Edmund H. Garrett's anthology Victorian Songs (Boston: Little, Brown, 1895) and R. Brimley Johnson's Popular British Ballads (1894).

Poems (15)

  1. Parting and Meeting Again
  2. A Lowland Witch Ballad
  3. The Universe Void
  4. A Garland for Advancing Years
  5. Pebbles in the Stream
  6. From 'The Year of the World'
  7. Glenkindie
  8. Youth and Age
  9. Pygmalion
  10. My Mother
  11. The Norns Watering Yggdrasill
  12. To the Dead
  13. Hero-Worship
  14. The Witch's Ballad
  15. Love's Calendar

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