Poetry Codex

Victorian

Joseph Skipsey

1832–1903

Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903) was an English poet from Northumberland who went down the pit as a child and worked as a miner for years. His lyrics were praised by Victorian critics and collected in Carols from the Coal-Fields (1886) and other volumes.

The songs given here are taken from Edmund H. Garrett's anthology Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature (Boston: Little, Brown, 1895).

Poems (18)

  1. A Merry Bee
  2. The Songstress
  3. The Violet and the Rose
  4. The stars are twinkling in the sky
  5. My Little Boy
  6. Mother Wept
  7. The Singer
  8. The Golden Lot
  9. The wind comes from the west to-night
  10. In the wild grove we wander'd
  11. Not as Wont
  12. A Remembrance
  13. With Loaded Dice
  14. The Fatal Errand
  15. See, Essie Goes!
  16. Daffodil and Daisy
  17. Ah, be not vain. In yon flower-bell
  18. The Butterfly

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