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Robert Southey

1774–1843

Robert Southey (1774–1843) was an English poet and man of letters, Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death, and one of the “Lake Poets” alongside his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge (whose sister-in-law he married).

He was, in his own day, best known for his grim and often macabre ballads of guilt, folklore and the supernatural, and for prose-poem “Eclogues” that gave a plain, compassionate voice to the rural poor — work that has aged rather better than the long epics on which he staked his reputation.

Major Works (8)

  1. The Curse of Kehama — Epic poem, 1810
  2. Joan of Arc, an Epic Poem — Epic poem, 1796
  3. Madoc — Epic poem, 1805
  4. The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo — Narrative poem, 1816
  5. Roderick, the Last of the Goths — Narrative poem, 1814
  6. A Tale of Paraguay — Narrative poem, 1825
  7. Thalaba the Destroyer — Narrative poem, 1801
  8. A Vision of Judgement — Narrative poem (English hexameters), 1821

Poems (207)

  1. The Cross Roads
  2. The Sailor Who Had Served in the Slave Trade
  3. Jaspar
  4. Lord William
  5. A Ballad, Shewing How an Old Woman Rode Double, and Who Rode Before Her
  6. The Surgeon's Warning
  7. The Victory
  8. Henry the Hermit
  9. The Old Mansion House
  10. The Grandmother's Tale
  11. The Funeral
  12. The Sailor's Mother
  13. The Witch
  14. The Ruined Cottage
  15. After Blenheim
  16. The Scholar
  17. Sonnet: With wayworn feet a Pilgrim woe-begone
  18. To Mary Wollstonecraft
  19. The Triumph of Woman
  20. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 1
  21. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 2
  22. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 3
  23. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 4
  24. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 5
  25. Poems on the Slave-Trade, Sonnet 6
  26. To the Genius of Africa
  27. To My Own Miniature Picture
  28. The Pauper's Funeral
  29. Ode Written on 1st of January
  30. Inscription 1
  31. Inscription 2
  32. Inscription 3
  33. Inscription 4
  34. Inscription 5
  35. Inscription 6
  36. Inscription 7
  37. Inscription 8
  38. Birth-Day Ode (1793)
  39. Birth-Day Ode (1796)
  40. Botany Bay Eclogues: Elinor
  41. Botany Bay Eclogues: Humphrey and William
  42. Botany Bay Eclogues: John, Samuel, and Richard
  43. Botany Bay Eclogues: Frederic
  44. Sonnet 1
  45. Sonnet 2
  46. Sonnet 3
  47. Sonnet 4
  48. Sonnet 5
  49. Sonnet 6
  50. Sonnet 7
  51. Sonnet 8
  52. Sonnet 9
  53. Sonnet 10
  54. Sappho
  55. Ode Written on 1st of December
  56. Written on Sunday Morning
  57. On the Death of a Favorite Old Spaniel
  58. To Contemplation
  59. To Horror
  60. The Soldier's Wife
  61. The Widow
  62. The Chapel Bell
  63. The Race of Banquo
  64. Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin
  65. Mary
  66. Donica
  67. Rudiger
  68. Hymn to the Penates
  69. The Pig
  70. Snuff
  71. A Cock and Hen Story
  72. The Devil's Walk on Earth
  73. Delia at Play
  74. The Poet Proves the Existence of a Soul from His Love for Delia
  75. The Poet Expresses His Feelings Respecting a Portrait in Delia's Parlor
  76. The Poet Relates How He Obtained Delia's Pocket-Handkerchief
  77. The Poet Expatiates on the Beauty of Delia's Hair
  78. The Poet Relates How He Stole a Lock of Delia's Hair, and Her Anger
  79. The Well of St. Keyne
  80. Verses Spoken in the Theatre at Oxford, upon the Installation of Lord Grenville
  81. Sonnet: O thou sweet Lark, who, in the heaven so high
  82. Sonnet: Beware a speedy friend, the Arabian said
  83. Sonnet: Thou lingerest, Spring! still wintry is the scene
  84. To a Goose
  85. Sonnet: I marvel not, O Sun! that unto thee
  86. Sonnet: Fair be thy fortunes in the distant land
  87. Sonnet: A wrinkled, crabbed man they picture thee
  88. Sonnet: Porlock, thy verdant vale so fair to sight
  89. Sonnet: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide
  90. Sonnet: O God! have mercy in this dreadful hour
  91. Sonnet: She comes majestic with her swelling sails
  92. Sonnet: Farewell my home, my home no longer now
  93. Ximalpoca
  94. The Wife of Fergus
  95. Lucretia
  96. La Caba
  97. To a Painter Attempting Delia's Portrait
  98. The Poet Invokes the Spirits of the Elements to Approach Delia
  99. Remembrance
  100. To Hymen
  101. Written in Alentejo
  102. Youth and Age
  103. The Oak of Our Fathers
  104. The Battle of Pultowa
  105. The Traveller's Return
  106. The Old Man's Comforts, and How He Gained Them
  107. Translation of a Greek Ode on Astronomy
  108. To a Bee
  109. To a Spider
  110. The Destruction of Jerusalem
  111. The Death of Wallace
  112. The Spanish Armada
  113. St. Bartholomew's Day
  114. The Holly-Tree
  115. The Ebb Tide
  116. The Complaints of the Poor
  117. To Mary
  118. To a Friend, Inquiring if I Would Live over My Youth Again
  119. The Peruvian's Dirge over the Body of His Father
  120. Song of the Araucans during a Thunder-Storm
  121. Song of the Chikkasah Widow
  122. The Old Chikkasah to His Grandson
  123. The Soldier's Funeral
  124. Written on Christmas Day, 1795
  125. Written after Visiting the Convent of Arrabida
  126. Recollections of a Day's Journey in Spain
  127. Autumn
  128. History
  129. Thanksgiving for Victory
  130. Stanzas Written in Lady Lonsdale's Album
  131. Stanzas Addressed to W. R. Turner, Esq., R.A.
  132. On a Picture by J. M. Wright, Esq.
  133. Imitated from the Persian
  134. The Retrospect
  135. Hannah
  136. The Last of the Family
  137. The Wedding
  138. The Alderman's Funeral
  139. The Dancing Bear
  140. The Cataract of Lodore
  141. Robert the Rhymer's True and Particular Account of Himself
  142. Epitaph on Algernon Sydney
  143. Epitaph on King John
  144. In a Forest
  145. For a Monument at Tordesillas
  146. For a Column at Truxillo
  147. For the Cell of Honorius, at the Cork Convent, near Cintra
  148. For a Monument at Taunton
  149. Epitaph: This to a mother's sacred memory
  150. Epitaph: Here, in the fruitful vales of Somerset
  151. For a Monument at Vimeiro
  152. At Corunna
  153. Epitaph: He who in this unconsecrated ground
  154. For the Banks of the Douro
  155. Talavera: For the Field of Battle
  156. For the Desierto de Bussaco
  157. For the Lines of Torres Vedras
  158. At Santarem
  159. At Fuentes d'Onoro
  160. At Barrosa
  161. For a Monument at Albuhera
  162. To the Memory of Sir William Myers
  163. Epitaph: Steep is the soldier's path
  164. For the Walls of Ciudad Rodrigo
  165. For the Affair at Arroyo Molinos
  166. Written in an Unpublished Volume of Letters and Miscellaneous Papers by Barré Charles Roberts
  167. Epitaph: Time and the world, whose magnitude and weight
  168. Epitaph: Sons there will be to whom, as here they read
  169. Inscription for the Caledonian Canal: At Clachnacharry
  170. Inscription for the Caledonian Canal: At Fort Augustus
  171. Inscription for the Caledonian Canal: At Banavie
  172. Epitaph in Butleigh Church
  173. Epitaph: To Butler's venerable memory
  174. St. Patrick's Purgatory
  175. God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop
  176. The Pious Painter
  177. St. Michael's Chair
  178. King Henry V. and the Hermit of Dreux
  179. Old Christoval's Advice
  180. Cornelius Agrippa
  181. King Charlemain
  182. St. Romuald
  183. The King of the Crocodiles
  184. The Rose
  185. The Lover's Rock
  186. Garci Ferrandez
  187. King Ramiro
  188. The Inchcape Rock
  189. Bishop Bruno
  190. A True Ballad of St. Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil
  191. Gonzalo Hermiguez
  192. Queen Orraca and the Five Martyrs of Morocco
  193. St. Gualberto
  194. The March to Moscow
  195. Brough Bells
  196. Queen Mary's Christening
  197. Roprecht the Robber
  198. The Young Dragon
  199. Epilogue to The Young Dragon
  200. All for Love; or, A Sinner Well Saved
  201. The Pilgrim to Compostella
  202. Carmen Triumphale, for the Commencement of the Year 1814
  203. Carmina Aulica: Ode to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  204. Carmina Aulica: Ode to His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of All the Russias
  205. Carmina Aulica: Ode to His Majesty Frederick William the Fourth, King of Prussia
  206. The Lay of the Laureate: Carmen Nuptiale
  207. Funeral Song for the Princess Charlotte of Wales

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