Poetry Codex

Victorian

John Addington Symonds

1840–1893

John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) was an English poet, literary critic and cultural historian.

The poems here are taken from Alfred H. Miles (ed.), The Poets and the Poetry of the Century (London: Hutchinson, 1891–1897), vol. 6, from the Internet Archive scans of that edition. Spelling is that of the anthology; Miles's biographical essay and extracts from longer poems are omitted, and only poems that could be read cleanly from the scan are included.

Poems (29)

  1. The Temptation in the Wilderness
  2. My task it is to stand beneath the throne
  3. Give freely to the friend thou hast
  4. After Tempest
  5. Love in Dreams
  6. Farewell
  7. Wherever on the untrodden Alps
  8. Le Jeune Homme Caressant sa Chimère
  9. Farewell
  10. The Vanishing Point
  11. The Prism of Life
  12. Adventante Deo
  13. An Invocation
  14. An Episode
  15. A Palinode
  16. Tema con Variazioni
  17. The Fall of a Soul
  18. Saxifraga Pyramidalis
  19. Stella Maris, III
  20. Stella Maris, XXII
  21. The Sonnet, I
  22. The Sonnet, II
  23. The Sonnet, III
  24. The Shepherd to the Evening Star
  25. In the Inn at Berchtesgaden
  26. Harvest
  27. Stella Maris, XXVII
  28. Stella Maris, XXIX
  29. Stella Maris, XXXVII

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