Victorian

Graham R. Tomson

1860–1911


Graham R. Tomson was the name under which Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911) published her poems in the late 1880s and early 1890s, after her marriage to the painter Arthur Graham Tomson; she later lived with the writer H. B. Marriott Watson. Her books include Tares (1884) and The Bird-Bride (1889).

She was admired for her ballades and other fixed forms. Three of her poems appear in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).

  1. Open, Sesame
  2. Arsinoe's Cats
  3. The Smile of All-Wisdom
  4. They never come back, though I loved them well
  5. An Interlude
  6. Sayer of sooth, and Searcher of dim skies!
  7. When vanished is the gold and violet
  8. Two Songs

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