Poetry Codex

Victorian

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

1861–1931

Katharine Tynan Hinkson (dates as printed in Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920): 1861–1931) was an Irish poet and novelist, born in Dublin. A friend of the young W. B. Yeats and part of the Irish literary revival, she wrote devotional and pastoral verse as well as a great many novels.

She married the barrister Henry Hinkson. Her poems here come from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

Poems (66)

  1. Sheep and Lambs
  2. All-Souls
  3. The Children of Lir
  4. St. Francis to the Birds
  5. The Gardener Sage
  6. West Wind
  7. Poppies
  8. Joining the Colours
  9. The Lowlands of Flanders
  10. The Call
  11. The Golden Boy
  12. The Great Chance
  13. The Watchers
  14. The Bride
  15. The Riders
  16. What Turned the Germans Back?
  17. A Girl's Song
  18. The Young Mother
  19. The Temple
  20. The Summons
  21. The Little Flock
  22. A Lament
  23. A Hero
  24. 'Mid the Piteous Heaps of Dead
  25. To One in Grief
  26. Indian Summer
  27. To Two Bereaved
  28. Autumnal
  29. Mediation
  30. The Heroes
  31. The Great Mercy
  32. Meetings
  33. Flower of Youth
  34. Unhousel'd, Unanointed, Unanel'd
  35. All Souls
  36. The Predestined
  37. The Old Soldier
  38. The Fields of France
  39. The Open Road
  40. For the Airmen
  41. Christmas in the Year of the War
  42. A Song for the New Year
  43. Dead—A Prisoner
  44. To R. A. A.
  45. Salutation
  46. The Sad Spring
  47. A Prayer
  48. Resurrection
  49. Shamrock Song
  50. Winter Sunset
  51. Wild Geese
  52. Geoffrey Barron
  53. Of an Orchard
  54. A Prayer
  55. The Beloved
  56. The Flying Wheel
  57. De Profundis
  58. Singing Stars
  59. The Sad Mother
  60. The Dead Coach
  61. The Desire
  62. Chanticleer
  63. The Footpath Way
  64. Turn o' the Year
  65. The Little Ghost
  66. The Quiet Nights

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