Poetry Codex

Victorian

Samuel Waddington

1844–1923

Samuel Waddington (1844–1923) was a British civil servant, traveller and poet.

The poems here are taken from Alfred H. Miles (ed.), The Poets and the Poetry of the Century (London: Hutchinson, 1891–1897), vol. 8, 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 (10)

  1. We know not yet what life shall be
  2. On the Heights
  3. Nature
  4. Where wert thou, Soul, ere yet my body born
  5. The shades of evening lengthen, — let us close
  6. Through the night-watches, Sleep, we picture thee
  7. What though thine arm hath conquered in the fight
  8. The Inn of Care
  9. Morning
  10. A Persian Apologue

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