MCGEE. Born at Carlingford, Ireland. Was associate editor with Charles Gavan Duffy of the Irish Nation; and poetical contributor to its columns. He emigrated to America, settling finally in Canada, where he was assassinated on account of his opposition to Fenianism. His collected poems were published in New York, in 1869. TAYLOR (Bayard). Born in Pennsylvania. Zimena, 1844; Views a-Foot, 1846; Rhymes of Travel, 1848; El Dorado, 1850; The American Legend, 1850; Book of Romances, Lyrics, and Songs, 1851; A Journey to Central Africa, 1854; Poems and Ballads, 1854; The Lands of the Saracen, 1854; A Visit to India, China, and Japan, 1855; Poems of the Orient, 1855; Poems of Home and Travel, 1855; Northern Travel, 1857; Travels in Greece and Russia, 1859; At Home and Abroad, First Series, 1859; At Home and Abroad, Second Series, 1862; The Poet's Journal, 1862; Hannah Thurston, 1863; John Godfrey's Fortunes, 1864; The Story of Kennett, 1866; The Picture of St. John, 1866; Byways of Europe, 1869; The Ballad of Abraham Lincoln, 1869; Joseph and His Friend, 1870; Translation of Goethe's Faust (both parts), 1871; Beauty and the Beast, 1872; The Masque of the Gods, 1872; Lars, 1873; The Prophet, a Tragedy, 1874; Home Pastorals, Ballads, and Lyrics, 1875; Prince Deucalion, 1878. STODDARD (R. H.). Born at Hingham, Massachusetts. Footprints, 1849; Poems, 1852; Adventures in Fairy Land, 1853; Songs of Summer, 1857; The King's Bell, 1862; The Story of Little Red Riding Hood, 1863; The Children in the Wood, 1864; Abraham Lincoln, an Horatian Ode, 1865; Putnam the Brave, 1869; The Book of the East, 1871; Poems, 1880. STODDARD (E. D. B.). Born at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. The Morgesons, 1862; Two Men, 1865; Temple House, 1867; Lolly Dinks' Doings, 1874. PROCTER (Adelaide). Daughter of B. W. Procter ("Barry Cornwall"). Poems in Dickens' Household Words, the first by "Miss Berwick" in 1853; Legends and Lyrics, two series, 1858 and 1861; A Chaplet of Verses, 1862, LARCOM. Miss Larcom was born in Massachusetts. An Idyl of Work, 1875; Poems, 1878; Wild Roses of Cape Ann and Other Poems, 1881; Childhood's Songs, 1883. COLLINS. Idylls and Rhymes, 1855; Summer Songs, 1860; the Inn of Strange Meetings and other poems, 1871. ALLINGHAM. Born at Ballyshannon, Ireland. Poems, 1850; Day and Night Songs, 1854; Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland, a descriptive poem characteristic of Irish life, 1869; Songs and Ballads, 1877. MUNBY. Benoni, 1852; Elegiacs, 1859; Verses New and Old, 1865; Dorothy, a country story, 1880. ROSSETTI (Dante Gabriel). Painter and Poet. Notable as the founder of the pre-Raffaelite school of painting in England. His poetical works are Ballads and Songs; the House of Life, a series of sonnets; and Translations from the early Italian poets, and of the Vita Nuova of Dante. Goblin Market; ROSSETTI (Christina). The sister of Dante Gabriel. the Prince's Progress; and miscellaneous poems, 1862-1881. INGELOW. Poems, 1863; A Story of Doom, 1867. STEDMAN. Born at Hartford, Connecticut. Poems Lyrical and Idyllic, 1860; Alice of Monmouth and Other Poems, 1864; The Blameless Prince and Other Poems, 1869; Poetical Works, 1873; The Victorian Poets, 1875; Hawthorne and Other Poems, 1877. ARNOLD (George). Born in New York City. Drift and Other Poems, 1866; Poems Grave and Gay, 1867. NICHOL. Born at Montrose. Hannibal, an historical drama; the Death of Themistocles, and other poems, 1881. MORRIS (Lewis). Songs of Two Worlds, 1871; The Epic of Hades, 1877; Gwen, 1879; The Ode of Life, 1880. JACKSON. Mrs. Jackson (her earlier poems "by H. H.," Mrs. Hunt) was born at Amherst, Massachusetts. Verses, 1870. MORRIS (William). The Defence of Guinevere and other poems, 1858; the Life and Death of Jason, 1867; the Earthly Paradise, 1868-70; Love is enough, 1873; the Story of Sigurd, 1876. PIATT. Born at Jackson, Indiana. Nests at Washington and Other Poems, 1864; Poems in Sunshine and Firelight, 1866; Western Windows and Other Poems, 1869; Landmarks and Other Poems, 1871. THAXTER. Mrs. Thaxter. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Poems, 1874. WILLSON. The Old Sargeant and Other Poems, 1867. WINTER. Born at Gloucester, Massachusetts. My Witness, a Book of Verse, 1871. ALDRICH. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Bells, 1854; Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of it, 1856; The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems, 1858; The Course of True Love never did Run Smoothly, 1858; Pampinea and Other Poems, 1861; Out of His Head, 1862; Poems, 1863; The Story of a Bad Boy, 1869; Marjorie Daw and Other People, 1873; Cloth of Gold, 1873; Prudence Palfrey, 1874; Flower and Thorn, 1877; The Queen of Sheba, 1877; The Stillwater Tragedy, 1880; Poems, 1882; From Poukapog to Pesth, 1883. GARNETT. Primula, 1858; Io in Egypt and other poems, 1859; Translations from the German, 1862; Idylls and Epigrams, from the Greek Anthology, 1869. Since 1875 Mr. Garnett has been Superintendent of the Reading Room at the British Museum. ASHE. The Rev. Thomas Ashe has written Poems, 1859; Sorrows of Hypsipyle, a drama, 1866; Edith, 1873; Songs Now and Then, 1876. SWINBURNE. The Queen Mother and Rosamond, 1861; Chastelard; Atalanta in Calydon, 1864; Poems and Ballads, 1866; A Song of Italy, 1867; Songs before Sunrise, 1871; Bothwell, 1874; Songs of Two Nations, 1875; Erechtheus, 1876; Poems and Ballads (second series), 1878; Songs of the Spring-tides, 1880; Mary Stuart, 1881; Tristram of Lyonesse, 1882. THOMSON. Born at Port Glasgow. The Doom of a City; Bertram to the Lady Geraldine; the Lord of the Castle of Indolence; Vane's Story; Sunday at Hampstead; Sunday up the River; the City of Dreadful Night (written between 1870 and 1874, and published in 1880); and other poems. HAY. Born at Salem, Indiana. Pike County Ballads and other Pieces, 1871; Castilian Days, 1872. DOBSON. Vignettes in Rhyme, 1874; Proverbs in Porcelain, 1877; Latter-day Lyrics, 1878. BUCHANAN. The collected edition of his poetical works (he is also well known as a novelist), comprises Ballads and Poems of Life; London Lyrics, 1866; Sonnets; Political Mystics; and a long Ossianic poem, the Book of Orm. BRIDGES. Poems, 1873. GOSSE. Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets, 1870; On Viol and Flute, 1873; King Erik, a drama, 1876; New Poems, 1879. MARZIALS. The Gallery of Pigeons, 1873. BEATTY. To my Lady, 1878; Three Women of the People, 1881; Marcia, a tragedy. LANG. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, 1872; the Prince of Omur, and other poems, 1880; XXII Ballades in Blue China, 1880; XXII and X, 1881; Helen of Troy, 1882. DAVIES. Songs of a Wayfarer, 1869; the Shepherd's Garden, 1873. INDEX OF FIRST LINES. PAGE A bird sang sweet and strong 252 Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) 61 Above yon sombre swell of land.... 135 A despot gazed on sunset clouds 133 Ah, Marian mine! the face you look on now 64 A man there came, whence none could tell.. 264 Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!....... 193 Beautiful Things of Oid! why are ye gone for ever. 150 261 |