Victorian Poetry

A Bird Came Down the WalkA Bird, came down the Walk – Emily Dickinson Lyric A BirthdayMy heart is like a singing bird Christina Rossetti Lyric After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling ComesAfter great pain, a formal feeling comes— Emily Dickinson Lyric Annabel LeeIt was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe Ballad Because I Could Not Stop for DeathBecause I could not stop for Death – Emily Dickinson Lyric Christmas Bells (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day)I heard the bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lyric Crossing the BarSunset and evening star, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Hope Is the Thing with FeathersHope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson Lyric How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet I Dwell in PossibilityI dwell in Possibility – Emily Dickinson Lyric I Hear America SingingI hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Walt Whitman Free Verse I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – Emily Dickinson Lyric In Memoriam A.H.H. (Selected Excerpts)Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Alfred Tennyson Elegy In the Bleak MidwinterIn the bleak mid-winter Christina Rossetti Lyric InvictusOut of the night that covers me, Lyric I’m Nobody! Who Are You?I’m nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson Lyric Jabberwocky’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Lewis Carroll Ballad Loveliest of TreesLoveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman Lyric My Last DuchessThat’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Robert Browning Dramatic Monologue Neutral TonesWe stood by a pond that winter day, Thomas Hardy Lyric O Captain! My Captain!O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, Walt Whitman Elegy Ring Out, Wild BellsRing out wild bells to the wild sky, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Song (When I Am Dead, My Dearest)When I am dead, my dearest, Christina Rossetti Lyric Song of MyselfI celebrate myself, and sing myself, Walt Whitman Free Verse SympathyI know what the caged bird feels, alas! Paul Laurence Dunbar Lyric Tears, Idle TearsTears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant Emily Dickinson Lyric The Charge of the Light BrigadeHalf a league, half a league, Alfred Tennyson The EagleHe clasps the crag with crooked hands; Alfred Tennyson Lyric The Lady of ShalottOn either side the river lie Alfred Tennyson Ballad The RavenOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Poem The Soul Selects Her Own SocietyThe Soul selects her own Society – Emily Dickinson Lyric The Walrus and the Carpenter“The sun was shining on the sea, Lewis Carroll Ballad The White Man’s BurdenTake up the White Man’s burden— Rudyard Kipling Lyric There’s a Certain Slant of LightThere's a certain Slant of light, Emily Dickinson Lyric TithonusThe woods decay, the woods decay and fall, Alfred Tennyson To an Athlete Dying YoungThe time you won your town the race A. E. Housman Elegy UlyssesIt little profits that an idle king, Alfred Tennyson Up-HillDoes the road wind up-hill all the way? Christina Rossetti Lyric When I Was One-and-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty A. E. Housman Lyric When You Are OldWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep, W. B. Yeats Lyric Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Wild nights – Wild nights! Emily Dickinson Lyric With Rue My Heart Is LadenWith rue my heart is laden A. E. Housman Elegy