Poems Collection (page 5)

Lord Lytton (1831-1891)
Engraving of (Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the 1st Earl of Lytton, the English poet diplomat and politician, shortly after his appointment as Viceroy of India, 1876

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ALFRED TENNYSON English poet

Ms - Duke of Orleans
The Tower of London during the Captivity of Charles, duc d Orleans, after Agincourt - from a Flemish manuscript of his poems

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

Youngs Night Thoughts
EDWARD YOUNG offers his book of poems to The Eternal, who, we may be sure, is enormously grateful

Burns / Soldiers Return
THE SOLDIERs RETURN The embrace

Browning / Poem / Fireside
BY THE FIRESIDE (from Dramatis personae )...with whom began loves voyage full-sail

BURNS / TAM O SHANTER / C18
TAM O SHANTER The devil clings to his horses tail

Froissart and Richard II
JEAN FROISSART - French chronicler presents his book to Richard II

Fritz Reuter / Postcard
FRITZ REUTER German writer of stories and poems

Marguerite De Valois
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS brother of Francois I, whose captivity by Carl V she tried in vain to alleviate : spurned by her relatives, she found solace writing tales and poems

ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774-1843
ROBERT SOUTHEY English poet and man of letters. Remebered more for his shorter works, than his epic poems such as Madoc

CLODIA, sister of Publius Clodius, politician, and wife of Quintus C M Celer, whom she probably murdered; she is the LESBIA to whom Catullus addressed his love poems

Tennyson Fun
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON the Poet Laureate serenading the characters from his poems, including the Lady of Shalott, floating by in her boat

Burns / Tam O shanter
TAM O SHANTER Tam O Shanter and his speedy Meg

Baudeaire / Poem / Le Jeu
LE JEU Gambling

Baudelaire / Poem / Bohemien
BOHEMIENS EN VOYAGE (Travelling gipsies)

Stevenson / Poems / Foreign
Foreign Lands: " Up into the cherry tree Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands, & looked abroad in foreign lands."

Stevenson / Poems / Hay-Loft
The Hay-loft: " Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, "

Children / Water / Reflect
Looking-glass River: " We can see our coloured faces, Floating on the shaken pool"

Boys Heads to Bed
A young boy goes to bed with a candle

Girl Undressing / Bed 1905
Bed in Summer: " In winter I get up at night, & dress by yellow candle- light. In summer quite the other way; I have to go to bed by day."

Nikolai Nekrasov
NIKOLAI NEKRASOV Russian poet, who wrote about the life and sufferings of Russian peasants in such poems as Who can be happy and free in Russia ?

COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and literary critic. Friends with Wordsworth

William Barnes, Poet
WILLIAM BARNES Anglican priest, author of poems in the Dorset dialect, eg An there vor me the apple tree do lean down low in Linden Lea

Drunken Blind Granny
Blind Granny: a half blind, drunken nuisance who would beg by using her paricularly long tongue to wash her blind eye then spend the money on drink. Poems were written about her!

Stevenson / Poems / Shadow
My Shadow: " I have a little shadow that goes in & out with me, & what can be the use of him is more than I can see."

James Macpherson, Scottish writer and politician
James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the " translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems (their authenticity has been disputed)

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