The Victorian Era

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
A Musical Instrument

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
The Brown Dwarf of Rügen

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Eldorado
The Haunted Palace
To Helen
Ulalume
Alone

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Mariana
The Mermaid
The Merman
The Lady of Shalott
Blow, Bugle, Blow

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Broomstick Train, or The Return of the Witches

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)
The Fairy Thorn

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
The Sands of Dee

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Aladdin
Isabel
The Sirens
Midnight

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
The Forsaken Merman

Sydney Dobell (1824–1874)
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston

William Allingham (1824-1889)
The Fairies
The Ruined Chapel
The Witch-Bride
The Maids of Elfin-Mere
Twilight Voices

George Meredith (1828–1909)
Lucifer in Starlight

Dora Sigerson Shorter (1829-1862)
The Watcher in the Woods

Alexander Smith (1829–1867)
Barbara

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
“Witchcraft has not a pedigree”
“The bat is dun with wrinkled wings”
“I heard a fly buzz when I died”
“Because I could not stop for Death”
“The only ghost I ever saw”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Goblin Market
Song

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
Dreamland

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834–1894)
The Water-Nymph and the Boy

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
The Desolate City

Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)
Ode

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
A Vision of the Mermaids

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
Little Orphan Annie

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Heather Ale
Death
Ticonderoga

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Dole of the King’s Daughter
Santa Decca
Chanson
Endymion
In the Forest
The Sphinx

Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855-1905)
The Hills of Ruel

Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
The Singer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A Tragedy
The Inner Room
The Old Huntsman
The Passing

Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
Unwelcome
The Other Side of a Mirror
The Witch
The White Women
Wilderspin
Master and Guest