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“wind” + windmill, windows, window, windhover across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 2 / 162 1800s 20 / 683 1850s 37 / 939 1900s 58 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 20 with this theme Show all eras

A Song of Autumn

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A Song of Autumn

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

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A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

by Allan Cunningham · English

7 December 1784 - 30 October 1842 (~58)

All is Well

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All is Well

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

In Old Age

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In Old Age

by Frederick Tennyson · English

5 June 1807 - 26 February 1898 (~91)

Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

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Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

My Cathedral

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My Cathedral

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Ode to the West Wind

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Ode to the West Wind

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

Sweet and low, sweet and low

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Sweet and low, sweet and low

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Deserted House

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The Deserted House

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Haunted Palace

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The Haunted Palace

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

The Open Window

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The Open Window

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Prospect

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The Prospect

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · English

6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861 (~55)

The Rider of the Wind

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The Rider of the Wind

by Lord Byron · English

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

The Snow-Storm

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The Snow-Storm

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

The Sun has long been set

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The Sun has long been set

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

The Wind Over the Chimney

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The Wind Over the Chimney

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Windmill

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The Windmill

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

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To Toussaint L'Ouverture

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Twilight

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Twilight

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Winter

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Winter

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

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