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“virtue” across the centuries

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virtues 3 poems

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

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 2 / 10 1550s 2 / 91 1600s 2 / 177 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 5 / 164 1800s 7 / 687 1850s 3 / 946 1900s 0 / 1123 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 7 with this theme Show all eras

Forbearance
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Forbearance

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Give Us Men
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Give Us Men

by J.G. Holland · English

J.G. Holland portrait

24 July 1819 - 12 October 1881 (~62)

I have not loved the world
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I have not loved the world

by Lord Byron · English

Lord Byron portrait

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

Pantisocracy
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Pantisocracy

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

She Walks in Beauty
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She Walks in Beauty

by Lord Byron · English

Lord Byron portrait

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

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