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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 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 2 / 91 1600s 11 / 178 1650s 2 / 60 1700s 0 / 35 1750s 10 / 164 1800s 28 / 687 1850s 46 / 950 1900s 35 / 1128 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 46 with this theme Show all eras

A Discord

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A Discord

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

Another Spring

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Another Spring

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

Come slowly—Eden!

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Come slowly—Eden!

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Consider the Lilies of the Field

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Consider the Lilies of the Field

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Do not forget me!

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Do not forget me!

by Violet Fane · English

24 February 1843 - 13 October 1905 (~62)

Frost To-Night

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Frost To-Night

by Edith M. Thomas · English

12 August 1854 - 13 September 1925 (~71)

Go talk to her, sweet flower

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Go talk to her, sweet flower

by Alfred Austin · English

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

Golden Glories

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Golden Glories

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Gone Forever

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Gone Forever

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

I hide myself within my flower

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I hide myself within my flower

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

In the Heart of a Rose

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In the Heart of a Rose

by George Marion McClellan · English

29 September 1860 - 17 May 1934 (~74)

Life

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Life

by Fannie Isabel Sherrick · English

c. 31 May 1855 - c. 1890 (~35)

Life and Death

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Life and Death

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Love Well the Hour

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Love Well the Hour

by E. Nesbit · English

15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924 (~66)

Lydia

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Lydia

by Lizette Woodworth Reese · English

9 January 1856 - 17 December 1935 (~79)

Mother Nature

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Mother Nature

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Nature's Changes

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Nature's Changes

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Pallor

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Pallor

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

Passing and Glassing

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Passing and Glassing

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Patience of Hope

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Patience of Hope

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Pink—small—and punctual

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Pink—small—and punctual

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Rain on a Grave

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Rain on a Grave

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Regret

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Regret

by Richard Le Gallienne · English

20 January 1866 - 15 September 1947 (~81)

Rima LIII

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Rima LIII

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Spanish

1836 - 1870 (~34)

So bashful when I spied her

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So bashful when I spied her

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Summer for thee grant I may be

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Summer for thee grant I may be

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Tanka I

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Tanka I

by Sadakichi Hartmann · English

8 November 1867 - 22 November 1944 (~77)

Tanka II

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Tanka II

by Sadakichi Hartmann · English

8 November 1867 - 22 November 1944 (~77)

The Azalea

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The Azalea

by Coventry Patmore · English

23 July 1823 - 26 November 1896 (~73)

The Bourne

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The Bourne

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

The Cypress

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The Cypress

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

The Great Breath

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The Great Breath

by George William Russell · English

10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935 (~68)

The House That Was

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The House That Was

by Laurence Binyon · English

10 August 1869 - 10 March 1943 (~74)

The Passion Flower

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The Passion Flower

by Anne Whitney · English

2 September 1821 - 23 January 1915 (~94)

The Poet's Grave

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The Poet's Grave

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

The Sundew

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The Sundew

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

The Two Sowers

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The Two Sowers

by Alexander Anderson · English

30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909 (~64)

The Widow

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The Widow

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

The Woodspurge

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The Woodspurge

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti · English

12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882 (~54)

Transplanted

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Transplanted

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Two Worlds

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Two Worlds

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Vestigia

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Vestigia

by Bliss Carman · English

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

Violets at Home

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Violets at Home

by Edward James Mortimer Collins · English

29 June 1827 - 28 July 1876 (~49)

Whose are the little beds

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Whose are the little beds

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Y Friallen Gyntaf

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Y Friallen Gyntaf

by Watcyn Wyn · Welsh

7 March 1844 - 19 November 1905 (~61)

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