Theme Timeline

Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

Choose a theme

— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved divine memory desire spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul dead loss body pain wind philosophical music voice landscape hope religious sorrow spring flowers children faith bird water rose mortality silence lover domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth women dream flower irish garden mind rain summer lovers

“lover” + lovers 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 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 2 / 10 1550s 8 / 90 1600s 25 / 176 1650s 6 / 58 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 5 / 163 1800s 14 / 684 1850s 24 / 942 1900s 31 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 24 with this theme Show all eras

A Creole Slave-Song

Available versions

A Creole Slave-Song

by Maurice Thompson · English

9 September 1844 - 15 February 1901 (~57)

A Memory of Youth

Available versions

A Memory of Youth

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

At An Inn

Available versions

At An Inn

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Before Sunset

Available versions

Before Sunset

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

De Amore

Available versions

De Amore

by Ernest Dowson · English

2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900 (~33)

For a Picture of Watteau

Available versions

For a Picture of Watteau

by Arthur Symons · English

28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945 (~80)

Four Footprints

Available versions

Four Footprints

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Go talk to her, sweet flower

Available versions

Go talk to her, sweet flower

by Alfred Austin · English

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

If She But Knew

Available versions

If She But Knew

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

It nods and curtseys and recovers

Available versions

It nods and curtseys and recovers

by A.E.Housman · English

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

Lord Randall

Available versions

Lord Randall

by Francis James Child · English

1 February 1825 - 11 September 1896 (~71)

Love's Answer

Available versions

Love's Answer

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

Neutral Tones

Available versions

Neutral Tones

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

One Day

Available versions

One Day

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Perfume

Available versions

Perfume

by Arthur Symons · English

28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945 (~80)

The Dead Lover

Available versions

The Dead Lover

by James Whitcomb Riley · English

7 October 1849 - 22 July 1916 (~67)

The First Kiss

Available versions

The First Kiss

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

The Lovers

Available versions

The Lovers

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The One Gift

Available versions

The One Gift

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

The Poor Ghost

Available versions

The Poor Ghost

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

The Sad Bridal

Available versions

The Sad Bridal

by Edmund Clarence Stedman · English

8 October 1833 - 18 January 1908 (~75)

The True Lover

Available versions

The True Lover

by A.E.Housman · English

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

Twice

Available versions

Twice

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

‘Twas a long Parting

Available versions

‘Twas a long Parting

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Now playing

-

-

Loop

0:00

0:00

Track 1