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“sound” across the centuries

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 0 / 28 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 1 / 161 1800s 12 / 683 1850s 21 / 937 1900s 24 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 21 with this theme Show all eras

A Sleepless Night

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A Sleepless Night

by Alfred Austin · English

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

A Sound Is in My Ear To-Day

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A Sound Is in My Ear To-Day

by Alexander Anderson · English

30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909 (~64)

A Thrush Before Dawn

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A Thrush Before Dawn

by Alice Meynell · English

11 October 1847 - 27 November 1922 (~75)

Aftermath

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Aftermath

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Dover Beach

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Dover Beach

by Matthew Arnold · English

24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 (~66)

Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious

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Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Jabberwocky

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Jabberwocky

by Lewis Carroll · English

27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898 (~66)

Joy in Death

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Joy in Death

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Of all the Sounds despatched abroad

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Of all the Sounds despatched abroad

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Old Rhythm and Rhyme

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Old Rhythm and Rhyme

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox · English

5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 (~69)

Sound Sleep

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Sound Sleep

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Spring

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Spring

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

The Brain

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The Brain

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Key-Board

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The Key-Board

by William Watson · English

2 August 1858 - 11 August 1935 (~77)

The Princess

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The Princess

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Norwegian

8 December 1832 - 26 April 1910 (~78)

The Robin

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The Robin

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The saddest noise, the sweetest noise

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The saddest noise, the sweetest noise

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Useless Ones

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The Useless Ones

by John Boyle O'Reilly · English

28 June 1844 - 10 August 1890 (~46)

Veneta

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Veneta

by Mary Coleridge · English

23 September 1861 - 25 August 1907 (~46)

Winter Nightfall

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Winter Nightfall

by Robert Bridges · English

23 October 1844 - 21 April 1930 (~86)

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