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

“spring” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
ring 7 poems springs 2 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 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 90 1600s 5 / 176 1650s 1 / 58 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 10 / 684 1850s 28 / 942 1900s 35 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 28 with this theme Show all eras

A Dirge
Available versions

A Dirge

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

A light exists in spring
Available versions

A light exists in spring

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

A Mood
Available versions

A Mood

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

Philip Bourke Marston portrait

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

A Touch of Nature
Available versions

A Touch of Nature

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich · English

Thomas Bailey Aldrich portrait

11 November 1836 - 19 March 1907 (~71)

A Wintry Sonnet
Available versions

A Wintry Sonnet

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Ad Mariam
Available versions

Ad Mariam

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

Gerard Manley Hopkins portrait

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

Another Spring
Available versions

Another Spring

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

He Laments that His Love is Dead
Available versions

He Laments that His Love is Dead

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · English

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt portrait

17 August 1840 - 10 September 1922 (~82)

I dreaded that first Robin so
Available versions

I dreaded that first Robin so

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

My Love is Dead
Available versions

My Love is Dead

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

Philip Bourke Marston portrait

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

Nature's Changes
Available versions

Nature's Changes

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Ode to a Starling
Available versions

Ode to a Starling

by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton · English

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton portrait

8 November 1831 - 24 November 1891 (~60)

One Day
Available versions

One Day

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Since We Must Die
Available versions

Since We Must Die

by Alfred Austin · English

Alfred Austin portrait

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

Spring
Available versions

Spring

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

Gerard Manley Hopkins portrait

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

Spring Quiet
Available versions

Spring Quiet

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Tanka I
Available versions

Tanka I

by Sadakichi Hartmann · English

Sadakichi Hartmann portrait

8 November 1867 - 22 November 1944 (~77)

Tempus Fugit
Available versions

Tempus Fugit

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

The Birch Tree at Loschwitz
Available versions

The Birch Tree at Loschwitz

by Amy Levy · English

Amy Levy portrait

10 November 1861 - 10 September 1889 (~28)

The Maid O' the Mill
Available versions

The Maid O' the Mill

by Charles Murray · English

Charles Murray portrait

27 September 1864 - 12 April 1941 (~77)

The Robin
Available versions

The Robin

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Two Sowers
Available versions

The Two Sowers

by Alexander Anderson · English

Alexander Anderson portrait

30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909 (~64)

The Waking Year
Available versions

The Waking Year

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Threnody for a Poet
Available versions

Threnody for a Poet

by Bliss Carman · English

Bliss Carman portrait

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

What's in a Name?
Available versions

What's in a Name?

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Whose are the little beds
Available versions

Whose are the little beds

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Now playing
-
-
0:00
0:00
Track 1

Poem Actions

Choose an action for this poem

Skip to main content