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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 1850s · 3 with this theme Show all eras

Earnestness
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Earnestness

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox · English

Ella Wheeler Wilcox portrait

5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 (~69)

Oh, when I was in love with you
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Oh, when I was in love with you

by A.E.Housman · English

A.E.Housman portrait

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

The Never-Old
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The Never-Old

by Edwin Markham · English

Edwin Markham portrait

23 April 1852 - 7 March 1940 (~88)

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