Women Romantic Poets - Volume 4

Who was the bestselling English poet of the nineteenth century? No, not Tennyson or Byron or Wordsworth-but Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), "the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period" and "the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2008). With an unfailing and seemingly effortless command of language, she voiced the deepest concerns of ordinary people, especially women, to an extent that no other writer of her time could do. The 106 poems in this collection range from the legends of Wales to the historical records of Greenland, and from the superstitions of ancient Babylon to her own personal struggles with desertion, loneliness, and fatal illness. Introduction
The Voice of Spring
Rome Buried in her own Ruins
Dirge from The Siege of Valencia
Belshazzar's Feast
The Rock of Cader-Idris
Epitaph on Mr W--
The Lost Pleiad
Treasures of the Deep
The Hour of Death
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
Evening Prayer at a Girls' School
The American Forest Girl
The Grave of a Poetess
The Sound of the Sea
The Illuminated City
Christ Stilling the Tempest
The Things that Change
The Broken Chain
To a Wandering Female Singer
The Fountain of Oblivion
The Minster
The Ancestral Song
Woman and Fame
A Thought of the Future
The Mirror in the Deserted Hall
A Thought of Paradise
To the Mountain Winds
The Funeral of Sir Walter Scott
The Prayer in the Wilderness
The Indian's Revenge
Female Characters 1-2
Female Characters 3-6
Female Characters 7-8
Female Characters 9-12
Female Characters 13-15
Sonnets Devotional 1-2
Sonnets Devotional 3-12
Sonnets Devotional 13-15
Spring 1834 1-7
Spring 1834 8-12
Spring 1834 15-22
Autumn 1834
Thoughts During Sickness
The Huguenot's Farewell
Antique Greek Lament
Despondency and Aspiration
Sabbath Sonnet
Superstition and Revelation