Lyric Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jul 17, 2024

In Category - Lyric

Authors: Robert Southey In Year : 1837

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Lyric Poems

Dedication
To Horror
To Contemplation
To a Friend
Remembrance
The Soldier's Wife
The Widow
The Chapel Bell
To Hymen
Written on the 1st of December
Written on the 1st of January
Written on a Sunday Morning
The Race of Banquo
Written in Alentejo
To Recovery
Youth and Age
The Oak of Our Fathers
The Battle of Pultowa
The Traveller's Return
The Old Man's Comforts
Translation of a Greek Ode on Astronomy
Gooseberry Pie
To a Bee
To a Spider
The Destruction of Jerusalem
The Death of Wallace
The Spanish Armada
St. Bartholomew's Day
The Holly Tree
The Ebb Tide
The Complaints of the Poor
To Mary
To a Friend
The Dead Friend

Robert Southey was born in Bristol in England in 1774 and appointed Poet Laurete in 1813, a post he grew to dislike. He was an Oxford contemporary and Brother-in-law of Coleridge and a friend of Wordsworth. He was also an active campaigner for the abolition of the Slave Trade. His work was often critised by other romantic poets, particularly Byron who satirised him in his poem Don Juan. Southey was a prolific poet, his complete works were published in 10 volumes in 1837. This is a selection of his shorter Lyric Poems. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)