ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN (1841 - 1901)

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A SELECTION OF POEMS

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SELECTED POEMS

from
The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan
Chatto & Windus 1901.

 

EARLY POEMS

Fra Giacomo

 

LONDON POEMS (1866-70)

The Starling

Edward Crowhurst; or ‘A New Poet’

Tiger Bay

Tom Dunstan; or The Politician

O’Murtogh

The Bookworm

The Last Of The Hangmen

London, 1864

 

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS (1866-1870)

Clari In The Well

 

NORTH COAST, AND OTHER POEMS (1867-68)

A Poem To David

 

CORUISKEN SONNETS (1870)

Sonnet: Could God Be Judged

 

THE BOOK OF ORM (1870)

The Dream Of The World Without Death

The Vision Of The Man Accurst

 

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND BALLADS (1878-83)

Granddad In The Ingle *

The Ballad Of Judas Iscariot

The Lights Of Leith

Phil Blood’s Leap

James Avery

The Devil’s Peepshow

 

THE BUCHANAN BALLADS OLD AND NEW (1892)

The Golden Year: An Ode on the Jubilee of the Empress Victoria **

 

THE DEVIL’S CASE (1894)

The Litany. De Profundis

 

THE NEW ROME (1898)

Carmen Deific (Part V)

The Jew Passes

Song Of The Slain

The Charter’d Companie

Man Of The Red Right Hand

Song Of The Fur-Seal

Patriotism

Last Night

The Lords Of The Bread

Sisters Of Midnight

The Lost Women

Bicycle Song

The Cry From The Mine

The Lead-Melting

I End As I Began

 

* ‘Granddad In The Ingle’ is not included in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan. It was published in the March, 1874 edition of Cassell’s Magazine and was reprinted in Appleton’s journal: a monthly miscellany of popular literature on March 14th, 1874 (Volume 11, Issue 260).

** ‘The Golden Year’ is not included in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan. It was published in The Buchanan Ballads Old and New (London: John Haddon and Company, 1892).

This selection of Buchanan’s poems is available for download as a zipped .rtf file.

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