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Title:

To a Child Embracing His Mother

Source Text:

Thomas Hood, 'To a Child Embracing His Mother' 1832 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 280–81

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

80 mm x 102 mm / 3"5 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP062

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Title:

To a Skylark Tailpiece

Source Text:

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'To a Skylark' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 203–08

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

51 mm x 51 mm / 2"0 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP119

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Title:

To die before the snowdrop came, but now the violet's here

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

102 mm x 76 mm / 4"1 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP191

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Title:

To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

103 mm x 68 mm / 4"2 x 2"22

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP194

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Title:

To meet their Dad wi' flichtering noise and glee

Source Text:

Robert Burns, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' 1786 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 61–71

Illustrator:

Charles West Cope

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

81 mm x 98 mm / 3"6 x 3"27

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP055

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Title:

To pond, or field, or village fair, when thou

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

William Luson Thomas

Size:

93 mm x 110 mm / 3"21 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP108

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Title:

To spurn imploring famine from the gate

Source Text:

Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Deserted Village' 1770 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 29–60

Illustrator:

Charles West Cope

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

102 mm x 64 mm / 4"1 x 2"17

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP029

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Title:

To turn the swarth, the quiv'ring load to rear

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

93 mm x 108 mm / 3"21 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP093

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Title:

To walk together to the kirk, and all together pray

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 108 mm / 3"16 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP144

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Title:

To-night I saw the sun set: he set and left behind

Source Text:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The May Queen' 1861 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 351–67

Illustrator:

Eleanor Vere Boyle [E.V.B.]

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

103 mm x 89 mm / 4"2 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP186

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Title:

Tuesday in Whitsun-Week:—Summer blooms with glorious promise

Source Text:

John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 'Tuesday in Whitsun-Week' 1811– 1862 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 368–70

Illustrator:

John Sleigh

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

109 mm x 140 mm / 4"9 x 5"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP077

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Title:

Under the greenwood tree

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'Under the Greenwood Tree' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 37

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

82 mm x 57 mm / 3"7 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA013

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Title:

Unruly cows with marked impatience stay

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

102 mm x 89 mm / 4"1 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP094

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Title:

Up to the tumultuous brook of Greenhead Ghyll

Source Text:

William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral Poem' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 326–48

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

95 mm x 106 mm / 3"24 x 4"6

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP173

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Title:

Upon his knees he sank, pale as smooth-sculptur'd stone

Source Text:

John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 89–115

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

W. T. Green

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP076

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Title:

Vanity of Learning

Source Text:

Sir John Davies, 'Vanity of Learning' 1569– 1626 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 30–32

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

114 mm x 102 mm / 4"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP008

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Title:

When icicles hang by the wall

Source Text:

William Shakespeare, 'When Icicles Hang' 1564– 1616 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 38–39

Illustrator:

John Gilbert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 76 mm / 3"24 x 3"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA014

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Title:

When looking westward I beheld a something in the sky

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Edward Henry Wehnert

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 108 mm / 3"16 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP130

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Title:

When May is in his prime

Source Text:

Thomas Watson, 'Sonnet [When May is in his prime]' 1582 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 19–20

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

76 mm x 89 mm / 3"0 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA005

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Title:

When o'er each field the flaming sunbeams play'd

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

86 mm x 95 mm / 3"12 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP096