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Jean Ingelow

(1820 - 1897) English Poet

Songs of Seven (BB)

Washington Irving

American Novelist

A Certain Young Lady (BB)

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Helen [Maria] Hunt Jackson

[Oct.15, 1830 -- Aug. 12, 1885] American poet, novelist, essayist, and Native American rights advocate; schoolmate and lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson; after deaths of her first husband (1863) and young son (1865), she turned to writing; wrote 400 articles for New York Independent; first volume of poetry Verses published in 1870; moved from east coast to Colorado in 1875 after her second marriage and began writing novels as well as poetry; contact with Native Americans in Colorado made her a determined activist for Native American rights; in 1881, published A Century of Dishonor, a 476-page indictment of the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans, copies of which she sent to every member of Congress; her best-known novel Ramona (1884) dealt with the same subject; enormously prolific writer much of whose work has never been identified as it was published anonymously.

from Sonnets & Lyrics [1886]:
   Unto one who lies at rest "...But above them all she chose Clover-blossoms for her own..."
   A Dream
   Danger "...The winds blow where they list, and will disclose To no man which brings safety, which brings risk..."
   Freedom
   October's Bright Blue Weather
   To an Absent Lover
   Crossed Threads
   The Victory of Patience
   Refrain "...Music if sung, music if said, Subtle like some golden thread..."
   Chance "...All is drift Of time and chance, and none may stay or sift Or know the end of that which is begun..."
   September
   The Poet's Forge "...A curious sort of smith is he..."
   Morn
   Songs of Battle
   Where?
   My Tenants "...They cannot touch the bonds I hold On all that they have bought and sold..."
   New Year's Morning
   The Fir-Tree and the Brook
A Calendar of Sonnets
   January (NM)
   February
   March (NM)
   April (NM)
   May (NM)
   June (NM)
   July (NM)
   August (NM)
   September (NM)
   October (NM)
   November (NM)
   December (NM)
from Poems [1894]:
   Poppies on the Wheat (NM)
   My Bees: An Allegory (NM)
   My Strawberry (NM)
   An Arctic Quest (NM)

Richard Jago

(1715 - 1781) English Cleric

Absence (BB)

Sarah Orne Jewett

(1849 - 1909) American Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Poet; friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry James, Tennyson, Kipling, and Willa Cather

from Verses [1916]:
   At Home from Church (NM)
   A Country Boy in Winter (NM)
   The Widow's House (NM)

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

(1861 - 1913) Canadian Poet (Mohawk Indian)

from Flint and Feather [1912]:
The Corn Husker (NM)
The Indian Corn Planter (NM)

Georgia Douglas Johnson

(1880 - 1966) American poet and doyen of the Harlem Renaissance

from Bronze: A Book of Verse [1922]:
The Suppliant (BB)

James Weldon Johnson

(1871 - 1938) African-American poet, novelist, teacher, critic, historian, journalist, congressional lobbyist, U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua; a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance

from Fifty Years and Other Poems [1917]:
Lift Every Voice and Sing (NM)
O Black and Unknown Bards (NM)

Lionel [Pigot] Johnson

(1867 - 1902) English Poet and Critic

The Age of a Dream
By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (BB,SS)
Dead
Oxford
The Precept of Silence
Bagley Wood (NM)
The Dark Angel (NM)
July (NM)
The Destroyer of a Soul (BB)

Robert Underwood Johnson

(1853 - 1931) American Poet, Editor and Diplomat

To Russia New and Free (BB)

Samuel Johnson

(1709 - 1784) English Writer, Critic and Lexicographer

A Short Song of Congratulation (BB)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet (BB)

Ebenezer Jones

(1820 - 1860) English Poet

from Studies of Sensation and Event [1843]
   High Summer (NM)
   Ode to Thought by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)
   The Railroad by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)
   Eyeing the Eyes of One's Mistress by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)
   Remembrance of Feelings by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)
   Opinion's Change by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)
   Early Spring by Ebenezer Jones (Nelson)

Herbert Jones

To France (BB)

Ben Jonson

(1573 - 1637), English Playwright and Poet, the first Poet Laureate from 1619-1637

I. Poems from Published Books:

from Epigrams [1616]:
   On My First Son (NM)
   On My First Daughter (NM)
   Epitaph (NM)
   Inviting a Friend to Supper (NM)
from The Forest [1616]:
   To Celia "Drink to me, only, with thine eyes..."
   Song: To Celia
   To Penshurst (NM)
from Shakespeare First Folio [1618]
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us (BB)
from Underwoods [1640]:
   The Hourglass (NM)
   My Picture Left in Scotland (NM)
   The Noble Nature --from To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, lines 65-74
II. Songs from the Plays and Masques
from Cynthia's Revels [1600-1601]:
Hymn to Diana (Mike Oldfield uses this for the lyrics to the fourth movement of Incantations following Longfellow's Hiawatha)
Slow, slow, fresh fount (NM)
from Epicoene, or The Silent Woman [1609]:
Clerimont's Song "Still to be neat..."
from Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly [1611]:
So breaks the sun (NM)
from The Gypsies Metamorphos'd [1621]:
Gypsy Songs "The Fairy Beam Upon You" and "To the Old, Long Life and Treasure"
from The Sad Shepherd [1641]:
Karolin's Song "Though I am young and cannot tell..."

Thomas Jordan

(1612 - 1685) English Poet

Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant (BB)

James Joyce

(1882 - 1941) Irish Novelist, Poet

Chamber Music - a book of 36 poems [1907] (BB)
selections from Chamber Music:
   Strings in the earth
   In the dark pine-wood
   I hear an army

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