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Jean Ingelow . {13} . [Wiki] . [Portrait]

(1820 - 1897) English Poet, Novelist, Children's Author, and friend of Alfred Tennyson

Songs of Seven (BB)
Song of the Going Away
Song of Margaret
Apprenticed from Songs of the Night Watches
A Sea Song
Afterthought from Afternoon at a Parsonage
Duet from Preludes to a Penny Reading
Loss and Waste
On a Picture

Washington Irving . {2} . [Wiki] . [Portrait 1] . [Portrait 2]

(1783 - 1859) American Novelist, Biographer, Historian and Diplomat; U.S. Minister to Spain; first American author to gain noteriety in Europe; best known for his stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

A Certain Young Lady (BB)
The Falls of the Passaic [1837]

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Helen [Maria] Hunt Jackson . {34} . [Wiki]

(1830 - 1885) American poet, novelist, essayist, and Native American rights advocate; schoolmate and lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson

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)

Violet [Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine] Jacob . {19} . [Wiki]

(1863 - 1946) Scottish Poet, Author and historian; wrote poems in English and Scots; lived most of her adult life in India; friend of Hugh Macdiarmid

from Verses [1905]:
- Half-Way
- At a Brookside
- To Aurelia, with a Pearl Necklace
- The Lowland Ploughman
from Songs of Angus [1915]:
- The Wild Geese (in Scots)
- Craigo Woods (in Scots)
- The Jacobite Lass (in Scots)
from More Songs of Angus [1918]:
- Unity
- "The Happy Warrior"
- Armed
- Frostbound
- Presage
- Fringford Brook
- Back to the Land
- The Kirk Beside the Sands (in Scots)
from Bonnie Joann and Other Poems [1921]:
- Bonnie Joann (in Scots)
- Hallowe'en (in Scots)
- Inverquharity (in Scots)
- The Shadows

Richard Jago . {3} . [Wiki]

(1715 - 1781) English Poet and Cleric

[Theodora] Sarah Orne Jewett . {7} . [Wiki]

(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 [1882] (NM)
- The Widow's House (NM)
- At Waking
- Missing
- A Sonnet on Meeting Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Two Musicians

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) . {2}

(1861 - 1913) Canadian Poet (Mohawk Indian)

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

Georgia Douglas Johnson . {1}

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

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

James Weldon Johnson . {19}

(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]:
- The Word of an Engineer
- The White Witch
- I Hear the Stars Still Singing
- The Young Warrior
- Fifty Years
- To America
- O Southland!
- Father, Father Abraham
- Mother Night
- Sonnet
- Before a Painting
- The Dancing Girl
- Sunset in the Tropics
- Ghosts of the Old Year
- The Gift to Sing
- Morning, Noon and Night
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (NM)
- O Black and Unknown Bards (NM)

Lionel [Pigot] Johnson . {9}

(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 . {1}

(1853 - 1931) American Poet, Editor and Diplomat

To Russia New and Free (BB)

Samuel Johnson . {2}

(1709 - 1784) English Writer, Critic and Lexicographer

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

Ebenezer Jones . {7}

(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 . {1}

To France (BB)

Ben Jonson . {17}

(1573 - 1637), English Playwright and Poet, the first Poet Laureate of England - 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)
- To Lucy Countess of Bedford
- Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.
- On Salathiel Pavy
from The Forest [1616]:
- To Celia "Drink to me, only, with thine eyes..."
- Song: To Celia
- To Penshurst (NM)
- A Farewell to the World
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
- An Ode to Himself
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..."
from The Poetaster:
- His Supposed Mistress "If I freely may discover..."

Thomas Jordan . {1}

(1612 - 1685) English Poet

Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant (BB)

James Joyce . {36}

(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

I. Poems from Published Books:

II. Songs from the Plays and Masques