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Title:

The Way to the Chapter House

Source Text:

Isaac Williams, 'The Way to the Chapter House. Sacred Retirement' 1838 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 297–99

Illustrator:

William Paton Burton

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

114 mm x 140 mm / 4"16 x 5"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP066

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Title:

The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 63 mm / 3"16 x 2"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP149

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Title:

The Weakest Thing:—The cloud, a little wind can move/ Where'er it listeth

Source Text:

Elizabeth Barrett, afterwards Browning, 'The Weakest Thing' 1838 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 332–33

Illustrator:

William Paton Burton

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 51 mm / 4"1 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP074

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Title:

The wenches with their wassail bowls

Source Text:

George Wither, 'Christmas' 1588– 1667 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 71–75

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

William James Palmer

Size:

89 mm x 95 mm / 3"16 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA027

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Title:

The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

William Frederick Measom

Size:

106 mm x 80 mm / 4"6 x 3"5

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP150

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Title:

The wrathful winter

Source Text:

Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, 'Winter. From the Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates' 1536– 1608 in The Poets of the Elizabethan Age (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 31–32

Illustrator:

Edmund Morison Wimperis

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 51 mm / 3"24 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

PEA009

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Title:

Then comes Thy glory in the Summer months

Source Text:

James Thomson, 'A Hymn to the Seasons' 1730 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 1–7

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

95 mm x 119 mm / 3"24 x 4"22

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP002

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Title:

Then welcome, cold; welcome, ye snowy nights

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:

87 mm x 85 mm / 3"14 x 3"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP104

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Title:

There shall the flocks on thymy pasture stray

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Harrison William Weir

Engraver:

John Greenaway

Size:

89 mm x 127 mm / 3"16 x 5"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP157

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Title:

There the long billet, forced at last to bend

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

George Elgar Hicks

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

89 mm x 114 mm / 3"16 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP106

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Title:

There, warm with toil, his panting horses browse

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:

Edmund Evans

Size:

106 mm x 93 mm / 4"6 x 3"21

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP083

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Title:

These far-departing, seek a kinder shore

Source Text:

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

Illustrator:

Charles Stonhouse

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

77 mm x 51 mm / 3"1 x 2"0

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP026

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Title:

These lovers fled away into the storm

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:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

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

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP080

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Title:

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

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:

FEP013

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Title:

Those evening bells! those evening bells!

Source Text:

Thomas Moore, 'Those Evening Bells' 1779– 1852 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 324–25

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

105 mm x 93 mm / 4"4 x 3"21

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP172

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Title:

Thou Art, O God:—When Day, with farewell beam

Source Text:

Thomas Moore, 'Thou Art, O God' 1779– 1852 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 243–44

Illustrator:

Samuel Read

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

102 mm x 125 mm / 4"1 x 4"29

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP055

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Title:

Though the tempest top-gallant masts smack smooth should smite

Source Text:

Charles Dibdin, 'Poor Jack' 1788 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 86–88

Illustrator:

Edward Duncan

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

85 mm x 95 mm / 3"11 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP062

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Title:

Though you'll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face

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:

70 mm x 95 mm / 2"24 x 3"24

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP188

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Title:

Till noon we quietly sailed on

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 Duncan

Engraver:

Horace Harral

Size:

95 mm x 111 mm / 3"24 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP137

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Title:

Time and the Year

Source Text:

Thomas Tusser, 'Time and the Year' 1580 in English Sacred Poetry (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Routledge & Co., 1862), 1–2

Illustrator:

John Dawson Watson

Engraver:

Dalziel Brothers

Size:

113 mm x 139 mm / 4"14 x 5"15

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

ESP002