Classical Realism

 

Realism, Realist movement in poetry. This section is reserved for classical realism, and not socialist realism or avant-garde naturalism  Here are poems written largely in the so-called “realist” style by diverse and unrelated authors representing different, often dissimilar cultural traditions.

• Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Lost poem – Alfred Austin
• Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
• Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
• Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
• Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
• Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
• In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
• In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
• Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
• If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
• I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
• Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
• Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
• Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Lost poem – Alfred Austin
• Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
• Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
• Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
• Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
• Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
• In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
• In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
• Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
• If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
• I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
• Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
• Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
• Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
• Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
• The Golden Age poem – Alfred Austin
• “The flower, full blown, now bends the stalk, now breaks” poem – Alfred Austin
• The Fallen Elm poem – Alfred Austin
• The Evening Light poem – Alfred Austin
• The Dregs Of Love poem – Alfred Austin
• The Door Of Humility poem – Alfred Austin
• The Death Of Huss poem – Alfred Austin
• The Dance At Darmstadt poem – Alfred Austin
• The Challenge Answered poem – Alfred Austin
• The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
• “Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise” poem – Alfred Austin
• Sweet Love Is Dead poem – Alfred Austin
• Sorrow’s Importunity poem – Alfred Austin
• Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
• Songs From “Prince Lucifer” II – Mother-Song poem – Alfred Austin
• Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
• Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks” poem – Alfred Austin
• Shelley’s Death poem – Alfred Austin
• Shelley’s Death poem – Alfred Austin
• “Sadder than lark when lowering” poem – Alfred Austin
• Sacred And Profane Love poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Roses crimson, roses white” poem – Alfred Austin
• On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
• Resignation poem – Alfred Austin
• Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
• Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
• Polyphemus poem – Alfred Austin
• Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
• Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
• Pax Britannica poem – Alfred Austin
• Outside The Village Church poem – Alfred Austin
• On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
• Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
• Nocturnal Vigils poem – Alfred Austin
• Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
• Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
• My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
• Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
• Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
• Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
• Madonna poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
• Wordsworth At Dove Cottage poem – Alfred Austin
• Winter Violets poem – Alfred Austin
• The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
• “Why should I, from this long and losing strife ” poem – Alfred Austin
• Why England Is Conservative poem – Alfred Austin
• Who Would Not Die For England! poem – Alfred Austin
• “When the reaper lays the sickle by ” poem – Alfred Austin
• When Runnels Began To Leap And Sing poem – Alfred Austin
• ” When in the long–drawn avenues of Thought” poem – Alfred Austin
• “What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far” poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
• Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
• Wardens Of The Wave poem – Alfred Austin
• To The Autumn Wind poem – Alfred Austin
• To Robert Louis Stevenson poem – Alfred Austin
• To Ireland poem – Alfred Austin
• To England poem – Alfred Austin
• To Ellen Terry poem – Alfred Austin
• To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
• To Arms! poem – Alfred Austin
• To Arms! (II) poem – Alfred Austin
• To Alfred Tennyson poem – Alfred Austin
• “‘Tis because, though in dusky bower” poem – Alfred Austin
• Time’s Weariness poem – Alfred Austin
• Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
• Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin
• Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
• Though All The World poem – Alfred Austin
• The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
• The White Pall Of Peace poem – Alfred Austin
• The Spring-Time, O The Spring–Time poem – Alfred Austin
• “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin
• The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin
• The Season poem – Alfred Austin
• The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin
• The Poet And The Muse poem – Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
• The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin
• The Owl And The Lark poem – Alfred Austin
• The Old Land And The Young Land poem – Alfred Austin
• The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
• The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin
• “The lark confinèd in his cage” poem – Alfred Austin
• The Human Tragedy ACT IV poem – Alfred Austin
• The Human Tragedy ACT III poem – Alfred Austin
• The Human Tragedy ACT II poem – Alfred Austin
• The Human Tragedy ACT I poem – Alfred Austin
• The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
• Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
• Nocturnal Vigils poem – Alfred Austin
• Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
• Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
• My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
• “My soul is sunk in all–suffusing shame” poem – Alfred Austin
• “My northern blood exults to face” poem – Alfred Austin
• Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
• Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
• Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
• Madonna poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
• Lost poem – Alfred Austin
• “Look up, desponding hearts! See, Morning sallies” poem – Alfred Austin
• Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
• Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
• Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
• Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
• Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
• In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
• In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
• In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
• Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
• “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
• If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
• I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
• Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
• “Here, where the vine and fig bask hand in hand,” poem – Alfred Austin
• “Here have I learnt the little that I know” poem – Alfred Austin
• Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
• Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
• “Give me October’s meditative haze” poem – Alfred Austin
• “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
• “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Father, farewell! Be not distressed” poem – Alfred Austin
• Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
• Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
• Dedication To The Edition Of 1876 To H.J.A. poem – Alfred Austin
• Dedication To Lady Windsor poem – Alfred Austin
• “`Covet who will the patronage of Kings ” poem – Alfred Austin
• “Could I but leave men wiser by my song ” poem – Alfred Austin
• Content Written Off Ithica poem – Alfred Austin
• Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
• By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
• Burns’s Statue At Irvine poem – Alfred Austin
• “Beyond the pasture’s withered bents ” poem – Alfred Austin
• Before, Behind, And Beyond poem – Alfred Austin
• “Because I failed, shall I asperse the End” poem – Alfred Austin
• At Vaucluse poem – Alfred Austin
• At The Lattice poem – Alfred Austin
• At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
• At Shelley’s House At Lerici poem – Alfred Austin
• At Shelley’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• At San Giovanni Del Lago poem – Alfred Austin
• A Woman’s Apology poem – Alfred Austin
• A Wintry Picture poem – Alfred Austin
• A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
• A Wild Rose poem – Alfred Austin
• A Voice From The West poem – Alfred Austin
• A Twilight Song poem – Alfred Austin
• A Tusculan Question poem – Alfred Austin
• The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
• Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
• At Her Grave poem – Alfred Austin
• At Delphi poem – Alfred Austin
• As Dies The Year poem – Alfred Austin
• Any Poet At Any Time poem – Alfred Austin
• An Experiment In Translation poem – Alfred Austin
• An Autumn Picture poem – Alfred Austin
• An Autumn Homily poem – Alfred Austin
• An Autumn-Blooming Rose poem – Alfred Austin
• An April Love poem – Alfred Austin
• An April Fool poem – Alfred Austin
• An Answer poem – Alfred Austin
• “Although no stupid scoffer, I” poem – Alfred Austin
• All Hail To The Czar! poem – Alfred Austin
• Alfred’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
• A Te Deum poem – Alfred Austin
• A Tale Of True Love poem – Alfred Austin
• A Spring Carol poem – Alfred Austin
• A Souless Singer poem – Alfred Austin
• A Snow-White Lily poem – Alfred Austin
• A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
• A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
• A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
• A Reply To A Pessimist poem – Alfred Austin
• A Rare Guest poem – Alfred Austin
• A Question poem – Alfred Austin
• A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
• A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
• A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
• A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
• A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
• A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
• A Meeting poem – Alfred Austin
• A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
• A Letter From Italy poem – Alfred Austin
• A Last Request poem – Alfred Austin
• A Fragment poem – Alfred Austin
• A Florilegium poem – Alfred Austin
• A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
• A Farewell To Youth poem – Alfred Austin
• A Dream Of England poem – Alfred Austin
• A Dialogue At Fiesole poem – Alfred Austin
• A Defence Of English Spring poem – Alfred Austin
• A Country Nosegay poem – Alfred Austin
• A Christmas Carol poem – Alfred Austin
• A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
• A Border Burn poem – Alfred Austin
• A Birthday Present poem – Alfred Austin
• You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
• White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
• When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
• When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
• When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
• When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
• When I Watch the Living Meet poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• When I Watch the Living Meet poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
• When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
• Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
• Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
• Wake Not for the World-Heard Thunder poem – A. E. Housman
• Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman
• Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman
• Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
• Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
• There Pass the Careless People poem – A. E. Housman
• There Pass the Careless People poem – A. E. Housman
• The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
• The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
• The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman
• The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman
• The True Lover poem – A. E. Housman
• The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread poem – A. E. Housman
• The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
• The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
• The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
• The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
• The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
• The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
• The Merry Guide poem – A. E. Housman
• The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
• The Laws of God, The Laws of Man poem – A. E. Housman
• The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
• The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
• The Isle Of Portland poem – A. E. Housman
• The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
• The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
• The Grizzly Bear poem – A. E. Housman
• The Fairies Break Their Dances poem – A. E. Housman