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Readers who love short poems about love, memory, lullabies and the sea will find a home here, as will anyone who likes to read verse aloud and enjoys a good refrain.
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Picture a thrush that sings all through June among the lime trees, hidden in the leaves, while a poet below wonders if the bird is teaching him a lesson. That small scene sits in My Thrush, one of about a hundred short poems in Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature. The book opens with a phrase from Tennyson that names them short swallow-flights of song.
Edmund H. Garrett gathered the collection, and it brings together Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, Thomas Hood, Charles Dickens and many lesser-known poets. Most pieces were made to be sung or heard. You get love, grief, home, the sea and the changing English year, one idea at a time, with the poems that carry each one.
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- 1A song can be short and still lastFree
- 2Memory sweetens and wounds at once
- 3Courtship happens in lanes, meadows and dances
- 4Lullabies and serenades speak to sleepers
- 5The sea takes people and gives longing
- 6The English year measures how love ages
- 7Good company can answer the cold
- 8Refrains and repeated sounds make these songs sing
Idea clave 1 de 8
A song can be short and still last
The collection begins by telling the listener how to take what follows. Its epigraphs come from Tennyson, Barry Cornwall and Edmund Gosse, and together they set a modest aim. The poems do not build a grand argument. They want to be like a flower, which blooms fast, or like an air, which fades before the ear can hold it.
That aim shapes every page. Most poems run to a few short verses, and many bring back a refrain at the end of each one. A reader can pass from a lullaby to a ship song to a drinking song in a few minutes. The mood changes with every title, and that variety is part of the pleasure.
Many pieces tell you what they were for. One was written to a husband at sea, and its author set it to music herself. Others name the composer who set them. Song was a daily habit in this world, and the book keeps that habit in view.
Listen for the feeling in each small piece, then let it go and meet the next, like beads on a string. Brief songs can carry real feeling.
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Questions about Canciones victorianas: letras de los afectos y la naturaleza
What is Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature about?
It is an anthology of about a hundred short poems from the Victorian age. They cover love, grief, memory, lullabies, the sea, the seasons and the English countryside, with a few party songs and comic pieces among them.
Which poets are in Victorian Songs?
The book includes Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Thomas Hood, Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens and Thackeray. It also gives space to lesser-known writers such as Jean Ingelow, Mortimer Collins, Lady Dufferin and Austin Dobson.
Which poems in the collection are most widely read today?
Tennyson's Break, Break, Break, Tears, Idle Tears and The Bugle Song, Christina Rossetti's song that begins when I am dead, Hood's I Remember, I Remember and Kingsley's The Sands of Dee are among the pieces readers often seek out.
Is Victorian Songs easy to read?
Its poems are short, so you can read one in a minute and stop or go on. The language is plain, the images come from gardens, seas and firesides, and refrains make each song easy to follow by ear.
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Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/victorian-songs-lyrics-of-the-affections-and-nature.
Victorian songs: Lyrics of the affections and nature. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/victorian-songs-lyrics-of-the-affections-and-nature
Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/victorian-songs-lyrics-of-the-affections-and-nature.
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