Author:William Watson (1858-1935)

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William Watson
(1858–1935)

William Watson

Works

Collections

• The Prince's Quest and Other Poems (1880)
• Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature (1884)
• Wordsworth’s Grave and Other Poems (1890)
• Poems (1892)
• Lachrymae Musarum (1892)
• Lyric Love: An Anthology (1892)
• Eloping Angels: A Caprice (1893)
• The Poems of William Watson (1893)
• Excursions in Criticism: Being Some Prose Recreations Of A Rhymer (1893)
• Odes and Other Poems (1894)
• The Father of the Forest & Other Poems (1895)
• The Purple East, a series of sonnets on England's desertion of Armenia (1896) (external scan)
• The Year of Shame (1897)
• The Hope of the World and Other Poems (1898)
• The Collected Poems of William Watson (1899)
• Selected Poems (1903)
• For England. Poems Written During Estrangement (1904)
• New Poems (1909)
• Sable and Purple (1910)
• The Heralds of the Dawn: A Play in Eight Scenes (1912)
• The Muse in Exile (1913)
• Pencraft. A Plea For The Older Ways (1916)
• The Man Who Saw: and Other Poems Arising out of the War (1917)
• Retrogression and Other Poems (1917)
• The Superhuman Antagonists and Other Poems (1919)

Individual poems

• "The Frontier" in The Yellow Book, 1 (1894), p. 113
• "Night on Curbar Edge" in The Yellow Book, 1 (1894), p. 113
• "Epigram" in The Yellow Book, 2 (1894), p. 289
• ""Tell me not Now"" in The Yellow Book, 3 (1894), pp. 19–20
• "Hymn to the Sea" in The Yellow Book, 5 (1895), pp. 11–19
• "Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII" [1901] (publ. 1902)
• "Great and Fair Is She, Our Land", in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920)
• Duty, intro poem from Poems of the Great War (1914)
• "To the Troubler of the World", in Poems of the Great War (1914)
• "The Battle of the Bight" from A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)
• "April", in The Year's at the Spring (1920), illustrated by Harry Clarke

Works about Watson

• "Watson, William, LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)