Acknowledgements Figures Abbreviations Note on the Texts Introduction: Dickens as Poet From the Autograph Albums of Maria and Anne Beadnell O'Thello (1833-1834) From the Autograph Album of Ellen Beard: A Fable. (Not a gay one) (c. 20 September - 31 December 1834) From the Autograph Album of Anna Maria Carter Hall: Now if I Don't Make the Completest Mistake* (c. mid-1830s) The Strange Gentleman (1836) The Village Coquettes (1836) From the Autograph Album of Georgina Ross: The Ivy Green (c. 1836) Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) Epitaph of Mary Hogarth* (May 1837) Oh Mr. Hick* (26 July 1837) Song of the Month, No. VIII (1 August 1837) Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular! (1837) The Lamplighter (1838) Epistolary Lines to Mr. Groves of the Needles (September 1838) From the Autograph Album of Priscilla Horton: To Ariel (26 October 1838) You're Wery Funny so You Air (9 April 1839) My Foot is in the House (2 June 1840) The Fine Old English Gentleman (7 August 1841) The Quack Doctor's Proclamation (14 August 1841) Subjects for Painters (21 August 1841) Epitaph of Katherine Thomson* (26 November 1841) Epitaph of Charles Irving Thornton* (4 April 1842) Love Song (29 April 1842) Prologue to The Patrician's Daughter* (12 December 1842) From Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44): A Song on the Departure of the Pecksniff Ladies* (May 1843) From the Autograph Album of Christiana Weller: Graceful Impromptu (March 1844) A Word in Season (1844) The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (December 1844) Prologue to The Elder Brother* (28 December 1845) The British Lion (24 January 1846) The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers (14 February 1846) Charade (3 June 1847) From Dombey and Son (1846-48) But Had You Seen Him* (13 January 1849) New Song (25 June 1849) Elegy (3 December 1849) Cheer for the Year* (31 December 1850) Stay Yet Again* (January 1851), produced to supplement a production of Elizabeth Inchbald's Animal Magnetism (c.
1789) Epitaph of Dick (1851) Songs Incidental to the Character of "Tom Thumb," as Represented by Mr H (6 January 1854) When the Praise Thou Meetest* (16 January 1854) Bob Tarter's Parody* (18 February 1854) Hidden Light (26 August 1854) The Response (c. 1854) The Lighthouse (May 1855) 'Whom the Rheumatiz, not Gout'* (12 May 1855) The Frozen Deep (1856) Olympia Jones* (20 October 1856) From Little Dorrit (1855-57) From an Unknown Autograph Album: My Uncle Toby Swore an Oath (14 April 1857) The Blacksmith (30 April 1859) From Great Expectations (1861) Epitaph of Mr. Arthur Smith* (9 October 1861) Epitaph of Walter Landor Dickens* (February 1864) 'Romance. From the Pen of Lieutenant-Colonel Robin Redforth', No. 3 of Holiday Romance, Our Young Folks (March 1868) From The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) Appendix A: Poems Attributed to Charles Dickens Appendix B: Poems Potentially Authored by Charles Dickens: Appendix C: Poems Incorrectly Attributed to Charles Dickens: References.