Fugitive Verses presents transcribed, lightly-encoded editions of poems widely reprinted in nineteenth-century US, UK, and Australian newspapers as discovered through the Viral Texts Project at Northeastern University. For more information about the selection, transcription, or other aspects of these poems see the edition about page, or view the full reprint clusters in this growing table.
The Poems:
- Beautiful Snow
- Excelsior
- The Children
- The Golden Side
- Tired Mothers
- A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question
- The Inquiry
- Grammar
- A Fragment Found in a Skeleton Case
- Mortality
- A Literary Curiosity
- Over the River
- The Union
- Be Careful What You Say
- If I Should Die To-night
- What I Live For
- Advantage of Taking a Newspaper
- Beautiful Things
- The Footsteps of Decay
- God
- In School Days
- Night
- Building on the Sand
- One by One
- Rest
- Rock Me to Sleep
- The Young Widow