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'Forward, the Light Brigade!'

Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew

Some one had blunder'd:

Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

— From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this year

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published in English

United Kingdom

Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
  Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
  Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
  All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
  Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
  All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
  Noble six hundred!

• William Allingham, Day and Night Songs
• W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T. Percy Jones", Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz, subtitle: "A Spasmodic tragedy"
• Thomas De Quincey, Selections Grave and Gay, including biographical essays (originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840) on some of the Lake Poets (see also Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets 1860, in which all of the Recollections essays were published)
• Eliza Craven Green, "Ellan Vannin" (later set to music)
• John Keats, The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes; posthumously published
• Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", Part I, also known as The Betrothal (see also The Espousals 1856, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published in The Examiner on Dec. 9

United States

• Benjamin Paul Blood, The Bride of the Iconoclast
• William Cullen Bryant, Poems
• Phoebe Cary, Poems and Parodies
• William J. Grayson, The Hireling and the Slave
• William H. C. Hosmer, Poetical Works
• Julia Ward Howe, Passion Flowers

Works published in other languages

France

• Louise Colet:
  • Ce qu'on rêve en aimant
  • L'Acropole d'Athènes
• Gérard de Nerval, Les Chimères, poems appended to the author's book of short stories, Les Filles du feu
• Tiouttchev, Poésies

Other

• Heinrich Heine, Gedichte. 1853 und 1854 ("Poems. 1853 and 1854"), German poet and author living in France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 13 – William Henry Drummond, Canadian
• September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (died 1885), Canadian
• October 16 – Oscar Wilde, English
• October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud, French

• Also:
  • Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 3 – John Wilson (born 1785), Scots
• April 16 – Julia Nyberg (born 1784), Swedish poet and songwriter
• April 24 – Gabriele Rossetti (born 1783), English
• April 30 – James Montgomery (born 1771), Scots
• December 9 – Almeida Garrett (born 1799), Portuguese

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
4. Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
5. "A Chronology of Indian Events", "1918", pp 528–535 Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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