Poems by Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829 - 1925)
- Bourg-la-Reine
- Carisbrooke Chimes
- Chiavenna on a September Evening
- Hastings in April
- Home to England
- Kenilworth
- King Arthur
- Liverpool
- London From Hampstead Heath
- London Streets
- Marly-le-Roi
- Robin Hood
- Rome
- St John Lateran
- St Laurence Undercliff
- Stoneleigh
- The Alps, Thusis
- The Appian Way
- The Coelian Hill
- The Fate of Sir John Franklin
- The Highlands
- The Lateran Cloisters
- The Mersey and the Irwell
- The Moors
- The Old Chateau
- The Plains of Lombardy
- The Teaching of Cornelius
- To Birmingham
- Under the Olives
- Up the River
Bessie Rayner Parkes was born in Birmingham. She was a campaigner for women's rights and set up the English Woman's Journal, while working as a respected poet and essayist. She counted many leading artistic and literary figures amongst her friends and she was the mother of Hilaire Belloc. She lived for many years, and died in Arundel in West Sussex.
