1847 in poetry

Events

• April - Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
• Between July and October - Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
• September 16 - William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum

  Works published in English

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• Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged to 30 books
• Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruickshank and John Leech
• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
• Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
• Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
• Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
• Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

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• William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
• Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
• Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
• William Wetmore Story, Poems

  Works published in other languages

• Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics
• Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath, Serbian epic verse drama

  Births

• February 10 - Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
• April 7 - Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish poet
• September 22 -- Alice Meynell, née Thompson, English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
• December 1 - Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan", American poet, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
• Date not known - Brij Raj, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet

  Deaths

• July 21 - William Shepherd, English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
• September 10 - Richard Henry Wilde, Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
• November 20 - Henry Francis Lyte, Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
• December 30 - Sima Milutinović Sarajlija, Bosnian-Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
• Date not known - Liang Desheng, Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty