1862 in poetry

-- first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Illustration from the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems , by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Emily Dickinson 's "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –," entitled "The Sleeping," as published in the Springfield Republican this year, one of the few of her poems published in her lifetime