# 1847 in poetry

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## Events

* April
** Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
** Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța" ('Little Star')
* 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
### United Kingdom

* Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) 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 Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)
* Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
* Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
* Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"
* 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"

### United States

* 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 (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
* February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
* April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet
* September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
* December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
* Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
* September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
* November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
* December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
* Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty