Sus principales escritos son, en poesía, "Poems" (1853), que contiene "Sohrab and Rustum," y "The Scholar Gypsy;" "Poems", segunda serie (1855), que contiene "Balder Dead;" "Merope" (1858); "New Poems" (1867), que contiene "Thyrsis," una elegía a Arthur Hugh Clough, "A Southern Night," "Rugby Chapel," y "The Weary Titan".