Fifty Shades of London

This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places. Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city. 1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 3 - London by Joanna Baillie 4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 12 - London by William Blake 13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 16 - London in July by Amy Levy 17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 19 - London I by Julian Bell 20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H. Lawrence 42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson