Poem Names

25 Poem names that mean poem for girls, listing Poem baby names 1-20. Annabel, Armida, Belinda, Blythe, Carissa, Charis, Claribel, Clarinda, Corinna, Elvira, Erin, Evangeline, Leonora and Malvina are popular names. Alcina, Christabel, Emer, Haidee, Medora and Nokomis are uncommon names. View Poem baby names for name meanings, search Poem names for boys, or search other baby names.

Alcina ... Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto used the name Alcina for a mistress of alluring enchantments and sensual pleasures in the 16th century Orlando poems. [10]

Annabel ... in the poem of the same name ... [8]

Armida ... First used in the 16th century by Italian poet Torquato Tasso for a character in an epic poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" ... [1]

Belinda ... It was used by Sir John Vanbrugh for a character in his comedy "The Provok'd Wife" (1697) and by Alexander Pope for the society beauty in his poem "The Rape of the Lock" (1712) ... [12]

Blythe ... Made famous by the opening lines of Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" ... [1]

Carissa ... Used by Edmund Spencer in his epic 1590 poem "The Faerie Queene". [10]

Charis ... From "kharis". The form Charissa was first used by Spenser for a character in his poem "The Faerie Queene" (16th century) ... [27]

Christabel ... as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1816 poem of the same name ... [13]

Claribel ... a name used by Edmund Spenser in his poem "The Faerie Queene" (in the form Claribell) ... Alfred Lord Tennyson also wrote a poem named "Claribel" (1830). [1]

Clarinda ... Poet Robert Burns (18th century) also used the name Clarinda in his poems. [1]

Corinna ... such as Robert Herricks in his poem "Corinna's going a-Maying" (1648) ... [41]

Elvira ... Spanish name. Elvira is a character in some of the operas and poems on Don Juan. [10]

Emer ... the form Emihir is used by Sorley MacLean in the "Poems to Emihir".

Erin ... Poetic name for the island used in songs and poems. [23]

Evangeline ... title of a 1848 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [12]

Haidee ... Byron used the name Haidée in his poem "Don Juan". [4]

Leonora ... Lenore was the lady lost forever in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" ... [11]

Malvina ... Literary name coined by James Macpherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossianic poems ... Macpherson claimed that these poems were translations of ancient texts ... [10]

Medora ... Medora is a romantic heroine in Lord Byron's narrative poem "The Corsair".

Nokomis ... From Longfellow's famous poem "The song of Hiawatha".

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