Title Page
± Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
The Buried Life
Consolation
Dover Beach
The Forsaken Merman
The Future
Immortality
Isolation: To Marguerite
The Last Word
Lines Written In Kensington Gardens
Memorial Verses April 1850
Morality
Palladium
Philomela
Quiet Work
Requiescat
Rugby Chapel: November 1857
The Scholar-Gipsy
Self-Dependence
Shakespeare
Thyrsis
To Marguerite
± Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Caterpillar
Life
The Rights of Woman
A Thought on Death
To Mr. Barbauld
To the Poor
± Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
The Disappointment
Song: Love Armed
A Thousand Martyrs
To the Fair Clarinda
± William Blake (1757-1827)
Ah Sunflower
And did Those Feet in Ancient Time
The Clod and the Pebble
Devine Image
England! Awake! Awake! Awake!
The Garden of Love
Introduction to "Songs of Experience"
Introduction to "Songs of Innocence"
The Sick Rose
To the Muses
The Tyger
± Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Juan's Song
Medusa
Portrait
Women
± Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The Author To Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Night When Others Soundly Slept
Contemplations
The Flesh and the Spirit
In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
The Prologue
To My Dear And Loving Husband
Verses Upon the Burning of Our House
± Bronte Sisters
A Reminiscence
On the Death of Anne Brontë
Hope
Long Neglect Has Worn Away
No Coward Soul Is Mine
The Prisoner
Remembrance
± Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
The Soldier
Sonnet: Oh! Death Will Find Me
± William Browne (1591-1643)
Gentle Nymphs, Be Not Refusing
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
A Round
Shall I Love Again
Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing
± Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Change Upon Change
The Cry of the Children
Grief
A Musical Instrument
Sonnets From the Portuguese
± Robert Browning (1812-1889)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Meeting at Night
Memorabilia
My Last Duchess
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
A Toccata of Galuppi's
Two in the Campagna
± William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
The Death of Lincoln
To a Waterfowl
± Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Bonie Doon
Green Grow the Rashes
Holy Willie’s Prayer
John Anderson My Jo
Of A' the Airts
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
A Red, Red Rose
Tam O' Shanter
To A Mouse
± George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Love and Death
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
She Walks in Beauty
So We'll Go No More A Roving
When We Two Parted
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
± Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Follow Thy Fair Sun
I Care Not for These Ladies
My Sweetest Lesbia
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Rose Cheeked Laura
There Is a Garden in Her Face
Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
When Thou Must Home
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
± Thomas Carew (1598-1639)
Ask Me No More
An Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne
Mediocrity In Love Rejected
The Spring
To My Inconstant Mistress
± Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
The White Knight's Song
You Are Old, Father William
± Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
Complaint to His Purse
From The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
From The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (Modern English)
± John Clare (1793-1864)
Autumn
The Badger
The Dying Child
First Love
I Am
I Hid My Love
Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
Meet Me in the Green Glen
The Skylark
Summer
± Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
The Latest Decalogue
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
There Is No God
± Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Aeolian Harp
Dejection: An Ode
Frost at Midnight
Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART I
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART II
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART III
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART IV
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART V
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART VI
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, PART VII
± William Collins (1721-1759)
Ode on the Poetical Character
Ode to Evening
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
± Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
Platonic Love
The Wish
± William Cowper (1731-1800)
The Castaway
Epitaph on a Hare
Light Shining out of Darkness
To Mary
± Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Black Riders and Other Lines
War Is Kind
± Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
A Hymn To the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
On The Baptized Ethiopian
± e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
All in green my love went riding
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
in just-
± Samuel Daniel (ca. 1562-1619)
From Delia
Ulysses and the Siren
± Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)
Fare Well
The Listeners
± Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
After Great Pain
As Imperceptibly As Grief
Because I Could not Stop for Death
The Bustle in a House
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
I Like To See It Lap the Miles
I Reckon
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers
There's a Certain Slant of Light
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
± John Donne (1572-1631)
The Canonization
The Ecstasy
The Funeral
The Good-Morrow
Holy Sonnets
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
Love's Alchemy
A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Relic
Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star
Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go
The Sun Rising
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction of Weeping
± Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Helen
Sea Poppies
Sea Rose
Sheltered Garden
± Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
A Last Word
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam
What Is Love?
± Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Idea
To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt
± John Dryden (1631-1700)
Absalom and Achitophel, Page 1
Absalom and Achitophel, Page 2
Absalom and Achitophel, Page 3
Absalom and Achitophel, Page 4
Absalom and Achitophel, Page 5
Mac Flecknoe
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Troilus and Cressida
± Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Little Brown Baby
A Negro Love Song
A Summer's Night
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
± Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965)
La Figlia Che Piange
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land I
The Waste Land II
The Waste Land III
The Waste Land IV
The Waste Land V
± Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Ah, Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid
The Doubt of Future Foes
On Monsieur's Departure
When I Was Young and Fair
± Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Brahma
Concord Hymn
Days
Ode
The Rhodora
The Snowstorm
± Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
Adam Posed
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia
The Introduction
A Nocturnal Reverie
On Myself
To Death
± Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1 - 10)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (11 - 20)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (21 - 30)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (31 - 40)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (41 - 50)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (51 - 60)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (61 - 70)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (71 - 80)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (81 - 90)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (91 - 101)
± John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Care-Charming Sleep
Dearest, Do Not You Delay Me
God Lyæus, Ever Young
Hence, all you vain delights
Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
± Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Indian Burying Ground
On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin
The Wild Honey Suckle
± Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Birches
The Death of the Hired Man
Mending Wall
The Oven Bird
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Wood-Pile
± George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
And If I Did, What Then?
Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
For That He Looked Not Upon Her
Gascoigne's Lullaby
± John Gay (1685-1732)
Air I -- An Old Woman Clothed in Gray, etc.
Air X -- Thomas, I Cannot, etc.
Air XI -- A Soldier and a Sailor
Air XVI -- Over the Hills and Far Away
Air XXI -- Would You Have a Young Virgin, etc.
Air XXII -- Cotillon
Air XL -- The Lass of Patie's Mill, etc.
± Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
The Deserted Village
The Traveller (excerpt)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
± Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
± Fulke Greville Brooke (1554-1628)
Chorus Sacerdotum (From "Mustapha")
The Nurse-life Wheat
You Little Stars
± Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Afterwards
Channel Firing
The Convergence of the Twain
The Darkling Thrush
During Wind and Rain
Hap
I Look Into My Glass
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
Neutral Tones
The Ruined Maid
Thoughts of Phena
Under the Waterfall
The Voice
± George Herbert (1593-1633)
The Affliction (I)
The Altar
Artillery
The Collar
Denial
Easter Wings
The Elixir
The Flower
Jordan (I)
Love
Man
Prayer (I)
The Pulley
Redemption
Sin (I)
The Temper (I)
Vanity (I)
Virtue
± Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
The Argument of His Book
Corinna's Going A-Maying
Delight in Disorder
His Prayer to Ben Jonson
The Night Piece, to Julia
An Ode for Him
To Daffodills
To His Conscience
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia's Breasts
Upon Julia's Clothes
± Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Chambered Nautilus
Contentment
The Deacon's Masterpiece
God Save the Flag
The Last Leaf
± Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Carrion Comfort
Felix Randal
God's Grandeur
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
No Worst, There Is None
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
The Windhover
± A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
From Far, from Eve and Morning
Is My Team Ploughing
Loveliest of Trees
On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble
Reveille
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
To an Athlete Dying Young
When I Watch the Living Meet
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
± Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
± Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick
The Vanity of Human Wishes
± Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
An Elegy
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
Her Triumph
A Hymn to God the Father
Inviting a Friend to Supper
An Ode to Himself
On Gut
On My First Daughter
On My First Son
On Spies
Queen, and Huntress
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Still to Be Neat
Though I am Young, and Cannot Tell
Song: To Celia
To Doctor Empiric
To Fine Lady Would-Be
To Fool, Or Knave
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
To Penshurst
To the Reader
± John Keats (1795-1821)
Bright Star
The Eve of St. Agnes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode To Psyche
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
On the Sonnet
To Autumn
To Homer
When I Have Fears
± Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
Defence of Fort Mchenry
± Henry King (1592-1669)
An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend
± Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Epitaphs of the War
Recessional
Tommy
± Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Death Stands Above Me
Dirce
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
God Scatters Beauty
Rose Aylmer
To Robert Browning
± Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
From the Flats
The Marshes of Glynn
± D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Love on the Farm
Piano
Snake
± Edward Lear (1812-1888)
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
There Was an Old Man with a Beard
There Was an Old Man in a Tree
± Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Cross of Snow
Evangeline
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Snow-Flakes
± Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
The Grasshopper
To Althea, From Prison
To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
± John Lyly (1554-1606)
Cupid and My Campaspe
Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary
± Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?
± Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Bermudas
The Coronet
The Definition of Love
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
The Fair Singer
The Gallery
The Garden
An Horatian Ode
The Mower Against Gardens
The Mower to the Glo-Worms
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
To His Coy Mistress
± John McCrae (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields
The Pilgrims
± Herman Melville (1819-1891)
The Berg
The Maldive Shark
The Portent
Shiloh, A Requiem
± George Meredith (1828-1909)
Lucifer in Starlight
Modern Love (excerpt)
± Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
The Farmer's Bride
On the Road to the Sea
The Peddler
A Quoi Bon Dire
± Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Ebb
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare
First Fig
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
Lament
Recuerdo
Second Fig
Spring
± John Milton (1608-1674)
How Soon Hath Time
I Did But Prompt the Age
Il Penseroso
L'Allegro
Lycidas
Methought I Saw
On Shakespeare
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
To the Lord General Cromwell
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
± William Morris (1834-1896)
A Death Song
The Earthly Paradise
The Eve of Crecy
A Good Knight in Prison
The Haystack in the Floods
± Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss
Spring, the Sweet Spring
± Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Futility
Insensibility
Strange Meeting
± Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Comment
One Perfect Rose
Resume
Unfortunate Coincidence
± Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Annabel Lee
The City In The Sea
A Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado
The Raven
Sonnet - To Science
To Helen
± Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
From Dunciad
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
An Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
± Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Envoi
Portrait D'une Femme
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
The Seafarer
Ts'ai Chi'h
± Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
An Ode
To a Child of Quality of Five Years Old
To a Lady
± Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)
The Lie
Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
A Vision Upon the Fairy Queen
± John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Blue Girls
Dead Boy
Piazza Piece
± Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Eros Turannos
The Mill
Miniver Cheevy
Mr. Flood's Party
Reuben Bright
Richard Cory
± Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches
Dead Man's Dump
Louse Hunting
± Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
The Convent Threshold
Echo
In an Artist's Studio
Passing Away, Saith The World
Remember
Song (When I am dead)
Up-Hill
± Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Blessed Damozel
The House of Life - A Sonnet
The House of Life - Silent Noon
The House of Life - A Superscription
Sudden Light
The Woodspurge
± Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Chicago
Fog
Grass
± Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Dreamers
Everyone Sang
The General
Glory of Women
"They"
± William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Fear No More
Full Fathom Five
Oh Mistress Mine
The Phoenix And The Turtle
Sonnets
Under the Greenwood Tree
When Daisies Pied
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
± Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Anodais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
The Cloud
England In 1819
From Hellas
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Mutability
Ode to the West Wind
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
To a Skylark
To Wordsworth
± Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Astrophel and Stella
Ring Out Your Bells
Ye Goatherd Gods
± John Skelton (1460-1529)
Colin Clout
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
± Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Jubilate Agno
A Song to David
± Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
The Gossamer
He May Be Envied, Who With Tranquil Breast
Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
± Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
The Burning Babe
New Heaven, New War
± Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
From Amoretti
± Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Anecdote of the Jar
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Peter Quince at the Clavier
The Snow Man
Sunday Morning
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
± Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
A Ballad upon a Wedding
Out Upon It!
Song: Why So Pale
Sonnet II
Upon My Lady Carlisle's Walking in Hampton Court Garden
± Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Description of a City Shower
A Description of the Morning
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Stella's Birthday - March 13, 1727
± Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Chorus From Atalanta in Calydon
A Forsaken Garden
The Garden of Proserpine
± Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Break, Break, Break
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Crossing the Bar
The Eagle
In Memoriam A. H. H.
The Kraken
The Lady Of Shalott
Mariana
The Princess
Ulysses
± Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Adlestrop
As the Team's Head-Brass
The Owl
Rain
± Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
Regeneration
The Retreat
They Are All Gone into the World of Light
The Waterfall
± Edmund Waller (1607-1687)
Go, Lovely Rose
Of the Last Verses in the Book
On a Girdle
± Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
The Day of Judgment
Our God, Our Help
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy
± Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To S. M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
± Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Beat! Beat! Drums!
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
Cavalry Crossing A Ford
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
The Dalliance of the Eagles
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
A Noiseless Patient Spider
On the Beach at Night
Reconciliation
Song of Myself
To a Locomotive In Winter
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
The World below the Brine
± John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Abraham Davenport
Telling the Bees
± William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Danse Russe
Queen Anne's Lace
The Red Wheelbarrow
± John Wilmot (1647-1680)
The Disabled Debauchee
Love and Life
A Satire against Reason and Mankind
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
± William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
It Is a Beauteous Evening
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
London, 1802
Resolution and Independence
Scorn Not the Sonnet
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
She Was a Phantom of Delight
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Three Years She Grew
The World Is Too Much With Us
± Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Forget Not Yet
Is It Possible
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
Madam, Withouten Many Words
My Galley
My Lute Awake
They Flee From Me
What Should I Say
Whoso List to Hunt
± William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Adam's Curse
Among School Children
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Words for Music Perhaps VI.
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
Lapis Lazuli (For Harry Clifton)
Leda and the Swan
Long-Legged Fly
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
A Prayer for My Daughter
Sailing to Byzantium
The Scholars
The Second Coming
The Stolen Child
That the Night Come
To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
Under Ben Bulben
When You Are Old
The Wild Swans at Coole
