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Abse, Dannie
Peachstone

Amis, Kingsley
Something Nasty in the Bookshop
Wasted

Ammons, A R
Mission

Amoore, Susannah
Dawn in West Hampstead
Trees

Anderson, Ian
Life’s a Long Song

Angelou, Maya
Remembering
This Winter Day
To a Man

Anon
Adam lay ibounden
The Corpus Christi Carol
Grendel Strikes
The Lyke-Wake Dirge
On Francis Drake
She Moved Through the Fair
From “Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt”
From “Sir Patrick Spens”
From “The Song of Solomon”
The Twa Corbies
The Unquiet Grave
Wade in the Water
Westron Wynde

Arnold, Matthew
Dover Beach

Auden, WH
Domesday Song
If I Could Tell You
Musée des Beaux Arts
O What Is That Sound?

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Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth
Sonnet (When our two souls stand up)

Beer, Patricia
The Conjuror
The Letter
The Postilion has been Struck by Lightning

Beresford, Anne
For a Friend Abroad

Betjeman, John
Business Girls
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk

Laurence Binyon
From “The Burning of the Leaves”

Blake, William
The Clod and the Pebble
The Garden of Love
Infant Joy
Infant Sorrow
London
Nurse’s Song
A Poison Tree
The Sick Rose
The Tyger

Blunden, Edmund
The Shadow

Brecht, Bertolt
Pirate Jenny

Brontë, Emily
The night is darkening round me

Brooke, Rupert
The One before the Last
Song (The way of love was thus)

Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Bean Eaters
kitchenette building
the sonnet-ballad
We Real Cool

Browning, Robert
Memorabilia

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Carroll, Lewis
From “The Hunting of the Snark”

Catullus
Odorous: To Rufus

Causley, Charles
Eden Rock
I am the Song

Cavafy, CP
An Old Man

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
Madame, for your newefangelnesse

Chingonyi, Kayo
For those orphaned late in life
Kung’anda

Clarke, Austin
Penal Law

Cohen, Leonard
Deprived
Everybody Knows
Undertow

Collins, Billy
Budapest
Sonnet

Cornford, Frances
To a Fat Lady seen from the Train

Stephen Crane
In the desert

cummings, e.e.
mr youse needn’t be so spry
since feeling is first

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Davies, John of Hereford
If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream

Denny, Sandy
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

de Vere, Edward, Earl of Oxford
Weare I a Kinge

Dickinson, Emily
I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Donne, John
The Apparition
Breake of Day
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
A Hymne to God the Father
A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
Song (Sweetest love, I do not goe)
Twicknam Garden
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Womans Constancy

Drake, Nick
Through the Red Light

Drayton, Michael
Since There’s No Help

Duffy, Carol Ann
Scarecrow

Dunn, Douglas
Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards
Old Things

Dylan, Bob
All Along the Watchtower

Dyment, Clifford
Prayer

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Eliot, TS
Journey of the Magi
Morning at the Window
From “The Naming of Cats”
Prelude (The winter evening settles down)
Prelude (His soul stretched tight across the skies)

Enright, DJ
Poet Wondering What He Is Up To
Whatever Sex Was

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Flecker, James Elroy
Tenebris Interlucentem

Frame, Janet
The Dead

Frost, Robert
Acquainted with the Night
Fire and Ice
Now Close the Windows
A Patch of Old Snow

Fuller, Roy
From the Joke Shop

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Grahame, Kenneth
Toad’s Song

Graves, Robert
At First Sight
A Former Attachment
A Last Poem
Love Without Hope

Gray, Thomas
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

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Hafez
All things born to break
I sought the tavern at the break of day

Hall, Donald
Death Work
The Poem
Summer Kitchen

Hardy, Thomas
Afterwards
Christmas: 1924
Drummer Hodge
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
The Self-unseeing
When I Set Out for Lyonnesse

Hayden, Robert
Those Winter Sundays

Heaney, Seamus
Grendel Strikes
Sloe Gin
Sweeney’s Last Poem
Thatcher

Heath-Stubbs, John
A Charm Against the Toothache
Apologia of a Plastic Gnome
The Pearl
Snow

Herrick, Robert
Delight in Disorder
Love kill’d by Lack
No Lock Against Letcherie
Once poore, still penurious
Upon Julia’s Clothes

Heywood, John
Of turnyng

Hill, Geoffrey
From “Funeral Music”
Merlin

Hopkins, Gerard Manley
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
No Worst, there is None
Pied beauty
Unfinished Poem
The Windhover

Housman, AE
Crossing Alone
Into My Heart an Air that Kills
Oh, When I was in Love with You
When I was one-and-twenty

Howe, Sarah
rain, n.
That from a long way off look like flies

Hughes, Ted
Parlour-Piece

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Ingoldsby, Thomas
From “The Hand of Glory”

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Jennings, Elizabeth
An Attempt to Charm Sleep
Delay
I Feel
Night Garden of the Asylum

Jonson, Ben
The Noble Nature
On My First Son

Joyce, James
Ecce Puer
A Flower Given to My Daughter

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Keats, John
From “The Eve of St. Agnes”
From “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Sonnet (Bright star)
To Autumn

Kinsella, Thomas
Addendum
The Guardians

Kipling, Rudyard
A Dead Statesman
Harp Song of the Dane Women
Tommy
The Way Through the Woods
When Earth’s last picture is painted

Knightley, Steve
The Hook of Love

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Larkin, Philip
Days
Going
Here
Talking in Bed
This Be The Verse
Triple Time

Lawrence, DH
Piano
Sorrow
Volcanic Venus

Lawson, Sarah
Any Hourglass Holds Just So Much Sand

Lee, Laurie
Day of These Days

Le Guin, Ursula
The Creation of Éa
To the Rain

Leonard, Tom
June the Second

Li Quingzhao
To the tune “As If in a Dream”
A Song of Departure

Lovelace, Richard
To Lucasta, Going to the Warres

Lowell, Robert
Epilogue

Lylye, John
Cupid and Campaspe

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MacCaig, Norman
Crossing the Border
Gone are the Days

McGough, Roger
Light Sleeper
Scintillate
Shite
From “Summer with Monika”
There are fascists

McKay, Claude
The Harlem Dancer

Mahmoud, Emi
#MuslimParents
Cinderblock

Marquis, Don
the song of mehitabel

Marvell, Andrew
To his Coy Mistress

Masefield, John
Cargoes

Matsuo Basho
On New Year’s Day
When the winter chrysanthemums go
Wrapping the rice cakes

Milton, John
From “Paradise Lost”
Sonnet (I did but prompt the age)
Sonnet (On His Blindness)

Mitchell, Joni
The Fiddle and the Drum

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Mary Oliver
Breakage

Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Shadwell Stair

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Pack, Robert
The Monster Who Loved The Hero

Parker, Dorothy
The Flaw in Paganism

Pasternak, Boris
The Wind

Patten, Brian
After Frost
You missed the sunflowers at their height

Peake, Mervyn
The Consumptive, Belsen 1945

Plath, Sylvia
The Hermit at Outermost House

Pope, Alexander
Celia
Epigram
Epigram from the French
On Certain Ladies

Price, Alan
Changes
Poor People

Pushkin, Aleksandr
The Little Bird

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Reed, Henry
Naming of Parts

Reeves, James
Repose
Spicer’s Instant Poetry
The Travellers

Rosenberg, Isaac
Break of Day in the Trenches

Rossetti, Christina
Passing and Glassing

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Sappho
Fragment
He’s Equal with the Gods
Love Shook My Heart
Some say horsemen, some say warriors

Sassoon, Siegfried
Everyone Sang
The Facts
The Kiss

Shakespeare, William
Ariel’s Song
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
O Mistress Mine
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more
Sonnet (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun)
Sonnet (Those lips that Love’s own hand did make)
Sonnet (Two loves I have, of comfort and despair)
When icicles hang by the wall
When that I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
You’ll Put Down Strangers

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
An Exhortation
Ozymandias

Shirley, James
The glories of our blood and state

Sidney, Sir Philip
My true love hath my heart and I have his

Skelton, John
To Mistress Margery Wentworth

Smart, Rev. Richard
The borys hede that we bryng here

Smith, Mamie
Crazy Blues

Smith, Stevie
Man is a Spirit
Not Waving But Drowning
Scorpion

Spender, Stephen
To my Daughter
Word

Spenser, Edmund
From “Prothalamion”
Penelope for her Ulisses sake
Sonnet

Swift, Jonathan
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers
In Church Your Grandsire Cut His Throat

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Tagore, Rabindranath
Crossing 16

Tawney, Cyril
Sally Free and Easy

Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Go by

Thomas, Dylan
And death shall have no dominion
Do not go gentle into that good night
Especially when the October wind
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
In my craft or sullen art
Polly Garter’s Song
This bread I break

Thomas, Edward
Adlestrop
Thaw

Thomas, RS
The One Furrow

Tichborne, Chidiock
My prime of youth is but a froste of cares

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Wain, John
Apology for Understatement
Patriotic Poem
Poem Without a Main Verb
Sonnet

Walker, Ted
Between Acts
Cuckoo-Pint
Terrains Vagues
Villanelle

Webster, John
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren

Wilde, Oscar
Sonnet to Liberty

Williams, Hugo
Good
Lights Out
Saturday Morning
Till Soon

“Woodbine Willie”
April

Wordsworth, William
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
From “The Prelude”
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
The world is too much with us

Woodford, Anna
Descendants

Wyatt, Sir Thomas
They Flee from Me

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Yeats, WB
After Long Silence
The Black Tower
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
A Coat
The Fisherman
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Long-Legged Fly
The Second Coming
The Spur
To A Young Girl
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?

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