A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Amis, Kingsley
Something Nasty in the Bookshop
Wasted
Amoore, Susannah
Dawn in West Hampstead
Trees
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
The Twa Corbies
The Unquiet Grave
Westron Wynde
Arnold, Matthew
Dover Beach
Auden, WH
Domesday Song
If I Could Tell You
Musée des Beaux Arts
Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth
Sonnet (When our two souls stand up)
Beer, Patricia
The Conjuror
The Letter
The Postilion has been Struck by Lightning
Betjeman, John
Business Girls
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
Blake, William
The Clod and the Pebble
The Garden of Love
Infant Joy
Infant Sorrow
London
A Poison Tree
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
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
Carroll, Lewis
From “The Hunting of the Snark”
Causley, Charles
Eden Rock
I am the Song
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
Madame, for your newefangelnesse
Chingonyi, Kayo
For those orphaned late in life
Kung’anda
Cohen, Leonard
Deprived
Everybody Knows
Undertow
Cornford, Frances
To a Fat Lady seen from the Train
cummings, e.e.
mr youse needn’t be so spry
since feeling is first
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
Drayton, Michael
Since There’s No Help
Dunn, Douglas
Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards
Dylan, Bob
All Along the Watchtower
Eliot, TS
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
Flecker, James Elroy
Tenebris Interlucentem
Frame, Janet
The Dead
Frost, Robert
Acquainted with the Night
Fire and Ice
A Patch of Old Snow
Fuller, Roy
From the Joke Shop
Grahame, Kenneth
Toad’s Song
Graves, Robert
A Former Attachment
Love Without Hope
Gray, Thomas
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Hall, Donald
Summer Kitchen
The Poem
Hardy, Thomas
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
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
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
Jennings, Elizabeth
An Attempt to Charm Sleep
Delay
I Feel
Jonson, Ben
On My First Son
Keats, John
From “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Sonnet (Bright star)
To Autumn
Kipling, Rudyard
A Dead Statesman
Tommy
The Way Through the Woods
Knightley, Steve
The Hook of Love
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
Lovelace, Richard
To Lucasta, Going to the Warres
MacCaig, Norman
Crossing the Border
Gone are the Days
McGough, Roger
Light Sleeper
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
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
Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Shadwell Stair
Pack, Robert
The Monster Who Loved The Hero
Parker, Dorothy
The Flaw in Paganism
Pasternak, Boris
The Wind
Plath, Sylvia
The Hermit at Outermost House
Pope, Alexander
Celia
Epigram from the French
On Certain Ladies
Price, Alan
Changes
Pushkin, Aleksandr
The Little Bird
Reed, Henry
Naming of Parts
Reeves, James
Spicer’s Instant Poetry
The Travellers
Rosenberg, Isaac
Break of Day in the Trenches
Rossetti, Christina
Passing and Glassing
Sappho
Fragment
He’s Equal with the Gods
Love Shook My Heart
Sassoon, Siegfried
Everyone Sang
The Kiss
Shakespeare, William
Ariel’s Song
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
O Mistress Mine
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 that I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
You’ll Put Down Strangers
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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
Smith, Stevie
Man is a Spirit
Not Waving But Drowning
Scorpion
Spender, Stephen
To my Daughter
Word
Spenser, Edmund
From “Prothalamion”
Swift, Jonathan
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers
In Church Your Grandsire Cut His Throat
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, RS
The One Furrow
Tichborne, Chidiock
My prime of youth is but a froste of cares
Wain, John
Apology for Understatement
Patriotic Poem
Poem Without a Main Verb
Walker, Ted
Cuckoo-Pint
Terrains Vagues
Villanelle
Webster, John
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren
Williams, Hugo
Good
Lights Out
Saturday Morning
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
Yeats, WB
After Long Silence
The Black Tower
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
A Coat
The Fisherman
High Talk
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Long-Legged Fly
The Spur
To A Young Girl
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
