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
Abse, Dannie
Peachstone
Song of a HebrewAmis, Kingsley
Something Nasty in the Bookshop
WastedAmoore, Susannah
At the End of April
Dawn in West Hampstead
Late Afternoon in Autumn
TreesAnderson, Ian
Life’s a Long SongAngelou, Maya
Late October
Remembering
Still I Rise
This Winter Day
To a ManAnon
Adam lay ibounden
Age, not to be rejected
From “Beowulf”
The Corpus Christi Carol
For want of a nail
Gaudete
Grendel Strikes
The Lyke-Wake Dirge
My Love in her attire doth shew her wit
On Francis Drake
She Moved Through the Fair
The Silver Swan
From “Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt”
From “Sir Patrick Spens”
Somer is i-comen in
From “The Song of Solomon”
The Twa Corbies
The Unquiet Grave
Wade in the Water
Westron Wynde
Armitage, Simon
Homework
October
Poor Old SoulArnold, Matthew
Dover Beach
The Last Word
A Nameless Epitaph
Auden, WH
Autumn Song
Domesday Song
If I Could Tell You
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Musée des Beaux Arts
O What Is That Sound?Barrett-Browning, Elizabeth
Sonnet (When our two souls stand up)Beer, Patricia
The Conjuror
The Letter
The Postilion has been Struck by LightningBeresford, Anne
For a Friend Abroad
March 10th
Still LearningBetjeman, John
Business Girls
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank ClerkBinyon, Laurence
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
Preface to Milton
The Sick Rose
The TygerBrontë, Emily
The night is darkening round meBrooke, Rupert
The One before the Last
Song (The way of love was thus)Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Bean Eaters
The Crazy Woman
kitchenette building
the sonnet-ballad
We Real CoolBrowning, Robert
From “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
MemorabiliaBrutus, Dennis
I am the tree
I must conjure from my pastCarroll, Lewis
From “The Hunting of the Snark”
LullabyCausley, Charles
Eden Rock
I am the SongCavafy, CP
An Old Man
One NightChaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Madame, for your newefangelnesseChingonyi, Kayo
For those orphaned late in life
Kung’andaCohen, Leonard
Deprived
Everybody Knows
Moving On
UndertowCollins, Billy
Budapest
Sonnet (All we need is fourteen lines)Cornford, Frances
To a Fat Lady seen from the Traincummings, e.e.
mr youse needn’t be so spry
since feeling is firstDavies, John of Hereford
If there were, oh! an Hellespont of creamDenny, Sandy
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?de la Mare, Walter
The Listenersde Vere, Edward, Earl of Oxford
Weare I a KingeDickinson, Emily
I’m Nobody! Who are you?Donne, John
The Apparition
Breake of Day
The Flea
The Funerall
The Good-Morrow
A Hymne to God the Father
A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
Song (Sweetest love, I do not goe)
Sonnet (Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?)
Twicknam Garden
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Womans Constancy
Drake, Nick
Through the Red LightDrayton, Michael
Since There’s No HelpDuffy, Carol Ann
Scarecrow
Swearing InDunn, Douglas
Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards
Old Things
TranscendenceDyer, Sir Edward
The lowest Trees have topsDylan, Bob
All Along the WatchtowerEliot, TS
From “Gerontion”
Journey of the Magi
From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Morning at the Window
From “The Naming of Cats”
Prelude (The winter evening settles down)
Prelude (His soul stretched tight across the skies)
From “The Waste Land”Elizabeth I
Importune me no moreEnright, DJ
Hands Off, Foreign Devil
Happiness
Poet Wondering What He Is Up To
Whatever Sex WasFlecker, James Elroy
Tenebris InterlucentemFrost, Robert
Acquainted with the Night
Fire and Ice
Now Close the Windows
A Patch of Old Snow
The Road Not Taken
The Sound of the Trees
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningFuller, Roy
From the Joke ShopGaiman, Neil
What You Need to be WarmGay, John
From “The Beggar’s Opera”Gower, John
From “Confessio Amantis”Graves, Robert
The Cool Web
At First Sight
A Former Attachment
A Last Poem
Love Without Hope
On Dwelling
She Tells Her Love While Half AsleepGray, Thomas
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold FishesHafez
All things born to break
Boy, bring the cup, and circulate the wine
I sought the tavern at the break of dayHall, Donald
Death Work
The Poem
Summer KitchenHardy, Thomas
Afterwards
Christmas: 1924
A Church Romance
Drummer Hodge
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
The Self-unseeing
When I Set Out for LyonnesseHarington, Sir John
Of a Poynted Diamond given by the Author to his Wife, at the Birth of his Eldest SonHayden, Robert
Those Winter SundaysHeaney, Seamus
Grendel Strikes
Mid-Term Break
Sloe Gin
Sweeney’s Last Poem
ThatcherHeath-Stubbs, John
A Charm Against the Toothache
Apologia of a Plastic Gnome
The Pearl
SnowHerrick, Robert
Delight in Disorder
His request to Julia
Love kill’d by Lack
No Lock Against Letcherie
Once poore, still penurious
Upon Julia’s Clothes
To the Virgins, to make much of TimeHill, Geoffrey
Epiphany at Saint Mary and All Saints
From “Funeral Music”
Merlin
Old Poet with Distant AdmirersHodgkinson, Amanda
On Seeing his Narrowboat for the First TimeHopkins, Gerard Manley
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
No Worst, there is None
Pied beauty
Unfinished Poem
The WindhoverHousman, AE
Crossing Alone
Into My Heart an Air that Kills
Oh, When I was in Love with You
The sloe was lost in flower
When I was one-and-twentyHowe, Sarah
rain, n.
That from a long way off look like fliesHughes, Langston
Ballad of the Pawnbroker
Convent
Harlem
Postcard from SpainIngoldsby, Thomas
From “The Hand of Glory”Jennings, Elizabeth
An Attempt to Charm Sleep
Delay
I Feel
A Kind of Catalogue
Night Garden of the AsylumJonson, Ben
The Noble Nature
On My First SonJoyce, James
Ecce Puer
A Flower Given to My DaughterKeats, John
From “The Eve of St. Agnes”
From “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Sonnet (Bright star)
To AutumnKinsella, Thomas
Addendum
The GuardiansKipling, Rudyard
A Dead Statesman
Harp Song of the Dane Women
Tommy
War Epitaph: The Refined Man
The Way Through the Woods
When Earth’s last picture is paintedKnightley, Steve
The Hook of LoveLangland, William
From “Piers Plowman”Larkin, Philip
Days
For Sidney Bechet
Going
Here
Talking in Bed
This Be The Verse
Triple TimeLawrence, DH
Piano
Sorrow
Volcanic VenusLawson, Sarah
Any Hourglass Holds Just So Much Sand
We Are a Committee of TwoLear, Edward
By Way of PrefaceLe Gallienne, Richard
All SungLe Guin, Ursula
The Creation of Éa
To the RainLeonard, Tom
Being a Human Being
in hospital
in the beginning was the word
June the SecondLevi, Peter
The lads of course arrived too lateLi Quingzhao
A Song of Departure
To the tune “As If in a Dream”
To the tune “Boddhisattva Barbarian”
To the tune “Dabbing Crimson Lips”
To the tune “Telling My Deepest Feelings”Li-Young Lee
Early in the MorningLorca, Federico García
DespedidaLovelace, Richard
To Althea from Prison
To Lucasta, Going to the WarresLowell, Robert
Epilogue
Lydgate, John
Vox ultima CrucisLylye, John
Cupid and CampaspeMacCaig, Norman
Crossing the Border
Gone are the DaysMcGough, Roger
Another Brick in the Wall
Comeclose and Sleepnow
Light Sleeper
Scintillate
Shite
From “Summer with Monika”
There are fascistsMcKay, Claude
The Harlem DancerMahmoud, Emi
#MuslimParents
CinderblockMarlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
From “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”Marquis, Don
the song of mehitabelMarvell, Andrew
To his Coy MistressMatsuo Basho
Cicada
On New Year’s Day
When the winter chrysanthemums go
Wrapping the rice cakesMilne, AA
From “King John’s Christmas”Milton, John
On Shakespeare
From “Paradise Lost”
Sonnet (I did but prompt the age)
Sonnet (On His Blindness)Mitchell, Joni
The Fiddle and the Drum
Tin AngelMuldoon, Paul
The Sonogram
Symposium
Why Brownlee LeftNeruda, Pablo
Brown and agile childOswald, Alice
Fox
From “Tithonus”Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Futility
Shadwell StairPack, Robert
The Monster Who Loved The HeroParker, Dorothy
The Flaw in PaganismPasternak, Boris
March
The WindPaterson, Banjo
Waltzing MatildaPatten, Brian
After Frost
Lethargy
The Second Dove
You missed the sunflowers at their heightPeake, Mervyn
The Consumptive, Belsen 1945
The vastest things are those we may not learnPlath, Sylvia
The Hermit at Outermost HousePope, Alexander
Celia
Epigram
Epigram from the French
On Certain LadiesPrice, Alan
Changes
Poor PeoplePushkin, Aleksandr
The Little BirdRaine, Kathleen
Story’s End
Worry About MoneyReed, Henry
Naming of PartsReeves, James
Leaving TownLeaving Town
Repose
Spicer’s Instant Poetry
The TravellersReid, Christopher
SynopsisRosenberg, Isaac
Break of Day in the TrenchesRossetti, Christina
Passing and Glassing
Up-hillRon Rubin
There was a trombonist called HerbSappho
Fragment
He’s Equal with the Gods
Love Shook My Heart
Some say horsemen, some say warriorsSassoon, Siegfried
Everyone Sang
The Facts
The KissSastry, Tom
The importance of not listening (1)
The importance of not listening (2)
The importance of not listening (3)Shakespeare, William
Ariel’s Song
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
If we shadows have offended
It was a lover and his lass
Now my charms are all o’erthrown
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)
Tell me where is Fancy bred
When icicles hang by the wall
When that I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
You’ll Put Down StrangersShelley, Percy Bysshe
An Exhortation
OzymandiasShirley, James
The glories of our blood and stateSidney, Sir Philip
My true love hath my heart and I have hisSitwell, Edith
The King of China’s DaughterSkelton, John
To Mistress Margery WentworthSmart, Rev. Richard
The borys hede that we bryng hereSmith, Stevie
Bog-Face
Man is a Spirit
Not Waving But Drowning
ScorpionSpender, Stephen
In railway halls
Rough
To my Daughter
WordSpenser, Edmund
From “Prothalamion”
Penelope for her Ulisses sake
Sonnet (Sweet warriour when shall I haue peace with you?)Swift, Jonathan
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers
In Church Your Grandsire Cut His ThroatTagore, Rabindranath
Crossing 16Tawney, Cyril
Sally Free and EasyTennyson, Alfred Lord
Go by
From “Idylls of the King”
From “The Lady of Shalott”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
Was there a timeThomas, RS
The Cure
The One FurrowThoreau, Henry David
I was made erect and loneTichborne, Chidiock
My prime of youth is but a froste of caresWain, John
Apology for Understatement
Patriotic Poem
Poem Without a Main Verb
Sonnet (An animal with a heart)Walcott, Derek
Love after LoveWalker, Ted
Between Acts
Cuckoo-Pint
Terrains Vagues
Villanelle (I would wish to die in some other place)Webster, John
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wrenWhistler, Laurence
A Form of Epitaph
Life is a Rembrandt
A Passing LikenessWilde, Oscar
Sonnet to LibertyWilliams, Hugo
Good
Lights Out
Saturday Morning
Till Soon
TruceWilliams, William Carlos
Raleigh was rightWordsworth, William
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
London, 1802
From “The Prelude” (In those wanderings deeply did I feel)
From “The Prelude” (And in the frosty season)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
The world is too much with usWoodford, Anna
DescendantsWroth, Lady Mary
From “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love”Wyatt, Sir Thomas
They Flee from MeYeats, WB
After Long Silence
The Black Tower
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
A Coat
The Fisherman
High Talk
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Leda and the Swan
Long-Legged Fly
The Second Coming
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Spur
To A Young Girl
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
