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
Public Library
Song of a HebrewAdcock, Fleur
Droppings
ThingsAgard, John
Get Down Ye AngelsAI
Box of LightAkhmatova, Anna
From “Requiem”Amis, Kingsley
Beowulf
A Note on Wyatt
Oligodora
Shitty
Something Nasty in the Bookshop
WastedAmoore, Susannah
At the End of April
Dawn in West Hampstead
Late Afternoon in Autumn
Long Sight
Trees
An Upstairs KitchenAnderson, Ian
Life’s a Long SongAngelou, Maya
Arrival
Changing
Come. And be my baby.
Late October
Phenomenal Woman
Remembering
Still I Rise
This Winter Day
To a Man
We Saw Beyond Our SeemingAnon
Adam lay ibounden
Age, not to be rejected
As Dewe in Aprille
From “Beowulf”
Bird on a Briar
The Bonny Bunch of Roses
A Brisk Young Sailor
Came Ye o’er frae France
Care away away away
The common cormorant or shag
The Corpus Christi Carol
The Cuckoo
From “Dispute between a man and his Ba”
The Faking Boy
For want of a nail
Gaudete
Grendel Strikes
Hard Times of Old England
The Hart loves the high wood
High Germany
From “Hughie the Graeme”
In Quintum Novembris
I once loved a lass
The Life of a Man
Little Britain
Lord Lovel
The Lyke-Wake Dirge
My Love in her attire doth shew her wit
On Francis Drake
Oranges and Lemons
Psalm 23
Psalm 146
The Queen of Hearts
A religious Use of taking Tobacco
Remember Adam’s fall
Season Song
She Moved Through the Fair
The Silver Swan
From “Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt”
From “Sir Patrick Spens”
The Snow it Melts the Soonest
Somer is i-comen in
From “The Song of Solomon”
From “The Song of Solomon”
A Sonnet to Opium; Celebrating its Virtues
St. James Infirmary Blues
This World’s Joy
From “Thomas the Rhymer”
Tom o’ Bedlam
The Twa Corbies
The Unquiet Grave
Wade in the Water
Westron Wynde
The White Cockade
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Armitage, Simon
Floral Tribute
Homework
I Kicked a Mushroom
Lockdown
Resistance
October
Poor Old SoulArnold, Matthew
Dover Beach
The Last Word
A Nameless Epitaph
The Progress of Poesy
From “Rugby Chapel”Atwood, Margaret
From “Dearly”Auden, WH
Autumn Song
Carry her over the water
Domesday Song
Funeral Blues
If I Could Tell You
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Look, stranger, on this island now
Musée des Beaux Arts
O What Is That Sound?
O Where Are You Going?
Roman Wall Blues
From “The Sea and the Mirror”
The Unknown CitizenBacon, Sir Francis
The world’s a bubbleBarnard, Mary
Fragment (Sappho)
Fragment (Sappho)
Fragment (Sappho)
Rich as you are (Sappho)
Tonight I’ve watched (Sappho)
Fragment (Sappho)Barnes, William
My orcha’d In Linden LeaBarrett-Browning, Elizabeth
How do I love thee?
Sonnet (When our two souls stand up)Baume, Roy
Night OutBaxter, James K
The Axe-Blade
Evidence at the Witch Trials
The Fear of Change
To Any Young Man who Hears my Verses Read in a Lecture RoomBeer, Patricia
The Conjuror
Frost on the Shortest Day
The Letter
One Man One Vote
The Postilion has been Struck by Lightning
WitchBell, William
Born Under a Bad SignBeresford, Anne
Advice from a Friend
For a Friend Abroad
George Eliot’s Piano Tuner
March 10th
A Quarrel
Still Learning
What do you do all Day while I’m at School?Berryman, John
Certainty Before LunchBetjeman, John
Aldershot Crematorium
Business Girls
City
Fruit
Monody on the Death of a Platonist Bank Clerk
Senex
From “A Subaltern’s Love-song”
Woman DriverBinyon, Laurence
From “The Burning of the Leaves”Bishop, Elizabeth
The Reprimand
SonnetBisset, James
From “Ramble of the Gods through Birmingham”Blake, William
Ah! Sun-Flower
From “Auguries of Innocence”
The Clod and the Pebble
Epitaph
The Fly
Fragment
The Garden of Love
Infant Joy
Infant Sorrow
Introduction to Songs of Innocence and of Experience
London
From “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
Nurse’s Song
A Poison Tree
Preface to Milton
The Sick Rose
The TygerBlunden, Edmund
The Hedgehog killed on the Road
The ShadowBowie, David
Memory of a Free FestivalBrontë, Charlotte
From “We wove a web in childhood”Brontë, Emily
The night is darkening round me
The Old Stoic
There was a timeBrooke, Rupert
A Channel Passage
The One before the Last
Song (The way of love was thus)
SuccessBrooks, Gwendolyn
The Bean Eaters
The Children of the Poor
The Crazy Woman
kitchenette building
the sonnet-ballad
Spaulding and François
the vacant lot
We Real CoolBrown, George Mackay
Beachcomber
ShroudBrowning, Robert
From “Andrea del Sarto”
From “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
From “House”
Memorabilia
Summum BonumBrutus, Dennis
Fry’s still sell chocolate
I am the tree
I must conjure from my past
Train JourneyBukowski, Charles
8 count
so now?Bunyan, John
From “The Author’s Apology”
The Pilgrim SongBurns, Robert
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
From “To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”Burton, Robert
From “The Authors Abstract of Melancholy”Byron, Lord
She walks in beauty
You drink all nightCampbell, David
Mothers and DaughtersCarroll, Lewis
How doth the little crocodile
From “The Hunting of the Snark”
Jabberwocky
Lullaby
You are old, Father WilliamCatullus
Lesbia from Catullus – Jul. 18th 1736
Odorous: To RufusCausley, Charles
Eden Rock
I am the songCave, Jane
Written a few Hours before the Birth of a ChildCavendish, Margaret
Of Many Worlds in this WorldCavafy, CP
As Much As You Can
Come Back
Comprehension
An Old Man
One NightChapman, George
From “The Odyssey”Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Madame, for your newefangelnesse
From “Troilus and Criseyde”Chesterton, GK
A Ballade of Suicide
The Donkey
The Fat Lady AnswersChingonyi, Kayo
Family Portrait
For those orphaned late in life
interior w/ ceiling fan
Kung’andaClare, John
All Nature Has a Feeling
I AmClothier, Cal
After Reading “Moby Dick”Clough, Arthur Hugh
The Latest Decalogue
Say not, the struggle nought availethCohen, Leonard
Antique Song
Deprived
Everybody Knows
First we take Manhattan
Go Little Book
I pray for courage
Moving On
No time to change
UndertowColeridge, Hartley
Long Time a Child
On WordsworthColeridge, Samuel Taylor
On Donne’s Poetry
From “Fears in Solitude”
A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room
From “Frost at Midnight”
From “Kubla Khan”
From “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”Collins, Billy
Budapest
Introduction to Poetry
Sleeping on My Side
Sonnet (All we need is fourteen lines)
WhiskersCope, Wendy
Lonely Hearts
Sporty People
Strugnell’s HaikuCorbet, Richard
Farewell Rewards and FaeriesCornford, Frances
To a Fat Lady seen from the TrainNoel Coward
The Stately Homes of EnglandCowley, Abraham
The Danger of ProcrastinationCrosland, TWH
The Man in the Streetcummings, e.e.
Buffalo Bill’s
in Just-
in spite of everything
love is more thicker than forget
mr youse needn’t be so spry
since feeling is firstCurtis, SEG
ColleagueDaniel, John
My Wife Who is AmericanDavies, Idris
Gwalia Deserta XVDavies, John of Hereford
If there were, oh! an Hellespont of creamDavies, WH
Leisure
The VillainDavys, Mary
From “The Modern Poet”Day Lewis, Cecil
Come live with me and be my LoveDefoe, Daniel
Reformation of MannersDekker, Thomas
The Happy HeartDenham, Sir John
Sarpedon’s Speech to GlaucusDenny, Sandy
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?de la Mare, Walter
All That’s Past
But, Oh, My Dear
The Listenersde Vere, Edward, Earl of Oxford
Weare I a KingeDibdin, Charles
A Popular FunctionaryDickinson, Emily
Good Morning Midnight
I Died for Beauty
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
There’s a certain Slant of lightDonne, John
The Apparition
At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow
Breake of Day
Death be not proud
The Flea
The Funerall
The Good-Morrow
A Hymne to God the Father
Loves Usury
A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
Song (Goe and catche a falling starre)
Song (Sweetest love, I do not goe)
Sonnet (Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?)
The Sunne Rising
The triple Foole
Twicknam Garden
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Womans ConstancyDowland, John
Weep you no more sad fountainsDrake, Nick
Saturday Morning (at the Cable Café)
Self-Portrait as a Moose
Through the Red LightDrayton, Michael
Since there’s no help
To nothing fitter
To the Critic
Drinkwater, John
Moonlit ApplesDryden, John
From Ode 29 (Horace)
Written in 1700Duffy, Carol Ann
Clerk of Hearts
December 23rd
Gorilla
How Death Comes
In the Drowned Bookshop
Scarecrow
Swearing InDuhig, Ian
Traditional Irish CharmDunn, Douglas
Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards
Old Things
Portrait Photograph, 1915
A Removal from Terry Street
Transcendence
Watches of Grandfathers
WeddingDurrell, Lawrence
On Ithaca StandingDyer, Sir Edward
The lowest Trees have topsDylan, Bob
All Along the Watchtower
The times they are a-changin’Eliot, TS
Aunt Helen
From “Burnt Norton” (Time present and time past)
From “Burnt Norton” (Garlic and sapphires in the mud)
From “Gerontion”
From “The Hollow Men”
Journey of the Magi
Lines for an Old Man
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” (April is the cruellest month)
From “The Waste Land” (Phlebas the Phoenician)
From “The Waste Land” (Unreal city)
From “The Waste Land” (When lovely woman)Elliot, Alistair
One or Two GoodbyesElliot, Jane
The Flowers of the ForestElizabeth I
Importune me no moreEnright, DJ
Broken Fingernails
Hands Off, Foreign Devil
Happiness
Poet Wondering What He Is Up To
The Pictures
The Professor Reminisces
Three Girls
Whatever Sex WasFeaver, Vicki
Home is Here, Now
The LarderFeinstein, Elaine
Politics
A VisitFlecker, James Elroy
Tenebris Interlucentem
To a Poet a Thousand Years HenceFrost, 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”
Gibson, Wilfrid
Henry TurnbullGifford, Humfrey
A Delectable DreamGilbert, WS
The Policeman’s Lot
A wandering minstrel I
When all night longGlück, Louise
Grandmother in the GardenGogarty, Oliver St. John
RingsendGower, John
From “Confessio Amantis”
From verses addressed to Henry IVGraves, Robert
The Bards
The Cool Web
Down, wanton, down!
At First Sight
Flying Crooked
A Former Attachment
Intercession in Late October
A Last Poem
Like Snow
Love Without Hope
Lovers in Winter
The Narrow Sea
On Dwelling
The Reader Over My Shoulder
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
The Twin of SleepGray, Thomas
From “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold FishesGray, Victor
All the world’s a stageGreville, Fulke, Lord Brooke
Sonnet 84Gunn, Thom
Baby Song
Expression
Street Song
The Wheel of FortuneHafez
All things born to break
Boy, bring the cup, and circulate the wine
I sought the tavern at the break of day
Knowing love’s ocean is a shoreless seaHall, Donald
Affirmation
Death Work
Fête
The Poem
The Repeated Shapes
Summer Kitchen
The Things
White ApplesHardy, Thomas
Afterwards
At Day-Close in November
Christmas: 1924
A Church Romance
The Darkling Thrush
Drummer Hodge
The Garden Seat
Heredity
I look into my glass
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
The Man He Killed
Paying Calls
The Ruined Maid
The Self-unseeing
Thoughts from Sophocles
A Thunderstorm in Town
Weathers
When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
The Voice
Where The Picnic WasHarington, Sir John
Of a Poynted Diamond given by the Author to his Wife, at the Birth of his Eldest SonHarsent, David
The Rag Doll to the Heedless ChildHatton, Richard
From “Ovids Walnut-Tree transplanted”Hayden, Robert
Those Winter SundaysHeaney, Seamus
An August Night
Digging
The Errand
Grendel Strikes
‘Had I not been awake’
In Time
Mid-Term Break
Postscript
Sloe Gin
The Strand
Sweeney’s Last Poem
Thatcher
Wordsworth’s SkatesHeath-Stubbs, John
A Charm Against the Toothache
Apologia of a Plastic Gnome
Moving to Winter
The Pearl
Snow
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
What Are Their Poems Made Of?
Wishes for the MonthsHemingway, Ernest
Chapter HeadingHenri, Adrian
Love is…
Song for a Beautiful Girl Petrol-Pump Attendant on the MotorwayHerbert, George
Easter Wings
VertueHerrick, Robert
Bad Princes pill their People
Delight in Disorder
His request to Julia
His wish to privacie
Love kill’d by Lack
Lyrick for Legacies
No Lock Against Letcherie
Not every day fit for Verse
Once poore, still penurious
Posting to Printing
Upon Bunce. Epig.
Upon Julia’s Clothes
To the Virgins, to make much of TimeHeywood, Thomas
From “An Apology for Actors”Higgins, FR
Song for the Clatter-BonesHill, Geoffrey
Epiphany at Saint Mary and All Saints
From “Funeral Music” (My little son)
From “Funeral Music” (Not as we are)
Merlin
Old Poet with Distant Admirers
From “The Triumph of Love”Hodgkinson, Amanda
On Seeing his Narrowboat for the First TimeHofmann, Michael
Point of No ReturnHoliday, Billie
God Bless the ChildHollinghurst, Alan
Convalescence in Lower LargoHomer
Battle
From “The Odyssey”
Sarpedon’s Speech to GlaucusHooker, Jeremy
Short Thin Poem for AlfieHope, AD
Paradise Saved
Prometheus UnchainedHopkins, Gerard Manley
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Binsey Poplars
Duns Scotus’s Oxford
Fragment
No Worst, there is None
Pied beauty
Unfinished Poem
The WindhoverHorace
From Ode 29 (trans. Dryden)Horwell, VC
Salute to MarvellHousman, AE
Crossing Alone
Her strong enchantments failing
Into My Heart an Air that Kills
Now hollow fires burn out to black
Oh, When I was in Love with You
Say, lad, have you things to do?
The sloe was lost in flower
When I was one-and-twenty
With rue my heart is ladenHowe, Sarah
rain, n.
That from a long way off look like flies
To all Laments and PurposesHughes, Langston
Ballad of the Pawnbroker
Blues at Dawn
Convent
Dare
Harlem
Postcard from SpainHughes, Ted
October Dawn
Parlour-PieceHugo, Victor
Demain, dès l’aube…Ingoldsby, Thomas
From “The Hand of Glory”Jansch, Bert
Fresh as a sweet Sunday morningJennings, Elizabeth
An Attempt to Charm Sleep
Box-Room
Delay
I Feel
A Kind of Catalogue
Never to See
Night Garden of the Asylum
One Flesh
A Weather SpellJonson, Ben
Song (Come, my Celia)
From “Cynthia’s Revels”
It is not growing like a tree
The Noble Nature
On My First SonJoyce, James
From “Chamber Music” (Because your voice was at my side)
From “Chamber Music” (Lean out of the window)
From “Chamber Music” (Strings in the earth and air)
Ecce Puer
A Flower Given to My Daughter
Gentle lady, do not sing
A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at MidnightKavanagh, Patrick
Memory of My FatherKeats, John
From “Endymion”
From “The Eve of St. Agnes”
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Modern Love
From “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Ode on Melancholy
From “Ode to a Nightingale” (Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird)
From “Ode to a Nightingale” (My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains)
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Sonnet (Bright star)
To Autumn
To SleepKingsolver, Barbara
Dancing with the Devil: Advice for the Female PoetKinsella, Thomas
Addendum
The Guardians
Marginal Economy
Mirror in FebruaryKipling, Rudyard
The Appeal
Cities and Thrones and Powers
A Dead Statesman
From “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
Harp Song of the Dane Women
A Pict Song
Tommy
War Epitaph
War Epitaph: The Refined Man
The Way Through the Woods
When Earth’s last picture is paintedKnightley, Steve
The Hook of LoveLandor, Walter Savage
Her NameLangland, William
From “Piers Plowman”Larkin, Philip
Annus Mirabilis
Arrivals, Departures
From “Church Going”
Days
For Sidney Bechet
Going
Here
Home is so Sad
Morning at last: there in the snow
Mother, Summer, I
Party Politics
Talking in Bed
This Be The Verse
Triple TimeLawrence, DH
Autumn Rain
How Beastly the Bourgeois is
Lizard
The Mosquito Knows
People
Piano
SorrowLawson, Sarah
Any Hourglass Holds Just So Much Sand
On the Beach
We Are a Committee of TwoLear, Edward
By Way of PrefaceLee, Laurie
Day of These Days
Home from Abroad
My Many-Coated Man
The Pollard BeechLe 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 Second
Odysseus
PoetryLevi, Peter
The Muses
The lads of course arrived too lateLindsay, Vachel
The Leaden-EyedLi Quingzhao
To the tune “As If in a Dream”
To the tune “Boddhisattva Barbarian”
To the tune “Dabbing Crimson Lips”
To the tune “On Top of Phoenix Tower, Recalling Flute Music”
To the tune “The Solitary Wild Goose”
A Song of Departure
To the tune “Telling My Deepest Feelings”Li-Young Lee
Early in the MorningLogue, Christopher
Know Thy EnemyLorca, Federico García
Despedida
The Six StringsLovelace, 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 DaysMcDonald, Ian
Beaucaillou
Decorated for a Kiss
My Father’s Prayer Book, Page 44
MacArthur’s LifeMcGough, Roger
Another Brick in the Wall
Comeclose and Sleepnow
Days
Let me die a youngman’s death
Light Sleeper
Monstrance
Scintillate
A Serious Poem
Shite
From “Summer with Monika”
There are fascists
This is One of Those
Trust Me, I’m a Poet
Word TrapMcIntyre, Colin
Horse TransportMcKay, Claude
The Harlem Dancer
PolarityMacNeice, Louis
August
Autobiography
Every voyage is a death
Flight of the Heart
To Posterity
To the Public
The Sunlight on the GardenMahmoud, Emi
#MuslimParents
CinderblockMaitre, RA
The VolunteerMarlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
From “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” (Now hast thou but one bare hour to live)
From “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” (Was this the face…)Marquis, Don
the song of mehitabelMarshall, Archibald
There was a young man from DevizesMartial
The Danger of Procrastination
You drink all nightMarvell, Andrew
The Coronet
To his Coy Mistress
The Mower’s Song
The Nymph complaining for the death of her FaunMasefield, John
Cargoes
Sea Fever
Trade WindsMatsuo Basho
Cicada
New robe
On New Year’s Day
Sudden sun
When the winter chrysanthemums go
Wrapping the rice cakesMaxwell, Glyn
Seven Things Wrong With The Love SonnetMearns, William Hughes
AntigonishMelville, Herman
The Maldive SharkMercer, Johnny
Blues in the NightMew, Charlotte
Not for that CityMiddleton, Thomas
The Golden AgeMilligan, Spike
English Teeth, English Teeth!
A Silly Poem
The Soldiers at LauroMilne, AA
From “King John’s Christmas”Milton, John
From “Il Penseroso”
From “Lycidas”
On Shakespeare
On Time
On the University Carrier
From “Paradise Lost” (They looking back, all th’ eastern side beheld)
From “Paradise Lost” (Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
From “Paradise Lost” (Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit)
From “Samson Agonistes”
Sonnet (I did but prompt the age)
Sonnet (On His Blindness)Mitchell, Joni
The Fiddle and the Drum
Tin AngelMoore, Thomas
The Minstrel BoyMoreton, Arabella
The Humble WishMorgan, Edwin
The Loch Ness Monster’s SongMorris, William
From “Verses for Pictures”Morrison, Blake
Meningococcus
Theory of HeredityMuldoon, Paul
Cuba
It Is What It Is
Ma
The Mixed Marriage
The Sonogram
Symposium
Why Brownlee LeftNelson, Willie
Time of the PreacherNeruda, Pablo
Brown and agile child
This broken bellNewman, Randy
I think it’s gonna rain todayNiemöller, Martin
First they cameO’Brien, Sean
An Assignation
Hyperbole
NamesOden, James Burke “St. Louis Jimmy”
Goin’ Down SlowOrmerod, VR
There was a young student called FredOswald, Alice
Fox
From “Tithonus”
WeddingOvid
From “Ovids Walnut-Tree transplanted”Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Futility
Maundy Thursday
Shadwell Stair
Song of SongsPack, Robert
The Monster Who Loved The HeroParker, Dorothy
The Flaw in Paganism
Interview
One Perfect RosePasternak, Boris
March
Hamlet
The WindPaterson, Banjo
Waltzing MatildaPatten, Brian
After Frost
Amour
The Bee’s Last Journey to the Rose
Inessential Things
Lethargy
The Second Dove
You missed the sunflowers at their heightPeake, Mervyn
The Consumptive, Belsen 1945
The vastest things are those we may not learnPeskett, William
simile: you arePlath, Sylvia
Child
Heavy Women
The Hermit at Outermost House
Magi
You’rePoe, Edgar Allan
From “The Raven”Pope, Alexander
Celia
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram from the French
Epitaph
From “Essay on Man”
Imitation of Chaucer
Intended for Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey
On Certain Ladies
On Mrs Tofts
From “The Rape of the Lock”Pound, Ezra
And the days are not full enough
The Lake IslePrice, Alan
Changes
Poor PeoplePushkin, Aleksandr
The Little BirdRaine, Kathleen
Story’s End
Worry About MoneyRaleigh, Sir Walter
The Lover’s Maze
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh to His SonRedgrove, Peter
Serious ReadersReed, Henry
Chard Whitlow
Naming of PartsReeves, James
Leaving Town
Miranda
Once and Now
Repose
Spicer’s Instant Poetry
The TravellersReid, Christopher
The Coin
Go, Little Book
SynopsisRobinson, Mary
From “London’s Summer Morning”Rosenberg, Isaac
Break of Day in the Trenches
The ImmortalsRossetti, Christina
Passing and Glassing
Remember
Up-hillRostand, Edmond
From “Cyrano de Bergerac”Ron Rubin
There was a trombonist called HerbSackville-West, Victoria
Full MoonSappho
Fragment (I tell you)
Fragment (Pain penetrates)
Fragment (People do gossip)
Fragment (We put the urn aboard ship)
Fragment (When they were tired)
Come here to me from Crete
He’s Equal with the Gods
Love Shook My Heart
Rich as you are
Some say horsemen, some say warriors
Tonight I’ve watchedSassoon, Siegfried
An Emblem
Everyone Sang
The Facts
The Kiss
When I’m among a blaze of lightsSastry, Tom
The importance of not listening (1)
The importance of not listening (2)
The importance of not listening (3)Scott, Sir Walter
Proud MaisieShakespeare, William
All the world’s a stage
Ariel’s Song
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Double, double toil and trouble
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Give me my robe, put on my crown
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
If we shadows have offended
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows
It was a lover and his lass
Let us sit upon the ground
Now my charms are all o’erthrown
O Mistress Mine
Prologue (Two households, both alike in dignity)
Queen Mab
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more
Sonnet (Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame)
Sonnet (In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes)
Sonnet (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun)
Sonnet (No longer mourn for me when I am dead)
Sonnet (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)
Sonnet (Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea)
Sonnet (Those lips that Love’s own hand did make)
Sonnet (Two loves I have, of comfort and despair)
Sonnet (Why is my verse so barren of new pride)
Take, oh take those lips away
Tell me where is Fancy bred
There’s Rosemary
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
Under the greenwood tree
When icicles hang by the wall
When that I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Who is Silvia?
You’ll Put Down StrangersSchaufeld, Avram
Do Not AskShelley, Percy Bysshe
England in 1819
An Exhortation
A Lament
Ozymandias
From “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things”Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
SongShipman, Thomas
The Resolute CourtierShirley, James
The glories of our blood and stateSidney, Sir Philip
My true love hath my heart and I have his
Sonnet (Because I breathe not love to every one)
Sonnet (I might, unhappy word, (woe me) I might)
Sonnet (O grammar-rules, O now your virtues showSidney, Robert
Sonnet (Absence, I cannot say thou hid’st my light)Sitwell, Edith
The King of China’s DaughterSkelton, John
From “The Bowge of Court”
To Mistress Margery WentworthSmart, Christopher
Where’s the Poker?Smart, Rev. Richard
The borys hede that we bryng hereSmith, Stevie
Bog-Face
Man is a Spirit
Not Waving But Drowning
Satin-Clad
Scorpion
She Said…
From “Thoughts about the Person from Porlock”Sophocles
Thoughts from SophoclesSpender, Stephen
In railway halls
Not to You
Rough
Souvenir de Londres
To my Daughter
WordSpenser, Edmund
From “Prothalamion”
Penelope for her Ulisses sake
Sonnet (Sweet warriour when shall I haue peace with you?)Spooner, Lawrence
From “A Looking-Glass for Smokers”Stevens, Wallace
The Emperor of Ice-CreamStevenson, Anne
By the Boat House, Oxford
Small Philosophical PoemStevenson, Robert Louis
Bright is the Ring of Words
EnvoySuckling, Sir John
Sonnet
Why so pale and wan fond lover?Swift, Jonathan
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers
A Description of the Morning
In Church Your Grandsire Cut His Throat
From “The Lady’s Dressing-Room”
Lesbia from Catullus – Jul. 18th 1736
From “A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General”Tagore, Rabindranath
Crossing 16Tawney, Cyril
Sally Free and EasyTeasdale, Sara
The Look
There will come soft rainsTeft, Elizabeth
On Viewing Herself in a GlassTennyson, Alfred Lord
Go by
From “Idylls of the King”
From “In Memoriam”
The Kraken
From “The Lady of Shalott”
Literary Squabbles
Ring out, wild bellsThackray, Jake
The Last Will and Testament of Jake ThackrayThomas, Dylan
And death shall have no dominion
Do not go gentle into that good night
Especially when the October wind
From “Fern Hill”
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
I have longed to move away
In my craft or sullen art
On a Wedding Anniversary
This bread I break
From “Under Milk Wood” (To begin at the beginning)
From “Under Milk Wood” (Chimney sweep song)
From “Under Milk Wood” (Polly Garter’s Song)
Was there a timeThomas, Edward
Adlestrop
Cock-Crow
First known when lost
From “Roads”
Swedes
Tall Nettles
Thaw
There was a timeThomas, RS
A Blackbird Singing
Children’s Song
The Cure
The Face
The One Furrow
Postscript
Song at the Year’s TurningThoreau, Henry David
I was made erect and loneThribb, E. Jarvis
Lines on the 80th Birthday of Fred AstaireTichborne, Chidiock
My prime of youth is but a froste of caresTiller, Terence
The Fool in “Lear”Titheradge, Peter
New Improved Sonnet XVIII
Teatime Variations (AE Housman)
Teatime Variations (Herrick)Townshend, Aurelian
Upon kinde and true LoveTreece, Henry
A Thief to His LordW—, Miss
The Gentleman’s Study, In Answer to The Lady’s Dressing-Room”Wain, John
Apology for Understatement
The Bad Thing
Cameo
Outside, gulls squabbled in the empty street
Patriotic Poem
Poem Without a Main Verb
Sonnet (An animal with a heart)Walcott, Derek
Love after LoveWalker, Ted
Ancient Winter
Between Acts
Cuckoo-Pint
Terrains Vagues
Villanelle (I would wish to die in some other place)
Under the pierWaller, Edmund
Of the last Verses in the BookWarner, Sylvia Townsend
From “Boxwood” (All in a night, remote)
From “Boxwood” (If I had turned aside)Watts, Isaac
Against Idleness and MischiefWebster, John
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren
From “The Devil’s Law Case”Whistler, Laurence
A Form of Epitaph
Life is a Rembrandt
A Passing LikenessWilde, Oscar
Sonnet to Liberty
Theocritus: A VillanelleWilliams, Hugo
Good
Heroes of the Sub-Plot
Lights Out
Once More with Feeling
Open Window
Saturday Morning
Till Soon
TruceWilliams, William Carlos
Raleigh was right
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to SayWillis, Wallace
Swing Low, Sweet ChariotWordsworth, William
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
From “Intimations of Immortality” (There was a time…)
London, 1802
From “The Prelude” (In those wanderings deeply did I feel)
From “The Prelude” (And in the frosty season)
From “The Prelude” (Of College labours)
To a Skylark
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Surprised by Joy
The world is too much with usWoodford, Anna
Descendants
In PassingWright, James
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, MinnesotaWright, Kit
Here Come Two Very Old Men
Victorian Family PhotographWroth, Lady Mary
From “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love”Wyatt, Sir Thomas
Of the Folly of Loving when the Season of Love is past
They Flee from MeYeats, WB
After Long Silence
The Black Tower
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
A Coat
The Cold Heaven
Crazy Jane on God
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Fisherman
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
The Great Day
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
High Talk
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Leda and the Swan
Long-Legged Fly
The Old Stone Cross
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
The Scholars
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Spur
Sweet Dancer
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
To a Young Girl
From “Under Ben Bulben” (Under bare Ben Bulben’s head)
From “Under Ben Bulben” (Irish poets learn your trade)
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?Young, Andrew
The Shepherd’s Hut
Black Capsule 