DavidAppleyard.com
Home English Language English Library Top News Links World Travel Tech News Update East-West Timelines English Humor
 

 Allhealthbooks.com   |   Economybooks.com   |   Lingualove.com   |   Newsciencebooks.com   |   Tolisto.com   |   Voyagershop.com   |   Japanbooks.net   |   Swedenbooks.net

Easy URL for this section: EnglishLibrary.net

Language

Dictionary Bank
Language Study
English User Guides

Literature

Novels
Short Stories
Drama
Poetry
Non-Fiction

Reference

Quick Reference
Arts & Culture
Economics
Geography
Health & Medicine
History

Mathematics

Religion
Science & Technology
Sports
World Affairs

Davidap.comWorldshopper

Poetry

Index of Poets
Joseph Addison Thomas Bailey Aldrich William Allingham Matthew Arnold
W.H. Auden Samuel Beckett Thomas Lovell Beddoes John Berryman
William Blake William Lisle Bowles Robert Seymour Bridges Anne Brontė
Charlotte Brontė Emily Brontė Rupert Brooke Robert Browning
John Bunyan Robert Burns Samuel Butler William Byrd
Lord Byron Thomas Campion Thomas Carlyle Lewis Carroll
Geoffrey Chaucer G.K. Chesterton John Clare Arthur Hugh Clough
Samuel T. Coleridge William Collins Susan Coolidge George Crabbe
Hart Crane Stephen Crane Samuel Daniel Dante
George Darley Walter de la Mare Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson
John Donne Ernest Dowson John Dryden T.S. Eliot
Elizabeth I Ralph Waldo Emerson Sergei Esenin Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Stephen C. Foster Robert Frost John Gay W.S. GIlbert
Johann W. von Goethe Oliver Goldsmith Adam L. Gordon Robert Graves
Thomas Gray Ivor Gurney Thomas Hardy Seamus Heaney
Ernest Hemingway William Ernest Henley Henry VIII George Herbert
Robert Herrick Thomas Hood Gerard Manley Hopkins A.E. Housman
Ted Hughes Leigh Hunt Randall Jarrell Sarah Orne Jewett
Samuel Johnson Erica Jong Ben Jonson James Joyce
John Keats Alfred Joyce Kilmer Charles Kingsley Rudyard Kipling
Charles Lamb Walter Savage Landor D.H. Lawrence Edward Lear
Denise Levertov Amy Levy Henry W. Longfellow Richard Lovelace
Robert Lowell George MacDonald Louis MacNeice Osip Mandelstam
Katherine Mansfield Christopher Marlowe Edgar Lee Masters Vladimir Mayakovsky
Rod McKuen Herman Melville Edna St. Vincent Millay John Milton
Lucy Maud Montgomery Thomas Moore William Morris Edwin Muir
Thomas Nashe Edith Nesbit John Henry Newman Eugene O'Neill
Arthur O'Shaughnessy Wilfred Owen Dorothy Parker Boris Pasternak
Andrew Barton Paterson Thomas Love Peacock Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Pope Ezra Pound Sir Walter Raleigh Adrienne Rich
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Edwin Arlington Robinson Isaac Rosenberg Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti John Ruskin George William Russell Carl Sandburg
Siegfried Sassoon Friedrich von Schiller  Sir Walter Scott Anne Sexton
William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Sir Philip Sidney Edith Sitwell
John Skelton Christopher Smart Stevie Smith Robert Southey
Robert Southwell Edmund Spenser Wallace Stevens Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir John Suckling Jonathan Swift Algernon Charles Swinburne J.M. Synge
Sarah Teasdale Alfred Lord Tennyson William M. Thackeray Dylan Thomas
Edward Thomas Francis Thompson James Thomson Mark Twain
Henry Vaughan Virgil Edith Wharton Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde Sarah Chauncey Woolsey William Wordsworth William Butler Yeats
 

Miscellaneous Verse >

Joseph Addison   (1672-1719)
A Letter from Italy An Account of the Greatest English Poets (excerpt)
Ode
More of Joseph Addison in our Short Stories section!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich   (1836-1907)
The Sisters' Tragedy Wyndham Towers
More of Thomas Bailey Aldrich in our
Novels,
Short Stories & Non-Fiction sections!
William Allingham   (1824-1889)
Amy Margaret's Five Years Old Half-Waking
Robin Redbreast Selected sonnets
Matthew Arnold   (1822-1888)
Apollo Musagetes Bacchanalia
The Buried Life Cadmus and Harmonia
Consolation Dover Beach
The Forsaken Merman The Future
Immortality Isolation: To Marguerite
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens Memorial Verses April 1850
Morality Mycerinus
Obermann Once More Palladium
Philomela Requiescat
Rugby Chapel The Scholar-Gipsy
Self-Dependence Shakespeare
Sohrab and Rustum Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
The Strayed Reveller Thyrsis: A Monody
To Marguerite: Continued Worldly Place
Youth and Calm
W.H. Auden   (1907-1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening Epitaph on a Tyrant
Funeral Blues In Memory of Sigmund Freud
In Memory of W.B. Yeats Lullaby
On the Circuit September 1, 1939
The Fall of Rome The More Loving One
The Shield of Achilles The Unknown Citizen
Samuel Beckett  (1906-1989)
Cascando Dieppe
Echo's Bones Neither
Roundelay What is the Word
What Would I Do without this World
More of Samuel Beckett in our Short Stories & Drama sections!
Thomas Lovell Beddoes   (1803-1849)
Collected Poems Dream-Pedlary (excerpt) 
Old Adam, the Carrion Crow Song from the Ship
John Berryman   (1914-1972)
Collected Poems  

William Blake   (1757-1827)
Poetical Sketches (1783)
Full Text  
Songs of Innocence (1789)
Introduction The Shepherd
The Echoing Green The Lamb
The Little Black Boy The Blossom
The Chimney-Sweeper The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found Laughing Song
A Cradle Song The Divine Image
Holy Thursday Night
Spring Nurse's Song
Infant Joy A Dream
On Another's Sorrow
Songs of Experience (1794)
Introduction Earth's Answer
The Clod and the Pebble Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found
The Chimney-Sweeper Nurse's Song
The Sick Rose The Fly
The Angel The Tyger
My Pretty Rose-Tree Ah, Sunflower
The Lily The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond London
The Human Abstract Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost A Divine Image
A Cradle Song The Schoolboy
To Tirzah The Voice of the Ancient Bard
Selected Poetry
William Lisle Bowles   (1762-1850)
Bereavement Evening
On the Funeral of Charles the First Selected Poetry
Robert Seymour Bridges   (1844-1930)
Collected Poetry Eros
I Love All Beauteous Things London Snow
Low Barometer On a Dead Child
The Evening Darkens Over The Testament of Love (excerpts)
To Catullus  
Anne Brontė   (1820-1849)
Collected Poems A Reminiscence
Home Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
Memory Music on Christmas Morning
Past Days The Arbour
The Doubter's Prayer The Penitent
Vanitas Vanitatum Omnia Vanitas
More of Anne Brontė in our Novels section!
Charlotte Brontė   (1816-1855)
Collected Poems Apostasy
Evening Solace Frances
Life Momentos
On the Death of Anne Brontė Passion
Presentiment Regret
The Letter The Wood
 
More of Charlotte Brontė in our Novels section!
Emily Brontė   (1818-1848)
A Day Dream A Death-Scene
Hope How Clear She Shines
Last Lines My Comforter
Self-Interrogation Stanza
The Old Stoic The Prisoner
 
More of Emily Brontė in our Novels section!
Rupert Brooke   (1887-1915)
Collected Poems Clouds
Heaven Sonnet Reversed
The Hill The Soldier
The Treasure Tiare Tahiti
Robert Browning   (1812-1889)
A Death in the Desert A Grammarian's Funeral
A Toccata of Galuppi's Abt Vogler
Among the Rocks An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience
of Karshish, the Arab Physician
Andrea del Sarto Caliban upon Setebos
Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Cleon
Confessions Count Gismond — Aix in Provence
Epilogue Fra Lippo Lippi
Give a Rouse Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea Life in a Love
Love among the Ruins Love in a Life
Meeting at Night Memorabilia
My Last Duchess My Star
Never the Time and the Place Over the Sea our Galleys Went
Parting at Morning Prospice
Protus Rabbi Ben Ezra
Saul The Bishop Orders his Tomb
The Laboratory The Lost Leader
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story Two in the Campagna
Up at a Villa — Down in the City Waring
Youth and Art
More of Robert Browning in our Drama section!

John Bunyan   (1628-1688)
Of Man by Nature The Pilgrim
Upon Apparel Upon the Disobedient Child
Upon the Vine-Tree Upon Time and Eternity
More of John Bunyan in our Novels section!

Robert Burns   (1759-1796)
Poems and Songs  
Samuel Butler   (1612-1680)
Hudibras  
William Byrd   (1543-1623)
Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price  
Lord Byron   (1788-1824)
All for Love Elegy on Thyrza
For Music On the Castle of Chillon
She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night The Isles of Greece
There Be None of Beauty's Daughters We'll Go No More A-Roving
When We Two Parted Youth and Age
 
More of Lord Byron in our Drama section!
Thomas Campion   (1567-1620)
Follow Thy Fair Sun Follow Your Saint
Rose-Cheeked Laura There is a Garden in Her Face
Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground
Thomas Carlyle   (1795-1881)
Cui Bono Fortuna
Today  
Lewis Carroll   (1832-1898)
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky How Doth the Little Crocodile
The Hunting of the Snark Jabberwocky
Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat! The Walrus and the Carpenter
You are Old, Father William
More of Lewis Carroll in our Novels section!

Geoffrey Chaucer   (1343?-1400)
The Canterbury Tales & other poems  

G. K. Chesterton   (1874-1936)
The Ballad of the White Horse The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Much more of G.K. Chesterton in our Novels,
Short Stories, Drama & Non-Fiction sections!
John Clare   (1793-1864)
Autumn I am!
I Hid My Love Summer
Summer Images The Dying Child
The Skylark To John Clare
Arthur Hugh Clough   (1819-1861)
Ah! Yet Consider it Again! Perché Pensa? Pensando s'Invecchia
Qua Cursum Ventus Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
The Latest Decalogue Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go?
"With Whom is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning"  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge   (1772-1834)
Collected Poems Selected Poetry
Christabel Domestic Peace
Epitaph on an Infant First Advent of Love
Genevieve Glycine's Song
Kisses Kubla Khan
Love The Complaint of Ninathoma
The Pains of Sleep The Rose
The Sigh Time, Real and Imaginary
To Sara Work Without Hope
William Collins   (1721-1759)
A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
Ode on the Poetical Character Ode to Evening
Ode to Liberty Ode to Simplicity
Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 The Passions — An Ode to Music
Susan Coolidge [Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]   (1835-1905)
Verses
More of Susan Coolidge in our Novels section!
George Crabbe   (1754-1832)
The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes The Village: Book I

Hart Crane   (1899-1932)
Selected Poems  

Stephen Crane   (1871-1900)
A Man Said to the Universe In Heaven
Should the Wide World Roll Away
More of Stephen Crane in our Novels section!

Samuel Daniel   (1562-1619)
Delia VI Delia XXXI (1592 version)
Delia XXXI (1623 version) Delia XXXIII
Delia XLV Delia XLVI
Musophilus (excerpt) The Civil Wars (excerpt)
Ulysses and the Siren   
Dante Alighieri   (1265–1321)
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory & Paradise)  
George Darley   (1795-1846)
Dirge It is Not Beauty I Demand
Song The Anonymous Poet
The Fallen Star The Joy of Childhood
The Mermaidens' Vesper-Hymn The Moon and Sea
The Phoenix To Helene, on a Gift-Ring Carelessly Lost
Walter de la Mare   (1873-1956)
Selected Poetry  
Charles Dickens   (1812-1870)
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman (Co-authored by W. M. Thackeray)
Much more of Charles Dickens in our Novels,
Short Stories & Non-Fiction sections!
Emily Dickinson   (1830-1886)
The Complete Poems  

John Donne   (1572-1631)
Selected Poetry  
Ernest Dowson   (1867-1900)
Collected Poems  

John Dryden   (1631-1700)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 A Song from the Italian from Limberham, or, The Kind Keeper
Absalom and Achitophel Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part (excerpt)
Alexander's Feast Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die From Troilus and Cressida
Mac Flecknoe Marriage a-la-Mode
Religio Laici, or, A Layman's Faith (excerpt) Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
The Hind and the Panther: Part I (excerpt) The Secular Masque
To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton (excerpt) To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy
Call'd the Double Dealer
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady
Mrs. Anne Killigrew
Veni, Creator Spiritus You charm'd me not with that fair face
Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
More of John Dryden in our Drama section!

T.S. Eliot   (1888-1965)
Poems Prufrock and Other Observations
The Waste Land
More of T.S. Eliot in our Short Stories & Non-Fiction section!
Elizabeth I   (1533-1603)
Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid The Doubt of Future Foes
In Defiance of Fortune On Monsieur's Departure
When I was Young and Fair Written in her French Psalter
Written on a Wall at Woodstock Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
Ralph Waldo Emerson   (1803-1882)
Early Emerson Poems May-Day & Other Pieces
Poems (Household Edition)
More of Ralph Waldo Emerson in our Non-Fiction section!
Sergei Esenin   (1895-1925)
Good Morning Kiss
There's One Joy Left to Me Selected Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti   (1919-     )
A Vast Confusion An Elegy on the Death of Kenneth Patchen
Away above a Harborful Baseball Canto
Bird with Two Right Wings Constantly Risking Absurdity
Don't Let That Horse Dove Sta Amore
Driving a Cardboard Automobile without a License I am Waiting
Number 20 Number 8
Oh You Gatherer Populist Manifesto No. 1
Recipe for Happiness Khaborovsk or Anyplace Seascape with Sun and Eagle
Sometime during Eternity The Changing Light
The Great Chinese Dragon The Pennycandystore beyond the El
The Plough of Time The World is a Beautiful Place
To the Oracle at Delphi Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes
Underwear Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

Stephen C. Foster   (1826-1864)
Beautiful Dreamer Serenade Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!
Oh! Susanna Old Black Joe
Old Folks at Home  
Robert Frost   (1874-1963)
A Boy's Will (Anthology, 1915) North of Boston (Anthology, 1915)
Mountain Interval (Anthology, 1920)   Miscellaneous Poems to 1920

John Gay   (1685-1732)
An Elegy on a Lap-dog Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends
The Shepherd's Week (excerpt) Sweet William's Farewell to Black-ey'd Susan: A Ballad
Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London
More of John Gay in our Drama section!

W.S. Gilbert   (1836-1911)
Collected Works
Johann W. von Goethe   (1749-1832)
Poems of Goethe
More of Goethe in our Novels & Drama sections!
Oliver Goldsmith   (1730-1774)
The Complete Poetical Works The Deserted Village: A Poem
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Retaliation: A Poem
The Traveller; or A Prospect of Society When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
 
More of Oliver Goldsmith in our Novels & Drama sections!
Adam L. Gordon   (1833-1870)
The Poems of A.L. [Adam Lindsay] Gordon  
Robert Graves   (1895-1985)
Fairies and Fusiliers (Anthology, 1918)

Thomas Gray   (1716-1771)
The Bard: A Pindaric Ode Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Fatal Sisters: An Ode Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
Ode on the Spring On the Death of Richard West
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode  
Ivor Gurney   (1890-1937)
Selected Poetry Beauty
Requiem The Silent One
To His Love  

Thomas Hardy   (1840-1928)
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back Channel Firing
The Convergence of the Twain The Darkling Thrush
The Dead Man Walking Fragment
In Tenebris In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
The Man He Killed The Masked Face
No Buyers The Ruined Maid
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study The To-be-forgotten
The Voice When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Wessex Poems and Other Verses  
More of Thomas Hardy in our Novels & Short Stories sections!
Seamus Heaney   (1939-      )
Blackberry-Picking Bogland
Casualty Death of a Naturalist
Digging Docker
Exposure Follower
From The Frontier Of Writing Keeping Going
Limbo Lovers on Aran
Mid-Term Break Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
Personal Helicon Postscript
Punishment Requiem for the Croppies
Rite of Spring Strange Fruit
The Early Purges The Forge
The Grauballe Man The Harvest Bow
The Otter The Perch
The Sharpening Stone The Skunk
The Tollund Man Twice Shy
Ernest Hemingway   (1899-1961)
Along with Youth Champs d'Honneur
Chapter Heading I Like Americans
I Like Canadians Montparnasse
Neo-Thomist Poem Riparto d'Assalto
The Age Demanded The Soul of Spain
William Ernest Henley   (1849-1903)
Ballade of Dead Actors Barmaid
Between the Dusk of a Summer Night Croquis
Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things I. M. R.T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899) [Invictus]
I am the Reaper London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East
Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom The Rain and the Wind
Unconquerable Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
Henry VIII   (1491-1547)
Green Groweth the Holly If Love now Reigned as it hath been
Lusty Youth should us ensue Pastime with good company
Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me Though that Men do Call it Dotage
The Time of Youth is to be Spent  
George Herbert   (1593-1633)
Collected Works   

Robert Herrick   (1591-1674)
Collected Works  
Thomas Hood   (1799-1845)
Autumn Death
Fair Ines Faithless Sally Brown
I Remember, I Remember NO!
Ruth Silence
The Bridge of Sighs The Deathbed
The Song of the Shirt Time of Roses
Gerard Manley Hopkins   (1844-1889)
Poems    

A.E. Housman   (1859-1936)
A Shropshire Lad (Anthology, 1896)  
Ted Hughes   (1930-1998)
Selected Poems  
Leigh Hunt   (1784-1859)
Collected Poems A Thought of the Nile
Abou Ben Adhem Rondeau
Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard The Glove and the Lions
Randall Jarrell   (1914-1965)
A Country Life A Sick Child
Children Selecting Books in a Library Cinderella
Eighth Air Force Gunner
Hope Jerome
Losses Mail Call
Next Day 90 North
The Black Swan The Breath of Night
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner The Elementary Scene
The House in the Woods The Old and the New Masters
The Olive Garden The Orient Express
The Player Piano The Refugees
The Woman at the Washington Zoo Well Water
Sarah Orne Jewett   (1849-1909)
The Pearl  
More of Sarah Orne Jewett in our Novels & Short Stories sections!

Samuel Johnson   (1709-1784)
London: A Poem, in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening
of the theatre in Drury Lane, 1747
The Vanity of Human Wishes
— The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated
Erica Jong   (1942-      )
In the Cloud Forest, or Inca Sleep Poems
Ben Jonson   (1572-1637)
Collected Works
More of Ben Jonson in our Drama section!

James Joyce   (1882-1941)
Chamber Music
More of James Joyce in our Novels & Short Stories sections!
John Keats   (1795-1821)
Poetical Works  
Alfred Joyce Kilmer   (1886-1918)
Collected Poems  
Charles Kingsley   (1819-1875)
A Farewell Oh! That We Two Were Maying
The Sands of Dee The Three Fishers
Young and Old
More of Charles Kingsley in our Novels section!
Rudyard Kipling   (1865-1936)
A Complete Collection of Poems
More of Rudyard Kipling in our Novels & Short Stories sections!

Charles Lamb   (1775-1834)
A Farewell to Tobacco Cleanliness
On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born Parental Recollections
The King and Queen of Hearts The Old Familiar Faces
Thoughtless Cruelty To Margaret W------
 
More of Charles Lamb in our Short Stories section!
Walter Savage Landor   (1775-1864)
Absence Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
Alciphron and Leucippe Autumn
Child of a Day Dirce
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher Fęsulan Idyl
Finis Ianthe! You are Call'd to Cross the Sea
Ianthe's Question Late Leaves
Mild is the Parting Year Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
Of Clementina On Catullus
Proud Word you never spoke Remain!
Resignation Rose Aylmer
Separation Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
The Maid's Lament To Robert Browning
Twenty Years hence Verse
Years You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed
D.H. Lawrence   (1885-1930)
Amores (Anthology, 1916) New Poems (Anthology, 1916)
Much more of D.H. Lawrence in our Novels,
Short Stories & Drama sections!

Edward Lear   (1812-1888)
Nonsense Works  
Denise Levertov   (1923-1997)
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (full text) Adam's Complaint
An Embroidery An excerpt from "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus"
Aware Bearing the Light
Celebration Contraband
Everything That Acts Is Actual From the Roof
Grey Sparrow Addresses the Mind's Ear Hymn to Eros
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell Illustrious Ancestors
In California During the Gulf War In Mind
Intrusion Living
Looking, Walking, Being Losing Track
On a Theme by Thomas Merton On the Mystery of the Incarnation
People at Night Pleasures
Psalm Concerning the Castle Seeing for a Moment
September 1961 Settling
Sojourns in the Parallel World St. Peter and the Angel
Stepping Westward Talking to Grief
The Ache of Marriage The Avowal
The Breathing The Dog of Art
The Elves The Garden Wall
The Great Black Heron The Métier of Blossoming
The Mutes The Quest
The Rainwalkers The Sea's Wash in the Hollow of the Heart...
The Secret The Thread
The Well To the Reader
To the Snake Triple Feature
Variation on a Theme by Rilke Wanting the Moon
Web Wedding-Ring
What Were They Like? Zeroing In
Amy Levy   (1861-1889)
Ballade of an Omnibus Epitaph (on a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)
In the Mile End Road Lohengrin
London Poets Magdalen
On the Wye in May Sonnet
The Two Terrors To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life Aftermath
Chaucer Divina Commedia
Excelsior Hymn to the Night
Keats Mezzo Cammin
Milton Morituri Salutamus
My Lost Youth Nature
Nuremberg Seaweed
Shakespeare Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Snow-flakes The Arrow and the Song
The Arsenal at Springfield The Building of the Ship
The Children's Hour The Cross of Snow
The Day is Done The Evening Star
The Fire of Drift-wood The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
The Ladder of St. Augustine The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
The Old Clock on the Stairs The Skeleton in Armor
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls There was a little girl
The Witnesses The Wreck of the Hesperus
Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.  
Richard Lovelace   (1618-1657)
The Snail Song to Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
To Althea, from Prison To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

Robert Lowell   (1917-1977)
Children of Light Dolphin
Epilogue For the Union Dead
History Home After Three Months Away
Homecoming Man and Wife
Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour
The Drunken Fisherman The Old Flame
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
Waking in the Blue  
George MacDonald   (1824-1905)
A Hidden Life and Other Poems The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, vol 1,
 
More of George MacDonald in our Novels & Short Stories sections!
Louis MacNeice   (1907-1963)
Autobiography Bagpipe Music
Carrickfergus Christina
Epilogue House on a Cliff
June Thunder Prayer Before Birth
Snow Soap Suds
Star-Gazer Sunday Morning
The Brandy Glass The Sunlight on the Garden
Wolves  

Osip Mandelstam   (1891-1938)
A Flame is in My Blood Brothers, Let Us Glorify Freedom’s Twilight
I Don’t Remember the Word I Wished to Say Insomnia. Homer. Taut Canvas.
Petropolis Rome
Silentium Sisters
The Age This
This Night is Irredeemable Tristia
What Shall I Do with This Body They Gave Me?  
Katherine Mansfield   (1888-1923)
Collected Poems A Few Rules for Beginners
Countrywomen Voices of the Air
 
More of Katherine Mansfield in our Short Stories section!
Christopher Marlowe   (1564-1593)
Hero and Leander, and Other Poems Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
 Much more Christopher Marlowe in our Drama section!
Edgar Lee Masters   (1868-1950)
Spoon River Anthology (1916)
Vladimir Mayakovsky   (1893-1930)
At the Top of My Voice Attitude to a Miss
Back Home Call to Account!
Conversation with Comrade Lenin Good!
My Soviet Passport Our March
Past One O’Clock ... To All and Everything
To His Own Beloved Self You

Rod McKuen   (1933-       )
Previously unpublished poems from "A Safe Place to Land"  
Herman Melville   (1819-1891)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
More of Herman Melville in our Novels & Short Stories sections!
Edna St. Vincent Millay   (1892-1950)
Collected Poems

John Milton   (1608-1674)
Complete Poems Written in English
Lucy Maud Montgomery   (1874-1942)
A Request I Feel (Verse Libre)
Night Rain along Shore
Sunrise along Shore Which Has More Patience — Man or Woman?
 
More of Lucy Maud Montgomery in our
Novels & Short Stories sections!
Thomas Moore   (1779-1852)
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Lalla Rookh (from "The Fire-worshippers")
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air) The Time I've Lost in Wooing
William Morris   (1834-1896)
A Death Song Atalanta's Race
Iceland First Seen In Prison
Love is Enough: Songs I-IX Riding Together
Shameful Death Sir Giles' War-Song
The Defence of Guenevere The Earthly Paradise: Apology
The Earthly Paradise: The Lady of the Land The Eve of Crecy
The Haystack in the Floods The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt)
The Voice of Toil  
Edwin Muir   (1887-1959)
Selected Poems Scotland's Winter
The Combat The Fathers

Thomas Nashe   (1567-1601)
Adieu, Fair Earth's Bliss Autumn
Fair Summer Droops In Time of Pestilence
Spring  
Edith Nesbit   (1858-1924)
In Trouble Many Voices
The Despot The Rainbow and the Rose
  
More of Edith Nesbit in our Novels & Short Stories sections!
John Henry Cardinal Newman   (1801-1890)
The Pillar of the Cloud  
Eugene O'Neill   (1888-1953)
A Regular Sort of a Guy "It's Great When You Get In"
To Winter Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's First Villanelle
to his Ladye and Ye Difficulties Thereof
More of Eugene O'Neill in our Drama section!
Arthur O'Shaughnessy   (1844-1881)
Ode  
Wilfred Owen   (1893-1918)
A Terre Anthem for Doomed Youth
Apologia pro Poemate Meo Arms and the Boy
Conscious Disabled
Dulce et Decorum Est Exposure
Futility Greater Love
Insensibility Mental Cases
Parable of the Old Men and the Young S. I. W.
Smile, Smile, Smile Spring Offensive
Strange Meeting The Chances
The Dead-Beat The End
The Send-off The Sentry
The Show Wild with all Regrets
Dorothy Parker   (1893-1967)
A Certain Lady Ballade at Thirty-five
Comment Epitaph for a Darling Lady
Finis Interview
Love Song News Item
Observation One Perfect Rose
Resumé Rondeau Redoublé
Song in a Minor Key Wail
Boris Pasternak   (1890-1960)
Hops March
Winter Night  

Andrew Barton Paterson   (1864-1941)
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
 More of Andrew Barton Paterson in our Short Stories section!
Thomas Love Peacock   (1785-1866)
A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day A Fragment
A Glee Beyond the Sea
Castles in the Air Duet
I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel
Life's Uncertain Day Lines on the Death of Julia
Love and Age Margaret Love Peacock (an epitaph)
Newark Abbey Palmyra (1st edition)
Palmyra (2nd edition) Rich & Poor; or Saint & Sinner
Seamen Three Sir Hornbook: or Childe Launcelot's Expedition
The Legend of Saint Laura The Monks of St. Mark
The Round Table; or King Arthur's Feast The War-song of Dinas Vawr
There is a Fever of the Spirit  
Sylvia Plath   (1932-1963)
Collected Poetry  
Edgar Allan Poe   (1809-1849)
A Dream A Dream within a Dream
Annabel Lee For Annie
The Raven To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
To Helen The City in the Sea
Much more of Edgar Allan Poe in our Short Stories section!
Alexander Pope   (1688-1744)
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady On a Certain Lady at Court
The Dying Christian to his Soul The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
Ezra Pound   (1885-1972)
A Pact Ancient Music
Envoi Further Instructions
H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I] In a Station of the Metro
Lament of the Frontier Guard Meditatio
Portrait d'une Femme The Garden
The Lake Isle The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
The Seafarer  
Sir Walter Raleigh   (1552?-1618)
A Description of Love (Now what is love?) A Vision Upon This Conceit of The Fairy Queen
An Epitaph Upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney Even Such Is Time
In Commendation of the Steel Glass Like to a Hermit
Like Truthless Dreams Nature, That Washed her Hands
On the Life of Man Pilgrim to Pilgrim (As you came from the holy land...)
Praised be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son
The Excuse The Lie
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
The Silent Lover The Wood, the Weed, the Wag
More of Sir Walter Raleigh in our Non-Fiction section!
Adrienne Rich   (1929-     )
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Burning Oneself Out Cartographies of Silence
Diving Into the Wreck Final Notions
For the Dead For the Record
From a Survivor From an Atlas of the Difficult World
Implosions In a Classroom
In Those Years Integrity
Living in Sin Miracle Ice Cream
Moving in Winter My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
November 1968 Orion
Our Whole Life Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
Planetarium Power
Prospective Immigrants Please Note Rural Reflections
Shattered Head Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Stepping Backward Two Songs
Victory  

Sir Charles G.D. Roberts   (1860-1943)
An Epitaph for a Husbandman Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892)
Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat Canada
In an Old Barn Monition
O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs Philander's Song
The Cow Pasture The Departing of Gluskāp
The Frosted Pane The Great and Little Weavers
The Herring Weir The Iceberg
The Potato Harvest The Salt Flats
The Skater The Solitary Woodsman
Tantramar Revisited Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street
Edwin Arlington Robinson   (1869-1935)
Collected Poems  
Isaac Rosenberg   (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches Dead Man's Dump
God In the Trenches
Louse Hunting On Receiving News of the War
Returning, We Hear the Larks The Immortals
The Jew Through These Pale Cold Days
Christina Rossetti   (1830-1894)
A Ballad of Boding A Better Resurrection
A Birthday A Daughter of Eve
After Death At Home
Bride Song De Profundis
Dream Land Goblin Market
May Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
Passing Away, Saith the World Remember
Sappho The Convent Threshold
The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness The Prince's Progress (excerpt)
The Thread of Life The Three Enemies
Up-hill When I am Dead, My Dearest
Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (1828-1882)
Collected Poems Selected Poetry
John Ruskin   (1819-1900)
Christ Church, Oxford The Hills of Carrara
The Last Smile Trust Thou Thy Love
George William Russell   (1867-1935)
Collected Poems by A.E.  
Carl Sandburg   (1878-1967)
Chicago Poems  (1916) Cornhuskers  (1918)
Smoke and Steel (1922)  

Siegfried Sassoon   (1886-1967)
The Old Huntsman & other poems (1918) Counter-Attack & other poems (1918)
Picture-Show (1920)  
Friedrich von Schiller   (1759-1805)
Poems, first period Poems, second period
Poems, third period Poems, suppressed poems
 
More of Friedrich von Schiller in our
Drama, Novels & Non-Fiction sections!
Sir Walter Scott   (1771-1832)
County Guy It was an English Ladye Bright
Jock of Hazeldean Lullaby of an Infant Chief
MacGregor's Gathering Marmion: Canto 5 (excerpt)
Marmion: Canto 6 (excerpt) Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
Proud Maisie Rokeby: Canto III (excerpt)
The Lady of the Lake: Canto 1 (excerpt) The Lady of the Lake: Canto 3 (excerpt)
The Lady of the Lake: Canto 5 (excerpt) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
The Maid of Neidpath
Much more of Sir Walter Scott in our
Novels & Short Stories sections!
Anne Sexton   (1928-1974)
Collected Poems  
William Shakespeare   (1564-1616)
The Sonnets Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
A Lover's Complaint The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Much more Shakespeare in our Drama section!
Percy Bysshe Shelley   (1792-1822)
Complete Poetical Works A Lament
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
Art thou pale for weariness England in 1819
Epipsychidion (excerpt) Hellas: Chorus
Hymn of Pan Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Julian and Maddalo (excerpt) Lines: The cold earth slept below
Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered" Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Music when Soft Voices Die (To --) Mutability
Ode to the West Wind One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
Ozymandias Peter Bell the Third
Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
The Cloud The Daemon of the World
The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The Indian Serenade
The Question The Triumph of Life
The Two Spirits: An Allegory The Witch of Atlas
Time Time Long Past
To ---- To a Skylark
To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling" To Night
To the Moon
More of Percy Bysshe Shelley in our Drama & Non-Fiction sections!
Sir Philip Sidney   (1554-1586)
Selected Works  
Edith Sitwell   (1887-1964)
Answers Aubade
Bells Of Gray Crystal By the Lake
Came the Great Popinjay Clowns' Houses
Four in the Morning Still Falls the Rain
The Fan When Cold December

John Skelton   (1460?-1529)
Selected Works  
Christopher Smart   (1722-1771)
A Song to David Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) From Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) Jubilate Agno: Fragment A
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 2
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4
Jubilate Agno: Fragment C Jubilate Agno: Fragment D
On a Lady Throwing Snow-Balls at Her Lover On My Wife's Birth-Day
Psalm XXIII The Long-Nosed Fair
The Pig The Sweets of Evening
Where's the Poker?  
Stevie Smith   (1902-1971)
Alone in the Woods Autumn
Away, Melancholy Bag-Snatching in Dublin
Conviction (i)  Conviction (ii)
Conviction (iii) Conviction (iv)
Deeply Morbid Drugs Made Pauline Vague
Freddy Happiness
I Do Not Speak I Remember
In the Night Infelice
Mother, Among the Dustbins My Heart Goes Out
My Heart Was Full Never Again
Nor We of Her to Him Not Waving But Drowning
Our Bog is Dood  Pad, Pad
Sunt Leones  
Robert Southey   (1774-1843)
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop My Days among the Dead are Past
The Battle of Blenheim The Old Man's Complaints. And how he gained them
The Well of St. Keyne  
Robert Southwell   (1561-1595)
A Child My Choice A Vale of Tears
Christ's Childhood Look Home
Love's Garden Grief Love's Servile Lot
Man's Civil War New Heaven, New War
New Prince, New Pomp Scorn Not The Least
The Burning Babe The Nativity of Christ
The Virgin Mary to Christ on the Cross Times Go by Turns
Upon the Image of Death  
Edmund Spenser   (1552?-1599)
Selected Poetry  
Wallace Stevens   (1879-1955)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Peter Quince at the Clavier
Sunday Morning The Comedian as the Letter C
The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Snow Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird  
Robert Louis Stevenson   (1850-1894)
A Child's Garden of Verses / Underwoods (1913)
More of Robert Louis Stevenson in our
Novels & Short Stories sections!

Sir John Suckling   (1609-1642)
A Ballad Upon a Wedding (excerpt) Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
Song: If you refuse me once, and think again Song: Out upon it, I have lov'd
Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover? Sonnet 1: Dost see how unregarded now
A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses
of Mr. William Shakespeare's, by the Author
 
Jonathan Swift   (1667-1745)
A Description of the Morning A Satirical Elegy
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719 Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair The Beasts' Confession
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
More of Jonathan Swift in our Novels section!
Algernon Charles Swinburne   (1837-1909)
Selected Poetry  

J.M. Synge   (1871-1909)
Danny On an Anniversary
Prelude Queens
The Curse The Passing of the Shee
More of J.M. Synge in our Drama, Novels & Non-Fiction sections!
Sara Teasdale   (1884-1933)
Collected Poems  
Alfred Lord Tennyson   (1809-1892)
Collected Works  
William Makepeace Thackeray   (1811-1863)
Ballads Sorrows of Werther
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman (Co-authored by Charles Dickens ) The Mahogany Tree
More of William M. Thackeray in our
Novels
, Short Stories & Non-Fiction sections!
Dylan Thomas   (1914-1953)
Collected Poems Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Fern Hill Poem in October
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower  

Edward Thomas   (1878-1917)
Collected Poems Adlestrop
Lights Out October
Rain Snow
The Word  
Francis Thompson   (1859-1907)
An Arab Love-Song At Lord's
Before Her Portrait In Youth Daisy
Dream tryst Gilded Gold
Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play In No Strange Land
New Year's Chimes The Hound of Heaven
The Poppy To A Poet Breaking Silence
To a Snowflake To Olivia
What shall I your true love tell?   
 
James Thomson   (1700-1748)
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton Fareweel, ye bughts
Farewell to Ravelrig Gifts
Hymn on Solitude In the Train
Rule Britannia Sunday up the River
The Castle of Indolence: Canto I (excerpt) The Seasons: Summer (excerpt)
The Seasons: Winter The Vine
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]   (1835-1910)
A Sweltering Day In Australia Genius
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd The Aged Pilot Man</