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Index of Poets and Poems

 

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William Allingham

The Fairies

Anonymous

Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
I'm Free
To His Love
Western Wind

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918

The Ninth Secret Poem

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach
Requiescat

W H Auden

From Twelve Songs (Stop all the Clocks)

The Bible

Exodus 15 v I - II
23rd Psalm

William Blake (1757-1827)

Night
The New Jerusalem
The Tyger

Robert Bridges

My Delight and Your Delight

Emily Brontë

Last Lines
Remembrance

Rupert Brooke 1887 - 1915


Day That I Have Loved
III. The Dead
IV The Dead
The Soldier

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861

How Do I Love Thee
If thou must love me
When our two souls

Robert Browning 1812-1889

Home-thoughts, from Abroad
Incident of the French Camp

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824

A Fragment
A Fragment (2)
A Sketch
A Very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama
Address Intended to be Recited at the Caledonian Meeting
Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre
Adrian's Address to his Soul When Dying
All For Love
'All is Vanity, Saith the Preacher'
An Occasional Prologue
And wilt thou weep when I am low?
And Thou Art Dead, as Young as Fair
Answer to a Beautiful Poem
Answer to Some Elegant Verses Sent by a Friend to the Author, Complaining that One of his Descriptions was Rather too Warmly Drawn
A Spirit Pass'd Before Me
AWAY, away, ye notes of woe!
Bowles and Campbell
Bright be The Place of Thy Soul
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childish Recollections
Churchill's Grave
Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey
Damætas
Darkness
Don Juan
Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.
Elegy on Newstead Abbey
Endorsement to the Deed of Separation
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Epigram
Epigram (2)
Epigram (3)
Epigram (4)
Epigrams
Epigram on my Wedding Day
Epistle From Mr.
Murray to Dr. Polidori

Epistle to a Friend
Epistle to Augusta
Epistle to Mr. Murray
Epitaph
Epitaph for Joseph Blackett, Late Poet and Shoemaker
Epitaph for William Pitt
Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell
Euthanasia
Fame, Wisdom, Love, and Power were Mine
Fare Thee Well
FAREWELL! if ever fondest prayer
Farewell to Malta
Farewell to the Muse
Fill the Goblet Again
Fragment
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore
Francisca
From Anacreon
From Anacreon (2)
From the French
From the French (2)
From the Last Hill that Looks on thy once Holy Dome
From the Portuguese
From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus
Granta
Herod's Lament for Mariamne
I Saw Thee Weep
I Speak not - I trace not - I breathe not
I Would I Were a Careless Child
IF sometimes in the haunts of men
If That High World
Imitated From Catullus
Imitation of Tibullus
Impromptu
Impromptu, In Reply to a Friend
Inscription On The Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
In the Valley of Waters
Jeptha's Daughter
John Keats
L'Amitte est L'Amour Sans Ailes
Lachin Y Gair
Lara
Lines
Lines (addressed to Rev J T Becher)
Lines Addressed to a Young Lady
Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull
Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Lines to a Lady Weeping
Lines to Mr Hodgson
Lines Written Beneath a Picture
Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
Lines Written in an Album at Malta
Lines Written on a Blank Leaf of 'The Pleasures of Memory'
Love's Last Adieu
MAID of Athens, ere we part,
Manfred
Martial, Lib. I, Epig. I
Mazeppa
Monody on the Death of The Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan
My Epitaph
My Soul is Dark
Napoleon's Farewell
Ode From the French
Ode on Venice
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
Oh! Snatched Away In Beauty's Bloom
Oh! Weep For Those
On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School
On a Cornelian Heart Which was Broken
On A Distant View of the Village and School of the Harrow Hill
On Being Asked What was the Origin of Love
On Finding a Fan
On Jordan's Banks
On Leaving Newstead Abbey
On Lord Thurlow's Poems
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera
On My Thirty-Third Birthday
On My Wedding Day
On Napoleon's Escape From Elba
On Parting
On Revisiting Harrow
On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
On the Bust of Helen by Canova
On The Death of a Young Lady
On The Death of Mr Fox
On the Star of the 'Legion of Honour'
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
ONE struggle more, and I am free
Oscar of Alva
Parenthical Address by Dr Plagiary
Parisina
Prometheus
REMEMBER him whom passion’s power
Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
Remembrance
Remind me not, remind me not,
Reply to Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His Mistress
Saul
She Walks in Beauty
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving
Song for the Luddites
Sonnet, to Genevra
Sonnet to George The Fourth
Sonnet to Lake Leman
Sonnet, to the Same
Stanzas
Stanzas (2)
Stanzas Composed During a Thunder-Storm
Stanzas for Music
Stanzas for Music (2)
Stanzas for Music (3)
Stanzas to a Hindoo Air
Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England
Stanzas To a Lady, With The Poems Of Camoëns
Stanzas to Augusta
Stanzas to Augusta (2)
Stanzas to the Po
Stanzas Written In Passing The Ambracian Gulf
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
Substitute for an Epitaph
The Adieu
The Bride of Abydos
The Chain I Gave
The Charity Ball
The Conquest
The Cornelian
The Corsair
The Death of Calmar and Orla
The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Devil's Drive
The Dream
The Episode of Nisus and Euralyus
The First Kiss of Love
The Giaour
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
The Irish Avatar
The Lament of Tasso
The Prayer of Nature
The Prisoner of Chillon
The Siege of Corinth
The spell is broke; the charm is flown!
The Tear
The Vision of Judgement
The Wild Gazelle
There be none of Beauty's Daughters
There was a time, I need not name,
They say that Hope is happiness
Thou art not false, but thou art fickle,
Thou Whose Spell Can Raise the Dead
Thoughts Suggested By a College Examination
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Media of Euripides
Thy Days Are Done
To a Beautiful Quaker
To a Lady
To a Lady (2)
To a Lady (3)
To a Lady (4)
To a Vain Lady
To a Youthful Friend
To an Oak at Newstead
To Anne
To Belshazzar
To Caroline
To Caroline (2)
To Caroline (3)
To D---
To Dives
To E---
To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
To Eliza
To Emma
To Florence
To George, Earl Delawarr
To Lesbia
To Lord Thurlow
To M---
To Marion
To Mary
To Mr. Moore
To Mr. Murray
To Mr. Murray (2)
To M.S.G
To M.S.G. (2)
To My Son
To Romance
To The Author of a Sonnet
To the Countess of Blessington
To The Duke of Dorset
To The Earl of Clare
To The Same
To The Sighing Strephon
To Thomas Moore
To Thomas Moore (2)
To Thomas Moore (3)
To Thyrza
To Time
To Woman
Translation From Catullus
Translation From Catullus (2)
Translation From Horace
Translation From the Medea of Eurypides
Translation From Vittorelli
Translation of a Romaic Love Song
Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus
Translation of the Famous Greek War Song
Translation of the Romaic Song
Verses Found in a Summer House at Hales-Owen
Versicles
Vision of Belshazzar
Warriors and Chiefs
We Sate Down and Wept By the Waters of Babel
Well! Thou Art Happy
Were My Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It To Be
When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay
When I Roved a Young Highlander
WHEN we two parted
Windsor Poetics
Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos


Thomas Campbell 1777 - 1844

Freedom And Love

Lewis Carroll 1832-1898

Jabberwocky

John Clare 1793-1864

First Love
I Am
Infant's Graves
The Secret
The Shepherd's Calendar

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

Christabel
Dejection: An Ode
Frost at Midnight
Kubla Khan
The Æolian Harp
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

Susan Coolidge 1835-1905

New Every Morning

William Cory 1823-1892

Heraclitus

Abraham Cowley 1618-1667

from On the Death of Mr. William Harvey

Richard Crashaw 1613-1649

An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife who Died and were Buried Together

Ernest H Crosby

War and Hell

e.e.cummings 1894-1962

my love

Samuel Daniel 1562-1619

Love is a Sickness

W.H. Davies 1871-1940

Leisure

Walter De la Mare 1873-1956

Good-bye
Peace
The Listeners

Thomas Dekker

A Portrait

John Donne 1572-1631

Holy Sonnet X
The Baite

Ernest (Christopher) Dowson 1867 - 1900

A Last Word
Amor Profanus
Exchanges
Growth
In a Breton Cemetery
In Tempore Senectutis
Jadis
Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
The Moon Maiden's Song
To One in Bedlam
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam
What is Love?
Yvonne of Brittany

Michael Drayton

To His Coy Mistress

John Dryden 1631 - 1700

Happy The Man
(Translating Horace Odes, Book III, XXIX)

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882

Brahmin

Anne Finch 1620 - 1720

A Letter to Daphnis

Edward Fitzgerald

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

John Fletcher 1579-1625

Weep No More

Robert Frost 1874-1963

The Road Not Taken

Kahlil Gibran

On Marriage

Sir Arthur Gorges 1557-1625

Her Face

Robert Graves 1895-1985

The Beach
A Pinch of Salt

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard

Thomas Hardy 1840-1928

I Found Her Out There
In a Wood
The Alarm
The Dance at the Phoenix
The Darkling Thrush
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's
The Stranger's Song

J Milton Hayes 1884-1940

The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

Robert Herrick 1591 - 1674

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Delight in Disorder
A Meditation for his Mistress
Be My Mistress Short or Tall
To Anthea Who May Command Him Anything
To Phillis, to Love and Live With Him
Corinna's Going A Maying
To The Willow-Tree
Upon Cupid
The Apparition of His Mistress Calling Him to Elysium
Upon Julia's Clothes
The Bracelet: To Julia
Upon Julia's Ribbon
To Julia
To Electra
Art Above Nature: To Julia
Her Bed
The Parliament of Roses: To Julia
Upon Julia's Recovery
Upon Julia's Hair Filled With Dew
Cherry Ripe
The Captive Bee; Or, The Little Filcher
Upon Roses
How His Soul Came Ensnared
Upon Julia's Voice
The Night Piece: To Julia
His Covenant Or Protestation: To Julia
His Sailing From Julia
His Last Request to Julia
The Transfiguration

 

Henry Scott Holland

Death Is Nothing At All

 

Thomas Hood

Autumn
Death
Fair Ines
Faithless Sally Brown
I Remember , I Remember

Ruth
Silence
The Death-bed
The Song of the Shirt

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Binsey Poplars
Inversnaid
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
The Windhover
The Wreck of the Deutschland
'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'

 

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) 65BC - 8BC

Te maris et terrae

A.E. Housman 1859-1936

Shropshire Lad
I - X
XI - XX
XXI - XXX
XXXI - XL
XLI - L
LI - LX
LXI - LXIII
Fancy's Knell

Leigh Hunt 1784 - 1859

Abou Ben Adhem

Ben Jonson 1572-1637

To Celia

Kabir (c. 15th Century)

To be a Slave of Intensity

John Keats (1795-1821)

Addressed to Haydon
Addressed to the Same
Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
Calidore: A Fragment
Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
Endymion
Fancy
Happy is England! I could be content
How many bards gild the lapses of time!
Hyperion
I Stood tip-toe upon a little hill
In a drear-nighted December,
Imitation of Spenser
Isabella
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Lamia
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
Ode
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Psyche
On Fame I
On Fame II
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
On leaving some Friends at an early Hour
On receiving a curious Shell
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Robin Hood
Sleep and Poetry
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
The Eve of St. Agnes
The Human Seasons
To * * * *
To * * * * * *
To a Friend who sent me some Roses
To Autumn
To Charles Cowden Clarke
To G. A. W.
To George Felton Mathew
To Hope
To Kosciusko
To My Brother George
To My Brother George (2)
To My Brothers
To one who has been long in city pent
To Some Ladies
When I have Fears that I may cease to be
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain
Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

If
The Conundrum of the Workshops

D.H. Lawrence 1885 - 1930

Gloire de Dijon
The Piano
The Song of a Man Who Has Come Through

Eugene Lee-Hamilton 1845-1907

Among The Firs
Idle Charon
Noon's Dream-Song
Sunken Gold
The Death of Puck
The Eagles of Tiberius
What the Sonnet is
Wood Song

Thomas Lodge 1558-1625

Rosalind's Madrigal

Henry W Longfellow

Hiawatha
The Reaper and the Flowers

Richard Lovelace 1618-1657

To Althea, from Prison

Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Andrew Marvell

A Garden
The Definition of Love
The Fair Singer
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
Thoughts in a Garden
To His Coy Mistress
Upon Appleton House
Young Love

John Masefield (1878-1967)

Sea Fever
Cargoes

John McRae

In Flanders Fields

Edna St.Vincent Millay

Dirge Without Music

John Milton 1608 1674

Extract from Paradise Lost

Caroline Norton 1808-1876

I do not love Thee

J B O'Reilly 1844-1890

A White Rose

Arthur O' Shaughnessy 1844-1881

Ode

Wilfred Owen

Anthem For Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum est

Coventry Patmore

Magna est Veritas

George Peele 1558-1597

Bethsabe's Song
Farewell to Arms
The Song at the Well

Alexander Pope 1688-1744

An Essay on Criticism

Ezra Pound 1885-1972

For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Rihaku (Trans)

Francis Quarles

My Beloved is Mine and I am His

Sir Walter Raleigh

His Pilgrimage

W B Rands 1823-1880

The Thought

Alan Ross

Destroyers in the Arctic

Christina Rossetti 1830-1894

A Birthday
Remember
Rest
The First Day
Up-Hill
Song

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882

The Choice

John Ruskin 1819-1900

Trust Thou Thy Love

Siegfried Sassoon 1886 - 1967

Glory of Women
They

John Scott of Amwell

The Drum

William Shakespeare

Sonnets 1- 50
Sonnets 51 - 100
Sonnets 101 - 154

P. B. Shelley 1792-1822

A Dirge
Adonais
Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude
Bereavement
Lines To An Indian Air
Love's Philosophy
Mont Blanc
Mutability
Ode to the West Wind
One Word is too Often Profaned
Ozymandias
Queen Mab
Song
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
The Cloud
To......
To a Skylark
To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling
To Night
When the Lamp is Shatter'd

James Shirley 1596-1666

Death the Leveller

Sir Philip Sidney

The Bargain

Charles Sorley 1895 - 1915

All the Hills and Vales Along
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead

Robert Southey 1774-1843

Among his Books

James Stephens 1882-1950

Mad Patsy

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894

Requiem

Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909

A Ballad of Burdens
A Leave-Taking
Ave atque Vale
A Forsaken Garden
Dolores
Itylus
Love and Sleep
Nephelidia
The Garden of Prosperine

Joshua Sylvester 1563 -1618

Love's Omnipresence

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892

Break, Break, Break
Crossing the Bar
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Marriage Morning
The Brook
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Eagle
The Flower
The Kraken
The Lady of Shallot
The Lotos Eaters
The Oak
The Palace of Art
The Princess
Ulysses

Dylan Thomas 1914-1953

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Aurelian Townsend 1583-1643

To The Lady May

 

Henry Van Dyke 1852-1933

Parable of Immortality

J G Whittier 1807-1892

The Henchman

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

Panthea
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

William Wordsworth 1770-1850

She Was A Phantom of Delight
Surprised by joy — impatient as the Wind

Sir Henry Wotton 1568-1639

The Character of a Happy Life

Wu Tsao (1800's - actual birth/death date not known)

For The Courtesan Ch'ing Lin

Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542

A Revocation
Forget not yet
The Appeal
Throughout the World
To His Lute
Translation of Petrarch's Rima, Sonnet 134
Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus...
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

W B Yeats 1865-1939

Among School Children
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death
Easter 1916
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Leda and the Swan
Love Song
Sailing to Byzantium
The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Scholars
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Wild Swans at Coole
These are the Clouds
When You Are Old

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