GEOFFREY CHAUCER
from The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
The Pardoner’s Prologue
WILLIAM DUNBAR
Lament for the Makers
SIR THOMAS WYATT
Whoso List to Hunt
They Flee from Me
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Astrophel and Stella
EDMUND SPENSER
The Faerie Queene: The Gardens of Adonis
Epithalamion
Prothalamion
SIR WALTER RALEGH
The Ocean to Cynthia
Answer to Marlowe
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE
Tichborne’s Elegy
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
The Burning Babe
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Tamburlaine
The Passionate Shepard to His Love
MICHAEL DRAYTON
Idea
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Phoenix and Turtle
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
King Lear
The Tempest
Sonnets
…XIX: “Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,”
…XXX: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”
…LIII: “What is your substance, whereof are you made,”
…LV: “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”
…LXXIII: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”
…LXXXVI: “Was it the proud full sail of this great verse,”
…LXXXVII: “Farewell — thou art too dear for my possessing,”
…XCIV: “They that have power to hurt and will do none,”
…CVII: “Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”
…CXVI: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
…CXXI: ” ‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,”
…CXXIX: “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame,”
…CXXX: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;”
…CXLIV: “Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,”
Songs
…Dirge
…When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
…Autolycus’ Song
…Autolycus As Peddler
THOMAS NASHE
Litany in Time of Plague
THOMAS CAMPION
There Is a Garden in Her Face
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
When Thou Must Home to Shades of Under Ground
JOHN DONNE
Song
A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Ecstasy
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
A Hymn to God the Father
BEN JOHNSON
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare
Song: To Celia [1606]
Song: To Celia [1616]
Clerimont’s Song
ANONYMOUS
Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song
JOHN CLEVELAND
Mark Antony
JAMES SHIRLEY
Dirge
ROBERT HERRICK
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Delight in Disorder
THOMAS CAREW
A Rapture
Song
RICHARD LOVELACE
La Bella Bona Roba
Song
To Althea, from Prison
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Song
“Out upon it! I have loved”
EDMUND WALLER
Song
ANDREW MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress
The Mower Against Gardens
The Mower to the Glowworms
The Garden
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
GEORGE HERBERT
The Collar
Jordan (I)
Jordan (II)
Church Monuments
Love (III)
RICHARD CRASHAW
The flaming Heart
HENRY VAUGHAN
Peace
The World
“They are all gone into the world of light!”
Cock-Crowing
THOMAS TRAHERNE
Shadows in the Water
JOHN MILTON
Sonnets
…XVII: “When I consider how my light is spent,”
…XVIII: “Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones”
…XIX: “Methought I saw my late espousèd saint”
Lycidas
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes
JOHN DRYDEN
Religio Laici
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Lines on Milton
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
A Song of a young Lady
ALEXANDER POPE
Epistle to Augustus
The Rape of the Lock
The Dunciad
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The Vanity of Human Wishes
WILLIAM COLLINS
Ode, Written in the beginning of the Year 1748
Ode to Evening
THOMAS GRAY
Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard
CHRISTOPHER SMART
Jubilate Agno
WILLIAM COWPER
The Castaway
ROBERT BURNS
Address to the Devil
Holy Willie’s Prayer
Scots Wha Hae
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-flower
London
The Mental Traveller
The Crystal Cabinet
The Four Zoas
Milton
Jerusalem
The Gates of Paradise
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Tintern Abbey
Lines
The Lucy Poems
“Strange fits of passion have I known:”
“She dwelt among the untrodden ways”
“Three years she grew in sun and shower,”
“A slumber did my spirit seal;”
“I travelled among unknown men,”
Resolution and Independence
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
The Solitary Reaper
The Prelude
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Christabel
Dejection: An Ode
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, A Romaunt
Don Juan
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY
Prometheus Unbound
Ode to the West Wind
The Two Spirits: An Allegory
Epipsychidion
Adonais
Hellas
With a Guitar, to Jane
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
The Triumph of Life
JOHN KEATS
On the Sea
La Bella Dame Sans Merci
Ode of Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
To Autumn
Bright Star
This Living Hand
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
[Rose Aylmer, 1779-1800]
Dirce
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
Song by Mr. Cypress
The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
JOHN CLARE
from Badger
[John Clare]
I Am
An Invite to Eternity
A Vision
Song [Secret Love]
GEORGE DARLEY
It Is Not Beauty I Demand
The Phoenix
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES
Lines
Song
Song of the Stygian Naiades
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
To a Waterfowl
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Uriel
Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing
Bacchus
Days
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Snow-Flakes
The Cross of Snow
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The Bells of San Blas
EDGAR ALLEN POE
Israfel
The City in the Sea
JONES VERY
The New Birth
The Dead
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
“My life has been the poem I would have writ,”
“I am a parcel of vain strivings tied”
“Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,”
JULIA WARD HOWE
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
WALT WHITMAN
Song of Myself
As Adam Early in the Morning
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
“Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,”
“As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,”
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
The Last Invocation
HERMAN MELVILLE
The Portent
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
The Maldive Shark
Emily Dickinson
“There’s a certain Slant of light,”
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,”
“From Blank to Blank –”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”
“I started Early — Took my Dog –”
“This Consciousness that is aware”
“Our journey had advanced –”
“The Tint I cannot take — is best –”
“Because I could not stop for Death –”
“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun –”
“A Light exists in Spring”
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –”
“In Winter in my Room”
“Because that you are going”
“A Pit — but Heaven over it –”
“By a departing light”
“I dwell in Possibility –”
“Through what transports of Patience”
“We grow accustomed to the Dark –”
“No man saw awe, nor to his house”
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Mariana
The Eagle
Ulysses
Morte d’Arthur
from The Princess
…The Splendour Falls
…Tears, Idle Tears
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Maud: A Monodrama
Crossing the Bar
EDWARD FITZGERALD
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
ROBERT BROWNING
My Last Duchess
Fra Lippo Lippi
A Toccata of Galuppi’s
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Andrea del Sarto
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Dover Beach
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
No Worst, There is None
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
To R. B.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
The Blessed Damozel
Sestina (after Dante)
from The House of Life
…Willowwood
…The Orchard-Pit
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Goblin Market
Song
Remember
Passing Away
A Birthday
Up-Hill
WILLIAM MORRIS
Near Avalon
A Garden by the Sea
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
August
At a Month’s End
EMILY BRONTË
Stanzas
Last Lines
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
A Musical Instrument
EDWARD LEAR
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
The Jumblies
The Courtship of the Youghy-Bonghy-Bò
The Floating Old Man
LEWIS CARROLL
The Hunting of the Snark
The Mad Gardener’s Song
A Pig-Tale
The Walrus and the Carpenter
GEORGE MEREDITH
Modern Love
A Ballad of Past Meridian
RUDYARD KIPLING
The Vampire
The Way Through the Woods
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Adam’s Curse
The Cold Heaven
The Second Coming
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
LIONEL JOHNSON
The Dark Angel
ERNEST DOWSON
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
THOMAS HARDY
Neutral Tones
The Darkling Thrush
During Wind and Rain
Moments of Vision
Afterwards
ROBERT BRIDGES
London Snow
Nightingales
D. H. Lawrence
Medlars and Sorb-Apples
The Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
Tortoise Shout
Snake
The Ship of Death
Bavarian Gentians
Shadows
A. E. HOUSMAN
A Shropshire Lad
Last Poems
WILFRED OWEN
Futility
Strange Meeting
Anthem for Doomed Youth
EDWARD THOMAS
Liberty
The Owl
The Gallows
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Returning, We Hear the Larks
A Worm Fed on the Heart of Corinth
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Luke Havergal
For a Dead Lady
Eros Turannos
STEPHEN CRANE
War is Kind
TRUMBULL STICKNEY
Mnemosyne
Eride, V
ROBERT FROST
After Apple-Picking
The Wood-Pile
The Oven Bird
Birches
Putting in the Seed
Design
Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
Directive
WALLACE STEVENS
Sunday Morning
Domination of Black
Nomad Exquisite
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
The Snow Man
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Poems of Our Climate
The Auroras of Autumn
The Course of a Particular
Of Mere Being
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Queen-Anne’s-Lace
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
EZRA POUND
A Pact
Planh for the Young English King
ELINOR WYLIE
Wild Peaches
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE)
Orchard
Garden
ROBINSON JEFFERS
Shine, Perishing Republic
Apology for Bad Dreams
MARIANNE MOORE
Marriage
T. S. (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Preludes
La Figlia Che Piange
The Waste Land
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
Here Lies a Lady
Captain Carpenter
Blue Girls
CONRAD AIKEN
Morning Song of Senlin
And in the Hanging Gardens
Sea Holly
Preludes for Memnon
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
“If I should learn, in some quite casual way,”
LOUISE BOGAN
Women
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT
Fish Food
Come Over and Help Us
LÉONIE ADAMS
April Mortality
The Horn
Grapes Making
Bell Tower
ALLEN TATE
Aeneas at Washington
The Mediterranean
HART CRANE
Repose of Rivers
Voyages
At Melville’s Tomb
from The Bridge
…To Brooklyn Bridge
…The Tunnel
…Atlantis
The Broken Tower
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