Poetry Archive

Title Author
Western wind when wilt thou blow Anon (early 16th century)
The Sick Rose William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Up in the Morning Early Robert Burns (1759 - 96)
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
`Much Madness is divinest Sense` Emily Dickinson (1830 - 86)
At Lord`s Francis Thompson (1859 -1907)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Holy Sonnet John Donne (1572 - 1631)
`Trail all your pikes` Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)
`Tagus farewell` Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 42)
Snow Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
Lines from Endymion John Keats (1795 - 1821)
`The silver swan` Anon. (c. 1600)
`So we`ll no more a-roving` Gearge rdon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
The Expulsion from Eden John Milton (1608 - 74)
`There was an old man with a beard` Edward Lear (1812 - 88)
Spring and Fall to a young child Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 89)
Ariel`s Song William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Meeting at Night Robert Browning (1812 - 89)
The Coming of Grendel translated by Gerard Benson
Prelude 1 T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Sonnet from the Portugese. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 61)
Symphony in Yellow Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The Vision of Piers Plowman William Langland (1332 - 1400)
Sea Love Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928
from The World Henry Vaughan (1621 - 95)
A Riddle Anon. (18th century)
Eternity William Blake (1757 - 1827)
`No man is an island` John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Cradle Song Thomas Dekker (1570 - 1632)
Chorus from Hellas Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
A Song Laetitia Pilkington (1708 - 50)
The Maiden`s Song Anin. (16th century)
`Sumer is icumen in` Anon. (13th Century)
In TIme of `The Breaking of Nations` Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
London Bells Anon. (Early 18th Century)
The Tyger William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Roundel Geoffrey Chaucer (1340? - 1400)
Dreams Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
from To the City of London William Dunbar (1465? - 1530?)
`I have a gentil cock` ANON. (Early 15th century)
What Am I After All WALT WHITMAN (1819 - 92)
Piano D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 - 1930)
from The Song of Solomon The King James Bible (1611)
Old English Riddle Anon. (before 1000)
Virtue George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
`Since there`s no help, come let us kiss and part` Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
The Cries of London Anon (17th century)
`Ich am of Irlonde` Anon. (14th century)
Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 92)
The Embankment
( The fantasi of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night)
T. E. Hulme (1883 - 1917)
`I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail` Anon (17th century)
from Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
To Emilia V - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
'I shall say what inordinate love is' ANON. (15th century)
A red red Rose Robert Burns (1759 - 96)
The Lobster Quadrille Lewis Carrol (1832 - 98)
Two Fragments Sappho translated by Cicely Herbert
I Am John Clare (1793 - 1864)
from THe Garden Andrew Marvell (1621 - 78)
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
'Gray ose and gander' ANON. (date unknown)
Sonnet: On His Blindness John Milton (1608 - 74)
The Twa Corbies Anon. (before 1800)
'The Great Frost'
or The art of walking the streets of London
John Gay (1685 - 1732)
Sonet 18 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Where the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 94)
'The World is too much with us' William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
A Birthday Christina Roessetti (1830 - 94)
'Now winter nights enlarge' Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
The od Morrow John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Adlestrop Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
'My true love hath my heart and I have his' Sir Phlip Sidney (1554 - 86)
To my dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 72)
Chorus from a Play
(written in the year 1700)
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Inversnaid Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 89)
His Return to London Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
'I taste a liquor never brewed' Emily Dickinson (1830 - 86)
'Under the greenwood tree' William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
'My lefe ys faren in a lond' ANON. (15th Centuary)
from Ecclsiastes The King James Bible (1611)
Rondel Charles D'Orleans (1394 - 1546)
translated byOliver Bernard
from An Essay on Man Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
The Faun Paul Verlaine (1844 - 96)
translated by John Montague
from Mutabilitie Edmund Spenser (1552 - 99)
Sic Vita Henry King (1592 - 1669)
from Dover Beach Matthew Arnold (1822 - 88)
Hope Edith Sodergran (1892 - 1923)
translated by Herbert Lomas
'I sing of a maiden' Anon. (early 15th century)
Song
to Celia
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637
Father William Lewis Carrol (1832 - 98)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Robert Browning (1812 - 89)
Anglo-Saxon Riddle ANON. (before 1000)
translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland
from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (1340? - 1400)
Sonnet 115 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Jerusalem William Blake (1757 - 1827)
'I would to heaven that I were so much clay' George rdon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
'Loving the rituals' Palladas (4th century AD)
translated by Tony Harrison
from St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians translated by William Tyndale
from Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
from In Memoriam Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 92)
'There came a Wind like a Bugle' Emily Dickinson (1830 - 86)
The Maiden's Song Anon (16th century)
A riddle Anon (18th century)
'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
from The Vision of Piers Plowman William Langland (c. 1332 - 1400)
Sunrise Sequence translated by Ronald M. Berndt
Eternity William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Cradle song Thomas Dekker (1570 - 1632)
A Song Laetitia Pilkington (1708 - 50)
Up in the Morning Early Robert Burns (1759 - 96)
Like a Beacon Grace Nichols (b. 1950)
The Railway Children Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Her Anxiety W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Benediction James Berry (b. 1924)
Encounter at St. Martin's Ken Smith (b. 1938)
Sonnet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats (1795 - 1821)
A Dead Statesman Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
'You took away all the oceans and all the room' Osip Mandelstam (1891 - 1938)
'Into my heart an air that kills' A. E. Housman
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)(1892 - 1978)
'I shall say what inordinate love is' Anon. (!5th Century)
He wishes for his Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)
'The Great Frost' John Gay (1685 - 1732)
If I could tell you W. H. Auden (1907 - 73)
'The world is too much with us' William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Harvestwoman Fernando Pessoa (1888 - 1935)
translated by Jonathon Griffin
Longings C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933)
translated by Edmund Keeley and Phillip Sherrard
Peaceful Waters:Variation Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936)
translated by Adrian Mitchell
Caedmon's Hymn translated by Paul Muldoon (7th century AD)
from Among School Children W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Season Song Anon (9th century)
translated from the Irish by Flann O'Brien
from Beowulf Anon. (10th century or earlier)
translated by Seamus Heaney
For Pero Moniz, who died at sea Luis de Camoes (1524 - 80)
English version by Paul Hyland
WHat He Said Cempulappeyanirar (1st -3rd century AD)
translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
from Inferno Seamus Heaney
from Marinero en tierra Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) Spain
The Aegean Maria Luisa Spaziani (b. 1924) translated by Beverly Allen
Optimistic Little Poem Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1928) Germany, translated by David Constantine.
Almost without Noticing Eira Stenberg (b.1943) Finland, translated by Hervert Lomas
Emmonsails Heath in Winter John Clare (1793-1864)
Separation W.S. Merwin Separation (b. 1927)
N.W.2 : Spring A.C.Jacobs (1927-1994)
I may, I might, I must Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
I Am Becoming My Mother Lorna odison (b. 1947)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats (b. 1865)