| 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) |
