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Classic Poetry

 

Anonymous (tr. Lady August Gregory) Donal Og (Young Donald)
Anonymous Footprints
Anonymous Sumerian Love Poem
Matthew Arnold A Wish
Matthew Arnold Dover Beacj
Matthew Arnold Requiescat
W.H. Auden Carry Her Over the Water
W.H. Auden Funeral Blues
W.H. Auden Johnny
W.H. Auden Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles
Hilaire Belloc George
Hilaire Belloc Henry King
Hilaire Belloc Rebecca
Hilaire Belloc The Early Morning
Hilaire Belloc The Frog
Chuck Berry Memphis, Tennessee
Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
William Blake A Little Boy Lost
William Blake Jerusalem
William Blake The Garden of Love
William Blake The Sick Rose
William Blake The Tiger
William Blake The Voice of the Ancient Bard
William Blake The Shepherd
Jorge Luis Borges To a cat
Emily Jane Bronte Remembrance
Rupert Brooke 1914 I: Peace
Rupert Brooke The Soldier
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Dead Rose
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 14: If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways
Robert Browning Life In A Love
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron She walks in beauty
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron So We'll Go No More a-Roving
Robert Burns A Fond Kiss
Lewis Carroll A Strange Wild Song
Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll Little Birds
Lewis Carroll The Mock Turtle's Song
Geoffrey Chaucer Rondel of Merciless Beauty
John Clare I Am
John Clare Hesperus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
Wendy Cope Engineers' Corner
Wendy Cope Giving Up Smoking
Wendy Cope Message
Roald Dahl A Little Nut-Tree
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death
John Donne Death
John Donne For Whom The Bell Tolls (Meditation XVII)
John Donne No man is an island (part of Meditation XVII)
Paul Laurence Dunbar A Golden Day
T.S. Eliot Prelude
A R D Fairburn I'm Older Than You, Please Listen
A R D Fairburn Tapu
Eleanor Farjean Morning Has Broken
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
Denis Glover The River Crossing
Harry Graham L'Enfant Glacé
Harry Graham Providence
Harry Graham Tender-Heartedness
Thomas Gray Elegy (Written in a Country Churchyard)
Thomas Gray On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Thomas Hardy Shut Out that Moon 
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush
Seamus Heaney The Barn
Seamus Heaney The Early Purges
Robert Herrick 'Gather ye rose-buds...'
Robert Herrick To Anthea Who may Command him Anything
Conrad Hilberry Tongue
Ralph Hodgson The Great Auk's Ghost
Oliver Wendell Holmes A Familiar Letter
Oliver Wendell Holmes The Boys
Oliver Wendell Holmes The Iron Gate
A E Housman On Wenlock Edge
Helen Hunt Jackson A Calendar of Sonnets: January
Elizabeth Jennings Rhyme for Children
Jenny Joseph Warning
John Keats Written on a Summer Evening
Joyce Kilmer Trees
Charles Kingsley Young and Old
Letitia Elizabeth Landon Revenge
Lao-tzu Tao Te Ching (click here to dip in)
Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb
Philip Larkin This Be The Verse
D H Lawrence Piano
Henry Lawson Andy's Gone With Cattle
Henry Lawson Knocked Up
Giacomo Leopardi Infinite
Li Po Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine
Li Po Autumn River Song
William James Linton Spring and Autumn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autumn
Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander (both sestiads)
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Christopher Marlowe Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight?
Andrew Marvell The Definition of Love
John Masefield A Creed
John Masefield Cargoes
John Masefield Sea Fever
Gerald Massey Desolate
John McCrae Anarchy
John McCrae In Flanders Field
Roger McGough Let me die a youngman's death
John Newton Amazing Grace
Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
Mervyn Peake An old and crumbling parapet
Sylvia Plath Cut
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe Spirits Of The Dead
Alexander Pope A Little Learning
Alexander Pope Summer
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Friendship 
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin "I loved you..."
James Whitcomb Riley A Barefoot Boy
Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
Christina Rossetti A Study (A Soul)
Christina Rossetti Echo
William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (sonnet 18)
Percy Bysshe Shelley Good-Night
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley To The Men of England
Mary Schmich Sunscreen
Robert Service ?
John Sewell The Apple Garden
Charles Spear Audrey
Robert Louis Stevenson A Valentine's Son
Muriel Stuart In The Orchard
Hal Summers My Old Cat
Sarah Teasdale I Am Not Yours
Sarah Teasdale I Would Live in Your  Love
Sarah Teasdale It is Not a Word
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
Mother Theresa Do It Anyway
Edward Thomas Aspens
Edward Thomas Like the Touch of Rain
Glen Thomas Tomorrow's Child
Henry David Thoreau Conscience
Henry David Thoreau Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell
Henry David Thoreau Mist
Chidiock Tichborne My prime of youth is but a frost of cares (Tichborne's Elegy)
Jean Toomer Reapers
Tu Fu Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River
Tu Fu Day's End
Tu Fu Full Moon
Tom Waits Martha
Walt Whitman 1861
Walt Whitman A Clear Midnight
Walt Whitman A Glimpse
Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider
Lord John Wilmot Regime de Vivre
William Wordsworth Daffodils
Oscar Wilde Requiescat
William Butler Yeats A Crazed Girl
William Butler Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens
William Butler Yeats When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats Youth and Age

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