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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 |
See the Helper's Network (UK) Web Site for more classic poetry...