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      A

Anonymous
      Beauty's self
      On Sir Walter Rawleigh at His Execution
      Thule
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
      Dover Beach
      Shakespeare
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
      Musee des Beaux Arts

      B

Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
      Life!
William Barnes (1801-1886)
      Linden Lea
John Betjeman (1906-1984)
      Myfanwy
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
      One Art
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
      Nightingales
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
      Muleykeh
      My last duchess
      Pippa's Song
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
      All For love
      On the castle of Chillon
      She walks in beauty

      C

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
      To the evening star
      The River of Life
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
      Amarillis
      Follow Your Saint
      Love me or not
Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
      Ask me no more
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
      Evidence given at the trial of the Knave of Hearts
      Jabberwocky
William Cartwright (1611-1643)
      To Chloe, Who Wished Herself Young Enough For Me
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1343-1400)
      The Parson from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
John Clare (1793-1864)
      Hesperus
      Swordy Well
Arthur H Clough (1819-1861)
      Say not the struggle nought availeth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
      Kubla Khan
      Duty surviving self-love
William Congreve (1670-1729)
      False though she be
William Cowper (1731-1800)
      The poplar field

      D

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
      I cannot live with You
      The Queen of Calvary
      I taste a liquor
      We lose
      Behold this little Bane
John Donne (c.1572-1631)
      Death be not proud
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
      Love's farewell
Sir Edward Dyer (1545-1607)
      The lowest trees have tops

      E

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
      Death by water (The Waste Land)

      F

James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
      The Golden Journey to Samarkand - Prologue
      The Golden Journey to Samarkand
      To a poet a thousand years hence
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
      Design
      A Hillside Thaw
      Mending Wall

      G

George Gascoigne (1534-1577)
      And if I did, what then?
James S Gilbert (18??-1906)
      Beyond the Chagres River
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
      from The sick stockrider
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
      H
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
      Elegy written in a country churchyard

      H

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
      Afterwards
      The darkling thrush
William Henley (1849-1903)
      Invictis
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
      Hurrahing in harvest
      I feel the fell of dark
      Spelt from Sibyl's leaves
      Spring
      The starlight night
      The windhover
Alfred Edward Housman (1809-1892)
      from A Shropshire lad
James H Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
      Rondeau
      To a Fish and A Fish Answers

      I

      J

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
      The noble nature
      The Dream
      To Celia

      K

John Keats (1795-1821)
      La belle dame sans merci
      Ode on a Grecian urn
      On first looking into Chapman's Homer
      When I have fears
      A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paolo And Francesca.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
      If
      from McAndrew's Hymn

      L

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
      Ianthe
      Rose Aylmer
John Lennon (1940-1980)
      I sat belonely
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
      There was a little girl

      M

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
      from Hero and Leander
John Masefield (1878-1967)
      Cargoes
      Sea-fever

      N

      O

      P

A B 'Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
      Clancy of The Overflow
      from The Man from Snowy River
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
      To Helen
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
      from An essay on criticism
      from An essay on Man – Know thyself
      Ode on solitude
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
      In a Station of the Metro
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
      To Cloe Jealous
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
      Love poem


      Q

      R

Henry Reed (1914-1987)
      Naming of parts
Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
      Richard Cory
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
      Song
      Up-hill
      Last night
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
      The choice

      S

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
      The general
Franz von Schober (1796-1882)
      An die Musik
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
      Winter
      from "The Tempest"
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
      I fear thy kisses gentle maiden
      Ozymandias of Egypt
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
      Sonnet from Astrophel and Stella
Stevie Smith (1903-1971)
      Not waving but drowning
Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
      Times go by turns
Stephen Spender (1909-1998)
      I think continually of those who were truly great
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
      The vagabond
William Strode (1602-1644)
      Sonnett
Sir John Suckling (1606-1642)
      Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

      T

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
      Break, break, break
      from Locksley Hall
      The spendour falls on castle walls
      Crossing the bar
      Columbus
      Tithonus
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
      Do not go gentle into that good night
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
      To a snowflake

      U

      V

      W

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
      Go, lovely rose
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
      Good-bye my Fancy
      O Captain! my Captain
      On the beach at night alone
      Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
      When I heard the learn'd astronomer
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
      Impression de Voyage
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
      A lesson
      Daffodils
      The lost love
      The rainbow
      Written in early Spring
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
      On his mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
      And wilt thou leave me thus?
      Is it possible?

      X

      Y

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
      When you are old and gray

      Z

      Misc

from John Aubrey's "Brief Lives"
      Sir Sydney Lee
from George Borrow (1803-1881)
      Dui Romany Chals

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