English and American poetry from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Voyage to the moon / Archibald MacLeish -- With how sad steps, o moon / Sir Philip Sidney -- To the moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- When I heard the learned astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith -- Unnatural powers / Robinson Jeffers -- A small score / Delmore Schwartz -- The brave man / Wallace Stevens -- The world below the brine / Walt Whitman -- The tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Sea lullaby / Elinor Wylie -- I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson -- Cuckoo Song -- Ancient Music / Ezra Pound -- The onset / Robert Frost -- Written in March / William Wordsworth -- Summer / Christina Rossetti -- These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson -- No / Thomas Hood -- To Autumn / John Keats -- The sky is low, the cloouds are mean / Emily Dickinson -- Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The tree / Ezra Pound -- Essential oils are wrung / Emily Dickinson -- Two voices in a meadow: A milkweed and a stone / Richard Wilbur -- Mushrooms / Sylvia Plath -- Haiku / Jose Juan Tablada -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Triads / Algernon Swinburne -- A considerable speck / Robert Frost -- To a louse / Robert Burns -- The fly / Karl Shapiro -- To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Lobsters / Howard Nemerov -- The fish / Marianne Moore -- On a favorite cat drowned in a tub of goldfishes / Thomas Gray -- A ritual mouse / William Meredith -- Haiku / Jose Juan Tablada -- A rabbit is King of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens -- Snake / Emily Dickinson -- The tiger / William Blake -- The giveaway / Phyllis McGinley -- She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth -- Frederick Douglas / Robert Hayden -- London, 1802 / William Wordsworth -- To Toussaint L'Ouverture / William Wordsworth -- O Captain, my Captain / Walt Whitman -- Ichabod / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The lost leader / Robert Browning -- A satirical Elegy on the death of a late famous General / Jonathan Swift -- Arlo Will / Edgar Lee Masters -- My last Duchess / Robert Browning -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon Byron -- The portrait / Robert Graves -- Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- The twa Corbies -- The twin brothers -- The riddling knight -- The bayliff's daughter of Islington -- Get up and bar the door -- The demon lover -- May Colvin -- La Belle Dame sans Merci / John Keats -- Lady Clare / Alfred Tennyson -- Mandalay / Rudyard Kipling -- Sir Patrick Spens -- The golden vanity -- The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy -- Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The ballad of the harp-weaver / Edna St. Vincent MIllay -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Love under the Republicans (or Democrats) / Ogden Nash -- The Indian to his love / William Butler Yeats -- The song of Solomon 2 -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Now air is air and thing is thing: no bliss / E. E. Cummings -- In a drear nighted December / John Keats -- I will give my love an apple -- Green grow the rushes, O / Robert Burns -- The pity of love / William Butler Yeats -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- One day I wrote her name / Edmund Spenser -- Report of health / John Updike -- If thou must love me, let it be for naught / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Simplex munditiis / Ben Jonson -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- No loathesomenesse in love / Robert Herrick -- Cards and kisses / John Lyly -- The constant lover / Sir John Suckling -- When I was one and twenty / A. E. Housman -- Song / John Donne -- Then and now / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The indifferent / John Donne -- Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton -- Encouragement to a lover / Sir John Suckling -- The cares o' love / Robert Burns -- To the virgins to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Engaged / Octavio Paz -- Mercury's song to Phaedra / John Dryden -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- A young wife / D.H. Lawrence -- Sonnet from Modern love / George Meredith -- If there be sorrow / Mari Evans -- When we two partied / George Gordon Byron -- A poison tree / William Blake -- Two friends / David Ignatow -- The lost children / Randall Jarrell -- On my first son / Ben Jonson -- The goodnight / Louis Simpson -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Europe and America / David Ignatow -- Laid in my quiet bed / Henry Howard -- Home after three months away / Robert Lowell -- Why did the children put beans in their ears / Carl Sandburg -- Nikki-Roasa / Nikki Giovanni -- Rough / Stephen Spender -- The leaden eyed / Vachel Lindsay -- How soon hath time the subtle thief of youth / John Milton -- That time of year thou mayst in me behold / William Shakespeare -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- For prodigal read generous / E. E. Cummings -- Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert Browning -- The slow starter / Louis MacNeice -- The mad gardener's song / Lewis Carroll -- The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- Nightmare / W.S.Gilbert -- To an artist / Robert Burns -- Evidence read at the trial of the Knave of Hearts / Lewis Carroll -- Death at suppertime / Phyllis McGinley -- Afro American fragment / Langston Hughes -- Home thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- That mountain far away -- I wonder how my home is -- London / William Blake -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Worsworth -- Cologne / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Innominatus / Sir Walter Scott -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Miracles / Walt Whitman -- Nothing will die / Alfred Tennyson -- Psalm of David 8: 1 - 9 -- Love / George Herbert -- Some keep the Sabbath going to church / Emily Dickinson -- On his blindness / John Milton -- Ecclesiastes 3 1-8 -- Nature's questioning / Thomas Hardy -- Design / Robert Frost -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred Tennyson -- My cathedral / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Raise me up, Lord / Miguel de Guevara -- The preacher: ruminates behind the sermon / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Journey of the Magi / T. S. Eliot -- Law like love / W. H. Auden -- 1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13 -- I hear it was charged against me / Walt Whitman -- I asked no other thing / Emily Dickinson -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- I died for beauty / Emily Dickinson -- Sonnet to Science / Edgar Allan Poe -- Solitude / Alexander Pope -- The old stone cross / William Butler Yeats -- Time, real and imaginary / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- It dropped so low / Emily Dickinson -- Magnets / Countee Cullen -- The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- Nonsense rhyme / Elinor Wylie -- Matthew 16: 25 - 26 -- Death is not evil, evil is mechanical / D.H. Lawrence -- Song to the men of England / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- We shall overcome -- Get on board, little children -- I thank God I'm free at las', negro spiritual -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- The last word / Matthew Arnold -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The patriot / Robert Browning -- Song of the freedman -- The white troops had their orders but the negroes looked like men / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Color, Caste, Denomination / Emily Dickinson -- Sonnet on Chillon / George Gordon Byron -- Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland / William Wordsworth -- Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Apostrophe to man / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- Arms and the boy / Wilfred Owen -- Fare thee well -- The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Tennyson -- A post mortem / Siegfried Sassoon -- The battle of Blenheimm / Robert Southey -- To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 / William Coillins -- The hand that signed the paper felled a city / Dylan Thomas -- Isaiah 2: 4 -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- Tewa song of war -- These / William Carlos Williams --

The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon Byron -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- The little girl saw her first troop parade / Carl Sandburg -- Death be not proud / John Donne -- Last journey / Enrique Gonzalez Martinez -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson -- Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare -- Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom -- Death the leveller / James Shirley -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- When I am dead, my dearest / Christina Rossetti -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Interlude / Karl Shapiro -- To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman -- Stanzas / George Gordon Byron -- Requiescat / Matthew Arnold -- To die takes just a little while / Emily Dickinson -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Worsworth -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- Usless words / Carl Sandburg -- Written in Northampton County asylum / John Clare -- Alone, December, night / Victor Cruz -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- Self dependence / Matthew Arnold -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- The world is too much with us; late and soon / William Wordsworth -- Stanzas written in dejection near Naples / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The invention of comics / LeRoi Jones -- Psyche / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The sound of silence / Paul Simon -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Prayer before birth / Louis MacNeice -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- Lack of steadfastness / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The hollow men / T.S. Eliot -- England in 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- The preponderance / William Meredith -- In Goya's greatest scenes / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The inneer part / Louis Simpson -- Lines written in early spring / William Wordsworth -- Poem of solitude at Columbia University / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Brooding / David Ignatow -- Meditatio / Ezra Pound -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- The secret / Denise Levertov -- The fly / William Blake -- Responding voice / Francisco A. de Icaza -- The carpenter's son / A.E. Housman -- I saw a man / Stephen Crane -- Ecclesiastes 1: 2 - 11 -- Hap / Thomas Hardy -- Musee des beauz arts / W. H. Auden -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats -- There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman -- On his seventy fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor -- Ode / William Wordsworth -- If I should cast off this tattered coat / Stephen Crane -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- A life / Howard Nemerov