GREATEST POEMS

A Shropshire Lad II A. E. Housman
On the Idle Hill of Summer A. E. Housman
Relativity A. H. Reginald Buller
Ode: Of Wit Abraham Cowley
from Anacreonics Abraham Cowley
The Net of Memory Adela Florence Nicolson Cory
To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window Adelaide Crapsey
Niagara Adelaide Crapsey
November Night Adelaide Crapsey
from The Rape of the Lock, from Canto 1 Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude Alexander Pope
from Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope
from Essay on Criticism [“But most by Numbers”] Alexander Pope
My Love’s an Arbutus Alfred Perceval Graves
from The Lotos-Eaters Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Violin Song Aline Kilmer
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. Amy Lowell
The Gallery Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
The Rights of Woman Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The Caterpillar Anna Laetitia Barbauld
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet
The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue Anne Bradstreet
Adam Posed Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Nocturnal Reverie Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Introduction Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Adieu, Vain World, I've Seen Enough of Thee Anonymous
As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo Anonymous
Barbara Allan Anonymous
Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring Anonymous
Down in the Valley Anonymous
England Anonymous
The Three Ravens Anonymous
from Everyman Anonymous
Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring Anthony Munday
Heat Archibald Lampman
In November (I) Archibald Lampman
A Thunderstorm Archibald Lampman
Winter Uplands Archibald Lampman
A Parable Arthur Conan Doyle
Retrospect Arthur Conan Doyle
My Picture Left in Scotland Ben Jonson
Cynthia’s Revels Ben Jonson
The Hourglass Ben Jonson
X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days. Benjamin Franklin
Chicago Carl Sandburg
Fog Carl Sandburg
Maker of Heaven and Earth Cecil Frances Alexander
Young and Old Charles Kingsley
Beer Charles Stuart Calverley
The Sea View Charlotte Smith
from Goblin Market Christina Rossetti
A Birthday Christina Rossetti
A Daughter of Eve Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio Christina Rossetti
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
from Dr. Faustus, Scene 12 Christopher Marlowe
America Claude McKay
If We Must Die Claude McKay
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay
On Broadway Claude McKay
from The Divine Comedy, from The Inferno Dante Alighieri
Chiding David Bates
Childhood David Bates
Speak Gently David Bates
The Enkindled Spring David Herbert Lawrence
Snake David Herbert Lawrence
Jury Duty Deena Linett
The Tiger in the Driveway Deena Linett
The House of Clay Dinah Maria Craik
Home Edgar Albert Guest
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy Edgar Albert Guest
Father Edgar Albert Guest
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe
Doc Hill Edgar Lee Masters
Seth Compton Edgar Lee Masters
Conrad Siever Edgar Lee Masters
The Hill Edgar Lee Masters
from Amoretti: Sonnet 67 Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene, from The First Booke Edmund Spenser
Don’t Take Your Troubles to Bed Edmund Vance Cooke
How Did You Die? Edmund Vance Cooke
Poetry Edmund Vance Cooke
Recuerdo Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay
from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr Edward FitzGerald
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House on the Hill Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Old Arm-Chair Eliza Cook
from Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[Shall earth no more inspire thee] Emily Brontë
Stars Emily Brontë
348 Emily Dickinson
712 Emily Dickinson
254 Emily Dickinson
303 Emily Dickinson
328 Emily Dickinson
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus
In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound
I Write My Mother a Poem Fleda Brown
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives Fleda Brown
A Girl Strike-leader Florence Kiper Frank
Defence of Fort M’Henry Francis Scott Key
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Francis William Bourdillon
Disorder Gamaliel Bradford
The Billion Heartbeats of the Mammal Gary Fincke
The Magpie Evening: A Prayer Gary Fincke
from The Canterbury Tales, from The Wife of Bath's Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer
Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love George Eliot
When We Two Parted George Gordon, Lord Byron
She walks in beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron
So, we'll go no more a roving George Gordon, Lord Byron
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair George Gordon, Lord Byron
Man George Herbert
Dirge in the Woods George Meredith
Death of an Old Carriage Horse George Moses Horton
[Carrion Comfort] Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Caicos Islands, West Indies Gilbert E. Brooke
Athletes Grace Cavalieri
Dates Grace Cavalieri
To a Cat Hartley Coleridge
September Helen Hunt Jackson
The Retreat Henry Vaughan
They Are All Gone into the World of Light! Henry Vaughan
Aftermath Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Chaucer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Fire of Drift-Wood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville
America Herman Melville
Monody Herman Melville
Book 1, No. 5 (“To Pyrrha”) Horace
The Violin J. E. Ball
Oak and Olive James Elroy Flecker
Epithalamion James Elroy Flecker
My Dear and Only Love James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
The Flea John Donne
Song [Go and catch a falling star] John Donne
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) John Donne
The Baite John Donne
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham John Dryden
Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die John Dryden
Burning Drift-Wood John Greenleaf Whittier
Ichabod! John Greenleaf Whittier
To Arthur Edmonds John Henry Gray
To Sleep John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats
There Is No Death John Luckey McCreery
In Flanders Fields John McCrae
The Pilgrims John McCrae
from Paradise Lost, Book I John Milton
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent John Milton
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General Jonathan Swift
Ode Joseph Addison
from An Account of the Greatest English Poets Joseph Addison
from On the Equality of the Sexes, Part I Judith Sargent Murray
America the Beautiful Katherine Lee Bates
Matthew Arnold on Hearing Him Read His Poems , , , Katherine Lee Bates
On the Welch Language Katherine Philips
in the morning Kenneth Carroll
Riding Shotgun Kenneth Carroll
Green Groweth the Holly King Henry VIII
The Puff-adder Kingsley Fairbridge
Rondeau Leigh Hunt
Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree Len Roberts
The List of Most Difficult Words Len Roberts
Birthday Song Leon Markowicz
Call Out Leon Markowicz
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll
Women Louise Bogan
Medusa Louise Bogan
Portrait Louise Bogan
A Request Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution Margaret Cavendish
Poetry Marianne Moore
The Fossil Elephant Mary Howitt
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold
Idea LXI Michael Drayton
The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cacoethes Scribendi Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Silver Swan, Who Living Had No Note Orlando Gibbons
Hélas Oscar Wilde
Metamorphosis VII, 611 – 724 Ovid
Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Sky-Lark Percy Bysshe Shelley
from The House of Night Philip Freneau
To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband Phillis Wheatley
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley
[The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy] Queen Elizabeth I
On Monsieur’s Departure Queen Elizabeth I
Written in Her French Psalter Queen Elizabeth I
Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Ode Richard Barnfield
But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light Richard Crashaw
Wishes to His (Supposed) Mistress Richard Crashaw
Even-Star Richard Garnett
The Snail Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace
The Affliction of Richard Robert Bridges
London Snow Robert Bridges
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
To a Mouse Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
Song Robert Dodsley
Range-finding Robert Frost
Mending Wall Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost
A December Day Robert Fuller Murray
The Delights of Mathematics Robert Fuller Murray
The Shivering Beggar Robert Graves
[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content] Robert Greene
To Find God Robert Herrick
The Bad Season Make the Poet Sad Robert Herrick
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick
If— Rudyard Kipling
Recessional Rudyard Kipling
The Female of the Species Rudyard Kipling
The Soldier Rupert Brooke
1914 I. Peace Rupert Brooke
1914 III. The Dead Rupert Brooke
Heaven Rupert Brooke
Tiare Tahiti Rupert Brooke
Sonnet Reversed Rupert Brooke
Onward, Christian Soldiers Sabine Baring-Gould
Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eolian Harp Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To Atthis Sappho
Nearer My God to Thee Sara Fuller Adams
I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale
To Mr. Stuart Sarah Wentworth Morton
Song from Love in a Tub Sir George Etherege
To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her Sir George Etherege
Out upon It! Sir John Suckling
from Astrophil and Stella Sir Philip Sidney
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lie Sir Walter Raleigh
from War Is Kind Stephen Crane
A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot
Morning at the Window T. S. Eliot
Mr. Apollinax T. S. Eliot
Preludes T. S. Eliot
Rhapsody on a Windy Night T. S. Eliot
Gerontion T. S. Eliot
The Hippopotamus T. S. Eliot
Hysteria T. S. Eliot
Now Winter Nights Enlarge Thomas Campion
To My Inconstant Mistress Thomas Carew
A Song [Ask me no more where Jove bestows] Thomas Carew
The Spring Thomas Carew
Cui Bono Thomas Carlyle
The Embankment Thomas Ernest Hulme
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind Thomas Ford
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy
“When I set out for Lyonesse” Thomas Hardy
Hap Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy
I Remember, I Remember Thomas Hood
Dirge Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The time I’ve lost in wooing Thomas Moore
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms Thomas Moore
They Flee from Me Thomas Wyatt
Our Casuarina-tree Toru Dutt
A Sea of Foliage Girds Our Garden Round Toru Dutt
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Vachel Lindsay
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line W. S. Gilbert
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens
from Passage to India Walt Whitman
from Song of Myself Walt Whitman
A Noiseless, Patient Spider Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen
The Mockery of Life Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
On Her Vanity Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
On the Shortness of Time Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
To One on Her Birthday Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
To One Who Would Make a Confession Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Love’s Secret William Blake
The Chimney-Sweeper William Blake
The Tyger William Blake
Little Lamb William Blake
The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats
Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 William Collins
Madam Life’s a Piece in Bloom William Ernest Henley
Croquis William Ernest Henley
Invictus William Ernest Henley
The Song of an Exile William Hamilton
Nature’s Epitaph William Herbert Carruth
Each in His Own Tongue William Herbert Carruth
Mortality William Knox
from Piers Plowman William Langland
A Death Song William Morris
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare
All the World’s a Stage William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55 William Shakespeare
An Ode in Time of Hesitation William Vaughn Moody
The Avenging Angel William Wilfred Campbell
The End of the Furrow William Wilfred Campbell
Indian Summer William Wilfred Campbell
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
Expostulation and Reply William Wordsworth
We Are Seven William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimations of Immortality . . . William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us William Wordsworth


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