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Book Synopsis
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

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'an exceptionally rich collection. Even the best-read will find poets in it who are new to them...' - John Carey, Sunday Times

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'Keegan arranges the poems, rather than the authors, in chronological order; a radical manoeuvre with a startlingly vivifying effect' - John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph

'this big book is welcome: serious, wide-ranging and sometimes surprising... a book you should buy, and read, and argue with' - Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph

'Keegan's book is rich with discoveries and reclaimings... [a] very exciting, bold new book.' - James Wood, Guardian

'This anthology is a huge joy. [Keegan] shows the scholarship his system requires, and great taste besides.' - Tom Payne, Daily Telegraph



Table of Contents
The Penguin Book of English VersePreface

1300-1350
(Rawlinson Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande'
Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay'
Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë'
(Harley Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril'
Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe'

1350-1400
(Grimestone Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn'
Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est'
Anonymous 'Love me broughte'
Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls
(Catalogue of the Birds)
(Roundel)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus
(Envoi)
Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span'
William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman
(Prologue)
(Gluttony in the Ale-house)
Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales
from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote'
from The General Prologue (The Prioress)
from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars)
from The Knight's Tale (Saturn)
from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun)
from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour'
from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle'
Anonymous from Patience
(Jonah and the Whale)
Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Gawain Journeys North)
Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan
John Gower from Confessio Amantis
(Pygmaleon)
(The Rape of Lucrece)

1430
Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve
'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves'

1440
Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes')
Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!')
Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')

1450
(Sloane Lyrics)
Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden'
Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden'
Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe'
Anonymous (Christ Triumphant)
Anonymous (Holly against Ivy)
Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'

1500
John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe
'Whan I remembre agayn'
Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid
'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend'
William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik

1510
William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak'
William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis'

1515
Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid
from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds)
from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados
Anonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol)
Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere'
Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere'

1520
Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'

1523
John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell
(The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song)
To Maystres Isabell Pennell
John Skelton from Speke Parott
(Parrot's Complaint)

1530
William Cornish 'Pleasure it is'

1535
Myles Coverdale from The Bible
Psalm 137: Super flumina

1540
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar'
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last'
Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent'
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'

1542
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat

1547
Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate

1557
from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes
Sir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe')
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace'
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace'
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis
(Aeneas searches for his wife)

1560
from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time')
Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth'

1563
Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne
Barnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald

1565
Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid
(Proserpine and Dis)
(Daphne and Apollo)

1567
Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid
(Medea's Incantation)

1568
Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane'
Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it'

1579
Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay)

1580
Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum

1581
Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens)

1582
Thomas Watson My Love is Past

1584
Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves

1586
Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'

1588
Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses'
Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus
(Adonis)

1589
Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'

1590
Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land'
Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin')
Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd'
Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene
from Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed)
from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis)
from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane)

1591
Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella
1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show'
31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies'
33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might'
Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'
Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon)

1592
John Lyly from Midas
'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed'
Samuel Daniel from Delia
45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night'
Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken'
Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie

1593
from The Phoenix Nest
Anonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light'
Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love
Barnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina)
('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare')
Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'

1594
William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost
'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew'
Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'

1595
Edmund Spenser from Amoretti
Sonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace')
Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day')
Robert Southwell S. J. Decease Release
Robert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New Warre
Robert Southwell S.J. The Burning Babe
George Peele from The Old Wives Tale
'When as the Rie reach to the chin'
'Gently dip: but not too deepe'

1596
Edmund Spenser Prothalamion
Sir John Davies In Cosmum
Sir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing')

1597
Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely'
William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand
William Alabaster Of His Conversion
Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'

1598
Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure'
Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust'
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just')
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine')
Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander
'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand'
Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above'
Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids Elegies
Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day')
Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')
John Donne On His Mistris

1599
Michael Drayton from Idea
5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'
Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall
'O perfite light, quhik schaid away'
George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe
'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire'
Samuel Daniel from Musophilus
(Stonehenge)

1600
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from Caelica
Sonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce')
Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth')
Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive')
Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity')
Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast')
from Englands Helicon
Anonymous The Sheepheeards Description of Love
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love
Sir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard
Thomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament
'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore'
'Adieu, farewell earths blisse'
Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham)
Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new'
Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography'

1601
John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated'
William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night
'When that I was and a little tiny boy'
William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle)
Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'
Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe'
Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground'

1602
Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall'
Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come'

1603
Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines'

1604
Anonymous The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage
Nicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion
'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me'

1607
Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone
'Come my Celia, let us prove'

1608
Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!'

1609
Ben Jonson from Epicoene
'Still to be neat, still to be dresst'
Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
(Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie)
William Shakespeare from Sonnets
18. 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?'
55. 'Not marble, nor the guilded monuments'
60. 'Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore'
66. 'Tyr'd with all these for restfull death I cry'
73. 'That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold'
94. 'They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none'
107. 'Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule'
116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindes'
124. 'Yf my deare love were but the childe of state'
129. 'Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame'
138. 'When my love sweares that she is made of truth'
144. 'Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire'
William Shakespeare from Cymbeline
'Feare no more the heate o'th'Sun'
Anonymous (Inscription in Osmington Church, Dorset)
Anonymous (Inscription in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London)

1610
John Davies of Hereford The Author Loving These Homely Meats

1611
from The Authorized Version of the Bible
2 Samuel 1:19-27 David lamenteth the death of Jonathan
Job 3:3-26 Job curseth the day, and services of his birth
Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 The Creator is to be remembered in due time
George Chapman/Homer from The Iliads of Homer
from The Third Booke (Helen and the Elders on the Ramparts)
from The Twelfth Booke (Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus)
Anonymous A Belmans Song
William Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale
'When Daffadils begin to peere'
'Lawne as white as driven Snow'
William Shakespeare from The Tempest
'Come unto these yellow sands'
'Full fadom five they Father lies'

1612
John Webster from The White Divel
'Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren'
George Chapman/Epictetus Pleasd with thy Place
Thomas Campion 'Never weather-beaten Saile'
William Fowler 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss'

1614
John Webster from The Dutchesse of Malfy
'Hearke, now every thing is still'

1615
Sir John Harington Of Treason
Anonymous (Tom o' Bedlam's Song)

1616
Ben Jonson from Epigrammes
XIV. To William Camden
XLV. On My First Sonne
LIX. On Spies
CSVIII. Inviting a Friend to Supper
CI. On Gut
Ben Jonson from The Forrest To Heaven
William Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnet ('How many times Nights silent Queene her Face')
William Browne from Britannia's Pastorals
(The Golden Age: Flower-weaving)
Thomas Campion 'There is a Garden in her face'
Thomas Campion 'Now winter nights enlarge'

1618
Sir Walter Ralegh (Sir Walter Ralegh to his Sonne)
Sir Walter Ralegh from The Ocean to Scinthia
'Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way'
Sir Walter Ralegh 'Even suche is tyme that takes in trust'

1619
Michael Drayton from Idea
61. 'Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part'
Anonymous 'Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight'

1620
John Donne The Canonization
John Donne A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
John Donne Loves Growth
John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne The Exstasie
John Donne from Holy Sonnets
VII. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners'
X. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
XIV. 'Batter my heart, three person'd God'
John Donne A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last Going into Germany
John Donne A Hymne to God the Father

1621
Katherine, Lady Dyer (Epitaph on Sir William Dyer)
Lady Mary Wroth from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
77. 'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?
96. 'Late in the Forest I did Cupid see'

1623
William Drummond of Hawthornden (For the Baptiste)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (Content and Resolute)
William Browne On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke

1624
Sir Henry Wotton On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia

1626
George Sandys/Ausonius Echo

1627
Ben Jonson My Picture left in Scotland
Ben Jonson An Ode. To Himselfe
Michael Drayton from Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie
(Queen Mab's Chariot)

1631
Michael Drayton These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton
('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I')
Anonymous Felton's Epitaph
Anonymous (Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham)

1633
George Herbert from The Temple
Redemption
Prayer
Church-monuments
Deniall
Hope
The Collar
The Flower
The Answer
A Wreath
Love

1635
Francis Quarles Embleme IV (Canticles 7.10 I am my Beloved's)

1637
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney
Robert Sempill of Beltrees The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan
Thomas Jordan A Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna Blvnt
John Milton from A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634
(Comus)
'The Star that bids the Shepherd fold'

1638
Thomas Randolph A Gratulatory to Mr Ben. Johnson
Sir John Suckling Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
John Milton Lycidas

1640
Ben Jonson from A Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces (Her Triumph)
Ben Jonson (A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter)
Sidney Godolphin 'Faire Friend, 'tis true, your beauties move'
Sidney Godolphin 'Lord when the wise men came from Farr'
Henry King An Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten Freind
Thomas Carew Song. Celia singing
Thomas Carew Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers
Thomas Carew Maria Wentworth
Thomas Carew A Song ('Aske me no more whither doe stray')
Thomas Carew Psalme 91
William Habington Nox nocti indicat Scientiam
William Habington To Castara, Upon an Embrace

1641
Anonymous On Francis Drake
Sir Henry Wotton/Martial Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife

1642
Sir John Denham from Cooper's Hill
'Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise'

1645
Edmund Waller Song ('Go lovely Rose')
Edmund Waller Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs
Edmund Waller To a Lady in a Garden
John Milton from On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos'd 1629
'It was the Winter wilde'

1646
Richard Crashaw from Divine Epigrams
Upon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was Laid
Upon the Infant Martyrs
Richard Crashaw Musicks Duell
Sir John Suckling (Loves Siege)
John Hall An Epicurean Ode
James Shirley Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham
James Shirley 'The glories of our blood and state'

1647
John Cleveland Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford

1648
Sir Richard Fanshawe/Gongora A Great Favorit Beheaded
Robert Herrick from Hesperides
The Argument of His Book
Upon Julia's Voice
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Comming of Good Luck
To Meddowes
The Departure of the Good Daemon
Upon Prew His Maid
On Himselfe
Robert Herrick The White Island: Or Place of the Blest

1649
Richard Lovelace from Lucasta
Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres
To Althea from Prison
The Grasse-hopper
William Drummond/Passerat Song
"Shephard loveth thow me vell?'

1650
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose On Himself, upon Hearing What was His Sentence
Anonymous from The Second Scottish Psalter
Psalm 124
Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans, Or Sacred Poems
The Retreate
'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now'
The World

1651
William Cartwright No Platonique Love
John Cleveland The Antiplatonick
John Cleveland A Song of Marke Anthony
Thomas Stanley The Snow-ball
Thomas Stanley The Grassehopper
Sir Henry Wotton Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset
Sir Richard Fanshawe/Horace Odes. IV, 7 To L. Manlius Torquatus
Richard Crashaw from The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa

1653
Aurelian Townshend A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World

1655
Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans II
'They are all gone into the world of light!'
Cock-crowing
The Night

1656
Abraham Cowley from Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the Greek
II. Drinking
X. The Grashopper
Abraham Cowley from Davideis
(Lot's Wife)
William Strode Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
William Strode On Westwell Downes
John Taylor and Anonymous Non-sense
Sir John Suckling 'Out upon it, I have lov'd'

1657
George Daniel Ode. The Robin

1659
Richard Lovelace The Snayl

1662
Samuel Butler from Hudibras
(The Presbyterian Knight)

1663
Abraham Cowley Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey
Abraham Cowley/Horace The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 6

1665
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet. Made upon the Groves near Merlou Castle
John Dryden/Ovid from The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
(Deucalion and Pyrrha)

1694
John Dryden To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call'd The Double-Dealer

1697
John Dryden/Virgil from Virgil's Aeneis
from The Second Book ('The Death of Priam)
from The Fourth Book (Fame)
from The Sixth Book (Charon)

1700
John Dryden/Ovid Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen
John Dryden from The Secular Masque
'Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace'

1701
Sir Charles Sedley Song ('Phillis, let's shun the common Fate')
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea from The Spleen
'O'er me, alas! thou dost too much prevail'

1704
William Congreve Song ('Pious Celinda goes to Pray'rs')
William Congreve A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

1706
Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick

1707
Isaac Watts Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.14

1709
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Pos'd
Matthew Prior An Ode ('The Merchant, to secure his Treasure')
Ambrose Phillips A Winter-Piece

1710
Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower

1712
Joseph Addison Ode ('The Spacious Firmament on high')

1713
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea A Nocturnal Reverie

1714
Samuel Jones The Force of Love
Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock
from Canto I
from Canto V

1716
John Gay from Trivia: Or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
(Of the Weather)

1717
Alexander Pope Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation

1718
Matthew Prior A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous
Matthew Prior The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus
Matthew Prior A True Maid

1719
Isaac Watts Man Frail, and God Eternal

1720
Allan Ramsay Polwart on the Green
John Gay My Own Epitaph

1722
Alexander Pope To Mr. Gay . . . on the Finishing His House
Jonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General
William Diaper/Oppian from Oppian's Halieuticks
(The Loves of the Fishes)

1724
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to her Husband

1725
Edward Young from Love of Fame. Satire V
'The languid lady next appears in state'
Henry Carey from Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification

1726
Abel Evans On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph
John Dyer from Grongar Hill
'Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow'
Allan Ramsay/Horace 'What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass'
James Thomson from Summer
('Forenoon. Summer Insects Described')
('Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet')

1727
John Gay from Fables
The Wild Boar and the Ram
Thomas Sheridan Tom Punsibi's Letter to Dean Swift
Henry Carey A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession

1728
John Gay from The Beggar's Opera
'Were I laid on Grrenland's Coast'

1731
Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Burlington
'At Timon's Villa let us pass a day'
Jonathan Swift The Day of Judgement
Jonathan Swift An Epigram on Scolding

1732
Jonathan Swift Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan

1733
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a lady')
Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Bathurst
(Sir Balaam)
George Farewell Quaerè

1734
Jonathan Swift A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

1735
Alexander Pope from Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady
'Nothing so true as what you once let fall'
Alexander Pope from An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
'You think this cruel? take it for a rule'
Alexander Pope Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton
John Dyer My Ox Duke

1737
Matthew Green from The Spleen
'To cure the mind's wrong biass, spleen'

1738
Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
'Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel'
Alexander Pope from Epilogue to the Satires
Alexander Pope Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey

1739
Jonathan Swift from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
'The Time is not remote, when I'

1740
Alexander Pope On Queen Caroline's Death-bed
Samuel Johnson An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician
Charles Wesley Morning Hymn
Alexander Pope from The Dunciad
(The Tribe of Fanciers)
(The Triumph of Dullness)

1744
Anonymous On the Death of Mr. Pope
from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book
Anonymous Cock Robbin
Anonymous London Bridge

1745
Charles Wesley 'Let Earth and Heaven combine'

1746
William Collins Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
William Collins Ode to Evening

1747
William Shenstone Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow

1748
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
Mary Leapor Mira's Will
Christopher Smart A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers

1749
Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from The Vanity of Human Wishes
'When first the College Rolls receive his Name'

1751
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

1755
Anonymous This is the House That Jack Built

1761
Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno
'For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent'
'For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'

1763
Christopher Smart from A Song to David
'O David, highest in the list'

1764
Oliver Goldsmith from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society (Britain)
Samuel Johnson (Lines contributed to Goldsmith's 'The Traveller')

1765
from Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle
Anonymous 'High diddle diddle'
from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence
Anonymous Edward, Edward
Anonymous Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
Christopher Smart Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

1766
Oliver Goldsmith from The Vicar of Wakefield
'When lovely woman stoops to folly'

1769
Thomas Gray On L(or)d H(olland')s Seat near M(argat)e, K(en)t

1770
Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village
'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close'

1772
John Byrom On the Origin of Evil
Robert Fergusson The Daft-Days

1774
William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness
William Cowper 'Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion'
Anonymous (Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman, Charlton, Sussex)
Oliver Goldsmith from Retaliation
(Edmund Burke)
(David Garrick)
(Joshua Reynolds)

1777
Richard Brinsley Sheridan On Lady Anne Hamilton
Samuel Johnson Prologue to Hugh Kelly's 'A Word to the Wise'
Samuel Johnson (Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth's 'The Rival)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan from The School for Scandal Song and Chorus ('Here's to the maiden of Bashful fifteen')

1779
William Cowper The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15
Robert Fergusson/Horace Odes I. II

1780
Samuel Johnson A Short Song of Congratulation

1783
Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
William Blake To the Evening Star

1784
William Cowper from The Task
(The Winter Evening)
(The Winter Walk at Noon)

1786
Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785

1787
Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous

1789
William Blake from Songs of Innocence
Holy Thursday
Charlotte Smith Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
Elizabeth Hands On an Unsociable Family

1791
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter. A Tale

1792
Robert Burns Song ('Ae fond kiss, and then we sever')

1793
William Blake from Visions of the Daughters of Albion
'Then Oothoon waited silent all the day'
William Blake 'Never seek to tell thy love'

1794
William Blake from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Introduction ('Hear the voice of the Bard!')
The Clod and the Pebble
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Garden of Love
London
A Poison Tree

1796
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Eolian Harp
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose

1797
George Canning and John Hookham Frere Sapphics
Charlotte Smith Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea

1798
from Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts
'It is an ancyent Marinere'
William Wordsworth Old Man Travelling
William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight

1799
William Wordsworth from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
'Was it for this?'
Robert Burns from Love and Liberty. A Cantara
'See the smoking bowl before us'

1800
William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads
'A slumber did my spirit seal'
Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')

1801
Robert Burns 'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast'
Robert Burns The Fornicator. A New Song

1802
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802
Sir Walter Scott (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Anonymous The Wife of Usher's Well
Anonymous Thomas Rhymer
Anonymous Lord Randal
Anonymous A Lyke-Wake Dirge

1803
Anonymous The Twa Corbies
William Cowper The Snail
William Cowper The Cast-away

1804
William Blake from Milton (Preface)
'And did those feet in ancient time'
William Blake 'Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau'

1805
William Blake The Crystal Cabinet
William Blake from Auguries of Innocence
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'

1806
Anonymous Lamkin

1807
William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
William Wordsworth The Small Celandine
William Wordsworth Ode (Intimations of Immortality)

1808
Thomas Moore 'Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers'

1810
George Crabbe from The Borough
from Prisons (The Condemned Man)
from Peter Grimes ('Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand')
Sir Walter Scott from The Lady of the Lake
Coronach

1815
George Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for Music

1816
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Percy Bysshe Shelley To Wordsworth

1817
Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
John Keats 'After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains'

1818
John Keats from Endymion
'But there are Richer entanglements'
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Sir Walter Scott from The Heart of Mid-Lothian
'Proud Maisie is in the wood'

1819
Sir Walter Scott from The Bride of Lammermoor
(Lucy Ashton's song)
George Crabbe from Tales of the Hall
from Delay has Danger ('Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now')
William Blake To the Accuser Who is the God of This World
Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Mask of Anarchy
'As I lay asleep in Italy'
George Gordon, Lord Byron from Don Juan
from Canto I (Juan's Puberty)
from Canto II (The Shipwreck)
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats To Autumn
John Keats Ode on Melancholy
John Keats 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art -'

1820
John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Sensitive-Plant
'Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that'

1821
Percy Bysshe Shelley from Adonais
'The One remains, the many change and pass'

1822
George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment
'Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate'

1823
George Gordon, Lord Byron Aristomenes. Canto First

1824
George Gordon, Lord Byron January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year
George Gordon, Lord Byron 'Remember Thee, Remember Thee!'
Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane. The Invitation
Percy Bysshe Shelley from Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation
'I rode one evening with Count Maddalo'
Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Triumph of Life
'As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay'
Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Laird o' Cockpen
Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Land o' the Leal

1826
Anonymous (A Metrical Adage)
Anonymous Tweed and Till
Anonymous (A Rhyme from Lincolnshire)

1827
Winthrop Mackworth Praed Good-night to the Season

1828
Thomas Hood Death in the Kitchen
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Surviving Self-Love

1829
Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca
Dorothy Wordsworth Floating Island
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Lines of Life
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Revenge
Thomas Love Peacock The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
Winthrop Mackworth Praed Arrivals at a Watering Place

1830
George Gordon, Lord Byron 'So, we'll go no more a roving'

1831
Walter Savage Landor'Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives'
Walter Savage Landor Dirce
Walter Savage Landor On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia

1832
George Gordon, Lord Byron Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron was Ill

1833
Hartley Coleridge 'Long time a child, and still a child, when years'

1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Knight's Tomb

1835
John Clare The Nightingales Nest
John Clare The Sky Lark
John Clare Mist in the Meadows
John Clare Sand Martin
George Darley from Nepenthe
'Hurry me Nymphs!'

1836
John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud

1837
George Darley The Mermaidens' Vesper-Hymn
John Clare 'I found a ball of grass among the hay'
John Clare 'The old pond full of flags and fenced around'
John Clare from The Badger
'When midnight comes a host of dogs and men'

1838
Leigh Hunt from The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
To Fish
A Fish Answers

1839
Thomas Hood Sonnet to Vauxhall

1842
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Robert Browning from Waring
'What's become of Waring'
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Grief

1844
William Barnes The Clote

1845
William WordsworthThe Simplon Pass
Thomas Hood Stanzas ('Farewell, Life! My senses swim')
Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

1846
Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense
'There was an Old Man with a beard'
'There was an Old Person of Basing'
'There was an Old Man of Whitehaven'
Emily Jane Bronte 'The night is darkening round me'
Emily Jane Bronte 'Fall leaves fall die flowers away'
Emily Jane Bronte 'All hushed and still within the house'
Emily Jane Bronte Remembrance
James Clarence Mangan Siberia

1847
Alred, Lord Tennyson from The Princess
'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'
'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'

1848
John Clare 'I am'

1849
Walter Savage Landor 'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife'
Matthew Arnold from Resignation. To Fausta
('He sees the gentle stir of birth')

1850
Emily Jane Bronte and Charlotte Bronte The Visionary
Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam A.H.H.
II. 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'
VII. 'Dark house, by which once more I stand'
XI. 'Calm is the morn without a sound'
LVI. '"So careful of the type?" but no'
CXV. 'Now fades the last long streak of snow'
Thomas Lovell Beddoes from Death's Jest Book, or the Fool's Tragedy
'And what's your tune?'

1851
Thomas Lovell Beddoes from The Last Man
A Crocodile
A Lake

1852
Matthew Arnold To Marguerite - Continued

1853
Walter Savage Landor 'Our youth was happy: why repine'
Walter Savage Landor Separation

1854
James Henry 'Another and another and another'
James Henry 'The son's a poor, wretched, unfortunate creature'

1855
Robert Browning Love in a Life
Robert Browning How It Strikes a Contemporary
Robert Browning Memorabilia
Robert Browning Two in the Campagna

1856
Coventry Patmore from Victories of Love, Book 1, 2
'He that but once too nearly hears'

1858
Arthur Hugh Clough from Amours de Voyage (Canto II)
V. 'Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears'
VII. 'So, I have seen a man killed!'
VIII. 'Only think, dearest Louisa'
IX. 'It is most curious to see what a power'
X. 'I am in love, meantime, you think'

1859
Edward Fitzgerald from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night'
William Barnes My Orcha'd in Linden Lea
William Barnes False Friends-like

1860
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus

1861
Dante Gabriel Rossetti/Dante Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
Adelaide Anne Procter Envy

1862
Christina Rossetti May
Christina Rossetti Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')
Christina Rossetti Winter: My Secret
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lord Walter's Wife
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument
George Meredith from Modern Love
I. 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'
XVII. 'At dinner she is hostess, I am host'
XXXIV. 'Madam would speak with me. So now it comes'
L. 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'
Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue
Algernon Charles Swinburne Free Thought
William Barnes Leaves-a-Vallèn
William Barnes The Turnstile

1863
Walter Savage Landor Memory
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sudden Light

1864
Robert Browning Youth and Art
John Clare 'The thunder mutters louder and more loud'

1865
Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
'"You are old, Father William," the young man said'
'They told me you had been to her'
George Eliot In a London Drawingroom
Arthur Hugh Clough from Dipsychus
'"There is no God," the wicked saith'

1866
Algernon Charles Swinburne Itylus
Algernon Charles Swinburne from Sapphics
'All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids'
Christina Rossetti The Queen of Hearts
Christina Rossetti 'What Would I Give'

1867
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold Growing Old
Dora Greenwell A Scherzo. (A Shy Person's Wishes)

1868
Charles Turner On a Vase of Gold-Fish
Mortimer Collins Winter in Brighton

1869
Matthew Arnold 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light'

1870
Augusta Webster from A Castaway
'Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts'
Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Match with the Moon
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Woodspurge

1871
Edward Lear 'There was an old man who screamed out'
Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

1872
Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass
'In winter, when the fields are white'
Christina Rossetti from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
'Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush'
'A city plum is not a plum'
'If a pig wore a wig'
'I caught a little ladybird'
Robert Browning (Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus)

1875
Christina Rossetti By the Sea

1877
Coventry Patmore Magna est Veritas
Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ our Lord
Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins from The Wreck of the Deutschland
'Thou mastering me'

1878
Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden
Algernon Charles Swinburne A Vision of Spring in Winter

1880
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Rizpah
Charles Turner Letty's Globe

1881
Joseph Skipsey 'Get Up!'
Christina Rossetti 'Summer is Ended'
Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid
Gerard Manley Hopkins 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'
Robert Louis Stevenson from Treasure Island
Pirate Ditty
Robert Louis Stevenson 'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style'

1882
William Allingham 'Everything passes and vanishes'

1884
Amy Levy Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)

1885
Alfred, Lord Tennyson To E. FitzGerald
Gerard Manley Hopkins Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
Gerard Manley Hopkins 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'

1886
Dante Gabriel Rossetti from A Trip to Paris and Belgium
I. from London to Folkestone
XVI. Antwerp to Ghent

1887
Anonymous Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Robert Louis Stevenson To Mrs Will H. Low
Robert Louis Stevenson 'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves'
May Kendall Lay of the Trilobite

1888
A. Mary F. Robinson Neurasthenia
W. E. Henley from In Hospital
II. Waiting
III. Interior

1889
Amy Levy A Ballade of Religion and Marriage
W. B. Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens

1891
William Morris Pomona

1892
Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever
Rudyard Kipling Mandalay
W. B. Yeats The Sorrow of Love
Arthur Symons At the Cavour

1894
John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week

1895
Robert Louis Stevenson To S. R. Crockett
Alice Meynell Cradle-Song at Twilight
Alice Meynell Parentage
May Probyn Triolets
Tête-à-Tête
Masquerading
A Mésalliance

1895
Mary E. Coleridge An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar
Christina Rossetti Promises like Pie-crust
Ernest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
A. E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad
XII. 'When I watch the living meet'
XL. 'Into my heart an air that kills'
LII. 'Far in a western brookland'
John Davidson A Northern Suburb

1897
Arthur Symons White Heliotrope
Rudyard Kipling Recessional

1898
Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
'He did not wear his scarlet coat'
W. E. Henley To W. R.
Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy Thoughts of Phena

1900
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush

1906
Walter De La Mare The Birthnight
Walter De La Mare Autumn
Walter De La Mare Napoleon

1908
Mary E. Coleridge No Newspapers
Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) The Mummy Invokes His Soul

1909
John Davidson Snow
J. M. Synge On an Island

1910
J. M. Synge The 'Mergency Man

1911
W. H. Davies Sheep

1912
Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain
T. E. Hulme Autumn
T. E. Hulme Image
Ezra Pound The Return

1913
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

1914
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Oread
Thomas Hardy from Poems of 1912-13
The Walk
The Voice
After a Journey
At Castle Boterel
W. B. Yeats The Cold Heaven
W. B. Yeats The Magi
Charlotte Mew Fame

1915
Ezra Pound The Gypsy
Ezra Pound/Rihaku from Cathay
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Rupert Brooke Peace
Rupert Brooke Heaven

1916
D. H. Lawrence Sorrow
Charles Hamilton Sorley 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'
Edward Thomas Cock-Crow
Edward Thomas Aspens
Anna Wickham The Fired Pot
Charlotte Mew A quoi bon dire
Charlotte Mew The Quiet House

1917
T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot Aunt Helen
Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches
Isaac Rosenberg August 1914
Isaac Rosenberg 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'
Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain
Edward Thomas Old Man
Edward Thomas Tall Nettles
Edward Thomas Blenheim Oranges
Edward Thomas Rain

1918
Wilfred Owen Futility
Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen The Send-Off
Wilfed Owen Maundy Thursday
Siegfried Sassoon Base Details
Siegfried Sassoon The General

1919
Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang
Ivor Gurney To His Love
Ivor Gurney The Silent One
Rudyard Kipling from Epitaphs of War, 1914-18
A Servant
A Son
The Coward
The Refined Man
Common Form
Rudyard Kipling Gethsemane
Laurence Binyon For the Fallen (September 1914)
W. B. Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole
T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Ezra Pound from Homage to Sextus Propertius
VI. 'When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids'

1920
Ezra Pound from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
II. 'The age demanded an image'
IV. 'These fought in any case'
V. 'There died a myriad'
W. B. Yeats Easter, 1916
T. S. Eliot Gerontion
A. E. Housman from Last Poems
XII. 'The laws of God, the laws of man'
XXXIII. 'When the eye of day is shut'
XXXVII. Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
XL. 'Tell me not here, it needs not saying'
A. E. Housman 'It is a fearful thing to be'

1922
T. S. Eliot from The Waste Land
I. The Burial of the Dead
IV. Death by Water
Ivor Gurney Possessions
Ivor Gurney The High Hills

1923
D. H. Lawrence Medlars and Sorb-Apples
D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito
D. H. Lawrence The Blue Jay
Hilaire Belloc On a General Election
Hilaire Belloc Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck
W. B. Yeats Leda and the Swan

1925
Robert Graves Love Without Hope
Robert Bridges To Francis Jammes
Edmund Blunden The Midnight Skaters
Basil Bunting from Villon
'Remember, imbeciles and wits'
Edwin Muir Childhood
Hugh Macdiarmid from Sangschaw
The Watergaw
The Eemis Stane

1926
Hugh Macdiarmid Empty Vessel
Hugh Macdiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
'O wha's the bride that carries the bunch?'

1927
James Joyce from Pomes Penyeach
Bahnhofstrasse

1928
Thomas Hardy Lying Awake
Austin Clarke The Planter's Daughter
W. B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
W. B. Yeats from Meditations in Time of Civil War
V. The Road at My Door
VI. The State's Nest by My Window
W. B. Yeats Among School Children
W.H. Auden 'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings'

1929
D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito Knows
D. H. Lawrence To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned
D. H. Lawrence Innocent England
E. C. Bentley (Clerihews)
'George the Third'
'Nell'
Edmund Blunden Report on Experience
Robert Graves Sick Love
Robert Graves Warning to Children
Robert Graves It Was All Very Tidy

1930
W. H. Auden 'This lunar beauty'
T. S. Eliot Marina

1932
Basil Bunting from Chomei at Toyama
'I have been noting events forty years'
D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

1933
Rudyard Kipling The Bonfires
W. B. Yeats In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse

1934
Hugh Macdiarmid from On a Raised Beach
'All is lithogenesis - or lochia'

1935
William Empson This Last Pain
William Empson Homage to the British Museum
Louis Macneice Snow
William Soutar The Tryst

1936
W. H. Auden 'Out on the lawn I lie in bed'
W. H. Auden 'Now the leaves are falling fast'
Elizabeth Daryush Still-Life
Laura Riding The Wind Suffers
Patrick Kavanagh Inniskeen Road: July Evening
A. E. Housman from More Poems
XXIII. 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry'
XXXI. 'Because I liked you better'

1937
A. E. Housman 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?'
John Betjeman The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
David Jones from In Parenthesis
from Part 3 'And the deepened stillness'
from Part 7 'But sweet sister death'

1938
Austin Clarke The Straying Student
Robert Graves To Evoke Posterity
Elizabeth Daryush 'Children of wealth in your warm nursery'
Louis Macneice The Sunlight on the Garden

1939
W. B. Yeats Long-legged Fly
W. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Louis Macneice from Autumn Journal
I. 'Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire'
XV. 'Shelley and jazz and lieder and love and hymn-tunes'

1940
W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts
John Betjeman Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden
William Empson Missing Dates
William Empson Aubade

1941
Louis Macneice Meeting Point
Louis Macneice Autobiography

1942
T. S. Eliot from Little Gidding
II. 'Ash on an old man's sleeve'
Alun Lewis Raiders' Dawn
Norman Cameron Green, Green is El Aghir
Stevie Smith Bog-Face
Stevie Smith Dirge
Patrick Kavanagh from The Great Hunger
from I. 'Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'
III. 'Poor Paddy Maquire, a fourteen-hour day'
from XI. 'The cards are shuffled and the deck'
from XII. 'The fields were bleached white'

1943
Henry Reed Judging Distances
David Gascoyne Snow in Europe
David Gascoyne A Wartime Dawn
Keith Douglas Desert Flowers

1944
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) from The Walls Do Not Fall
I. 'An incident here and there'
Sorley Maclean Hallaig
Laurence Binyon Winter Sunrise
Laurence Binyon The Burning of the Leaves
Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht

1945
Robert Graves To Juan at the Winter Solstice
Dylan Thomas Poem in October
W. H. Auden from The Sea and the Mirror
Miranda
Ruth Pitter But for Lust
William Empson Let It Go

1946
Samuel Beckett Saint-Lô
Keith Douglas How to Kill

1949
Edwin Muir the Interrogation

1950
Marion Angus Alas! Poor Queen
Stevie Smith Pad, Pad

1951
Dylan Thomas Over Sir John's Hill

1952
Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night
W. H. Auden The Fall of Rome
W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles

1954
John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1
Robert Garioch Elegy
Thom Gunn The Wound
Philip Larkin At Grass

1955
Norman Maccaig Summer Farm

1956
Edwin Muir The Horses

1957
Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox
Louis Macneice House on a Cliff
Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith Magna est Veritas

1959
Geoffrey Hill A Pastoral

1960
Ted Hughes Pike
Patrick Kavanagh Epic
Patrick Kavanagh Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
Patrick Kavanagh The Hospital

1961
R. S. Thomas Here
Roy Fisher from City
from By the Pond
Toyland
Thom Gunn In Santa Maria del Popolo
Thom Gunn My Sad Captains

1962
Malcolm Lowry (Strange Type)
Christopher Logue/Homer from Patrocleia
(Apollo Strikes Patroclus)

1963
Charles Tomlinson The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone
R. S. Thomas On the Farm
Louis Macneice Soap Suds
Louis Macneice The Taxis
Austin Clarke Martha Blake at Fifty-One

1964
Philip Larkin Mr Bleaney
Philip Larkin Here
Philip Larkin Days
Philip Larkin Afternoons
Donald Davie The Hill Field

1965
Sylvia Plath Sheep in Fog
Sylvia Plath The Arrival of the Bee Box
Sylvia Plath Edge

1966
Basil Bunting from Briggflatts
I. 'Brag, sweet tenor bull'
R. S. Thomas Pietà
R. S. Thomas Gifts
Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon

1967
Ted Hughes Thistles
Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda
John Montague from A Chosen Light
II. rue Daguerre
George Theiner/Miroslav Holub The Fly

1968
Geoffrey Hill Ovid in the Third Reich
Geoffrey Hill September Song
Roy Fisher As He Came Near Death
Roy Fisher The Memorial Fountain

1969
Michael Longley Persephone
Douglas Dunn A Removal from Terry Street
Douglas Dunn On Roofs of Terry Street
Norman Maccaig Wild Oats
Iain Crichton Smith Shall Gaelic Die?

1970
W. S. Graham Malcolm Mooney's Land
Ian Hamilton The Visit
Ian Hamilton Newscast
Tom Leonard from Unrelated Incidents
3. 'this is thi'
Ted Hughes from Crow
A Childish Prank

1971
Thom Gunn Moly
Geoffrey Hill from Mercian Hymns
I. 'King of the perennial holly-graves'
VI. 'The princes of Mercia were badger and raven'
VII. 'Gasholders, russet among fields'
XXVII. 'Now when King Offa was alive and dead'
George Mackay Brown Kirkyard

1972
Stevie Smith Scorpion
Charles Tomlinson Stone Speech
Derek Mahon An Image from Beckett
Seamus Heaney The Tollund Man
Seamus Heaney Broagh
Douglas Dunn Modern Love
Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin Swineherd
Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin The Second Voyage

1973
Thomas Kinsella Hen Woman
Thomas Kinsella Ancestor
Michael Longley Wounds
Paul Muldoon Wind and Tree

1974
Philip Larkin This Be the Verse
Philip Larkin Money
Philip Larkin from Livings
II. 'Seventy feet down'
Philip Larkin The Explosion
Padraic Fallon A Bit of Brass

1975
Seamus Heaney from Singing School
6. Exposure
Derek Mahon The Snow Party
Derek Mahon A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
D. J. Enright Remembrance Sunday
John Fuller Wild Raspberries

1976
Michael Longley Man Lying on a Wall
Elma Mitchell Thoughts after Ruskin
Thom Gunn The Idea of Trust

1977
Donald Davie from In the Stopping Train
'I have got into the slow train'
Norman Maccaig Notations of Ten Summer Minutes
W. S. Graham Lines on Roger Hilton's Watch
Robert Garioch The Maple and the Pine

1978
Geoffrey Hill from An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
9. The Laurel Axe
12. The Eve of St Mark
Thomas Kinsella Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore
James Fenton In a Notebook
Jeffrey Wainwright 1815

1979
Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Christopher Reid Baldanders
Ted Hughes February 17th
Seamus Heaney The Strand at Lough Beg
Michael Longley from Wreaths
The Linen Workers

1980
Tom Paulin Where Art is a Midwife
Paul Muldoon Why Brownlee Left
Paul Muldoon Anseo
Paul Durcan Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour
Paul Durcan The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious

1981
James Fenton A German Requiem
Tony Harrison The Earthen Lot
Derek Mahon Courtyards in Delft

1983
Paul Muldoon Quoof
Paul Muldoon The Frog
Tom Paulin Desertmartin

1984
Seamus Heaney Widgeon
Seamus Heaney from Station Island
VII. 'I had come to the edge of the water'
Douglas Dunn from Elegies
The Sundial

1985Derek Mahon Antarctica
John Agard Listen to Mr Oxford don

1987
Peter Didsbury The Hailstone
Paul Muldoon Something Else
Ciaran Carson Dresden
Eavan Boland Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening

1988
Charles Causley Eden Rock
Edwin Morgan The Dowser
Norman Maccaig Chauvinist

1989
Ted Hughes Telegraph Wires

1990
Ken Smith Writing in Prison
Ciaran Carson Belfast Confetti
Nuala Níi Dhomhnaill (trans. Paul Muldoon) The Language Issue
Eavan Boland The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me

1991
Seamus Heaney from Lightenings
VIII. 'The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise'
Michael Longley The Butchers

1992
Denise Riley A Misremembered Lyric
Thom Gunn The Hug
Thom Gunn The Reassurance

1994
Hugo Williams Prayer
Hugo Williams Last Poem
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Studying the Language
Christopher Reid/Ovid Stories and Bones

Acknowledgements
Index of Poets
Index of First lines
Index of Titles

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      This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

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      Table of Contents
      The Penguin Book of English VersePreface

      1300-1350
      (Rawlinson Lyrics)
      Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande'
      Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay'
      Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë'
      (Harley Lyrics)
      Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril'
      Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe'

      1350-1400
      (Grimestone Lyrics)
      Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn'
      Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est'
      Anonymous 'Love me broughte'
      Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks)
      Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls
      (Catalogue of the Birds)
      (Roundel)
      Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus
      (Envoi)
      Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span'
      William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman
      (Prologue)
      (Gluttony in the Ale-house)
      Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales
      from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote'
      from The General Prologue (The Prioress)
      from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars)
      from The Knight's Tale (Saturn)
      from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun)
      from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour'
      from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle'
      Anonymous from Patience
      (Jonah and the Whale)
      Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
      (Gawain Journeys North)
      Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan
      John Gower from Confessio Amantis
      (Pygmaleon)
      (The Rape of Lucrece)

      1430
      Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve
      'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves'

      1440
      Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes')
      Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!')
      Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')

      1450
      (Sloane Lyrics)
      Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden'
      Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden'
      Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe'
      Anonymous (Christ Triumphant)
      Anonymous (Holly against Ivy)
      Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'

      1500
      John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe
      'Whan I remembre agayn'
      Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid
      'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend'
      William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik

      1510
      William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak'
      William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis'

      1515
      Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid
      from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds)
      from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados
      Anonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol)
      Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere'
      Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere'

      1520
      Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'

      1523
      John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell
      (The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song)
      To Maystres Isabell Pennell
      John Skelton from Speke Parott
      (Parrot's Complaint)

      1530
      William Cornish 'Pleasure it is'

      1535
      Myles Coverdale from The Bible
      Psalm 137: Super flumina

      1540
      Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar'
      Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde'
      Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'
      Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last'
      Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent'
      Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'

      1542
      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat

      1547
      Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate

      1557
      from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes
      Sir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe')
      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace'
      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace'
      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis
      (Aeneas searches for his wife)

      1560
      from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time')
      Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth'

      1563
      Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne
      Barnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald

      1565
      Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid
      (Proserpine and Dis)
      (Daphne and Apollo)

      1567
      Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid
      (Medea's Incantation)

      1568
      Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane'
      Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it'

      1579
      Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay)

      1580
      Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum

      1581
      Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens)

      1582
      Thomas Watson My Love is Past

      1584
      Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves

      1586
      Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'

      1588
      Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses'
      Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus
      (Adonis)

      1589
      Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'

      1590
      Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land'
      Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin')
      Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd'
      Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene
      from Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed)
      from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis)
      from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane)

      1591
      Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella
      1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show'
      31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies'
      33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might'
      Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'
      Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon)

      1592
      John Lyly from Midas
      'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed'
      Samuel Daniel from Delia
      45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night'
      Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken'
      Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie

      1593
      from The Phoenix Nest
      Anonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light'
      Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love
      Barnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina)
      ('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare')
      Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
      'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'

      1594
      William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost
      'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew'
      Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'

      1595
      Edmund Spenser from Amoretti
      Sonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace')
      Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day')
      Robert Southwell S. J. Decease Release
      Robert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New Warre
      Robert Southwell S.J. The Burning Babe
      George Peele from The Old Wives Tale
      'When as the Rie reach to the chin'
      'Gently dip: but not too deepe'

      1596
      Edmund Spenser Prothalamion
      Sir John Davies In Cosmum
      Sir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
      ('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing')

      1597
      Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely'
      William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand
      William Alabaster Of His Conversion
      Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'

      1598
      Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure'
      Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust'
      Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just')
      Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine')
      Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander
      'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand'
      Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above'
      Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids Elegies
      Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day')
      Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')
      John Donne On His Mistris

      1599
      Michael Drayton from Idea
      5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'
      Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall
      'O perfite light, quhik schaid away'
      George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe
      'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire'
      Samuel Daniel from Musophilus
      (Stonehenge)

      1600
      Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from Caelica
      Sonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce')
      Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth')
      Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive')
      Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity')
      Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast')
      from Englands Helicon
      Anonymous The Sheepheeards Description of Love
      Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love
      Sir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard
      Thomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament
      'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore'
      'Adieu, farewell earths blisse'
      Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham)
      Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new'
      Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography'

      1601
      John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated'
      William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night
      'When that I was and a little tiny boy'
      William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle)
      Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'
      Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe'
      Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground'

      1602
      Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall'
      Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come'

      1603
      Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines'

      1604
      Anonymous The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage
      Nicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion
      'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me'

      1607
      Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone
      'Come my Celia, let us prove'

      1608
      Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!'

      1609
      Ben Jonson from Epicoene
      'Still to be neat, still to be dresst'
      Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
      (Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie)
      William Shakespeare from Sonnets
      18. 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?'
      55. 'Not marble, nor the guilded monuments'
      60. 'Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore'
      66. 'Tyr'd with all these for restfull death I cry'
      73. 'That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold'
      94. 'They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none'
      107. 'Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule'
      116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindes'
      124. 'Yf my deare love were but the childe of state'
      129. 'Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame'
      138. 'When my love sweares that she is made of truth'
      144. 'Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire'
      William Shakespeare from Cymbeline
      'Feare no more the heate o'th'Sun'
      Anonymous (Inscription in Osmington Church, Dorset)
      Anonymous (Inscription in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London)

      1610
      John Davies of Hereford The Author Loving These Homely Meats

      1611
      from The Authorized Version of the Bible
      2 Samuel 1:19-27 David lamenteth the death of Jonathan
      Job 3:3-26 Job curseth the day, and services of his birth
      Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 The Creator is to be remembered in due time
      George Chapman/Homer from The Iliads of Homer
      from The Third Booke (Helen and the Elders on the Ramparts)
      from The Twelfth Booke (Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus)
      Anonymous A Belmans Song
      William Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale
      'When Daffadils begin to peere'
      'Lawne as white as driven Snow'
      William Shakespeare from The Tempest
      'Come unto these yellow sands'
      'Full fadom five they Father lies'

      1612
      John Webster from The White Divel
      'Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren'
      George Chapman/Epictetus Pleasd with thy Place
      Thomas Campion 'Never weather-beaten Saile'
      William Fowler 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss'

      1614
      John Webster from The Dutchesse of Malfy
      'Hearke, now every thing is still'

      1615
      Sir John Harington Of Treason
      Anonymous (Tom o' Bedlam's Song)

      1616
      Ben Jonson from Epigrammes
      XIV. To William Camden
      XLV. On My First Sonne
      LIX. On Spies
      CSVIII. Inviting a Friend to Supper
      CI. On Gut
      Ben Jonson from The Forrest To Heaven
      William Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnet ('How many times Nights silent Queene her Face')
      William Browne from Britannia's Pastorals
      (The Golden Age: Flower-weaving)
      Thomas Campion 'There is a Garden in her face'
      Thomas Campion 'Now winter nights enlarge'

      1618
      Sir Walter Ralegh (Sir Walter Ralegh to his Sonne)
      Sir Walter Ralegh from The Ocean to Scinthia
      'Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way'
      Sir Walter Ralegh 'Even suche is tyme that takes in trust'

      1619
      Michael Drayton from Idea
      61. 'Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part'
      Anonymous 'Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight'

      1620
      John Donne The Canonization
      John Donne A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day
      John Donne Loves Growth
      John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
      John Donne The Exstasie
      John Donne from Holy Sonnets
      VII. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners'
      X. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'
      XIV. 'Batter my heart, three person'd God'
      John Donne A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last Going into Germany
      John Donne A Hymne to God the Father

      1621
      Katherine, Lady Dyer (Epitaph on Sir William Dyer)
      Lady Mary Wroth from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
      77. 'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?
      96. 'Late in the Forest I did Cupid see'

      1623
      William Drummond of Hawthornden (For the Baptiste)
      William Drummond of Hawthornden (Content and Resolute)
      William Browne On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke

      1624
      Sir Henry Wotton On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia

      1626
      George Sandys/Ausonius Echo

      1627
      Ben Jonson My Picture left in Scotland
      Ben Jonson An Ode. To Himselfe
      Michael Drayton from Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie
      (Queen Mab's Chariot)

      1631
      Michael Drayton These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton
      ('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I')
      Anonymous Felton's Epitaph
      Anonymous (Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham)

      1633
      George Herbert from The Temple
      Redemption
      Prayer
      Church-monuments
      Deniall
      Hope
      The Collar
      The Flower
      The Answer
      A Wreath
      Love

      1635
      Francis Quarles Embleme IV (Canticles 7.10 I am my Beloved's)

      1637
      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney
      Robert Sempill of Beltrees The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan
      Thomas Jordan A Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna Blvnt
      John Milton from A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634
      (Comus)
      'The Star that bids the Shepherd fold'

      1638
      Thomas Randolph A Gratulatory to Mr Ben. Johnson
      Sir John Suckling Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')
      John Milton Lycidas

      1640
      Ben Jonson from A Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces (Her Triumph)
      Ben Jonson (A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter)
      Sidney Godolphin 'Faire Friend, 'tis true, your beauties move'
      Sidney Godolphin 'Lord when the wise men came from Farr'
      Henry King An Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten Freind
      Thomas Carew Song. Celia singing
      Thomas Carew Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers
      Thomas Carew Maria Wentworth
      Thomas Carew A Song ('Aske me no more whither doe stray')
      Thomas Carew Psalme 91
      William Habington Nox nocti indicat Scientiam
      William Habington To Castara, Upon an Embrace

      1641
      Anonymous On Francis Drake
      Sir Henry Wotton/Martial Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife

      1642
      Sir John Denham from Cooper's Hill
      'Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise'

      1645
      Edmund Waller Song ('Go lovely Rose')
      Edmund Waller Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs
      Edmund Waller To a Lady in a Garden
      John Milton from On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos'd 1629
      'It was the Winter wilde'

      1646
      Richard Crashaw from Divine Epigrams
      Upon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was Laid
      Upon the Infant Martyrs
      Richard Crashaw Musicks Duell
      Sir John Suckling (Loves Siege)
      John Hall An Epicurean Ode
      James Shirley Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham
      James Shirley 'The glories of our blood and state'

      1647
      John Cleveland Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford

      1648
      Sir Richard Fanshawe/Gongora A Great Favorit Beheaded
      Robert Herrick from Hesperides
      The Argument of His Book
      Upon Julia's Voice
      Delight in Disorder
      To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
      The Comming of Good Luck
      To Meddowes
      The Departure of the Good Daemon
      Upon Prew His Maid
      On Himselfe
      Robert Herrick The White Island: Or Place of the Blest

      1649
      Richard Lovelace from Lucasta
      Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres
      To Althea from Prison
      The Grasse-hopper
      William Drummond/Passerat Song
      "Shephard loveth thow me vell?'

      1650
      James Graham, Marquis of Montrose On Himself, upon Hearing What was His Sentence
      Anonymous from The Second Scottish Psalter
      Psalm 124
      Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans, Or Sacred Poems
      The Retreate
      'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now'
      The World

      1651
      William Cartwright No Platonique Love
      John Cleveland The Antiplatonick
      John Cleveland A Song of Marke Anthony
      Thomas Stanley The Snow-ball
      Thomas Stanley The Grassehopper
      Sir Henry Wotton Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset
      Sir Richard Fanshawe/Horace Odes. IV, 7 To L. Manlius Torquatus
      Richard Crashaw from The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa

      1653
      Aurelian Townshend A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime
      Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World

      1655
      Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans II
      'They are all gone into the world of light!'
      Cock-crowing
      The Night

      1656
      Abraham Cowley from Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the Greek
      II. Drinking
      X. The Grashopper
      Abraham Cowley from Davideis
      (Lot's Wife)
      William Strode Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')
      William Strode On Westwell Downes
      John Taylor and Anonymous Non-sense
      Sir John Suckling 'Out upon it, I have lov'd'

      1657
      George Daniel Ode. The Robin

      1659
      Richard Lovelace The Snayl

      1662
      Samuel Butler from Hudibras
      (The Presbyterian Knight)

      1663
      Abraham Cowley Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey
      Abraham Cowley/Horace The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 6

      1665
      Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet. Made upon the Groves near Merlou Castle
      John Dryden/Ovid from The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
      (Deucalion and Pyrrha)

      1694
      John Dryden To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call'd The Double-Dealer

      1697
      John Dryden/Virgil from Virgil's Aeneis
      from The Second Book ('The Death of Priam)
      from The Fourth Book (Fame)
      from The Sixth Book (Charon)

      1700
      John Dryden/Ovid Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen
      John Dryden from The Secular Masque
      'Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace'

      1701
      Sir Charles Sedley Song ('Phillis, let's shun the common Fate')
      Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea from The Spleen
      'O'er me, alas! thou dost too much prevail'

      1704
      William Congreve Song ('Pious Celinda goes to Pray'rs')
      William Congreve A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

      1706
      Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick

      1707
      Isaac Watts Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.14

      1709
      Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Pos'd
      Matthew Prior An Ode ('The Merchant, to secure his Treasure')
      Ambrose Phillips A Winter-Piece

      1710
      Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower

      1712
      Joseph Addison Ode ('The Spacious Firmament on high')

      1713
      Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea A Nocturnal Reverie

      1714
      Samuel Jones The Force of Love
      Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock
      from Canto I
      from Canto V

      1716
      John Gay from Trivia: Or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
      (Of the Weather)

      1717
      Alexander Pope Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation

      1718
      Matthew Prior A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous
      Matthew Prior The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus
      Matthew Prior A True Maid

      1719
      Isaac Watts Man Frail, and God Eternal

      1720
      Allan Ramsay Polwart on the Green
      John Gay My Own Epitaph

      1722
      Alexander Pope To Mr. Gay . . . on the Finishing His House
      Jonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General
      William Diaper/Oppian from Oppian's Halieuticks
      (The Loves of the Fishes)

      1724
      Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to her Husband

      1725
      Edward Young from Love of Fame. Satire V
      'The languid lady next appears in state'
      Henry Carey from Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification

      1726
      Abel Evans On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph
      John Dyer from Grongar Hill
      'Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow'
      Allan Ramsay/Horace 'What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass'
      James Thomson from Summer
      ('Forenoon. Summer Insects Described')
      ('Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet')

      1727
      John Gay from Fables
      The Wild Boar and the Ram
      Thomas Sheridan Tom Punsibi's Letter to Dean Swift
      Henry Carey A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession

      1728
      John Gay from The Beggar's Opera
      'Were I laid on Grrenland's Coast'

      1731
      Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Burlington
      'At Timon's Villa let us pass a day'
      Jonathan Swift The Day of Judgement
      Jonathan Swift An Epigram on Scolding

      1732
      Jonathan Swift Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan

      1733
      Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a lady')
      Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Bathurst
      (Sir Balaam)
      George Farewell Quaerè

      1734
      Jonathan Swift A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

      1735
      Alexander Pope from Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady
      'Nothing so true as what you once let fall'
      Alexander Pope from An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
      'You think this cruel? take it for a rule'
      Alexander Pope Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton
      John Dyer My Ox Duke

      1737
      Matthew Green from The Spleen
      'To cure the mind's wrong biass, spleen'

      1738
      Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
      'Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel'
      Alexander Pope from Epilogue to the Satires
      Alexander Pope Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey

      1739
      Jonathan Swift from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
      'The Time is not remote, when I'

      1740
      Alexander Pope On Queen Caroline's Death-bed
      Samuel Johnson An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician
      Charles Wesley Morning Hymn
      Alexander Pope from The Dunciad
      (The Tribe of Fanciers)
      (The Triumph of Dullness)

      1744
      Anonymous On the Death of Mr. Pope
      from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book
      Anonymous Cock Robbin
      Anonymous London Bridge

      1745
      Charles Wesley 'Let Earth and Heaven combine'

      1746
      William Collins Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
      William Collins Ode to Evening

      1747
      William Shenstone Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow

      1748
      Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
      Mary Leapor Mira's Will
      Christopher Smart A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers

      1749
      Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from The Vanity of Human Wishes
      'When first the College Rolls receive his Name'

      1751
      Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

      1755
      Anonymous This is the House That Jack Built

      1761
      Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno
      'For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent'
      'For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'

      1763
      Christopher Smart from A Song to David
      'O David, highest in the list'

      1764
      Oliver Goldsmith from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society (Britain)
      Samuel Johnson (Lines contributed to Goldsmith's 'The Traveller')

      1765
      from Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle
      Anonymous 'High diddle diddle'
      from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
      Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence
      Anonymous Edward, Edward
      Anonymous Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
      Christopher Smart Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

      1766
      Oliver Goldsmith from The Vicar of Wakefield
      'When lovely woman stoops to folly'

      1769
      Thomas Gray On L(or)d H(olland')s Seat near M(argat)e, K(en)t

      1770
      Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village
      'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close'

      1772
      John Byrom On the Origin of Evil
      Robert Fergusson The Daft-Days

      1774
      William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness
      William Cowper 'Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion'
      Anonymous (Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman, Charlton, Sussex)
      Oliver Goldsmith from Retaliation
      (Edmund Burke)
      (David Garrick)
      (Joshua Reynolds)

      1777
      Richard Brinsley Sheridan On Lady Anne Hamilton
      Samuel Johnson Prologue to Hugh Kelly's 'A Word to the Wise'
      Samuel Johnson (Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth's 'The Rival)
      Richard Brinsley Sheridan from The School for Scandal Song and Chorus ('Here's to the maiden of Bashful fifteen')

      1779
      William Cowper The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15
      Robert Fergusson/Horace Odes I. II

      1780
      Samuel Johnson A Short Song of Congratulation

      1783
      Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
      William Blake To the Evening Star

      1784
      William Cowper from The Task
      (The Winter Evening)
      (The Winter Walk at Noon)

      1786
      Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785

      1787
      Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous

      1789
      William Blake from Songs of Innocence
      Holy Thursday
      Charlotte Smith Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
      Elizabeth Hands On an Unsociable Family

      1791
      Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter. A Tale

      1792
      Robert Burns Song ('Ae fond kiss, and then we sever')

      1793
      William Blake from Visions of the Daughters of Albion
      'Then Oothoon waited silent all the day'
      William Blake 'Never seek to tell thy love'

      1794
      William Blake from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
      Introduction ('Hear the voice of the Bard!')
      The Clod and the Pebble
      The Sick Rose
      The Tyger
      Ah! Sun-Flower
      The Garden of Love
      London
      A Poison Tree

      1796
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Eolian Harp
      Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose

      1797
      George Canning and John Hookham Frere Sapphics
      Charlotte Smith Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea

      1798
      from Lyrical Ballads
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts
      'It is an ancyent Marinere'
      William Wordsworth Old Man Travelling
      William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight

      1799
      William Wordsworth from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
      'Was it for this?'
      Robert Burns from Love and Liberty. A Cantara
      'See the smoking bowl before us'

      1800
      William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads
      'A slumber did my spirit seal'
      Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')

      1801
      Robert Burns 'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast'
      Robert Burns The Fornicator. A New Song

      1802
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802
      Sir Walter Scott (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
      Anonymous The Wife of Usher's Well
      Anonymous Thomas Rhymer
      Anonymous Lord Randal
      Anonymous A Lyke-Wake Dirge

      1803
      Anonymous The Twa Corbies
      William Cowper The Snail
      William Cowper The Cast-away

      1804
      William Blake from Milton (Preface)
      'And did those feet in ancient time'
      William Blake 'Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau'

      1805
      William Blake The Crystal Cabinet
      William Blake from Auguries of Innocence
      'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'

      1806
      Anonymous Lamkin

      1807
      William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge
      William Wordsworth Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
      William Wordsworth The Small Celandine
      William Wordsworth Ode (Intimations of Immortality)

      1808
      Thomas Moore 'Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers'

      1810
      George Crabbe from The Borough
      from Prisons (The Condemned Man)
      from Peter Grimes ('Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand')
      Sir Walter Scott from The Lady of the Lake
      Coronach

      1815
      George Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for Music

      1816
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
      John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
      Percy Bysshe Shelley To Wordsworth

      1817
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
      'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
      John Keats 'After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains'

      1818
      John Keats from Endymion
      'But there are Richer entanglements'
      Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
      Sir Walter Scott from The Heart of Mid-Lothian
      'Proud Maisie is in the wood'

      1819
      Sir Walter Scott from The Bride of Lammermoor
      (Lucy Ashton's song)
      George Crabbe from Tales of the Hall
      from Delay has Danger ('Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now')
      William Blake To the Accuser Who is the God of This World
      Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Mask of Anarchy
      'As I lay asleep in Italy'
      George Gordon, Lord Byron from Don Juan
      from Canto I (Juan's Puberty)
      from Canto II (The Shipwreck)
      John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
      John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
      John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
      John Keats To Autumn
      John Keats Ode on Melancholy
      John Keats 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art -'

      1820
      John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
      Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
      Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Sensitive-Plant
      'Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that'

      1821
      Percy Bysshe Shelley from Adonais
      'The One remains, the many change and pass'

      1822
      George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment
      'Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate'

      1823
      George Gordon, Lord Byron Aristomenes. Canto First

      1824
      George Gordon, Lord Byron January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year
      George Gordon, Lord Byron 'Remember Thee, Remember Thee!'
      Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane. The Invitation
      Percy Bysshe Shelley from Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation
      'I rode one evening with Count Maddalo'
      Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Triumph of Life
      'As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay'
      Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Laird o' Cockpen
      Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Land o' the Leal

      1826
      Anonymous (A Metrical Adage)
      Anonymous Tweed and Till
      Anonymous (A Rhyme from Lincolnshire)

      1827
      Winthrop Mackworth Praed Good-night to the Season

      1828
      Thomas Hood Death in the Kitchen
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Surviving Self-Love

      1829
      Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca
      Dorothy Wordsworth Floating Island
      Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Lines of Life
      Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Revenge
      Thomas Love Peacock The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
      Winthrop Mackworth Praed Arrivals at a Watering Place

      1830
      George Gordon, Lord Byron 'So, we'll go no more a roving'

      1831
      Walter Savage Landor'Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives'
      Walter Savage Landor Dirce
      Walter Savage Landor On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia

      1832
      George Gordon, Lord Byron Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron was Ill

      1833
      Hartley Coleridge 'Long time a child, and still a child, when years'

      1834
      Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Knight's Tomb

      1835
      John Clare The Nightingales Nest
      John Clare The Sky Lark
      John Clare Mist in the Meadows
      John Clare Sand Martin
      George Darley from Nepenthe
      'Hurry me Nymphs!'

      1836
      John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud

      1837
      George Darley The Mermaidens' Vesper-Hymn
      John Clare 'I found a ball of grass among the hay'
      John Clare 'The old pond full of flags and fenced around'
      John Clare from The Badger
      'When midnight comes a host of dogs and men'

      1838
      Leigh Hunt from The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
      To Fish
      A Fish Answers

      1839
      Thomas Hood Sonnet to Vauxhall

      1842
      Robert Browning My Last Duchess
      Robert Browning from Waring
      'What's become of Waring'
      Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
      Elizabeth Barrett Browning Grief

      1844
      William Barnes The Clote

      1845
      William WordsworthThe Simplon Pass
      Thomas Hood Stanzas ('Farewell, Life! My senses swim')
      Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

      1846
      Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense
      'There was an Old Man with a beard'
      'There was an Old Person of Basing'
      'There was an Old Man of Whitehaven'
      Emily Jane Bronte 'The night is darkening round me'
      Emily Jane Bronte 'Fall leaves fall die flowers away'
      Emily Jane Bronte 'All hushed and still within the house'
      Emily Jane Bronte Remembrance
      James Clarence Mangan Siberia

      1847
      Alred, Lord Tennyson from The Princess
      'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'
      'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'

      1848
      John Clare 'I am'

      1849
      Walter Savage Landor 'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife'
      Matthew Arnold from Resignation. To Fausta
      ('He sees the gentle stir of birth')

      1850
      Emily Jane Bronte and Charlotte Bronte The Visionary
      Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam A.H.H.
      II. 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'
      VII. 'Dark house, by which once more I stand'
      XI. 'Calm is the morn without a sound'
      LVI. '"So careful of the type?" but no'
      CXV. 'Now fades the last long streak of snow'
      Thomas Lovell Beddoes from Death's Jest Book, or the Fool's Tragedy
      'And what's your tune?'

      1851
      Thomas Lovell Beddoes from The Last Man
      A Crocodile
      A Lake

      1852
      Matthew Arnold To Marguerite - Continued

      1853
      Walter Savage Landor 'Our youth was happy: why repine'
      Walter Savage Landor Separation

      1854
      James Henry 'Another and another and another'
      James Henry 'The son's a poor, wretched, unfortunate creature'

      1855
      Robert Browning Love in a Life
      Robert Browning How It Strikes a Contemporary
      Robert Browning Memorabilia
      Robert Browning Two in the Campagna

      1856
      Coventry Patmore from Victories of Love, Book 1, 2
      'He that but once too nearly hears'

      1858
      Arthur Hugh Clough from Amours de Voyage (Canto II)
      V. 'Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears'
      VII. 'So, I have seen a man killed!'
      VIII. 'Only think, dearest Louisa'
      IX. 'It is most curious to see what a power'
      X. 'I am in love, meantime, you think'

      1859
      Edward Fitzgerald from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
      'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night'
      William Barnes My Orcha'd in Linden Lea
      William Barnes False Friends-like

      1860
      Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus

      1861
      Dante Gabriel Rossetti/Dante Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
      Adelaide Anne Procter Envy

      1862
      Christina Rossetti May
      Christina Rossetti Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')
      Christina Rossetti Winter: My Secret
      Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lord Walter's Wife
      Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument
      George Meredith from Modern Love
      I. 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'
      XVII. 'At dinner she is hostess, I am host'
      XXXIV. 'Madam would speak with me. So now it comes'
      L. 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'
      Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue
      Algernon Charles Swinburne Free Thought
      William Barnes Leaves-a-Vallèn
      William Barnes The Turnstile

      1863
      Walter Savage Landor Memory
      Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sudden Light

      1864
      Robert Browning Youth and Art
      John Clare 'The thunder mutters louder and more loud'

      1865
      Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
      '"You are old, Father William," the young man said'
      'They told me you had been to her'
      George Eliot In a London Drawingroom
      Arthur Hugh Clough from Dipsychus
      '"There is no God," the wicked saith'

      1866
      Algernon Charles Swinburne Itylus
      Algernon Charles Swinburne from Sapphics
      'All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids'
      Christina Rossetti The Queen of Hearts
      Christina Rossetti 'What Would I Give'

      1867
      Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
      Matthew Arnold Growing Old
      Dora Greenwell A Scherzo. (A Shy Person's Wishes)

      1868
      Charles Turner On a Vase of Gold-Fish
      Mortimer Collins Winter in Brighton

      1869
      Matthew Arnold 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light'

      1870
      Augusta Webster from A Castaway
      'Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts'
      Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Match with the Moon
      Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Woodspurge

      1871
      Edward Lear 'There was an old man who screamed out'
      Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

      1872
      Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass
      'In winter, when the fields are white'
      Christina Rossetti from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
      'Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush'
      'A city plum is not a plum'
      'If a pig wore a wig'
      'I caught a little ladybird'
      Robert Browning (Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus)

      1875
      Christina Rossetti By the Sea

      1877
      Coventry Patmore Magna est Veritas
      Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ our Lord
      Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty
      Gerard Manley Hopkins from The Wreck of the Deutschland
      'Thou mastering me'

      1878
      Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden
      Algernon Charles Swinburne A Vision of Spring in Winter

      1880
      Alfred, Lord Tennyson Rizpah
      Charles Turner Letty's Globe

      1881
      Joseph Skipsey 'Get Up!'
      Christina Rossetti 'Summer is Ended'
      Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid
      Gerard Manley Hopkins 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'
      Robert Louis Stevenson from Treasure Island
      Pirate Ditty
      Robert Louis Stevenson 'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style'

      1882
      William Allingham 'Everything passes and vanishes'

      1884
      Amy Levy Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)

      1885
      Alfred, Lord Tennyson To E. FitzGerald
      Gerard Manley Hopkins Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
      Gerard Manley Hopkins 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'

      1886
      Dante Gabriel Rossetti from A Trip to Paris and Belgium
      I. from London to Folkestone
      XVI. Antwerp to Ghent

      1887
      Anonymous Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
      Robert Louis Stevenson To Mrs Will H. Low
      Robert Louis Stevenson 'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves'
      May Kendall Lay of the Trilobite

      1888
      A. Mary F. Robinson Neurasthenia
      W. E. Henley from In Hospital
      II. Waiting
      III. Interior

      1889
      Amy Levy A Ballade of Religion and Marriage
      W. B. Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens

      1891
      William Morris Pomona

      1892
      Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever
      Rudyard Kipling Mandalay
      W. B. Yeats The Sorrow of Love
      Arthur Symons At the Cavour

      1894
      John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week

      1895
      Robert Louis Stevenson To S. R. Crockett
      Alice Meynell Cradle-Song at Twilight
      Alice Meynell Parentage
      May Probyn Triolets
      Tête-à-Tête
      Masquerading
      A Mésalliance

      1895
      Mary E. Coleridge An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar
      Christina Rossetti Promises like Pie-crust
      Ernest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
      A. E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad
      XII. 'When I watch the living meet'
      XL. 'Into my heart an air that kills'
      LII. 'Far in a western brookland'
      John Davidson A Northern Suburb

      1897
      Arthur Symons White Heliotrope
      Rudyard Kipling Recessional

      1898
      Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
      'He did not wear his scarlet coat'
      W. E. Henley To W. R.
      Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones
      Thomas Hardy Thoughts of Phena

      1900
      Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush

      1906
      Walter De La Mare The Birthnight
      Walter De La Mare Autumn
      Walter De La Mare Napoleon

      1908
      Mary E. Coleridge No Newspapers
      Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) The Mummy Invokes His Soul

      1909
      John Davidson Snow
      J. M. Synge On an Island

      1910
      J. M. Synge The 'Mergency Man

      1911
      W. H. Davies Sheep

      1912
      Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain
      T. E. Hulme Autumn
      T. E. Hulme Image
      Ezra Pound The Return

      1913
      Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

      1914
      H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Oread
      Thomas Hardy from Poems of 1912-13
      The Walk
      The Voice
      After a Journey
      At Castle Boterel
      W. B. Yeats The Cold Heaven
      W. B. Yeats The Magi
      Charlotte Mew Fame

      1915
      Ezra Pound The Gypsy
      Ezra Pound/Rihaku from Cathay
      The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
      Lament of the Frontier Guard
      Rupert Brooke Peace
      Rupert Brooke Heaven

      1916
      D. H. Lawrence Sorrow
      Charles Hamilton Sorley 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'
      Edward Thomas Cock-Crow
      Edward Thomas Aspens
      Anna Wickham The Fired Pot
      Charlotte Mew A quoi bon dire
      Charlotte Mew The Quiet House

      1917
      T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
      T. S. Eliot Aunt Helen
      Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches
      Isaac Rosenberg August 1914
      Isaac Rosenberg 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'
      Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain
      Edward Thomas Old Man
      Edward Thomas Tall Nettles
      Edward Thomas Blenheim Oranges
      Edward Thomas Rain

      1918
      Wilfred Owen Futility
      Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
      Wilfred Owen The Send-Off
      Wilfed Owen Maundy Thursday
      Siegfried Sassoon Base Details
      Siegfried Sassoon The General

      1919
      Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang
      Ivor Gurney To His Love
      Ivor Gurney The Silent One
      Rudyard Kipling from Epitaphs of War, 1914-18
      A Servant
      A Son
      The Coward
      The Refined Man
      Common Form
      Rudyard Kipling Gethsemane
      Laurence Binyon For the Fallen (September 1914)
      W. B. Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole
      T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales
      Ezra Pound from Homage to Sextus Propertius
      VI. 'When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids'

      1920
      Ezra Pound from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
      II. 'The age demanded an image'
      IV. 'These fought in any case'
      V. 'There died a myriad'
      W. B. Yeats Easter, 1916
      T. S. Eliot Gerontion
      A. E. Housman from Last Poems
      XII. 'The laws of God, the laws of man'
      XXXIII. 'When the eye of day is shut'
      XXXVII. Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
      XL. 'Tell me not here, it needs not saying'
      A. E. Housman 'It is a fearful thing to be'

      1922
      T. S. Eliot from The Waste Land
      I. The Burial of the Dead
      IV. Death by Water
      Ivor Gurney Possessions
      Ivor Gurney The High Hills

      1923
      D. H. Lawrence Medlars and Sorb-Apples
      D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito
      D. H. Lawrence The Blue Jay
      Hilaire Belloc On a General Election
      Hilaire Belloc Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck
      W. B. Yeats Leda and the Swan

      1925
      Robert Graves Love Without Hope
      Robert Bridges To Francis Jammes
      Edmund Blunden The Midnight Skaters
      Basil Bunting from Villon
      'Remember, imbeciles and wits'
      Edwin Muir Childhood
      Hugh Macdiarmid from Sangschaw
      The Watergaw
      The Eemis Stane

      1926
      Hugh Macdiarmid Empty Vessel
      Hugh Macdiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
      'O wha's the bride that carries the bunch?'

      1927
      James Joyce from Pomes Penyeach
      Bahnhofstrasse

      1928
      Thomas Hardy Lying Awake
      Austin Clarke The Planter's Daughter
      W. B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
      W. B. Yeats from Meditations in Time of Civil War
      V. The Road at My Door
      VI. The State's Nest by My Window
      W. B. Yeats Among School Children
      W.H. Auden 'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings'

      1929
      D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito Knows
      D. H. Lawrence To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned
      D. H. Lawrence Innocent England
      E. C. Bentley (Clerihews)
      'George the Third'
      'Nell'
      Edmund Blunden Report on Experience
      Robert Graves Sick Love
      Robert Graves Warning to Children
      Robert Graves It Was All Very Tidy

      1930
      W. H. Auden 'This lunar beauty'
      T. S. Eliot Marina

      1932
      Basil Bunting from Chomei at Toyama
      'I have been noting events forty years'
      D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

      1933
      Rudyard Kipling The Bonfires
      W. B. Yeats In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
      Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse

      1934
      Hugh Macdiarmid from On a Raised Beach
      'All is lithogenesis - or lochia'

      1935
      William Empson This Last Pain
      William Empson Homage to the British Museum
      Louis Macneice Snow
      William Soutar The Tryst

      1936
      W. H. Auden 'Out on the lawn I lie in bed'
      W. H. Auden 'Now the leaves are falling fast'
      Elizabeth Daryush Still-Life
      Laura Riding The Wind Suffers
      Patrick Kavanagh Inniskeen Road: July Evening
      A. E. Housman from More Poems
      XXIII. 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry'
      XXXI. 'Because I liked you better'

      1937
      A. E. Housman 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?'
      John Betjeman The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
      David Jones from In Parenthesis
      from Part 3 'And the deepened stillness'
      from Part 7 'But sweet sister death'

      1938
      Austin Clarke The Straying Student
      Robert Graves To Evoke Posterity
      Elizabeth Daryush 'Children of wealth in your warm nursery'
      Louis Macneice The Sunlight on the Garden

      1939
      W. B. Yeats Long-legged Fly
      W. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats
      Louis Macneice from Autumn Journal
      I. 'Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire'
      XV. 'Shelley and jazz and lieder and love and hymn-tunes'

      1940
      W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts
      John Betjeman Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden
      William Empson Missing Dates
      William Empson Aubade

      1941
      Louis Macneice Meeting Point
      Louis Macneice Autobiography

      1942
      T. S. Eliot from Little Gidding
      II. 'Ash on an old man's sleeve'
      Alun Lewis Raiders' Dawn
      Norman Cameron Green, Green is El Aghir
      Stevie Smith Bog-Face
      Stevie Smith Dirge
      Patrick Kavanagh from The Great Hunger
      from I. 'Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'
      III. 'Poor Paddy Maquire, a fourteen-hour day'
      from XI. 'The cards are shuffled and the deck'
      from XII. 'The fields were bleached white'

      1943
      Henry Reed Judging Distances
      David Gascoyne Snow in Europe
      David Gascoyne A Wartime Dawn
      Keith Douglas Desert Flowers

      1944
      H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) from The Walls Do Not Fall
      I. 'An incident here and there'
      Sorley Maclean Hallaig
      Laurence Binyon Winter Sunrise
      Laurence Binyon The Burning of the Leaves
      Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht

      1945
      Robert Graves To Juan at the Winter Solstice
      Dylan Thomas Poem in October
      W. H. Auden from The Sea and the Mirror
      Miranda
      Ruth Pitter But for Lust
      William Empson Let It Go

      1946
      Samuel Beckett Saint-Lô
      Keith Douglas How to Kill

      1949
      Edwin Muir the Interrogation

      1950
      Marion Angus Alas! Poor Queen
      Stevie Smith Pad, Pad

      1951
      Dylan Thomas Over Sir John's Hill

      1952
      Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night
      W. H. Auden The Fall of Rome
      W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles

      1954
      John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1
      Robert Garioch Elegy
      Thom Gunn The Wound
      Philip Larkin At Grass

      1955
      Norman Maccaig Summer Farm

      1956
      Edwin Muir The Horses

      1957
      Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox
      Louis Macneice House on a Cliff
      Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning
      Stevie Smith Magna est Veritas

      1959
      Geoffrey Hill A Pastoral

      1960
      Ted Hughes Pike
      Patrick Kavanagh Epic
      Patrick Kavanagh Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
      Patrick Kavanagh The Hospital

      1961
      R. S. Thomas Here
      Roy Fisher from City
      from By the Pond
      Toyland
      Thom Gunn In Santa Maria del Popolo
      Thom Gunn My Sad Captains

      1962
      Malcolm Lowry (Strange Type)
      Christopher Logue/Homer from Patrocleia
      (Apollo Strikes Patroclus)

      1963
      Charles Tomlinson The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone
      R. S. Thomas On the Farm
      Louis Macneice Soap Suds
      Louis Macneice The Taxis
      Austin Clarke Martha Blake at Fifty-One

      1964
      Philip Larkin Mr Bleaney
      Philip Larkin Here
      Philip Larkin Days
      Philip Larkin Afternoons
      Donald Davie The Hill Field

      1965
      Sylvia Plath Sheep in Fog
      Sylvia Plath The Arrival of the Bee Box
      Sylvia Plath Edge

      1966
      Basil Bunting from Briggflatts
      I. 'Brag, sweet tenor bull'
      R. S. Thomas Pietà
      R. S. Thomas Gifts
      Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon

      1967
      Ted Hughes Thistles
      Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda
      John Montague from A Chosen Light
      II. rue Daguerre
      George Theiner/Miroslav Holub The Fly

      1968
      Geoffrey Hill Ovid in the Third Reich
      Geoffrey Hill September Song
      Roy Fisher As He Came Near Death
      Roy Fisher The Memorial Fountain

      1969
      Michael Longley Persephone
      Douglas Dunn A Removal from Terry Street
      Douglas Dunn On Roofs of Terry Street
      Norman Maccaig Wild Oats
      Iain Crichton Smith Shall Gaelic Die?

      1970
      W. S. Graham Malcolm Mooney's Land
      Ian Hamilton The Visit
      Ian Hamilton Newscast
      Tom Leonard from Unrelated Incidents
      3. 'this is thi'
      Ted Hughes from Crow
      A Childish Prank

      1971
      Thom Gunn Moly
      Geoffrey Hill from Mercian Hymns
      I. 'King of the perennial holly-graves'
      VI. 'The princes of Mercia were badger and raven'
      VII. 'Gasholders, russet among fields'
      XXVII. 'Now when King Offa was alive and dead'
      George Mackay Brown Kirkyard

      1972
      Stevie Smith Scorpion
      Charles Tomlinson Stone Speech
      Derek Mahon An Image from Beckett
      Seamus Heaney The Tollund Man
      Seamus Heaney Broagh
      Douglas Dunn Modern Love
      Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin Swineherd
      Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin The Second Voyage

      1973
      Thomas Kinsella Hen Woman
      Thomas Kinsella Ancestor
      Michael Longley Wounds
      Paul Muldoon Wind and Tree

      1974
      Philip Larkin This Be the Verse
      Philip Larkin Money
      Philip Larkin from Livings
      II. 'Seventy feet down'
      Philip Larkin The Explosion
      Padraic Fallon A Bit of Brass

      1975
      Seamus Heaney from Singing School
      6. Exposure
      Derek Mahon The Snow Party
      Derek Mahon A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
      D. J. Enright Remembrance Sunday
      John Fuller Wild Raspberries

      1976
      Michael Longley Man Lying on a Wall
      Elma Mitchell Thoughts after Ruskin
      Thom Gunn The Idea of Trust

      1977
      Donald Davie from In the Stopping Train
      'I have got into the slow train'
      Norman Maccaig Notations of Ten Summer Minutes
      W. S. Graham Lines on Roger Hilton's Watch
      Robert Garioch The Maple and the Pine

      1978
      Geoffrey Hill from An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
      9. The Laurel Axe
      12. The Eve of St Mark
      Thomas Kinsella Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore
      James Fenton In a Notebook
      Jeffrey Wainwright 1815

      1979
      Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
      Christopher Reid Baldanders
      Ted Hughes February 17th
      Seamus Heaney The Strand at Lough Beg
      Michael Longley from Wreaths
      The Linen Workers

      1980
      Tom Paulin Where Art is a Midwife
      Paul Muldoon Why Brownlee Left
      Paul Muldoon Anseo
      Paul Durcan Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour
      Paul Durcan The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious

      1981
      James Fenton A German Requiem
      Tony Harrison The Earthen Lot
      Derek Mahon Courtyards in Delft

      1983
      Paul Muldoon Quoof
      Paul Muldoon The Frog
      Tom Paulin Desertmartin

      1984
      Seamus Heaney Widgeon
      Seamus Heaney from Station Island
      VII. 'I had come to the edge of the water'
      Douglas Dunn from Elegies
      The Sundial

      1985Derek Mahon Antarctica
      John Agard Listen to Mr Oxford don

      1987
      Peter Didsbury The Hailstone
      Paul Muldoon Something Else
      Ciaran Carson Dresden
      Eavan Boland Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening

      1988
      Charles Causley Eden Rock
      Edwin Morgan The Dowser
      Norman Maccaig Chauvinist

      1989
      Ted Hughes Telegraph Wires

      1990
      Ken Smith Writing in Prison
      Ciaran Carson Belfast Confetti
      Nuala Níi Dhomhnaill (trans. Paul Muldoon) The Language Issue
      Eavan Boland The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me

      1991
      Seamus Heaney from Lightenings
      VIII. 'The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise'
      Michael Longley The Butchers

      1992
      Denise Riley A Misremembered Lyric
      Thom Gunn The Hug
      Thom Gunn The Reassurance

      1994
      Hugo Williams Prayer
      Hugo Williams Last Poem
      Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Studying the Language
      Christopher Reid/Ovid Stories and Bones

      Acknowledgements
      Index of Poets
      Index of First lines
      Index of Titles

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