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An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry
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Allan Ahlberg - Please Mrs Butler
Maya Angelou - Come and be my baby
Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou - Still I Rise
Anon - Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer
Anon - Little Snowdrop
Anon - Mr Nobody
Anon - Sir Patrick Spens
Simon Armitage - It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You
Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach
John Ashberry - And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Margaret Atwood - This Is A Photograph Of Me
Margaret Atwood - You Begin
WH Auden - Funeral Blues
WH Auden - If I Could Tell You
WH Auden - Musee des Beaux Arts
WH Auden - Night Mail
WH Auden - The Shield of Achilles
WH Auden - Loneliness
B
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Love Thee
Hilaire Belloc - Matilda
Hilaire Belloc - Tarantella
Roderick Benziger - Piano Lessons
John Betjeman - Christmas
John Betjeman - Slough
John Betjeman - A Subalterns Love Song
Elizabeth Bishop - One Art
William Blake - And did those Feet in Ancient Time
William Blake - The Sick Rose
William Blake - The Tyger
Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband
Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
Robert Browning - Home Thoughts, From Abroad
Lord Bryon - She Walks In Beauty
Robert Burns - Banks of Doon
C
Norman Cameron - Public-House Confidence
Thomas Campion - There Is A Garden In Her Face
Lewis Carrol - The Lobster Quadrille
Lewis Carroll - The Crocodile
Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll - Walrus and the Carpenter
Charles Causley - Ballad of the Breadman
GK Chesterton - The Rolling English Road
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wendy Cope - Bloody Men
Wendy Cope - Loss
Hart Crane - The Broken Tower
e e cummings - i carry your heart with me
ee cummings - it may not always be so
ee cummings - may i feel said he
ee cummings - somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
ee cummings - who knows if the moon
D
Roald Dahl - Television
William Henry Davies - Leisure
Walter De La Mare - The Listeners
James Dickey - The Sheep-Child
Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death
Michael Donaghy - The Present
John Donne - Twickenham Garden
Carol Ann Duffey - The Map-Woman
Helen Dunmore - All The Things You Are Not Yet
Helen Dunmore - Glad of These Times
Helen Dunmore - Next Door
E
TS Eliot - Bustopher Jones
TS Eliot - The Dry Salvages
TS Eliot - The Hollow Men
TS Eliot - Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
TS Eliot - The Journey Of The Magi
TS Eliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
TS Eliot - Macavity, The Mystery Cat
TS Eliot - Prelude 1
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
William Empson - Aubade
William Empson - Homage to the British Museum
William Empson - Let It Go
William Empson - Missing Dates
William Empson - To an Old Lady
William Empson - Villanelle
F
Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza 51
Robert Frost - Directive
Robert Frost - Fire and Ice
Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost - Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost - Tree at my window
Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
G
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
James Graham - On the death of a soldier
Robert Graves - A Dead Boche
Robert Graves - Hedges Freaked with Snow
Robert Graves - My Ghost
Robert Graves - She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
Robert Graves - A Slice Of Wedding Cake
Robert Graves - The Twin of Sleep
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thom Gunn - My Sad Captains
Thom Gunn - On The Move
H
JBS Haldane - Cancer's a Funny Thing
Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid
Tony Harrison - Thomas Campey and the Copernican System
Robert Hayden - Middle Passage
Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney - Digging
Seamus Heaney - The Railway Children
William Ernest Henley - Invictus
Adrian Henri - Without You
Robert Herrick - His Return to London
Thomas Hood - November
Thomas Hood - The Song of the Shirt
Gerald Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty
Gerald Manley Hopkins - The Windhover
AE Housman - From far, from eve and morning
AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
AE Housman - On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
Langston Hughes - Dreams
Ted Hughes - The Afterbirth
Ted Hughes - Crow Blacker than Ever
Ted Hughes - The Howling of Wolves
Ted Hughes - Last Letter
Ted Hughes - Lovesong
Ted Hughes - A Short Film
Ted Hughes - View of a Pig
Ted Hughes - Wind
James Leigh Hunt - Abou Ben Adhem
James Leigh Hunt - Jenny Kissed Me
J
Violet Jacob - The Wild Geese
Randall Jarrell - Losses
Robinson Jeffers - For Una
Elizabeth Jennings - Answers
Jenny Joseph - Warning
K
John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats - To Autumn
Thomas Kinsella - Free Fall
Rudyard Kipling - The Glory of the Garden
Rudyard Kipling - If
Rudyard Kipling - Tommy
Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through the Woods
L
Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse
Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin - Wires
DH Lawrence - Self-Pity
Edward Lear - The Jumblies
Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear - The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Liz Lochhead - A New View of Scotland Love Poem
Christopher Logue - Friday, Wet dusk
HW Longfellow - The Childrens hour
Robert Lowell - For the Union Dead
Robert Lowell - Memories of West Street and Lepke
Robert Lowell - The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
M
Hugh MacDiarmid - The Watergaw
Louis MacNiece - Bagpipe Music
Louis MacNiece - Prayer before Birth
Louis MacNiece - The Sunlight on the Garden
John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
John Masefield - Cargoes
John Masefield - Sea-Fever
John McCrae - In Flanders Fields
Roger McGough - Let Me Die A Youngman's Death
Roger McGough - Vinegar
Hughes Mearns - Antigonish
WS Merwin - Seperation
Spike Milligan - Rain
AA Milne - Disobedience
AA Milne - The Friend
AA Milne - The King's Breakfast
AA Milne - Lines and Squares
AA Milne - Us Two
AA Milne - Vespers
Adrian Mitchell - Celia Celia
Adrian Mitchell - Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
Edwin Morgan - "Canedolia"
Edwin Morgan - "Strawberries"
Paul Muldoon - Wind and Tree
N
Ogden Nash - Common Cold
Ogden Nash - Lines On Facing Forty
Ogden Nash - More About People
Ogden Nash - To My Valentine
Pablo Neruda - If You Forget Me
Pablo Neruda - Leaning Into The Afternoons
Pablo Neruda - Love Sonnet XI
Alfred Noyes - The Highwayman
O
Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
Alice Oswald - Another Westminster Bridge
Alice Oswald - Wedding
Alice Oswald - Sonnet
Wilfred Owen - Anthem For Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen - Futility
Wilfred Owen - Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting
P
Don Paterson - "Nil-Nil"
Brian Patten - Portrait of a Young Girl Raped at a Suburban Party
Sylvia Plath - Daddy
Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
Ezra Pound - Exile's Letter
Ezra Pound - Meditatio
JH Prynne - Nibble Song
Monty Python - Horace
R
Craig Raine - A Martian Sends A Postcard Home
Dachine Rainer - A Note EJB 1968-1973
Henry Reed - Lessons of the War
Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck
Theodore Roethke - I Knew A Woman
Theodore Roethke - The Lost Son
Theodore Roethke - My Papa's Waltz
Christina Rossetti - Remember
S
Siegfried Sassoon - Atrocities
Siegfried Sassoon - Everyone Sang
Siegfried Sassoon - The General
Vernon Scannell - Spot-check at Fifty
Sir Walter Scott - Lochinvar
Robert Service - Marie Antoinette
Anne Sexton - The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator
William Shakespeare - Feste's Song
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Moon
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley - A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
James Shirley - Death the Leveller
Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith - Tenuous and Precarious
Stephen Spender - Two Armies
Wallace Stevens - The Idea of Order at Key West
Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man
Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
T
Alfred Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot
Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas - Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas - The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Edward Thomas - Adlestrop
Edward Thomas - Snow
W
John Wain - Apology for Understatement
Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
Walt Whitman - What Am I After All
William Carlos Williams - Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
William Carlos Williams - The Crowd at the Ball Game
William Carlos Williams - This is just to say
William Wordsworth - Daffodils
William Wordsworth - My heart Leaps Up When I Behold
William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge
Y
WB Yeats - Aedh Dreams of the Cloths of Heaven
WB Yeats - An Irish Airman forsees his Death
WB Yeats - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
WB Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
WB Yeats - Leda and the Swan
WB Yeats - The Song of Wandering Aengus
WB Yeats - When You Are Old