Anthology of the English-speaking World's Best Poems
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The Best British Poetry

An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry

St Pauls Cathedral, London, viewed from the Millennium Bridge

The wealth of poetry written in the classic period of British Poetry spans a wealth of subjects over a period of around 400 years up to the beginning of the 20th Century. More recent poetry is listed at Great 20th Century Poetry.

  • Leigh Hunt - Abou Ben Adhem
  • William Blake - And did those Feet in Ancient Time
  • Anon - Sir Patrick Spens
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - Art Thou Pale for Weariness
  • Robert Burns - Banks of Doon
  • HW Longfellow - Children's Hour
  • William Wordsworth - Daffodils
  • Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach
  • Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • Robert Browning - Home Thoughts From Abroad
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Love Thee
  • AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
  • Sir Walter Scott - Lochinvar
  • William Wordsworth - My Heart leaps Up When I Behold
  • Thomas Hood - November
  • John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
  • Gerald Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty
  • Christina Rossetti - Remember
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
  • William Blake - Sick Rose
  • Thomas Hood - Song of the Shirt
  • William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Alfred Noyes - The Highwayman
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • William Blake - The Tyger
  • Gerald Manley Hopkins - The Windhover
  • John Keats - To Autumn
  • Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
  • William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Xanadu (Kubla Khan)

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