100 Favorite English and Irish Poems

Anonymous (late Middle Ages) Lord Randal Sir Patrick Spens Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Sonnet 1 from Astrophil and Stella ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") Sonnet 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss Thomas Campion (1567-1620) There Is a Garden in Her Face John Donne (1572?-1631) The Good Morrow Song ("Go and catch a falling star") Holy Sonnet 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee") Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Song: To Celia Robert Herrick (1591-1674) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time George Herbert (1593-1633) The Pulley Thomas Carew (1595-1639) A Song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows") Edmund Waller (1606-1687) Song ("Go, lovely Rose") John Milton (1608-1674) On His Blindness On His Deceased Wife Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars To Althea, from Prison Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) The Retreat Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) To His Coy Mistress John Dryden (1631-1700) A Song for St. Cecilia's Day Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ode on Solitude William Blake (1757-1827) The Tyger London Robert Burns (1759-1796) A Red, Red Rose My Heart's in the Highlands William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Upon Westminster Bridge Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known Daffodils My Heart Leaps Up The World Is Too Much with Us Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Kubla Khan Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) Abou Ben Adhem George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted The Destruction of Sennacherib So We'll Go No More a Roving Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind When the Lamp Is Shatter'd Music, When Soft Voices Die John Keats (1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art Ode on a Grecian Urn Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnet 6 ("Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand") Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar Ulysses Break, Break, Break Tears, Idle Tears O, Yet We Trust that Somehow Good (section 54 of In Memoriam A. H. H.) Flower in the Crannied Wall Robert Browning (1812-1889) My Last Duchess Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Dover Beach Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) The Woodspurge George Meredith (1828-1909) Lucifer in Starlight Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) A Birthday Remember Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Jabberwocky William Morris (1834-1896) An Apology Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) Love and Sleep Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Hap Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) God's Grandeur Hurrahing in Harvest Robert Bridges (1844-1930) Nightingales William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) Invictus Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Requiem A. E. Housman (1859-1936) To an Athlete Dying Young Loveliest of Trees When I Was One-and-Twenty Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Gunga Din Recessional If William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Wild Swans at Coole Easter 1916 Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) The Listeners Edward Thomas (1878-1917) The Owl John Masefield (1878-1967) Cargoes Sea Fever D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Snake Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) The Soldier T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Sweeney Among the Nightingales Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) Returning, We Hear the Larks Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Anthem for Doomed Youth Greater Love Robert Graves (1895-1985) When I'm Killed W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Musee des Beaux Arts Stephen Spender (1909-1995) I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines