from The paraphrase of the scriptures / Caedmon
from Ecclesiastical history / Bede
The battle of Brunanburh / Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
[Ohthere's narrative] / Alfred the Great
from The historia Britonum Regum / Geoffrey of Monmouth
from The proverbs of King Alfred
The Fourteenth Century : Age of Chaucer
The vision of Piers the Plowman : from the prologue / William Langland
from The King James Bible
from The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
from The legend of Good women / Geoffrey Chaucer
Compleynt of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer
from Travels, written c. 1356 / Sir John Mandeville
The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
The hunting of the Cheviot
from The recuyell of the histories of Troy / William Caxton
from Le morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Malory
from Utopia / Sir Thomas More
Toxophilus / Roger Ascham
The schoolmaster / Roger Ascham.
The Elizabethan Age : Poetry
The lover having dreamed, etc. / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Of his love that pricked her finger with a needle / Sir Thomas Wyatt
The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Description of Spring, etc. / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
A praise of his love, etc. / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Departure of Aeneas from Dido / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Astrophel and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney
Amoretti / Edmund Spenser
The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser
Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser
Sonnets XXIX, XXX, LXIV, LXV, LXXIII, LXXIV / William Shakespeare
"Under the greenwood tree" / William Shakespeare
"Blow, blow, though winter wind" / William Shakespeare
"Take, O, take those lips away" / William Shakespeare
"Come away, come away, death" / William Shakespeare
"How should I your true love know" / William Shakespeare
"Hark, hark! the lark" / William Shakespeare
Idea LXI / Michael Drayton
Agincourt / Michael Drayton
Fair and fair / George Peele
Rosalind's Madrigal / Thomas Lodge
The burning babe / Robert Southwell
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh
Pilgrim to pilgrim / Sir Walter Raleigh
"Art thou poor" / Thomas Dekker
Cherry-ripe / Thomas Campion
The triumph of Charis / Ben Jonson
The Elizabethan Age : Drama
from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe
The tempest / William Shakespeare
To the memory of ... Shakespeare / Ben Jonson
from Volpone; or, The fox / Ben Jonson
from The knight of the burning pestle / Beaumont
The Elizabethan Age : Prose
From the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney
The last fight of the revenge / Sir Walter Raleigh
A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne
The collar / George Herbert
The pulley / George Herbert
In the Holy Nativity, hymn / Richard Crashaw
The retreat / Henry Vaughan
"I saw eternity" / Henry Vaughan
Corinna's going a-maying / Robert Herrick
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
To Electra / Robert Herrick
How roses came red / Robert Herrick
"As me no more where Jove bestows" / Thomas Carew
"Why so pale and wan, fond lover" / Sir John Suckling
To Lucasta. Going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace
"Go, lovely rose" / Edmund Waller
On a girdle / Edmund Waller
On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton
On Shakespeare / John Milton
Il Penseroso / John Milton
When the assault was intended to the city / John Milton
To the Lord General Cromwell / John Milton
On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
On his blindness / John Milton
To Cyriack Skinner / John Milton
from Paradise lost / John Milton
On education / John Milton
From Areopagitica / John Milton
from The complete angler / Izaak Walton
from The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan
from His diary / Samuel Pepys
from His diary / John Evelyn
from Absalom and Achitophel / John Dryden
Mac Flecknoe / John Dryden
A song for St. Cecilia's Day / John Dryden
Alexander's feast : or, The power of music / John Dryden
Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton / John Dryden
Song from the Indian Emperor / John Dryden
Song of Thamesis / John Dryden
Song from Cleomenes / John Dryden
The secular masque (written for the year 1700) / John Dryden
On Chaucer / John Dryden.
Prospectus. The Tatler, no. 1 / Sir Richard Steele
Memories. The Tatler, no. 181 / Sir Richard Steele
The club. The Spectator / Sir Richard Steele
Sir Roger at church. The Spectator / Joseph Addison
Ned softly. The Tatler / Joseph Addison
Frozen words. The Tatler / Joseph Addison
A coquette's heart. The Spectator / Joseph Addison
The vision of Mirza. The Spectator / Joseph Addison
To a child of quality five years old / Matthew Prior
A better answer / Matthew Prior
Ode on St. Cecelia's Day / Alexander Pope
from An essay on criticism / Alexander Pope
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope
An essay on man. Epistles I and II / Alexander Pope
The universal prayer / Alexander Pope
from Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
from Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift
from The seasons. Spring / James Thomson
from The castle of indolence / James Thomson
Rule, Britannia / James Thomson
A song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline / William Collins
Ode. "How sleep the brave" / William Collins
Ode to evening / William Collins
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray
The progress of Poesy / Thomas Gray
from "Ossian" / James Macpherson
from Carthon / James Macpherson
Epitaph on Robert Canynge / Thomas Chatterton
An excelente balade of charitie / Thomas Chatterton
From Battle of Hastings / Thomas Chatterton
From the plan of an English dictionary / Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson
From the preface to the English dictionary / Samuel Johnson
From the preface to an edition of Shakespeare's plays / Samuel Johnson
From the lives of the English poets / Samuel Johnson
from The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / James Boswell
From the citizen of the world. Letters I, II, III, and IV / Oliver Goldsmith
The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith
The haunch of venison / Oliver Goldsmith
From retaliation / Oliver Goldsmith
The fall of Constantinople / Edward Gibbon
from The natural history of Selborne / Gilbert White
From the speech at Bristol / Edmund Burke
From the reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke
from Olney Hymns / William Cowper
On the loss of the Royal George / William Cowper
The jackdaw / William Cowper
On the receipt of my mother's picture / William Cowper
To Mrs. Unwin / William Cowper
The castaway / William Cowper
from The borough. Letter I / George Crabbe
Song. "How sweet I roamed" / William Blake
To the muses / William Blake
Introduction to Songs of innocence / William Blake
The tiger / William Blake
"Ah, sunflower" / Willian Blake
Elegy on the death of Scots music / Robert Fergusson
Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay
Ca' the Yowes / Isobel Pagan
The land o' the Leal / Lady Nairne
The cotter's Saturday night / Robert Burns
Address to the Deil / Robert Burns
Address to the Unco Guid / Robert Burns
To a mouse / Robert Burns
To a louse / Robert Burns
To a mountain daisy / Robert Burns
Tam O'Shanter / Robert Burns
Green grow the rashes / Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne / Robert Burns
John Anderson my Jo / Robert Burns
Whistle o'er the Lave o't / Robert Burns
To May in Heaven / Robert Burns
My heart's in the Highlands / Robert Burns
The banks o' Doon / Robert Burns
Afton Water / Robert Burns
Highland Mary / Robert Burns
Bannockburn / Robert Burns
Contented wi' Little and Cantie wi' Mair / Robert Burns
A man's a man for a' that / Robert Burns
Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns.
Dear native regions / William Wordsworth
We are seven / William Wordsworth
Lines written in early spring / William Wordsworth
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Strange fits of passion I have known / William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth
I traveled among unknown men / William Wordsworth
Three years she grew in sun and shower / William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth
Lucy Gray / William Wordsworth
The prelude ; or, Growth of a poet's mind / William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth
The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
To the cuckoo / William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
To a skylark / William Wordsworth
To a skylark / William Wordsworth
Ode : Intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" / William Wordsworth
On the extinction of the Venetian Republic / William Wordsworth
London, 1802 / William Wordsworth
"The world is too much with us" / William Wordsworth
Afterthought / William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christabel. Part the first / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France : an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hymn before sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The knight's tomb / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Song from Zapolya / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Youth and age / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Work without hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lochinvar. From Marmion, Canto V / Sir Walter Scott
"Soldier, rest!" from The lady of the lake. Canto I / Sir Walter Scott
Coronach. From The lady of the lake. Canto III / Sir Walter Scott
The Battle of Beal' an Duine. from The lady of the lake. Canto VI / Sir Walter Scott
Jock of Hazeldean / Sir Walter Scott
Proud Maisie. from The heart of Midlothian / Sir Walter Scott
County guy. from Quentin Durward / Sir Walter Scott
Bonny Dundee / Sir Walter Scott
Here's a health to King Charles. From Woodstock / Sir Walter Scott
From English bards and Scotch reviewers / Lord Byron
Maid of Athens, ere we part / Lord Byron
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron
So we'll go no more a-roving / Lord Byron
Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa / Lord Byron
To Thomas Moore / Lord Byron
Sonnet on Chillon / Lord Byron
from Childe Harold / Lord Byron
from Don Juan / Lord Byron
Alastor, or the spirit of solitude / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Adonais : the grave of Keats / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chorus from Hellas / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To [blank]. "Music, when soft voices die" / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To [blank]. "One word is too often profaned" / Percy Bysshe Shelley
A lament / Percy Bysshe Shelley
"When the lamp is shattered" / Percy Bysshe Shelley
A dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Endymion, Book I : Proem / John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes / John Keats
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Ode on melancholy / John Keats
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / John Keats
In a drear-nighted December / John Keats
La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats
On seeing the Elgin Marbles / John Keats
"When I have fears that I may cease to be" / John Keats
"Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art" / John Keats
Late Georgian Ballads and Lyrics
The Battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey
"Ye mariners of England" / Thomas Campbell
Hohenlinden / Thomas Campbell
The burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe
"The harp that once through Tara's halls" / Thomas Moore
The minstrel boy / Thomas Moore
"Oft, in the stilly night" / thomas Moore
The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb
Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor
To the grasshopper and the cricket / Leigh Hunt
"Abou Ben Adhem" / Leigh Hunt
Letters from Teignmouth. I ... our ball / Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Dream-pedlary / Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The death-bed / Thomas Hood
The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood
The song of the Western men / Robert Stephen Hawker
The silent Tower of Bottreau / Robert Stephen Hawker
from Old mortality. Chapter I, preliminary / Sir Walter Scott
From the essays of Elia / Charles Lamb
from Imaginary conversations / Walter Savage Landor
from Confessions of an English opium-eater / Thomas de Quincey
from Suspiria de profundis / Thomas de Quincey
from Joan of Arc / Thomas de Quincey.
from Sartor Resartus / Thomas Carlyle
From the French Revolution / Thomas Carlyle
From the history of England / Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
From site of a university / John Henry, Cardinal Newman
A Christmas tree / Charles Dickens
from The English humorists of the eighteenth century : Goldsmith / William Makepeace Thackeray
from Roundabout papers : De Juventute / William Makepeace Thackeray
The Lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Oenone / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The lotos-eaters / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Saint Agnes' Eve / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Galahad / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The beggar maid / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"you ask me why, though ill at ease" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Of old sat Freedom on the heights" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Morte d'Arthur / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Locksley Hall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A farewell / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Break, break, break" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Songs from the princess / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Valley of Cauteretz / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the garden of Swainston / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Song from Maud / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The captain / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The revenge / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Northern farmer, old style / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rizpah / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Dante / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Virgil / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Frater Ave atque Vale / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Wages / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
By an evolutionist / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Vastness / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from Pippa passes : New Year's hymn / Robert Browning
Cavalier tunes / Robert Browning
Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
My last Duchess / Robert Browning
In a gondola / Robert Browning
The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
The lost leader / Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, from the sea / Robert Browning
The boy and his angel / Robert Browning
Evelyn Hope / Robert Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi / Robert Browning
Up at a villa, down in the city / Robert Browning
Memorabilia / Robert Browning
Popularity / Robert Browning
The patriot / Robert Browning
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came" / Robert Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert Browning
Prospice / Robert Browning
Hervé Riel / Robert Browning
Wanting is ... what? / Robert Browning
Why I am a liberal / Robert Browning
Epilogue / Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese : I, III, IV, XIV, XXII, XLIII / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald
In a lecture-room / Arthur Hugh Clough
Qua Cursum Ventus / Arthur Hugh Clough
"Say not the struggle nought availeth" / Arthur Hugh Clough
Ite Domum Saturae, Venit Hesperus / Arthur Hugh Clough
All is well / Arthur Hugh Clough
The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold
To a friend / Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare / Matthew Arnold
Austerity of poetry / Matthew Arnold
Memorial verses, April, 1850 / Matthew Arnold
Self-dependence / Matthew Arnold
Lines written in Kensington Gardens / Matthew Arnold
Requiescat / Matthew Arnold
Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold
Philomela / Matthew Arnold
Kaiser dead / Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
The last word / Matthew Arnold
from Culture and anarchy / Matthew Arnold
from On the study of Celtic literature / Matthew Arnold
Wordsworth / Matthew Arnold
[The] Sailing of the [Spanish] Armada / James Anthony Froude
Defeat of the Armada / James Anthony Froude
On a piece of chalk / Thomas Henry Huxley
from The seven lamps of architecture : The lamp of memory / John Ruskin
from The stones of Venice / John Ruskin
from Modern painters / John Ruskin
The blessed Demozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sister Helen / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La bella Donna / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The song of the bower / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The cloud confines / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
from The house of life / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Goblin market / Christina Rossetti
The three enemies / Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata : Sonnets I, II, and XI / Christina Rossetti
Uphill / Christina Rossetti
The Gilliflower of gold / William Morris
The sailing of the sword / William Morris
The blue closet / William Morris
from The earthly paradise : an apology / William Morris
from Love is enough : Song for music / William Morris
from Sigurd the Volsung : Of the passing away of Brynhild / William Morris
The voice of toil / William Morris
from Atalanta in Calydon : chorus / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A leave-taking / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hymn to Proserpine / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Prelude to songs before sunrise / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lines on the monument of Giuseppe Mazzini / Algernon Charles Swinburne
The pilgrims / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A forsaken garden / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A ballad of Dreamland / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Upon a child / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A child's laughter / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A baby's death / Algernon Charles Swinburne
from Tristram of Lyonesse : prelude / Algernon Charles Swinburne
The child in the house / Walter Pater
El Dorado / Robert Louis Stevenson
The maroon / Robert Louis Stevenson
The vagabond / Robert Louis Stevenson
the morning drum-call on my eager ear / Robert Louis Stevenson
Evensong / Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Post-Victorian Period and the Early Twentieth Century
From Margaret Ogilvy : How my mother got her soft face / Sir James Barrie
Song : "I made another garden" / Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Ode : "We are the music makers" / Arthur O'Shaughnessy
from The ballad of Reading Gaol : I, 1-5; V ; VI / Oscar Wilde
from The ordeal of Richard Feveral / George Meredith
Juggling Jerry / George Meredith
Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith
from The return of the native / Thomas Hardy
The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
"Ah, are you digging on my grave?" / Thomas Hardy
Urceus exit / Austin Dobson
"Farewell, renown" / Austin Dobson
"In after days" / Austin Dobson
For a charity annual / Austin Dobson
Lying in the grass / Sir Edmund Gosse
With a copy of Herrick / Sir Edmund Gosse
Epilogue / Sir Edmund Gosse
Before / William Ernest Henley
Clinical / William Ernest Henley
Apparition / William Ernest Henley
Invictus / William Ernest Henley
Margaritae Sorori / William Ernest Henley
A ballad of Heaven / John Davidson
from The private papers of Henry Ryecroft / George Gissing
from The naturalist in La Plata / William Henry Hudson
The hound of Heaven / Francis Thompson
To a snowflake / Francis Thompson
"In no strange land" / Francis Thompson
Renouncement / Alice Meynell
The shepherdess / Alice Meynell
A thrush before dawn / Alice Meynell
Recessional / Rudyard Kipling
The ballad of East and West / Rudyard Kipling
The ballad of the "Bolivar" / Rudyard Kipling
Vitaï Lampada / Sir Henry Newbolt
Drake's drum / Sir Henry Newbolt
He fell among thieves / Sir Henry Newbolt
A passer-by / Robert Bridges
London snow / Robert Bridges
North wind in October / Robert Bridges
"Spring goeth all in white" / Robert Bridges
"Loveliest of trees" / A.E. Housman
"On moonlit heath" / A.E. Housman
Bredon Hill / A.E. Housman
The barrel organ / Alfred Noyse
The highwayman / Alfred Noyse
from The mirror of the sea : initiation / Joseph Conrad
Sea fever / John Masefield
Tewkesbury Road / John Masefield
The "Wanderer" / John Masefield
from The Aran Islands / John Millington Synge
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats
Thoughts at the Trysting Stile / Francis Ledwidge
A twilight in middle March / Francis Ledwidge
The lost ones / Francis Ledwidge
The spires of Oxford / Winifred M. Letts
The Connaught Rangers / Winifred M. Letts
To the four courts, please / James Stephens
A summer night / George William Russell ("A.E.")
Promise / George William Russell ("A.E.")
Lord of the cities / Lord Dunsany
Death and Odysseus / Lord Dunsany
Macbeth / Walter de la Mare
Old Susan / Walter de la Mare
Silver / Walter de la Mare
The sunken garden / Walter de la Mare
from Men like gods / George Herbert Wells
From the Preface to Heartbreak House / Geroge Bernard Shaw
The soldier / Rupert Brooke
The great lover / Rupert Brooke
A working party / Siegfried Sassoon
The death bed / Siegfried Sassoon
Counter-attack / Siegfried Sassoon
The rear guard / Siegfried Sassoon
Aftermath / Siegfried Sassoon
Proem from fires / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Hit / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The three hills / John Collington Squire
The march / John Collington Squire
A dog's death / John Collington Squire
Clouds / William Henry Davies
Days too short / William Henry Davies
In May / William Henry Davies
Dreams of the sea / William Henry Davies
An ideal family / Katherine Mansfield
From Queen Victoria / Giles Lytton Strachey
Stupidity Street / Ralph Hodgson
A baby asleep after pain / David Herbert Lawrence
Service of all the dead / David Herbert Lawrence
Green / David Herbert Lawrence
Elegy in a country churchyard / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The donkey / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Irishman / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Real property / Harold Monro
From an old house / Harold Monro
Thistledown / Harold Monro
Man carrying Bale / Harold Monro
Sunrise on Rydal Water / John Drinkwater
Symbols / John Drinkwater
Riding in mist / John Galsworthy
The recruit / John Galsworthy.
