Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
15th Century & Earlier
Praise of Women
Balade
Vox ultima crucis
Lament for the Makers (Timor mortis conturbat me)
16th Century
Even Such Is Time
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust
Psalm XI. In Domino confido.
Psalm XIII. Usque quo, Domine?
Psalm XCVIII. Cantate Dominum.
Psalm CX. Dixit Dominus.
Psalm CXXXIV. Ecce nunc.
On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
Ballad of Agincourt
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Ariel’s Song (Full Fathoms Five) from The Tempest
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet CXXX: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Tichborne’s Elegy (My prime of youth is but a frost of cares)
17th Century
Song (Go and catch a falling star)
A Burnt Ship
Holy Sonnet V: I am a little world made cunningly
Holy Sonnet VII: At the round earth’s imagined corners
Holy Sonnet X: Death be not proud
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
A Hymn to God the Father
Change Should Breed Change
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Neutrality Loathsome
Upon a Child that Died
Cherry-Ripe
To Violets
Delight in Disorder
Upon His Departure Hence
Love (Love bad me welcome)
The Windows
Easter Wings
The Pulley
Redemption
Discipline
The Elixir
Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
Sonnet XVIII: Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints
Sonnet XIX: On His Blindness
Sonnet XXIII: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment
Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
The Salutation
Shadows in the Water
On Leaping Over the Moon
A Serious & Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
Huswifery
I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight, John 6:51
Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold
18th Century
Retort on the Foregoing
Light Shining Out of Darkness
Epitaph on a Hare
On the Loss of the Royal George
Jerusalem (And did those feet in ancient time)
The Sick Rose
A Poison Tree
The Tyger
The Lamb
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
19th Century
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802
London, 1802
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The World is Too Much With Us
Surprised By Joy
Lucy Ashton’s Song
Proud Maisie
Lochinvar from Canto V of Marmion
Kubla Khan
On Donne’s Poetry
Something Childish, but Very Natural
On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
Whom should I choose for my Judge?
Religious Musings: A Desultory Poem Written On The Christmas Eve of 1794
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna
Ozymandias
Hellas: Chorus
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
Grief
The Arrow and the Song
Paul Revere’s Ride
Ultima Thule
The Bells of San Blas
The Challenge of Thor, from The Musician’s Tale: The Saga of King Olaf
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The Raven
Sonnet—To Science
The Lady of Shalott
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Blow, Bugle, Blow
Break, Break, Break
The Eagle
The Kraken
Ulysses
In Memoriam A.H.H. 54 (Oh yet we trust that somehow good)
Persicos Odi
Love Among the Ruins
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Requiescat
Dover Beach
That Holy Thing
A Man May Make a Remark
Hope is the Thing With Feathers
I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
There is No Frigate Like a Book
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
Uphill
Goblin Market
Jabberwocky
What the Bullet Sang
The Man He Killed
Channel Firing
The Respectable Burgher on “The Higher Criticism”
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
Ode (We are the music makers)
Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire & of the Comfort of the Resurrection
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.”
It was a hard thing to undo this knot
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
God’s Grandeur
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
Carrion Comfort
“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend”
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
To an Athlete Dying Young
When I Was One-and-Twenty
A Shropshire Lad, XL (Into my heart an air that kills)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
I Did Not Lose My Heart in Summer’s Even
A Shropshire Lad, LXII (Terence, this is stupid stuff)
Hound of Heaven
Unwelcome
Recessional
Danny Deever
If—
“Tin Fish”
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sailing to Byzantium
The Song of Wandering Aengus
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
Miniver Cheevy
The Sheaves
The Dark Hills
Villanelle of Change
20th Century
By the Babe Unborn
The Donkey
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
The Wise Men
The Ballad of God-Makers
Modern Elfland
Lepanto
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Fire and Ice
The Road Not Taken
After Apple-Picking
Acquainted with the Night
Cargoes
Chicago
River Roads
Fog
Grass
Prayers of Steel
The Lawyers Know Too Much
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Attack
Everyone Sang
The Soldier
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Boston Evening Transcript
Journey of the Magi
The Hollow Men
The Hippopotamus
The Naming of Cats
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Choruses from “The Rock”
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum est
Musée des Beaux Arts
The Shield of Achilles
The Unknown Citizen
Under Which Lyre
Bagpipe Music
Plurality
I Am That I Am
The Truly Great
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
High Flight