Word Hoard

• Introduction

15th Century & Earlier

• Robert Mannying (1288–1338)
• Praise of Women
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)
• Balade
• John Lydgate (1370–1450)
• Vox ultima crucis
• William Dunbar (1465–1520)
• Lament for the Makers (Timor mortis conturbat me)

16th Century

• Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
• Even Such Is Time
• The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
• The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
• Edmund Spenser (1552–1618)
• Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
• Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
• Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust
• Psalm XI. In Domino confido.
• Psalm XIII. Usque quo, Domine?
• Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621)
• Psalm XCVIII. Cantate Dominum.
• Psalm CX. Dixit Dominus.
• Psalm CXXXIV. Ecce nunc.
• Henry Constable (1562–1613)
• On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
• Michael Drayton (1563–1632)
• Ballad of Agincourt
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• 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
• Chidiock Tichborne (1568–1586)
• Tichborne’s Elegy (My prime of youth is but a frost of cares)

17th Century

• John Donne (1573–1631)
• 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
• William Drumond (1585–1649)
• Change Should Breed Change
• Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
• 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
• George Herbert (1593–1632)
• Love (Love bad me welcome)
• The Windows
• Easter Wings
• The Pulley
• Redemption
• Discipline
• The Elixir
• John Milton (1608–1674)
• 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
• Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)
• 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
• Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)
• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
• Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)
• The Salutation
• Shadows in the Water
• On Leaping Over the Moon
• A Serious & Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
• Edward Taylor (1642–1729)
• Huswifery
• I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight, John 6:51
• Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold

18th Century

• John Scott of Amwell (1730–1783)
• Retort on the Foregoing
• William Cowper (1731–1800)
• Light Shining Out of Darkness
• Epitaph on a Hare
• On the Loss of the Royal George
• William Blake (1757–1827)
• 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

• William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
• 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
• Walter Scott (1771–1832)
• Lucy Ashton’s Song
• Proud Maisie
• Lochinvar from Canto V of Marmion
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
• 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
• George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
• She Walks in Beauty
• The Destruction of Sennacherib
• Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)
• The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
• Ozymandias
• Hellas: Chorus
• John Keats (1795–1821)
• 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
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
• Grief
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
• 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
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
• Annabel Lee
• The Bells
• The Raven
• Sonnet—To Science
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
• 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)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
• Persicos Odi
• Robert Browning (1812–1899)
• Love Among the Ruins
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
• Requiescat
• Dover Beach
• George MacDonald (1824–1905)
• That Holy Thing
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1866)
• 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
• Christina Rossetti (1830–1898)
• Uphill
• Goblin Market
• Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898)
• Jabberwocky
• Bret Harte (1836–1902)
• What the Bullet Sang
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
• The Man He Killed
• Channel Firing
• The Respectable Burgher on “The Higher Criticism”
• In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
• Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)
• Ode (We are the music makers)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
• 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”
• Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921)
• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
• Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936)
• 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)
• Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
• Hound of Heaven
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
• Unwelcome
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
• Recessional
• Danny Deever
• If—
• “Tin Fish”
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
• 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
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
• Miniver Cheevy
• The Sheaves
• The Dark Hills
• Villanelle of Change

20th Century

• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1872–1936)
• By the Babe Unborn
• The Donkey
• Elegy in a Country Churchyard
• The Wise Men
• The Ballad of God-Makers
• Modern Elfland
• Lepanto
• Robert Frost (1874–1963)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Fire and Ice
• The Road Not Taken
• After Apple-Picking
• Acquainted with the Night
• John Masefield (1878–1967)
• Cargoes
• Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
• Chicago
• River Roads
• Fog
• Grass
• Prayers of Steel
• The Lawyers Know Too Much
• Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
• In a Station of the Metro
• The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
• Ballad of the Goodly Fere
• Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
• Attack
• Everyone Sang
• Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
• The Soldier
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965)
• 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”
• Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
• Anthem for Doomed Youth
• Dulce et Decorum est
• Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973)
• Musée des Beaux Arts
• The Shield of Achilles
• The Unknown Citizen
• Under Which Lyre
• Louis MacNiece (1907–1963)
• Bagpipe Music
• Plurality
• I Am That I Am
• Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
• The Truly Great
• Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
• John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922–1941)
• High Flight