Poems: Pre-20th Century
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis CarrollA Country Boy in Winter By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Dream Within a Dream By Edgar Allan Poe
A Hymn to God the Father By John Donne
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown By Walt Whitman
A narrow Fellow in the Grass By Emily Dickinson
A Noiseless Patient Spider By Walt Whitman
A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General By Jonathan Swift
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now By A. E. Housman
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By John Donne
Alone By Edgar Allan Poe
Amor Mundi By Christina Rossetti
Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe
As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier
Battle Hymn of the Republic By Julia Ward Howe
Beat! Beat! Drums! By Walt Whitman
Before the Birth of One of Her Children By Anne Bradstreet
Break, Break, Break By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art By John Keats
Channel Firing By Thomas Hardy
Chorus Sacerdotum By Baron Brooke Fulke Greville
Come Up from the Fields Father By Walt Whitman
Concord Hymn By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confessions By Robert Browning
Crossing the Bar By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
Epilogue By Robert Browning
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler By Christopher Smart
Epitaph By Katherine Philips
Experience By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flaxman By Margaret Fuller
Follow Thy Fair Sun By Thomas Campion
Fortuna By Thomas Carlyle
Gitanjali 35 By Rabindranath Tagore
Give All to Love By Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Grief By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hap By Thomas Hardy
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud By John Donne
How many times these low feet staggered By Emily Dickinson
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness By John Donne
I Am! By John Clare
I felt a Funeral in my Brain By Emily Dickinson
I Grant you Ample Leave By George Eliot
I Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth
If By Rudyard Kipling
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
Insomnia By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence By William Blake
Invictus By William Ernest Henley
Israfel By Edgar Allan Poe
It sifts from Leaden Sieves By Emily Dickinson
It was not death, for I stood up By Emily Dickinson
January, 1795 By Mary Robinson
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad By John Keats
Life By Edith Wharton
Life in a Love By Robert Browning
Light Shining out of Darkness By William Cowper
London By William Blake
Love (III) By George Herbert
Love Armed By Aphra Behn
Lovers' Infiniteness By John Donne
Luke Havergal By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mezzo Cammin By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Much Madness is divinest Sense By Emily Dickinson
My Last Duchess By Robert Browning
No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Jane Brontë
O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope
Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes By Charlotte Smith
Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes
On Monsieur's Departure By Queen Elizabeth I
On Shakespeare. 1630 By John Milton
On the Death of Richard West By Thomas Gray
On Virtue By Phillis Wheatley
Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rondeau By Leigh Hunt
Safe in their alabaster chambers By Emily Dickinson
Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Jane Brontë
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron
So We'll Go no More a Roving By Lord Byron
Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Song: Go and catch a falling star By John Donne
Song By Edmund Waller
Song to Celia By Ben Jonson
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds By William Shakespeare
Sonnet from the Portuguese 44: How do I Love thee? Let me Count the Ways By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint By John Milton
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes By William Shakespeare
Spring By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring By William Shakespeare
Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sympathy By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Affliction of Richard By Robert Bridges
The American Soldier By Philip Morin Freneau
The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Author to Her Book By Anne Bradstreet
The Bells of San Blas By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Canonization By John Donne
The Charge of the Light Brigade By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Children's Hour By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow By William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young By William Blake
The Cross of Snow By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Destruction of Sennacherib By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Flea By John Donne
The Glove and the Lions By Leigh Hunt
The Good-Morrow By John Donne
The Maldive Shark By Herman Melville
The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus
The New Decalogue By Ambrose Bierce
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Old Swimmin' Hole By James Whitcomb Riley
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By Christopher Marlowe
The Pilgrim By John Bunyan
The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Pulley By George Herbert
The Slave Auction By Frances Harper
The Star By Ann Taylor
The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sun Rising By John Donne
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tree By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Tyger By William Blake
The Windhover By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House By Emily Dickinson
They Flee From Me By Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thoughtless Cruelty By Charles Lamb
To a Mouse By Robert Burns
To Althea, from Prison By Richard Lovelace
To an Athlete Dying Young By A. E. Housman
To By Sarah Helen Whitman
To Autumn By John Keats
To Fashion By Elizabeth Moody
To Helen By Edgar Allan Poe
To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell
To my Dear and Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet
To the Ladies By Lady Mary Chudleigh
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham By John Dryden
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick
Up-Hill By Christina Rossetti
War Is Kind By Stephen Crane
We Wear the Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar
When I Consider How my Light is Spent By John Milton
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be By John Keats
When I Was Fair and Young By Queen Elizabeth I
When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats
You charm'd me not with that fair face By John Dryden
