Poets Corner
Alexander Pope
--from The Rape of the Lock, from Canto 1
--Ode on Solitude
--from Essay on Criticism [“But most by Numbers”]
--from Essay on Man, Epistle II
Alexander Pushkin
--No Tears
--I Loved You
--Dear Chains
--A Moment to Remember
--more.....
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
--Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
--The Eagle: A Fragment
--The Owl
--from The Lotos-Eaters
--more.....
Andrew Marvell
--To His Coy Mistress
--The Gallery
--To His Coy Mistress
--The Definition of Love
Anne Bradstreet
--The Author to Her Book
--The Prologue
--To My Dear and Loving Husband
--To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
--Adam Posed
--A Nocturnal Reverie
--The Introduction
Aphra Behn
--Love Arm'd
--On Her Loving Two Equally
--Love Arm’d
Ben Jonson
--Song: To Celia
--Still to be Neat
--The Hourglass
--To Celia
--more.....
Christina Rossetti
--Caterpillar
--Who Has Seen the Wind?
--A Daughter of Eve
--In an Artist's Studio
--more.....
Christopher Marlowe
--The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
--Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?
--The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
--from Dr. Faustus, Scene 12
--more.....
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
--Without Her
--Silent Noon
--Nuptial Sleep
Deena Linett
--Jury Duty
--The Tiger in the Driveway
--The Living
Edgar Allan Poe
--The City in the Sea
--The Raven
--A Dream within a Dream
--Annabel Lee
--more.....
Edgar Allen Poe
--Serenade
--To Helen
--To One in Paradise
Edgar Lee Masters
--Doc Hill
--Seth Compton
--William and Emily
Edmund Spenser
--from Amoretti: Sonnet 67
--from The Faerie Queene, from The First Booke
--Sonnet 30
--[One day I wrote her name upon the strand]
--more.....
Edna St. Vincent Millay
--Recuerdo
--First Fig
--Second Fig
--The Dream
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
--How Do I Love Thee
--from Sonnets from the Portuguese
--Sonnets from the Portuguese, 14
--Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43
--more.....
Emily Dickinson
--If You Were Coming in the Fall
--For Each Ecstatic Instant
--I Lost a World
--You Left Me, Sweet, Two Legacies
--more.....
Eugene Field
--A Valentine to My Wife
--Little Boy Blue
--Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Gary Fincke
--The Billion Heartbeats of the Mammal
--The Magpie Evening: A Prayer
--The Dog Who Listens to Jack Kerouac
--Writing Letters for the Blind
George Gordon, Lord Byron
--So We’ll Go No More a Roving
--When We Two Parted
--She Walks in Beauty
--When We Two Parted
--more.....
Gerard Manley Hopkins
--God's Grandeur
--Pied Beauty
--[Carrion Comfort]
--Spring and Fall
Grace Cavalieri
--Athletes
--Dates
--Tarot Card VI. THE LOVERS
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
--The Fire of Drift-Wood
--The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
--The Arrow and the Song
--The Children’s Hour
--more.....
Isabella Valancy Crawford
--Season of Love
--Love In a Dairy
--Late Loved--Well Loved
John Clare
--First Love
--To Mary
--Song [Secret Love]
--Secret Love
--more.....
John Donne
--The Sun Rising
--The Ecstasy
--Batter My Heart
--The Flea
--more.....
John Keats
--Ode on a Grecian Urn
--Song
--Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
--On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
--more.....
Kenneth Carroll
--in the morning
--Riding Shotgun
--Affirmation
--elaborate signings
Len Roberts
--Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree
--The List of Most Difficult Words
--Passing the Orange
--The Moment
Lewis Carroll
--Jabberwocky
--The Walrus and the Carpenter
--Jabberwocky
--The Lobster Quadrille
--more.....
Paul Laurence Dunbar
--Retort
--If
--Life
--Passion and Love
--more.....
Percy Bysshe Shelley
--Ozymandias
--To Harriet
--To ————
--Love's Philosophy
--more.....
Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Give All to Love
--Concord Hymn
--Brahma
Richard Lovelace
--Tell Me Not, Sweet, I am Unkind
--To Althea, from Prison
--To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
--To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
--more.....
Robert Browning
--A Pretty Woman
--A Woman’s Last Word
--Cristina
--In Three Days
--more.....
Robert Burns
--To a Mouse
--A Red, Red Rose
--Auld Lang Syne
--The Banks of Bonnie Doon
--more.....
Robert Frost
--Reluctance
--Mending Wall
--The Road Not Taken
--Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
--more.....
Robert Herrick
--To Find God
--To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
--Upon Julia's Clothes
--To Virgins, to Make Much of Time
--more.....
Robert Louis Stevenson
--Foreign Lands
--Where Go the Boats?
--My Bed is a Boat
--The Swing
--more.....
Rudyard Kipling
--Recessional
--If
--If—
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
--from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
--Kubla Khan
--The Presence of Love
--Frost at Midnight
--more.....
Sara Teasdale
--May
--Love and Death
--I Am Not Yours
--I Love You
--more.....
Sidney Lanier
--Evening Song
--An Evening Song
--A Song of Love
Sir Philip Sidney
--from Astrophil and Stella
--from Astrophil and Stella
--The Bargain
Sir Walter Raleigh
--A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
--The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
--The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
--The Lie
Thomas Hardy
--Hap
--The Darkling Thrush
--The Going
--The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Moore
--An Argument
--Did Not
--Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
--The time I’ve lost in wooing
--more.....
Walt Whitman
--from Song of Myself
--from Passage to India
--from I Sing the Body Electric
--A Noiseless, Patient Spider
--more.....
William Blake
--Three Things to Remember
--The Tyger
--Love's Secret
--Little Lamb
--more.....
William Butler Yeats
--The Rose in the Deeps of his Heart
--The Sorrow of Love
--The Lake Isle of Innisfree
--When You Are Old
--more.....
William Shakespeare
--Sonnet 46
--Sonnet 73
--Sonnet 141
--Sonnet 153
--more.....
William Wordsworth
--Written in March: While Resting on the Bridge...
--Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
--The Tables Turned
--She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
--more.....
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