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British and Irish Poets and Poems

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Douglas Adams: Ode To a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning; Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy nacturations are to me!; Take me apart to get me there

Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach; In Harmony with Nature; To Marguerite - Continued

W.H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts; Lay your sleeping head, my love; That Night When Joy Began; The Quarry; The Unknown Citizen

William Blake: Songs of Experience (collection); Songs of Innocence (collection); The Angel; The Book of Thel; The Echoing Green; Night; Spring; To Nobodaddy; To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World; The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Emily Bronte: Anticipation; A Day Dream; Death; A death-scene; Faith and Despondency; Honour's Martyr; Hope; How clear she shines; Last Lines; The Philosopher; Plead for Me; The Prisoner; Remembrance; Self-interrogation; Song; Stanzas; Stanzas to ----; Stars; Sympathy; To Imagination

Rupert Brooke: The Soldier

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: See Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning: The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church; Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; A Grammarian's Funeral Shortly After The Revival of Learning in Europe; Home Thoughts, From Abroad; Love Among the Ruins; My Last Dutchess; Pippa's Song; Porphyria's Lover; The Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician; Youth and Art

Robert Burns: Address to a Haggis; Ae Fond Kiss; Auld Lang Syne; The Banks o' Doon; Lines on War; A Man's a Man for A' That; A Red, Red Rose; Ye Jacobites By Name; Scots, Wha Hae; Selkirk Grace; Sweet Afton; Sylvander to Clarinda; To a Mouse; Ye Jacobites By Name

Lord Byron: Elegy; The Destruction of Sennacherib; John Keats; She Walks in Beauty; Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa

Lewis Carroll: A-Sitting On a Gate; ECHOES; The Hunting of The Snark; Jabberwocky; The Walrus and the Carpenter; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat; You are old, Father William

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Love Gregor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Answer to a Child's Question; Epigram; Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Something Childish, but Very Natural

Abraham Cowley: Drinking; The Given Heart; I came, I saw and was undone

John Donne: See The poetry of John Donne

Elizabeth I: Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock; Written in her French Psalter

James Elroy Flecker: To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence; No Coward's Song

Robert Graves: Babylon; Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend; The Next War; She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep; The Troll's Nosegay

Thomas Hardy: Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?; In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"; The Dead Man Walking; The Man He Killed; The To-be-forgotten; Transformations

Seamus Heaney: Punishment; Requiem for the Croppies; Scaffolding; The Tollund Man

William Ernest Henley: Invictus

George Herbert: The Answer; The Call; The Elixir; The Foil; Life; Love; Redemption; A True Hymn; Virtue

Robert Herrick: A Child's Grace; Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love; Delight in Disorder; Epitaph, upon a Child that died; Eternity; The Funeral Rites of the Rose; His Desire; His Winding-Sheet; Litany to the Holy Spirit; The Mad Maiden's Song; A meditation for his mistress; An Ode for Him (Ben Jonson); The Perfume; The Rosary; To Daffodils; To Dianeme; To Electra; To Meadows; To Music, to becalm his Fever; To Oenone; To The Maids, To Walk Abroad.; To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds); To Violets; To Virgins; To the Willow-tree; Upon a Virgin Kissing a Rose; Upon Julia's Voice; Upon Roses; The Vine; The Weeping Cherry

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Andromeda; As Kingfishers Catch Fire; Binsey Poplars; God's Grandeur; The Golden Echo; The Leaden Echo; Margaret Clitheroe; Pied Beauty; The Windhover

A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad (collection)

Ted Hughes: Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door; Do Not Pick Up the Telephone; Hawk Roosting; October Dawn; Sunstroke; View of a Pig; Wind

Ben Jonson: see The poetry of Ben Jonson (metanode)

James Joyce: Chamber Music (cycle)

John Keats: Addressed to Haydon; Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art; Faery Song; Happy is England! I could be content; How many bards gild the lapses of time!; If by Dull Rhymes our English must be Chain'd; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; Ode; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; On leaving some Friends at an early Hour; On the Grasshopper and Cricket; O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell; Robin Hood; To * * * * * *; To a Friend who sent me some Roses; To G. A. W.; To My Brothers; To One who has been Long in City Pent; To Homer; To Kosciusko; To Sleep; When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be; Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

Rudyard Kipling: The 'Eathen; For To Admire; Follow Me 'Ome; The Jacket; L'Envoi; Mary, Pity Women!; The Mother-Lodge; The Sergeants' Weddin'; The Shut-Eye Sentry; Recessional; The White Man's Burden

Philip Larkin: Ambulances; Annus Mirabilis; Aubade; Coming; Cut Grass; Days; Going; The Importance of Elsewhere; MCMXIV; No Road; Talking in Bed; The Trees; The Whitsun Weddings; They fuck you up, your mum and dad

Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love; A Dialogue between The Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure; The Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body; The Gallery; The Match; A Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn; On a Drop of Dew; The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers; Thoughts On A Garden (Hortus); To His Coy Mistress

William McGonagall: An Autumn Reverie; The Battle of Tel-El-Kebir; The City of Perth; The Demon Drink; Edinburgh; The Famous Tay Whale; Glasgow; Loch Ness; The Rattling Boy from Dublin; Saving a Train; A Tale of the Sea

Spike Milligan: The Ning Nang Nong Song

John Milton: On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three

Thomas Moore: Echoes
William Morris: In Praise of My Lady

Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth; Arms and the Boy; The Chances; Dulce et Decorum Est; Exposure; Futility; Has Your Soul Sipped?; Inspection; I saw his round mouth's crimson; The Kind Ghosts; The Last Laugh; Le Christianisme; The Letter; The Parable of the Old Man and the Young; On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action; Soldier's Dream; Spring Offensive; Strange Meeting; The Wrestlers

Brian Patten: A Blade of Grass

Sir Walter Raleigh: I Wish I Loved the Human Race; The Nymph's Reply; Wishes of an Elderly Man at a Garden Party

Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market; Sleeping at Last

Siegfried Sassoon: Atrocities; Attack; Counter-Attack; Dreamers; The Effect; Everyone Sang; The Fathers; The General; How to Die; The Rear-Guard; On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action; Prelude: The Troops; To Any Dead Officer; Twelve Months After; Wirers

Sir Walter Scott: It Was an English Ladye Bright

William Shakespeare: Shakespeare: Sonnets (metanode); Winter

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Dirge; Love's Philosophy; The Man; Ozymandias; To The Moon; Sonnet: England in 1819

Christopher Smart: For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey

Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning; Our Bog is Dood

Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 26 (Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a briar); Sonnet 67 (Like as a huntsman after weary chase); Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand); Sonnet 79 (Men call you fair, and you do credit it)

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Moon; Sing Me A Song; Bed In Summer

Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Hounds of Spring

Taliesin: Book of Taliesin (collection); Hanes Taliesin

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade; The Dawn; In Memoriam; The Kraken; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal; Tears, Idle Tears; The Lady of Shalott

Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No Dominion; Clown in the Moon; Do not go gentle into that good night; Especially when the October wind; The force that through the green fuse drives the flower; In my craft or sullen art; A Process In The Weather Of The Heart; Where Once the Waters of Your Face

J.R.R. Tolkien: Attercop; Cat; Dwarven Song of Wind; The Man in the Moon stayed up too late; Song About Old Troll; Tom Bombadil's Songs

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: By All Love's Soft, Yet Mighty Powers; Epigram

William Wordsworth: See The Poems of William Wordsworth

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: My Galley Chargèd with Forgetfulness; They Flee From Me; Whoso List to Hunt

William Butler Yeats: Words for Music Perhaps (collection); A Woman Young and Old (cycle); The Wild Swans at Coole (anthology); A Dream of Death; A Drinking Song; Easter 1916; The Folly of Being Comforted; An Irish Airman foresees his Death; The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Leda and the Swan; the lover wishes for the cloths of heaven; No Second Troy; Sailing to Byzantium; The Second Coming; September 1913; The Song of Wandering Aengus; The Stolen Child; Those Images; To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine; To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee; When You Are Old; The Wild Swans at Coole

She Walks in Beauty	Songs of Experience	The Poems of William Wordsworth	Kubla Khan
Do not go gentle into that good night	Lay your sleeping head, my love	Dover Beach	The Angel
The Book of Thel	Chamber music	poetry	Songs of Innocence
An Irish Airman foresees his Death	To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World	John Keats	The Second Coming
To Nobodaddy	The Destruction of Sennacherib	The Echoing Green	In my craft or sullen art
September 1913	Love's Philosophy	The force that through the green fuse drives the flower	The Dead Man Walking