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Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- The dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020
ONE: BURY ME IN A FREE LAND 1770-1899. On imagination ; On Recollection ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ; To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works ; To His Excellency General Washington / An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston / [Bars Fight] / A Mathematical Problem in Verse / To Eliza ; The Slave's Complaint ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The Art of a Poet ; George Moses Horton, Myself / An Appeal to Woman ; The Grave of the Slave / Concatination [Selected Pottery Verses, 1834-1862] / The Natives of America ; Reflections / Armand Lanusse: Epigram ; Camille Thierry Ideas ; Pierre Dalcour: Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle _____ ; Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and Devotion/ Les Cenelles -- America ; To Cinque / Hope and Confidence / A Life-Day / The Emigrant / Song for the First of August / A June Song ; A Parting Hymn ; In the earnest path of duty / Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Self-Mastery / from The Rape of Florida ; A Question / The Slave Mother ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read ; A Double Standard ; Songs for the People
TWO: LIFT EVERY VOICE 1900-1918. The House of Falling Leaves / Driftwood / America ; Character or Color--Which? ; Late Mother / Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Prayer ; And What Shall You Say? ; Supplication ; A Woman at Her Husband's Grave / Dr. Booker T Washington to the National Negro Business League / A Litany at Atlanta / We Wear the Mask ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; When de Co'n Pone's Hot ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Sympathy ; A Death Song ; Compensation / Violets ; I Sit and Sew ; The Proletariat Speaks / The Black Finger ; A Mona Lisa ; El Beso ; You ; Rosabel ; The Eyes of My Regret ; Trees ; Tenebris ; Grass Fingers ; To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Wooing ; A Spade Is Just a Spade ; Here and Hereafter / Retrospect / When I Die ; The Lonely Mother ; Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn? ; from African Nights / Lift Every Voice and Sing ; Sence You Went Away ; O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Go Down Death / from The Fledgling Poet and the Poetry Society / Ode to the Sun / To a Little Colored Boy / The New Negro
THREE: THE DARK TOWER 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ; Negro Woman ; Effigy / Heritage ; Lines written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas ; Fantasy ; To a Dark Carl ; Dirge for a Free Spirit ; I Build America ; Epitaph / The Return ; A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Southern Mansion ; The Day-breakers / Ma Rainey ; Old Lem ; Slim Greer ; Strange Legacies ; Southern Cop ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden ; Let Us Suppose / Portraiture ; Black Baby ; Impressions from a Family Album ; Coveted Epitaph ; Denial ; Idle Wonder / Longings ; Goal ; Farewell ; Having Had You ; Four Poems--After the Japanese ; For a New Mother ; I Look at Death / Yet Do I Marvel ; Incident ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Heritage ; from Epitaphs ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / No Images ; Nineteen-twenty-nine ; My Lord, What a Morning ; Down-Home Boy ; Carry Me Back / The Mask ; Solace / Dead Fires ; La Vie C'est la vie ; Oblivion / My Last Name / Notes Found Near a Suicide / The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to son ; Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret ; Beale Street Love ; Cross ; Personal ; Midwinter Blues ; Bound No'th Blues ; Dream Variations ; I, Too ; Song for a Dark Girl ; Let America be America Again ; from Montage of a Dream Deferred ; Madam and the Rent Man ; from Ask Your Mama / The Singer ; The Maestro / The Heart of a Woman ; Cosmopolite ; Black Woman ; Old Black Men ; Common Dust ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Interracial / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem ; Invocation / Jamaica Market / Christmas in de Air ; The Harlem Dancer ; Harlem Shadows ; If We Must Die ; On Broadway ; The Tropics in New York ; The Lynching ; America ; My Mother ; "The white man is a tiger at my throat" / Man and Maid / Shadow / Requiem ; This Is My Vow / October Prayer ; Flag Salute / Black and Blue ; The Tree of Hope / At the Carnival ; White Things ; Sybil Warns Her Sister / Five Vignettes ; Her Lips Are Copper Wire ; from Cane ; from Essentials ; Be with Me
FOUR: BALLADS OF REMEMBRANCE 1936-1959. To Satch (American Gothic) ; Nat Turner or Let Him Come ; If the Stars Should Fall / Narrative ; Night and a Distant Church ; It's Here in The ; Spyrytual / from A Street in Bronzeville ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; The Bean Eater ; We Real Cool ; A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon ; The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till ; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock ; The Lovers of the Poor ; Malcolm X ; The Second Sermon on the Warpland ; Paul Robeson ; The Life of Lincoln West ; The Boy Died in My Alley ; Infirm ; I Am a Black ; An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct / To Julia de Burgos ; Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress ; Poem of the Unborn Child ; Farewell in Welfare Island ; The Sun in Welfare Island / The Small Bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's Attic / from Ebony Under Granite ; Mojo Mike's Beer Garden ; Four Glimpses of Night / Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One ; The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Six Little Black Davids Tapped Danced Unto / Those Winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle Passage ; Runagate Runagate ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; [American Journal] / The Truth ; Jazz Is My Religion ; The Nice Colored Man / Hawk Lawler: Chorus ; I, Too, Know What I Am Not ; Would You Wear My Eyes? ; War Memoir ; Walking Parker Home ; Crootey Songo ; Heavy Water Blues ; Blues for Hal Waters ; Oregon / from Dark Testament ; Prophecy / A Private Letter to Brazil ; Review from Staten Island ; Man White, Brown Girl and All That Jazz / Young Poet / Harlem Dawn ; A Definition ; Jean-Jaques / Booker T. and W.E.B. ; An Answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire On a Name for Black Americans ; A Poet Is Not a Jukebox / Ballad of American Mores ; Face of Poverty / Dark Symphony ; from Harlem Gallery, Book I: The Curator / For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Between the World and Me ; Selected Haiku
FIVE: IDEAS OF ANCESTRY 1959-1975. Still I Rise ; Phenomenal Woman / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ; Notes for a Speech ; The Liar ; Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; SOS ; Black Art ; Why's 12 / King: April 4, 1968 / Blues ; All God's Chillun ; The White River ; Sam Lord / "in the inner city" ; miss rosie ; good times ; admonitions ; "being property once myself" ; the lost baby poem ; from some jesus ; cutting greens ; homage to my hips ; "the light that came to lucille clifton" ; jasper texas 1998 ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; "i am accused of tending to the past" ; Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ; study the masters ; to my last period ; wishes for sons ; "surely i am able to write poems" ; "won't you celebrate with me" / How Long Has Trane Been Gone ; Orisha ; Rape ; Jazz Fan Looks Back / Son of Msippi ; Black Star Line ; Outer Space Blues / I Am a Black Woman / I Would Be for You Rain / High on the Hog / Black Power ; Nikki-Rosa ; For Saundra ; Ego Tripping ; A Poem for Carol ; Legacies / American History ; Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; Reuben, Reuben ; Tongue-Tied in Black and White ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass / Do Nothing till You Hear from Me ; A Coltrane Memorial / Medicine Man / What Would I Do White? ; These Poems ; I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies ; Poem about My Rights ; Poem for Haruko / Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself ; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers / A Poem for Myself ; The Idea of Ancestry ; The Bones of My Father ; Haiku ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; The Violent Space ; Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; For Eric Dolphy ; Feeling Fucked Up / On Being Head of the English Department / Coal ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change ; A Litany for Survival ; Power ; Lunar Eclipse ; Inheritance--His / But He Was Cool ; Don't Cry, Scream / Swallow the Lake ; Hair / Malcolm X--An Autobiography ; Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat / 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man / Howlin Wolf ; Big Maybelle / Beware: Do Not Read This Poem ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; The Reactionary Poet / sonnet ; poll ; the poor houses ; othello jones dresses for dinner ; American Jazz Quartet / how i got ovah / for our lady ; A Poem for My Father ; A poem for my brother ; from Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ; haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ; haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ; two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ; tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ; haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ; haiku ("man. you write me so") ; tanka ("like dark old men the") ; haiku ("like ermine when i") ; haiku ("i want to make you") ; blues ; Song No. 2 / Whitey on the Moon ; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ; Home Is Where the Hatred Is / After Vallejo / Inauguration ; Song / One for Charlie Mingus ; Poem for My Father ; After Hearing a Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions / A Far Cry from Africa ; Codicil ; Blues ; from The Schooner Flight ; Sea Canes ; Volcano ; Easter ; from Omeros: Chapter VIII / Women / blues for franks wooten ; from Maumau American Cantos: Canto 4 / How Stars Start ; Dance of the Infidels ; Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ; The Old O.O. Blues ; A Poem for Players
SIX: BLUE LIGHT SUTRAS 1976-1989. Twenty-Year Marriage ; I Can't Get Started ; Two Brothers ; The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 / from Haiti / Titta / Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ; Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson / from Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra / What It Means to Be Dark ; Mastectomy ; from American Sonnets / Harriet in the Promised Land / Blackbottom ; The Weakness ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Black Boys Play the Classics / Leaving Eden ; from The Arcanum Poems ; Father / Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves ; Turning Forty in the 90's ; Wednesday Mourning ; Heartbeats / The House Slave ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; Adolescence--II ; Banneker ; from Thomas and Beulah ; Canary ; The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ; Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ; from Sonata Mulattica / The Dance ; The Supremes ; from Brutal Imagination / Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989 ; Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate / Some Pieces ; Hand Me Down Blues ; Dark Mirror / This Bridge Across ; Time with Stevie Wonder in It ; Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation / Vernacular Examples ; Palaver ; Sotto Voce / For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) ; For Claude McKay / Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ; Goldsboro Narrative #28 ; Goldsboro Narrative #33 ; Goldsboro Narrative #7 ; Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son / Heavy Corners ; Civil Servant ; For My Own Protection / "C"ing in Colors: Blue / Surplus Future Imperfect ; Woman, with wings ; Should you find me / Deep Song / i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ / from The Women of Plums / Annabelle ; More Girl Than Boy ; Letter to Bob Kaufman ; Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel ; February in Sydney ; from Dien Cai Dau ; Venus's-flytraps ; My Father's Love Letters ; Anodyne ; Ode to the Maggot / Falso Brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 / Gra'ma ; Try to Understand Papa ; Throwing Stones at the All White Pool ; Fade to Black / Life in a Sterile Environment: A Case Study ; The Day before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ; A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; An Anointing ; Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida ; The Lynching / from Muse & Drudge ; from Sleeping with the Dictionary / A Strange Beautiful Woman ; Sleepless Nights ; Lonely Eagles ; Star-Fix / How I Became the Blues / The Broken English Dream / The Black Back-Ups / All the Way Home ; from Dreamer / Trying for Fire / from for colored girls who have considered suicide / Building Nicole's Mama ; Don't Drink the Water / from Free! / Inside the Blues Whale ; Scrapple ; Washing the car with My Father ; John Henry Sleeping in High Grass / from Letters to a New England Negro
SEVEN: PRAISE SONGS FOR THE DAY 1990-2008. Blue ; The New Religion / The Venus Hottentot ; Nineteen ; Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder ; Ars Poetica #100: I Believe ; Praise Song for the Day / loose strife ; Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire / Verbal Mugging / Prayer of the Backhanded ; Bullet Points ; 'N'em ; Another Elegy ; The Tradition / A Balance of Blues & Angels / nap-i-ness / Natural ; Black Funk / Wednesday Poem / Frequently Asked Questions #10 / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding ; Salt / burial ; A Small Needful Fact / Santa Ana of Grocery Carts ; Teeth ; Ode to the Little "r" / Seeing the Body / Black Mary Integrates the School House / Touch ; Satchmo Returns to New Orleans ; The Golden Shovel ; Carp Poem / How to Listen ; Euphoria ; Ferguson / The Gospel of Barbecue / Charity on Blind Tom ; General Bethune on Blind Tom ; Blind Boone's Vision ; Minnehaha / Jesse Owens, 1963 ; Rope / Thirty Lines About the Fro ; My Father's Kites / Drop it Like It's Hottento Venus / Hostage / Plantation ; from Voyage of the Sable Venus ; "Lucy Terry Prince Prepares for Her Marriage" / Ode to the Diasporican / from Good Stock Strange Blood / from The Big Smoke ; Robot Music / What the Oracle Said / The Keepin' It Real Awards / Blackout 1977 / gayl jones ; cecil taylor ; johnny cash ; I ran from it but was still in it / On Confessionalism / Written by Himself ; Raisin / Bembe-Faced ; Arroz con Son y Clave / Blue ; Cotillion ; A Great Noise ; Speak Low / I want to not have to write another word about who cops keep killing / from Citizen: An American Lyric / The Difficult Music ; The Lucky One ; Hesitation Theory ; My Mother Was No White Dove / from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; ode to my blackness / Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? ; The Universe Is a House Party ; Declaration / Offering ; Snow / Ode to Gentrification / Flounder ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Graveyard Blues ; Pilgrimage ; Miscegenation ; Incident / Strip ; RR Lyrae: Matter / Wind Talker ; Work Ethic / Dissidence ; Gwendolyn Brooks / "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" / Amethyst Rocks / Money Road
EIGHT: AFTER THE HURRICANE 2009-2020. How Can Black People Write about Flowers at a Time Like This / La Negra Takes Medusa to the Hair Salon / Cento Between the Ending and the End / America Will Be / A Postmodern Two-Step / upon viewing the death of basquiat / Massa's House / Nashville / Dear _____, / My First Black Nature Poem(TM) / I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store / Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas / (Afterward) One Corner More / After the Hurricane / Kansas / Kudzu / The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings / One Country / Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face / Closer / #sayhername / The President's Wife / Violins / History / Black Can Sleep / Children Listen / Why Is We Americans / Object Permanence / Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Fisherman's Daughter / dinosaurs in the hood / Your National Anthem / Prayer / Ode to Herb Kent
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English poetry and prose of the Romantic movement
The tree ; from The petition for an absolute retreat ; To the nightingale ; A nocturnal reverie / A fairy tale ; A night-piece on death ; A hymn to contentment / The highland laddie ; My Peggy ; Sweet William's ghost ; Through the wood laddie ; An thou were my ain thing ; from The gentle shepherd. Patie and Peggy / Preface to the evergreen / The braes of Yarrow / William and Margaret ; The Birks of Endermay / Grongar Hill ; The fleece. from Book I / The seasons. from Winter ; from Summer ; from Autumn / A hymn on the seasons ; The castle of indolence. from Canto I / Tell me, thou soul of her I love ; To Amanda ; Preface to winter
Night thoughts. from Night I ; from Night III ; from Night V ; from Night VI ; from Night IX / from Conjectures on original composition / from The grave / from The schoolmistress / The pleasures of the imagination. from Part I / For a grotto ; Ode to the evening star / A song from Shakespear's Cymbelyne ; Ode to simplicity ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode to evening ; The passions ; Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson ; An ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland / Ode on the spring ; Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Hymn to adversity ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; The progress of poesy ; The bard ; Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude ; Song (Thyrsis, when we parted, swore) ; The fatal sisters ; The descent of Odin ; The triumphs of Owen ; The death of Hoel ; Caràdoc ; Conan ; from Journal in France ; From Gray's letters. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray ; To Richard West ; To Horace Walpole ; To Richard Stonehewer ; To Thomas Wharton To the Reverend William Mason ; from Journal in the lakes / from The pleasures of melancholy ; from Ode on the approach of summer ; The crusade ; Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's monasticon ; Written at Stonehenge ; While summer suns o'er the gay prospect play'd ; On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester / from Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser / The enthusiast : or the lover of nature ; Ode to fancy ; from Essay on the genius and writing of Pope / Carthon : a poem ; Oina-Morul : a poem ; from Fingal : an ancient epic poem. Book I / from Letters on chivalry and romance. Letter I ; Letter VI / from The castle of Otranto. Chapter I
from Reliques of ancient English poetry. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne ; The ancient ballad of Chevy-Chase ; Sir Patrick Spence ; Edom o'Gordon ; Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor / Retirement ; The minstrel, or, The progress of genius ; from Book I / Bristowe tragedie, or, The dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin ; The accounte of W. Canynges feast ; from Ælla : a tragycal enterlude. Mynstrelles song (the boddynge flourettes bloshes atte the lyghte) ; Mynstrelles song (o! synge untoe mie ruondelaie) / An excelente balade of charitie ; Epitaph on Robert Canynge / from The history of the Caliph Vathek / from Olney hymns. Lovest thou me ; Light shining out of darkness / The task. from Book I. The sofa ; from Book II. The time-piece ; from Book VI. The winter walk at noon / The poplar-field ; The Negro's complaint ; On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk ; Yardley Oak ; To Mary ; The castaway / from The village. Book I ; from The borough. Letter I. General description / At Tynemouth Priory ; The bells, Ostend ; Bereavement ; Bamborough Castle ; Hope ; Influence of time on greif ; Approach of summer ; Absence / from Poetical sketches. To spring ; To the evening star ; Song : "How sweet I roam'd" ; Song : "My silks and fine array" ; Song : "Love and harmony combine ; Song : "I love the jocund dance" ; Song : "Memory, hither come ; Mad song ; Song : Fresh from the dewy hill" ; To the muses / from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; A dream ; The lamb ; The echoing green ; The divine image ; The chimney sweeper ; Infant joy ; The shepherd ; A cradle song ; Nurse's song ; Holy Thursday ; On another's sorrow ; Laughing song ; The little black boy / The book of Thel ; from The marriage of heaven and hell. The voice of the Devil ; A memorable fancy : as I was walking among the fires of hell" ; Proverbs of hell ; A memorable fancy : "The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel" ; A memorable fancy : an angel came to me and said" ; A memorable fancy : "once I saw a devil in a flame" / A song of liberty ; from Visions of the daughters of Albion ; from America : a prophecy ; from Songs of experience. Introduction ; Earth's answer ; The clod and the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The chimney sweeper ; Nurse's song ; The sick rose ; The fly ; The angel ; The tyger ; Ah, sunflower ; The garden of love ; London ; The human abstract ; Infant sorrow ; A poison tree ; A little boy lost / A cradle song ; A divine image ; To Tirzah ; Love's secret ; Couplet : "Great things" ; from The four Zoas. from Night II / Auguries of innocence ; The mental traveller ; from Milton. Preface ; from Book the second / from Jerusalem. from To the public ; from To the deists ; from To the Christians / Dedication of the illustrations to Blair's "The grave" ; from The letters. To the Rev Dr. Trusler ; To John Flaxman / from Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynold's discourses ; from Annotations to "Poems" by William Wordsworth
O, once i lov'd a bonie lass ; A prayer in the prospect of death ; Mary Morison ; My nanie, O ; Poor Mailie's elegy ; Green grow the rashes O ; To Davie ; Epistle to J. Lapraik ; Epistle to the Rev. John M'Math ; The jolly beggars ; The Holy Fair ; The cotter's Saturday night ; To a mouse ; Address to the deil ; A bard's epitaph ; Address to the unco guide, or, The rigidly righteous ; To a mountain daisy ; To a louse ; The silver tassie ; Of a' the airts ; Auld Lang Syne ; Whistle o'er the lave o't ; My heart's in the Highlands ; John Anderson my Jo ; Sweet Afton ; Willie brew'd a peck of maut ; Tam Glen ; Thou ling'ring star ; Tam o' Shanter ; Ye flowery banks ; Ae fond kiss ; The deil's awa wi' th' exciseman ; Saw ye bonie Lesley ; Highland Mary ; Last May a braw wooer ; Scots, wha hae ; A red, red rose ; My nanie's awa ; Contented wi' little ; Lassie wi' the lint-white locks ; Is there for honest poverty ; O, wert thou in the cauld blast ; O, lay thy loof in mine, lass ; Preface to the first, or Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems
The pleasures of memory ; from Part I ; An Italian song ; Written at midnight -- Written in the Highlands of Scotland ; An inscription in the Crimea ; The boy of Egremond ; from Italy ; The lake of Geneva ; The gondola ; The fountain / Enquiry concerning political justice. from Book I. Of the powers of man considered in his social capacity ; from Book V. Of the legislative and executive power / Extract from the conclusion of a poem, composed in anticipation of leaving school. -- Written in very early youth ; from An evening walk ; Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree ; The reverie of poor Susan ; We are seven ; The thorn ; Goody Blake and Harry Gill ; Her eyes are wild ; Simon Lee ; Lines written in early spring ; To my sister ; A whirl-blast from behind the hill ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; The old Cumberland beggar ; Nutting ; Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; I travelled among unknown men ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; A poet's epitaph ; Matthew ; The two April mornings ; The fountain ; Lucy Gray ; The prelude ; from Book I Introduction--childhood and school-time ; from Book II School-time ; from Book III Residence at Cambridge ; from Book IV Summer vacation ; from Book V Books ; from Book VI Cambridge and the Alps ; Book VIII Retrospect : love of nature leading to love of man ; from Book XI France ; from Book XII Imagination and taste, how impaired and restored--(concluded) ; Michael / It was an April morning ; "Tis said that some have died for love ; The excursion. from Book I The wanderer ; Pelion and Ossa ; The sparrow's nest ; To a butterfly ; My heart leaps up ; Written in March ; To the small celandine ; To the same flower ; Resolution and independence ; I grieved for Buonaparté ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803 ; Composed by the sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 ; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; On the extinction of the Venetian Republic ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Composed in the valley near Dover, on the day of landing ; Near Dover, September, 1802 ; Written in London, September, 1802 ; London, 1802 ; Great men have been among us ; It is not to be thought of that the flood ; When I have borne in memory ; To H.C. ; To the daisy ; To the same flower ; To the daisy ; The green linnet ; Yew-trees ; At the grave of Burns ; To a Highland girl ; Stepping westward ; The solitary reaper ; Yarrow unvisited ; October, 1803 ; To the men of Kent ; Anticipation, October, 1803 ; To the cuckoo ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The affliction of Margaret ; Ode to duty ; To a skylark ; Elegiac stanzas ; To a young lady ; Character of the happy warrior ; Power of music ; Yes, it was the mountain echo ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; Personal talk ; Admonition ; How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks ; Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake ; The world is too much with us; late and soon ; To sleep ; November, 1806 ; Ode : intimations of immortality ; Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Characteristics of a child three years old ; Here pause : the poet claims at least this praise ; Laodamía ; Yarrow visited ; Hast thou seen, with flash incessant ; Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty ; To a snowdrop ; There is a little unpretending rill ; Between Namur and Liege ; Composed in one of the Catholic cantons ; from The river Duddon. Sol listener, Duddon ; After-thought / from Ecclesiastical sonnets mutability ; Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge / To a skylark ; Scorn not the sonnet ; To the cuckoo ; Yarrow revisited ; On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples ; The Trosachs ; If thou indeed derive thy light from heaven ; If this great world of joy and pain ; "There!" said a stripling, pointing with meet pride ; Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes ; To a child ; Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg ; Hark! 'Tis the thrush ; A poet!--he hath put his heart to school ; So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive ; The unremitting voice of nightly streams ; Preface to the second edition of several of the foregoing poems (lyrical ballads)
Life ; Pantisocracy ; To a young ass ; La Fayette ; Koskiusko ; To the Reverend W.L. Bowles ; The Eolian harp ; Reflections on having left a place of retirement ; Sonnet to a friend who asked how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me ; Ode on the departing year ; This lime-tree bower my prison ; The dungeon ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; France : an ode ; Lewti, or, The circassian love-chant ; Fears in solitude ; The nightingale ; The ballad of the dark ladie ; Kubla Khan ; Lines written in the album at Elbingerode ; Love ; Dejecton : an ode ; Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni ; Inscription for a fountain on a heath ; Answer to a child's question ; The pains of sleep ; To a gentleman ; Time real and imaginary ; from Remorse hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell ; from Zapolya a sunny shaft did I behold ; The knight's tomb ; To nature ; Youth and age ; Work without hope ; The garden of Boccaccio ; Phantom or fact ; Epitaph ; The wanderings of Cain ; from Biographia literaria. Chapter XIV ; Chapter XVII ; from Chapter XVIII ; Chapter XXII / Characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas / Sonnet concerning the slave trade ; The battle of Blenheim ; The holly tree ; The old man's comforts ; God's judgement on a wicked bishop ; from The curse of Kehama. The funeral ; The march to Moscow ; Ode written during the negotiations with Buonaparte ; My days among the dead are past ; from A vision of judgement. The beatification ; The cataract of Lodore ; from The life of Nelson. The battle of Trafalgar / The pleasures of hope. from Part I ; Ye mariners of England ; Hohenlinden ; Lochiel's warning ; Lord Ullin's daughter ; Battle of the Baltic ; The last man ; The death-boat of Heligoland / A Canadian boat song ; from Irish melodies. Oh, breathe not his name ; When he who adores thee ; The harp that once through Tara's halls ; Oh! blame not the bard ; Lesbia hath a beaming eye ; The young May moon ; The minstrel boy ; Farewell!--but whenever you welcome the hour ; The time I've lost in wooing ; Dear harp of my country ; She is far from the land / from National airs. Oh, come to me when daylight sets ; Oft, in the stilly-night / Lalla Rookh from the light of the haram ; from Fables for the Holy Alliance. The dissolution of the Holy Alliance / The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna ; Sonnet (my spirit's on the mountians, where the birds) ; Oh say not that my heart is cold
William and Helen ; The violet ; To a lady ; Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's coronach ; Cadyow castle ; from The minstrelsy of the Scottish border. Kinmont Willie ; Lord Randal / The lay of the last minstrel. from Canto VI ; Harold (the lay of Rosabelle) / The maid of Neidpath ; Hunting song ; from Marmion. Where shall the lover rest ; Lochinvar / from The lady of the lake. Canto I. The chase ; from Canto II. Boat song ; from Canto III. Coronach ; Canto VI. The guard-room / from Rokeby. Brignall banks ; Allen-a-Dale / from Waverley. Hie away, hie away ; from Guy Mannering. Twist ye, twine ye ; Wasted, weary, wherefore stay / Lines on the lifting of the banner of the house of Buccleuch ; Jock of Hazeldean ; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu ; from The antiquary. Why sitt'st thou by that ruin'd hall? ; from Old mortality. And what through winter will pinch severe ; Clarion / The dreary change ; from Rob Roy. Farewell to the land ; from The heart of Midlothian. Proud maisie ; from Ivanhoe. The barefooted friar ; Rebecca's hymn / from The monastery. Border march ; from The pirate. The song of the Reim-Kennar ; Farewell to the muse ; from Quentin Durward. County guy ; from The talisman. What brave chief ; from The doom of Devergoil. Robin Hood ; Bonny Dundee ; When friends are met / from Woodstock. Glee for King Charles ; The foray / from The beacon. Fishermann's song ; Woo'd and married and a' ; A Scotch song / The lovely lass of Preston Mill ; Gane were but the winter cauld ; A wet sheet and a flowing sea / When the kye comes hame ; The skylark ; When Maggy gangs away ; from The queen's wake. Kilmeny ; The witch o' Fife ; A boy's song ; M'Kimman ; Lock the door, Lariston ; The maid of the sea ;
Lachin y Gair ; Farewell! if ever fondest prayer ; Bright be the place of thy soul! ; When we two parted ; from English bards and Scotch reviewers ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; The bride of Abydos ; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ; She walks in beauty ; Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom ; My soul is dark ; Song of Saul before his last battle ; Herod's lament for Mariamne ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; Stanzas for music (there's not a joy the world can give) ; Fare thee well ; Stanzas for music (there be none of beauty's daughters) ; Sonnet on Chillon ; The prisoners of Chillon ; Stanzas to Augusta ; Epistle to Augusta ; Darkness ; Prometheus ; Sonnet to Lake Leman ; Stanzas for music (they say that hope is happiness) ; from Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto III ; from Canto IV / Manfred ; So, we'll go no more a-roving ; My boat is on the shore ; Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the Times ; Mazeppa ; from Don Juan. Dedication ; from Canto I ; from Canto II ; from Canto III. The isles of Greece ; from Canto IV ; from Canto XI / When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home ; The world is a bundle of hay ; Who kill'd John Keats? ; For Orford and for Waldegrave ; The vision of judgment ; Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year
Queen Mab. from Section II ; Section VIII / Mutability (we are as clouds that veil the midnight moon) ; To---(oh! there are spirits of the air) ; To Wordsworth ; Feelings of a republican on the fall of Bonaparte ; Alastor, or The spirit of solitude ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Lines (the cold earth slept below ; To Mary ; Death (they die--the dead return not) ; Lines to a critic ; Ozymandias ; The past ; On a faded violet ; Lines written among the Euganean Hills ; Stanzas (the sun is warm, the sky is clear) ; Lines written during the Castlereagh administration ; The mask of anarchy ; Song to the men of England ; England in 1819 ; Ode to the west wind ; The Indian serenade ; Love's philosophy ; The poet's lover ; Proemtheus unbound ; The sensitive plant ; The cloud ; To a skylark ; To---(I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden) ; Arethusa ; Hymn of Apollo ; Hymn of Pan ; The question ; The two spirits : an allegory ; Autumn : a dirge ; The waning moon ; To the moon ; Death (death is here, and death is there) ; The world's wanderers ; Time long past ; An allegory ; The witch of Atlas ; Epipsychidion ; Song (rarely, rerely comest thou) ; To night ; Time ; To Emilia Viviani ; To---(music, when soft voices die) ; To---(when passion's trance is overpast) ; Mutability (the flower that smiles today) ; A lament ; Sonnet : political greatness ; Adonais ; from Hellas. Life may change, but it may fly not ; Worlds on worlds are rolling ever ; Darkness has dawned in the east ; The world's great age begins anew / Evening ; To---(one word is too often profaned) ; On Keats ; Tomorrow ; Remembrance ; To Edward Williams ; Music ; Lines (when the lamp is shattered) ; With a guitar : to Jane ; To Jane ; from Charles the first a widow bird sate mourning for her love ; A dirge ; Lines (we meet not as we parted) ; The isle ; from A defense of poetry
Imitation of Spenser ; To Byron ; To Chatterton ; Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain ; Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left prison ; To a young lady who sent me a laurel crown ; How many bards gild the lapses of time ; Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; As from the darkening gloom a silver dove ; Sonnet to solitude ; To one who has been long in city pent ; Oh! how I love on a fair summer's eve ; I stood tiptoe upon a little hill ; Sleep and poetry ; Addressed to Benjamin Robert Haydon ; To G.A.W. ; Stanzas (in a drear-nighted December) ; Happy is England ; On the grasshopper and the cricket ; After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains ; Written on the blank space at the end of Chaucer's tale of "The floure and the lefe" ; On a picture of Leander ; To Leigh Hunt, esq. ; On seeing the Elgin marbles ; On the sea ; Lines (unfelt, unheard, unseen) ; On Leigh Hunt's poem "The story of Rimini" ; When I have fears that I may cease to be ; On sitting down to read "King Lear" once again ; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern ; Robin Hood ; To the Nile ; To Spenser ; The human seasons ; Endymion ; Isabella, or The pot of basil ; To Homer ; Fragment of an ode to Maia ; To Ailsa Rock ; Fancy ; Ode (bards of passion and of mirth) ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode on indolence ; La belle dame sans merci ; On fame ; Another on fame ; To sleep ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Lamia ; The Eve of St. Agnes ; The Eve of St. Mark ; Hyperion ; To Autumn ; To Fannie ; Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ; from Keats letters to Benjamin Bailey ; To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To John Taylor ; To James Augustus Hessey ; To George and Georgiana Keats ; To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To Percy Bysshe Shelley
The story of Rimini. from Canto III ; To Hampstead ; To the grasshopper and the cricket ; The Nile ; Mahmoud ; Song of fairies robbing orchard ; Abou Ben Adhem and the angel ; The glove and the lions ; Rondeau ; The fish, the man, and the spirit ; Hearing music ; The old lady ; Getting up on cold mornings ; from On the realities of imagination ; A "now," descriptive of a hot day ; Shaking hands ; from Dreams on the borders of the land of poetry . I. The demands of poetry ; II. My bower ; III. On a bust of Bacchus / Of the sight of shops. from Part II ; Proem to selection from Keats's poetry / from Crabbe's poems ; from Alison's Essays on the nature and principles of taste ; from Wordsworth's The excursion ; from Wordsowrth's The white doe of Rylstone ; from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Canto the third / Endymion : a poetic romance by John Keats
The midnight wind ; Was it some sweet device of faery ; It from my lips some angry accents fell ; Childhood ; The old familiar faces ; Hester ; The three graves ; The gipsy's malison ; On an infant dying as soon as born ; She is going ; Letter to Wordsworth ; from Characters of dramatic writers contemporary with Shakespeare. Thomas Heywood ; John Webster ; John Ford ; George Chapman ; Francis Beaumont-- John Fletcher / from On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation ; The south-sea house ; Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago ; The two races of men ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist ; Mackery End, in Hertfordshire ; Dream children ; A dissertation upon roast pig ; Old China ; Poor relations ; Sanity of true genius ; The death of Coleridge
from Gebir book I ; Rose Aylmer ; Child of a day, thou knowest not ; For an epitaph at Fiesole ; Lyrics to Ianthe. Homage ; On the smooth brow and clustering hair ; Heart's-ease ; It often comes into my head ; All tender thoughts that e'er possess'd ; Thou hast not raised, Ianthe, such desire ; Pleasure! Why thus desert the heart ; Renunciation ; You smiled, you spoke, and I believed ; So late removed from him she swore ; I held her hand, the pledge of bliss ; Absence ; Flow, precious tears! Thus shall my rival know ; Mile is the parting year, and sweet ; Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives ; Here ever since you went abroad ; Years after ; She I love (alas in vain!) ; No, my own love of other years ; I wonder now that youth remains ; Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass ; Years, many parti-colored years ; Well I remember how you smiled / A Fiesolan Idyl -- from The citation and examination of William Shakespeare. The maid's lament ; Upon a sweet-briar / from Pericles and Aspasia. Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens ; I will not love ; The death of Artemidora ; Life passes not as some men say ; Little Aglae to her father, on her statue being called like her ; We mind not how the sun in the mid-sky ; Sappho to Hesperus ; Dirce / On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia ; To Wordsworth ; To Joseph Ablett ; To the sister of Elia ; On his own Agamemnon and Iphigeneia ; I cannot tell, not I, why she ; You tell me I must come again ; Remain, ah not in youth alone ; "You must give back," her mother said ; The maid I love ne'er thought of me ; Very true, the linnets sing ; To a painter ; Dull is my verse : not even thou ; Sweet was the song that youth sang once ; To sleep ; Why, why repine ; Mother, I cannot mind my wheel ; To a bride, Feb. 17, 1846 ; One year ago my path was green ; Yes; I write verses now and then ; The leaves are falling; so am I ; The place where soon I think to lie ; Give me the eyes that look on mine ; Twenty years hence my eyes may grow ; Proud word you never spoke ; Alas, how soon the hours are over ; My hopes retire, my wishes as before ; Various the roads of life; in one ; It is not better at an early hour ; Pursuits! alas, I now have none ; With an album ; The day returns, my natal day ; How many voices gaily sing ; To Robert Browning ; from The Hellenics. On the Hellenics ; Thrasymedes and Eunöe ; Iphigeneia and Agamemnon ; The Hamadryad / Shakespeare and Milton ; To youth ; To age ; The chrysolites and rubies Bacchus brings ; So then, I feel not deeply ; On music (many love music but for music's sake) ; Death stands above me ; On his seventy-fifth birthday ; I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson ; To E. Arundell ; Age ; To his young rose an old man said ; Nay, thank me not again for those ; One lovely name adorns my song ; Separation ; All is not over while the shade ; God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers ; Thou needst not pitch upon my hat ; To a cyclamen ; On Southey's death ; The three roses ; Lately our songsters loiter'd in green lanes ; from Heroic Idyls Theseus and Hippolyta ; They are sweet flowers that only blow by night ; Memory ; An aged man who loved to doze away ; To my ninth decade ; from Imaginary conversations. Tiberius and Vipsania ; Marcellus and Hannibal ; Metellus and Marius ; Leofric and Godiva / from Pericles and Aspasia. Pericles to Aspasia ; Aspasia to Pericles ; Aspasia to Cleone / The Pentameron. from Fifth day's interview. The dream of Boccaccio ; from On the statue of Ebenezer Elliott
Beneath the Cypress shade ; from Headlong Hall. Hail to the Headlong ; from Nightmare Abbey. Seamen three! what men be ye? ; from Maid Marian. For the slender beech and the sapling oak ; Though I be now a gray, gray friar ; Oh! bold Robin Hood is a forester good ; Ye woods, that oft at sultry noon / Margaret Love Peacock ; from The misfortunes of Elphin. The circling of the mead horns ; The war song of Dinas Vawr / from Crochet Castle. In the days of old ; From Gryll Grange. Love and age / from Rural rides / from Characters of Shakespear's plays. Hamlet ; On familiar style ; The fight ; On going a journey ; My first acquaintance with poets ; On the feeling of immortality in youth / Confessions of an English opium eater. from Preliminary confessions ; The pleasures of opium ; from Introduction to the pains of opium ; The pains of opium / On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth ; from Recollections of Charles Lamb ; Style. from Part 1 ; from Autobiographic sketches. The affliction of childhood ; from Suspiria de profundis. Levana and our ladies of sorrow ; Savannah-la-Mar / from The poetry of Pope. Literature of knowledge and literature of power ; The English mail-coach. Section I--The glory of motion ; Section II--The vision of sudden death ; Secton III--Dream-fugue
Lines (write it in gold--a spirit of the sun) ; from The bride's tragedy. Poor old pilgrim misery ; A ho! a ho! / from The second brother. Strew not earth with empty stars ; from Torrismond. How many times do I love thee, dear? ; from Death's jest book. To sea, to sea! ; The swallow leaves her nest ; If thou wilt ease thine heart ; Lady, was it fair of thee ; A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet ; Old Adam, the carrion crow ; We do lie beneath the grass / r Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The boding dreams ; Dream-pedlary ; Let the dew the flowers fill / from The Christian year. First Sunday after Trinity ; Twentieth Sunday after Trinity / United States / Song ; Faithless Nelly Gray ; Fair Ines ; Ruth ; I remember, I remember ; The stars are with the voyager ; Silence ; False poets and true ; Song (there is dew for the flow'ret) ; Autumn ; Ballad (it was not in the winter) ; The dream of Eugene Aram, the murderer ; The death-bed ; Sally Simpkin's lament ; The song of the shirt ; The bridge of sighs ; The lay of the laborer ; Stanzas (farewell, life! My senses swim) ; Queen Mab / from The troubador. Spirits, that walk and wail tonight ; Oh fly with me! 'tis passion's hour / Time's song ; from Letters from Teignmouth. I--our ball ; from Every-day characters. The belle of the ball-room ; Tell him I love him yet ; Fairy song ; Stanzas (o'er yon churchyard the storm may lower) ; The talented man ; Stanzas on seeing the speaker asleep
The song of the western men ; Clovelly ; The first fathers ; Mawgan of Melhuach ; Featherstone's doom ; The silent tower of Bottreaux ; "Pater vester pascit illa" ; Death song ; Are they not all ministering spirits? ; Queen Guennivar's round ; To Alfred Tennyson / from Noctes Ambrosaine / A dirge ; England's dead ; The graves of a household ; The landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England ; The homes of England / The sword chant of Thorstein Raudi ; Jeanie Morrison ; My heid is like to rend, Willie ; The forester's carol ; Song (if to thy heart I were as near) / Song (child, is thy father dead?) ; Battle song ; The press ; Preston Mills ; Spenserian ; A poet's epitaph ; Sabbath morning ; The way broad-leaf ; Religion ; Plaint / The sea ; The stormy petrel ; The hunter's song ; Life ; Peace! what do tears avail ; A poet's thought ; The poet's song to his wife ; Inscription for a fountain ; A petition to time / Song (she is not fair to outward view) ; An old man's wish ; Whither is gone the wisdom and the power ; November ; Night ; To Shakespeare ; May, 1840 ; "Multum dilexit" ; Homer ; Prayer
from Windsor Forest ; from An essay on criticism. Part I ; from An essay on man. Epistle I / from Preface to Shakespeare ; The lives of the English poets from Pope ; Letter to Macpherson / from Reflections on the revolution in France
Woods, George Benjamin, 1878-1958.
Anne, Countess of Winchilsea -- Thomas Parnell -- Allan Ramsay -- Allan Ramsay -- William Hamilton of Bangour -- David Mallet -- John Dyer -- James Thomson -- James Thompson -- James Thomson.
Edward Young -- Edward Young -- Robert Blair -- William Shenstone -- Mark Akenside -- Mark Akenside -- William Collins -- Thomas Gray. -- Thomas Warton -- Thomas Warton -- Joseph Warton -- James Macpherson -- Richard Hurd -- Horace Walpole.
Thomas Percy -- James Beattie -- Thomas Chatterton -- Thomas Chatterton -- William Beckford -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- George Crabbe -- William Lisle Bowles -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake.
Robert Burns.
Samuel Rogers -- William Godwin -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -- Robert Southey. -- Thomas Campbell. The lake of the dismal swamp ; Thomas Moore -- Thomas Moore -- Thomas Moore -- Charles Wolfe.
Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Joanna Baillie -- Allan Cunningham -- James Hogg.
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Keats.
James Henry Leigh Hunt -- James Henry Leigh Hunt -- Francis Jeffrey -- John Wilson Croker.
Charles Lamb -- Charles Lamb.
Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor.
Thomas Love Peacock -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Thomas Love Peacock -- William Cobbett. -- William Hazlitt -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas De Quincey.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- John Keble -- John Keble -- Thomas Hood -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
Robert Stephen Hawker -- John Wilson "Christopher North" -- Felicia Dorothea Heman -- William Motherwell -- Ebenezer Elliott -- Bryan Waller Procter, "Barry Cornwall" -- Hartley Coleridge.
Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- Edmund Burke.
edited by George Benjamin Woods.
1950
English poetry and prose of the Romantic movement
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