Popular Poetry / Verse
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): They Flee From Me
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586): Elegy Before His Execution
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): The Bargain
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): He Seeks Inspiration
Michael Drayton (1563-1631): Since There's No Help
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets: Remembrance Of Things Past
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets: The Marriage Of True Minds
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets: The Expense Of Spirit
King James Bible: from the Song Of Solomon
John Donne (1572-1631): The Sun Rising
John Donne (1572-1631): The Good Morrow
John Donne (1572-1631): A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne (1572-1631): A Hymn
George Herbert (1593-1632): Prayer
George Herbert (1593-1632): Virtue
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657): To Althea, From Prison
William Blake (1757-1827): The Sick Rose
William Blake (1757-1827): Eternity
Robert Burns (1759-1796): A Man's A Man For A' That
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): from Tintern Abbey
Lord Byron (1788-1824): When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): To A Skylark
John Clare (1793-1864): I Am
John Clare (1793-1864): First Love
John Keats (1795-1821): Ode On A Grecian Urn
John Keats (1795-1821): La belle dame sans merci
John Keats (1795-1821): To Autumn
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): Blow, Bugle, Blow
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): Break, Break, Break
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): Crossing The Bar
Emily Bronte (1818-1848): Last Lines
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): A Birthday
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): Remember
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): Parting
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): A Narrow Fellow In The Grass
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): In Time Of 'The Breaking Of Nations'
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): No Worst, There Is None
A.E. Housman (1859-1936): Loveliest Of Trees
A.E. Housman (1859-1936): Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Second Coming
Edward Thomas (1878-1917): Tears
Edward Thomas (1878-1917): Lights Out
T.E. Hulme (1883-1917): Autumn
T.E. Hulme (1883-1917): The Embankment
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918): Greater Love
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Piano
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd
William Shakespeare (1564-1618): Winter
Anon: There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind
John Donne (1573-1631): To His Mistress Going To Bed
Robert Herrick (1591-1674): Upon Julia's Clothes
Robert Herrick (1591-1674): To Daffodils
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642): Why So Pale And Wan
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650): I'll Never Love Thee More
John Bunyan (1628-1688): The Shepherd Boy Sings In The Valley Of Humiliation
John Wilmot, Lord Rochester (1647-1680): Song Of A Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover
William Congreve (1670-1729): False Though She Be
Alexander Pope (1688-1744): from An Essay On Man
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730-1809): Sound The Clarion
William Blake (1757-1827): A Poison Tree
Musical Interlude: Schumann Impromptu; Sehr schnell from Albumblatter Op. 124
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour
Sir Walter Scott (1774-1843): Innominatus
Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Old Man's Comforts
Charles Lamb (1775-1834): The Old Familiar Faces
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864): Rose Aylmer
Lord Byron (1788-1824): The Destruction Of Sennacherib
Henry Wardsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): A Psalm Of Life
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): To Helen
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): Come Into The Garden, Maud
Musical Interlude: Schumann Scherzino; Rasch from Albumblatter Op. 24
Robert Browning (1812-1889): How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix
Robert Browning (1812-1889): My Last Duchess
Edward Lear (1812-1888): How Pleasent To Know My Lear
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861): Say Not The Struggle Nought Availeth
Walt Whitman (1819-1892): O Captain My Captain
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875): A Farewell
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): The Mad Gardener's Illusions
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Weathers
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919): Solitude
Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921): The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858-1932): God's Garden
Francis Thompson (1859-1907): At Lords
Musical Interlude: Delius 1 Lento, ma non troppo from Two Aquarelles
J. Milton Hayes (fl. 1911): The Green Eye Of The Yellow God
A.E. Hosman (1859-1936): When First My Way To Fair I Took
Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938): He Fell Among Thieves
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Gunga Din
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Lake Isle Of Innesfree
Alan Seeger (1888-1916): Rendezvous
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943): For The Fallen
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915): The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
