C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Content
Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
Absence—Anonymous |
Account of Alcestis’s Farewell to her Home by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Achilles Refuses to Aid the Greeks by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
Achitophel by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Adam and Eve by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Adam and his Mother by Frederik Paludan-Müller (1809–1876) |
Ad Amphoram by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
Adapa and the Southwind—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Additional Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) |
Abu l-’Ata of Sind: An Address to the Beloved—Arabic Literature |
Adieu to Coimbra by Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) |
Adieux à Marie Stuart by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Advice to a Poet by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Advice to Authors by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) |
Afloat and Ashore by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
After Death by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
After Death by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
After Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
The Afternoon by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
The Afternoon Call by Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799) |
After Petrarch by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
After-Song by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
After the Hunt by Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909) |
Scenes from ‘Agamemnon’ by Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) |
Age by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
The Age of Gold by Teleclides (Fifth Century B.C.) |
Richard Cœur de Lion (1169–1199): Ah! Certes will no Prisoner Tell His Tale—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Lament: ‘Ah me! whither have vanished the years of age and youth?’ by Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230) |
Ah, Tell me not he Passed by Semyon Nadson (1862–1887) |
Ailleen by John (1798–1842) and Michael (1796–1874) Banim |
The Dedication of ‘Aladdin’—to Goethe by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
The Albatross by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Alec Yeaton’s Son by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of Music by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Alexis and Dora by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
The Aliscamp by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
Alba—Guiraut de Borneil (1175–1230): All-Glorious King!—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Almeria in the Mausoleum by William Congreve (1670–1729) |
Along the Grassy Slope I Sit by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Alpine Glacier by Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) |
An Alpine Storm by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Amaryllis by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Amaryllis by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
America by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
America by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
The Aminta: ‘I Am Content, Thyrsis’ by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Aminta: The Golden Age by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Amor Mundi by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Amy’s Song of the Willow by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
Anacreontic by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647) |
From the ‘Ancestors’ by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
And Have I Measured Half My Days by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Andrea Del Sarto by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
André’s Request to Washington by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Andromeda and the Sea-nymphs by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
Angel by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
The Angel by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Angel by Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) |
The Angels of Buena Vista by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
An Angler’s Wish by Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) |
The Animals Sick of the Plague by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
Annus Memorabilis by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
Another Day by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
Antony’s Speech over Cæsar’s Body by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Apologues Freely Translated from the ‘Mantik-ut-Tair,’ or ‘The Bird Parliament,’ of Faríd-uddín Attar by Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883) |
Apostrophe to Plutarch by Agathias (c. 530–582) |
The Appeal of Andromache by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
The Appeal of Satan by John Milton (1608–1674) |
The Appeal of the Chorus by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Après Trois Ans by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
April Rain by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
Apuleius’s Song by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
The Arab and the Camel by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
From ‘The Arbitrants’ by Menander (c. 342–c. 292 B.C.) |
Arethusa by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Arethusa’s Declaration by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Aretina’s Song by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
Ariel by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Ariel: In Memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
Ariel in the Cloven Pine by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
Ariel’s Songs by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Aristocracy’s Last Stand by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
Armida Ensnares Rinaldo by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
From ‘Art’ by James Thomson (1834–1882) |
Art and Politics by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
Artevelde Refuses to Dismiss Elena by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
The Artist and the Priest by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) |
From ‘The Artists’ by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Art of Poetry by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
As Careful Merchants Do Expecting Stand by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
As I Laye A-Thynkynge by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) |
Epilogue of ‘Asinaria’ by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
As it will Happen by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
A Song: ‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’ by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
Aspatia’s Song by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Aspects of the Pines by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
Aspiration by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Aspiration by José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) |
Aspirations after the Infinite by Mark Akenside (1721–1770) |
As Ships Becalmed by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Song from ‘The Assignation’ by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
From ‘Astrophel and Stella’ by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
At a Funeral by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
At Dusk by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
At Gibraltar by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
From ‘Athens’ by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Atlas by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
At Last the Daylight Fadeth by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
At Penshurst by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
At the Granite Gate by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
At the Potter’s by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
Aubade by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
Au Bord de l’Eau by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
The Auld House by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
Ballad: ‘The auld wife sat at her ivied door’ by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
The Author’s Ambition by Persius (34–62 A.D.) |
The Author’s Resolution in a Sonnet by George Wither (1588–1667) |
Autumn by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Aux Enfants Perdus by Théodore de Banville (1823–1891) |
Aux Italiens by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) |
The Awakening to Sight by Henrik Hertz (1798–1870) |
Away by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
From ‘Axel and Valborg’ by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Babylon—The Ballad |
Choral Song from the ‘Bacchæ’ by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
The Baker’s Tale by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) |
Ballad against Those Who Missay of France by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballade des Pendus by Théodore de Banville (1823–1891) |
Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
Ballade on the Mysterious Hosts of the Forests by Théodore de Banville (1823–1891) |
The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
The Ballad of Guibour by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
Ballad of Old-Time Ladies by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 1) by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballad of Old-Time Lords (No. 2) by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Ballad of the Debate of the Heart and Body of Villon by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballad of the Outer Life by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) |
The Ballad of ‘The Red Harlaw’ by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Ballad of the Women of Paris by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballad of Things Known and Unknown by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
A Ballad of Trees and the Master by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
Ballad of Villon in Prison by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Ballad that Villon Made at the Request of his Mother by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Balthazar’s Song by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Banks o’ Doon by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
A Banquet Song by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Barbarossa by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Bard by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
The Bard by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Battle-Field by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
The Battle of Copenhagen by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
The Battle of Ivry by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
The Battle of Waterloo by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Baucis and Philemon by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
The Beautiful Rūdābah Discloses her Love for Zāl by Firdawsī (c. 940–1020) |
Beauty by Jāmī (1414–1492) |
Beauty by Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
Beauty by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Beauty by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
Beauty by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
Beauty Unadorned by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
Bedouin Song by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
Before the Convent of St. Just, 1556 by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
Before the Sacrament by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
Before the Storm by Richard Dehmel (1863–1920) |
Guillaume de Poitiers (1190–1227): Behold the Meads—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
The Beleaguered City by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Belfry of Bruges by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Believe It Not by Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875) |
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) |
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
The Beloved Youth Gains Fame from the Poet’s Songs by Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.) |
Belphœbe the Huntress by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
Benefits by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
From ‘Beowulf’—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
Claudius Claudianus (c. 370–404): The Bereavement of Ceres—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Beside the Hearth by Richard Wagner (1813–1883) |
Beside the Winter Sea by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray—The Ballad |
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
The Best State by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
A Better Answer by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
The Better Part by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Bewildered Guest by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
From ‘The Biglow Papers’ by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Bill and Joe by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
The Bird Let Loose by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Birds by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
From ‘Birds in the Night’ by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
A Birthday by William Watson (1858–1935) |
The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) |
Blackmwore Maidens by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
The Black Regiment by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
The Black Shawl by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
Blanchefleur at the Tournament by Gottfried von Strassburg (d. c. 1210) |
The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
The Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè by Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864) |
The Blind Princess by Henrik Hertz (1798–1870) |
The Bloody Banquet by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) |
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Blue Closet by William Morris (1834–1896) |
The Boatman’s Song by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
Bonnie George Campbell—The Ballad |
Bonny Dundee by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
The Bonny Earl of Murray—The Ballad |
Book I, VI, VII, VIII, XIV, XVI by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
From ‘Boris Godunov’ by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Bowmen’s Song by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) |
The Boy Perceval by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
The Braggart Soldier by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
“Break, Break, Break” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
A Bride by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
The Bridge by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Bridge of Dread—Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples |
The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Brief Is Pain by Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) |
Brief Life is Here Our Portion by Bernard of Cluny (Twelfth Century) |
The Briefness of Life by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
Song: Brignall Banks by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Bringing up a Son by Sa’dī (c. 1213–1291) |
The Broken Bell by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) |
The Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
A Brother’s Grave by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Bruce to his Men at Bannockburn by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
The Brute by William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) |
The Bubble by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
The Builders by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
The Building of Cloud-Cuckoo-Town by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Bulls by Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894) |
The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
The Burden of the Desert by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
The Burial March of Dundee by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) |
Burns by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Burnt Ships by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
A Sang: ‘Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride’ by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
Busybodies by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
But Little Here Below by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Caller Herrin’ by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
“Call Me Not Dead” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
Call to Joy by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
The Call to the Nightingale by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Cannibalism by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
From ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims’ by Percy MacKaye (1875–1956) |
Canticle of the Shining Ones by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
The Canzon of Life by Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) |
The Captain and the Mermaids by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) |
Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) |
Epilogue of the ‘Captives’ by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
The Card-Dealer by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
Song: ‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’ by John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Carmen by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
The Carter and Hercules by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
Prologue of ‘Casina’ by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
Cassandra by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) |
The Castle by the Sea by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Castle in Austria by Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) |
From ‘The Castle of Indolence’ by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
From ‘Catarina to Camoens’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
Caucasus by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
Caughnawaga by Louis Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908) |
Cavalry Song by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
The Cave of Mammon by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
Song: ‘Cease thy song, nightingale’ by Alekseï Koltsov (1809–1842) |
Centennial Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Ce Qui Dure by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
Changed by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
Changed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Changeling by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Chanticleer’s Avowal by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Chanticleer’s Consolation by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Chanticleer’s Hymn to the Sun by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Chant-Royal by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
The Chapel by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
A Charge to Keep I Have by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Charmian by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
Chaucer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
The Chiffonier by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
Childe Maurice—The Ballad |
The Children Band by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
A Child’s Future by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Child-Songs by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
A Child’s Thought of God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
A Child’s Trick by Persius (34–62 A.D.) |
The Chinese and Roman Artists by Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) |
The Choirs by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
Chorus of Mystæ in Hades by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Chorus of Spirits by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Chorus of the Archangels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Chorus of Women by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Christ in the Garden by John Keble (1792–1866) |
Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
A Christmas Carol by George Wither (1588–1667) |
Finale to ‘Christus: A Mystery’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
From ‘The Chronicle of the Drum’ by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
Chronomoros by Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883) |
The Church by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
Circe’s Charm by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
The Cities of the Plain by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
From ‘The City of Dreadful Night’ by James Thomson (1834–1882) |
Clair de Lune by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
A Clear Statement by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) |
Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
Cleopatra on the Cydnus by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Cloister in the South by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
Clorinda’s Eunuch Narrates her History by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Close of the Hymn to Delian Apollo by The Homeric Hymns |
The Closing Scene by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
The Cloud by Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) |
The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
The Cloud Chorus by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Cloud Confines by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
The Cobbler’s Last by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Cold and Quiet by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
The Coliseum by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Collar by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
Colloquy of Ossian and St. Patrick by Ossian and Ossianic Poetry |
Columcille Fecit—Celtic Literature |
Come Back by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
“Come into the Garden, Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
Guiraud Le Roux (1110–1147): Come Lady—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Song: ‘Come, list and hark’ by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
Come, Rest in this Bosom by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
The Comic Poet’s Grievances by Antiphanes (Fourth Century B.C.) |
Coming by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
The Coming of Spring by Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852) |
Compensation by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
The Complaint of Prometheus by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
From ‘Comus’ by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
Confession of Evadne to Amintor by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
The Confession of Phædra by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
Confessions by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Congedo at the Conclusion of the ‘Rinaldo’ by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Connoisseur by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) |
The Conquerors by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
The Conqueror’s Grave by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Conscious of his Folly, he Prays God to Turn him to a Better Life by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Consider It Again by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
The Conspiracy by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Content by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
Contentment by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
Contrasted National Types by Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) |
The Conversion of the Giant Morgante by Luigi Pulci (1432–1484) |
The Cook Well Done by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Cornelia by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
The Cotter’s Saturday Night by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Counsels by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
From ‘The Countess Cathleen’ by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
The Countess of Carlisle: Of Her Chamber by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
Count Henry’s Monologue by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
Chorus from ‘The Count of Carmagnola’ by Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) |
The Country Letter-Carrier by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
Country Life by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
The Courtiers by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) |
The Courtier’s Life by Alexander Barclay (1475?–1552) |
The Courtin’ by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
A Court Lady by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Cowards by Aleardo Aleardi (1812–1878) |
Crabbed Age and Youth by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Cradle Song by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
A Cradle Song by William Blake (1757–1827) |
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
Creation by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) |
The Creation by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
The Cricket by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
The Cross of Christ by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
The Crusaders by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
The Crusaders’ First Sight of the Holy City by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Crusaders Go in Procession to Mass, Preparatory to the Assault by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
The Cry of the Dreamer by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
From ‘The Culprit Fay’ by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
Cupid Mistaken by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
The Cup of Life by Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) |
The Curé’s Progress by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
The Curse by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
The Curse of Queen Dido by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
Cybele and her Children by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
From ‘Cynthia’s Revels’ by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Cyprian’s Bargain by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) |
Daffodil by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) |
Danaë’s Lament by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Daniel Gray by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
The Danish National Song by Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) |
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
Dante by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
“Darest Thou Now, O Soul” by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
D’Avalos’ Prayer by John Masefield (1878–1967) |
David and Absalom by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
From ‘David and Bethsabe’ by George Peele (1556–1596) |
The Dawn by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Dawn by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
The Dawning of the Day by James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) |
Dawn of Spring by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) |
Day by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
The Day is Coming by William Morris (1834–1896) |
The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
The Deacon’s Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
The Dead by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Dead by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
Dead and Gone by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Dead Church by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
A Dead Man by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
Death by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
The Death Agony by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
Death and a Future Life by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Death and the Woodcutter by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
The Death-Bed of Laura by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Death in Youth by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) |
Duraid, Son of as-Simmah: The Death of ’Abdallâh—Arabic Literature |
The Death of Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Death of Dara [Darius] by Firdawsī (c. 940–1020) |
The Death of Lear by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Death of Sappho by Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) |
The Death of the Boy Hengo by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Death of the Nightingale by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
The Death of the Poor by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
The Death of the Year by Aleardo Aleardi (1812–1878) |
The Death of Young Siward by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Deceiving World by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Declaration and Departure by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886) |
The Decree of Athena by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
Dedication by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Dedication for a Volume of Lyrics by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Dedication Hymn by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Defense of his Dictatorship by Solon (c. 630–560 B.C.) |
The Defiance of Eteocles by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
Degeneracy of the World by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
De Habitant by William Henry Drummond (1854–1907) |
From ‘Deirdre’ by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Deirdrê’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach by Ossian and Ossianic Poetry |
Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
From ‘De Montfort’: A Tragedy by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
Deor’s Lament—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
De Resurrectione Domine, with Translation by Adam de Saint Victor (Twelfth Century) |
Imr-al-Kais: Description of a Mountain Storm—Arabic Literature |
A Description of Such a One as He would Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
Description of the Sorceress Armida by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Desdemona’s Last Song by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
“Desert a Beggar Born” by Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.) |
The Deserted City by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
Pictures from ‘The Deserted Village’ by Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) |
Desiderium by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) |
Destiny by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Devil by Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731) |
Diamond Cut Diamond by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
Dimbovitza by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
Dionysus and the Pirates by The Homeric Hymns |
A Dirge by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
The Dirge of Larra by José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) |
Disappointment by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
The Disclosure by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
The Discoverer by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
The Distich by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Diversions of the Fairies by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
A Diverting Scrape by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Divided by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
Divina Commedia by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
From ‘Divine and Moral Songs’ by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
The Divine Narcissus by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) |
Dixains by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) |
Song: ‘Does any one seek the soul of mirth’ by Count Kraft von Toggenburg (13th Century) |
Dogberry Captain of the Watch by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Donald M’Donald by James Hogg (1770–1835) |
Don Ignacio Loyola’s Vigil by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) |
Don Rodrigue Describes to King Fernando his Victory over the Moors by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
The Doom of Lee by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
Dora versus Rose by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Dorothy Q. by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
Do Thou Love, Too! by Johanna Ambrosius (1854–1939) |
The Double Betrayal by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) |
Doubt Not by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
From Dmitriev—The Dove and The Stranger by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Doves by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
Song: ‘Down lay in a nook my lady’s brach’ by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
Song: ‘Down on the vast deep ocean’ by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
Down the Valley by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Dow’s Flat by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
From ‘The Dragon-Fly’ by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
Song from ‘Drake’: ‘N’oserez vous’ by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) |
Draw it Mild by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The Dream by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) |
The Dream-Image by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Dreaming by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Dreamland by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
Dream-Land by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
The Dream of Life by Louis Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908) |
Dreams and Realities by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) |
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
Drinking I by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
Drinking II by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
Drink Out thy Glass by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
The Drum by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
The Duchess d’Alençon by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
From ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by John Webster (c. 1580–1634) |
The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death by George Chapman (1559?–1634) |
Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
Ode: The Dying Christian to his Soul by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
The Dying Flower by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
The Dying Rose-Tree by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) |
Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
The Eagle and the Snake—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress Not to Forsake Him by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
Earth-Bound by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) |
The Earth in Spring by Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141) |
From ‘The Earthly Paradise’ by William Morris (1834–1896) |
The East by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Easter Day—Naples, 1849 by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
The Easter Kiss by Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) |
Echo by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Edward—The Ballad |
From ‘Edward the Second’ by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
Edwin Booth by William Winter (1836–1917) |
Effect of Orpheus’s Song in Hades by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
From an “Elegy” by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
Elegy at the Grave of my Father by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Elegy on Lesbia’s Sparrow by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
The Elfin-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
The Elixir by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
Ellen Douglas’s Bower by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
El Manalo by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
The Elms of New Haven by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Elmwood by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
From ‘Eloa’ by Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) |
The Emigrants by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) |
The Emigrants in Bermudas by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
From ‘Endymion’ by John Keats (1795–1821) |
The Enemy by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
Enfantillage by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
England by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
From ‘England, My Mother’ by William Watson (1858–1935) |
England to America by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
Ensign Stål by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
Entertainment by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
Ephemera by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
The Epic Hexameter by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Epicure by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
Epigram by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
Epigram by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
Epigram by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
Epigram on Terentius by Julius Cæsar (100–44 B.C.) |
Epigram on the Death of Edward Forbes by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
From the ‘Epinician Ode for Scopas’ by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Epiphany by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
Episode of Olindo and Sophronia by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
An Epistle on Parting by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
From the ‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’ by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
Epitaph by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
Epitaph by Alexis Piron (1689–1773) |
An Epitaph for a Husbandman by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
Epitaph for Those Who Fell at Thermopylæ by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Epitaph, I by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
Epitaph, II by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
The Epitaph in Ballad Form that Villon Made for Himself and His Companions by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Epitaph on a Child by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
Epitaph on a Favorite Hunting-Dog by Petronius (c. 27–66) (attributed) |
Epitaph on a Living Author by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
Epitaph on Ennius by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
Epitaph on Heracleitus by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Epitaph on Scipio, I by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
Epitaph on Sir William Trumbal by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
Epitaphs by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Epitaph upon Cleombrotus by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
Epitaph upon Himself by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
E Pluribus Unus by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Equals Added to Equals by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Equations by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
An Erechite’s Lament—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Ergo Bibamus! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Erminia Cures Tancred, and is Supposed to Become his Bride by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
From the ‘Essay on Criticism’ by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
From the ‘Essay on Man’ by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
Eternal Beam of Light Divine by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Étude Réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Al-Nâbighah: Eulogy of the Men of Ghassân—Arabic Literature |
Eulogy on Sophocles by Phrynichus (Fifth Century B.C.) |
Postlude to ‘Evangeline’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Prelude to ‘Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
An Evening by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Evening by Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
Evening Hymn by John Keble (1792–1866) |
Evening Song by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
From ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ by John Keats (1795–1821) |
Eve Relates her First Meeting with Adam by John Milton (1608–1674) |
From ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ by John Masefield (1878–1967) |
Prologue from ‘Every Man in His Humour’ by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
From ‘Evgeny Onyegin’ by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
Evolution by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
An Excelente Balade of Charitie by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
From ‘Except the Lord Build the House’ by Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) |
The Execution of Montrose by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) |
The Exile of Erin by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Experience by Alexis Piron (1689–1773) |
Eyebright by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
“Fair as the Day” by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
The Fairies by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
The Fairies’ Wedding Charm by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Antar: A Fair Lady—Arabic Literature |
Raimon de Miraval (1190–1200): Fair Summer-Time—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
A Song: ‘Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize’ by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Song: ‘The fairy dwells in the rocky hall’ by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
The Fairy Host by Ossian and Ossianic Poetry |
Faithfulness by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Faithfulness of Yudhisthira by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
The Faithful Shepherdess by John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
The Fall of Poland by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
The Fall of Troy by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
A False Step by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Falstaff and Prince Hal by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Falstaff in Battle by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Falstaff’s Army by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Falstaff Tormented by the Supposed Fairies by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Famine by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
Fancy by John Keats (1795–1821) |
Song: ‘Far as I journey from my lady fair’ by Johannes Hadloub (13th Century) |
The Farewell by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) |
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
Farewell by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
Song: Farewell by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886) |
Farewell by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
The Farewell by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Farewell of King Arthur to Queen Guinevere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to his Wife by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
Farewell to his Fellow-Officers by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Farewell to Italy by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
From ‘A Farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake’ by George Peele (1556–1596) |
Far from the World by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) |
From ‘Faris’ by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
Katari ibn al-Fujâ’ah, ibn Ma’zin: Fatality—Arabic Literature |
The Fate of Hoel, Son of the Great Cian by Aneirin (fl. Sixth Century) |
Father and Son by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
The Father of the Forest by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Father’s Return by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
Scenes from ‘Faust’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Fear After the Trouble by Jacob Cats (1577–1660) |
Fear No More by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
A Feast by Joel Barlow (1754–1812) |
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) |
The Feet of the Beloved by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
The Female Phaeton by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
From ‘Festus’ by Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) |
Feud by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
The Fian Banners by Ossian and Ossianic Poetry |
“Fickle and Changeable Ever” by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Fifth of May by Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) |
Fifty Years by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The Fight at Maldon—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
Fine Frenzy by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Firdawsī’s Satire on Máhmúd by Firdawsī (c. 940–1020) |
Fires by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962) |
The First Eclogue by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
First Love again Remembered: Anonymous (date undetermined) by The Greek Anthology |
First Pythian Ode by Pindar (c. 522–433 B.C.) |
The First Smile of Spring by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
The First Snow by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
The Fisherman’s Hymn by Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) |
Fishermen’s Luck by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
From ‘The Fishers’ by Johannes Ewald (1743–1781) |
The Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
The Fisher’s Hut by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
The Fish-Hawk, or Osprey by Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) |
Flight of Erminia by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
The Flight of Etana—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
The Flight of the Geese by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Flood—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Flora MacIvor’s Song by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
From ‘Flos Mercatorum’ by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) |
Fodder-Time by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
The Foes by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Folk-Songs by Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893) |
The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
For ‘A Venetian Pastoral,’ by Giorgione, in the Louvre by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
Ja’far ibn ’Ulbah: A Foray—Arabic Literature |
“Forever” by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
For Summer-Time by George Wither (1588–1667) |
Fortune by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The Fortunes of Men—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
The Foster-Brother by Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) |
The Fountain: A Conversation by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
The Fox and the Grapes by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
A Fragment by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) |
Fragment of a Scolion by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Fragments from Lost Plays by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Fragments of a Descent to the Underworld—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
From ‘France, 1870’ by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
Frankford’s Soliloquy by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
The Free Life of the Bird by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning (1770–1827) |
The Friendship of Medoro and Cloridane by Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) |
Frithiof and Ingeborg by Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) |
Frithiof Goes into Banishment by Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) |
From a Dialogue between a Man and his Soul by Egyptian Literature |
From a Letter to the King; after being Robbed by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
From Childhood by Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909) |
From Prologue to the ‘Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
From Sappho’s Letter to Phaon by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
From the Epistle to Curio by Mark Akenside (1721–1770) |
From the Flats by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
From the Poem ‘Of the Danger His Majesty (Being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St. Andero’ by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
Hymn: ‘From the recesses of a lowly spirit’ by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
“Fuzzy-Wuzzy” by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
Fy, Let us A’ to the Wedding by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
The Gad-Fly by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The Galley-Slave by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
The Game of Cards by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
The Garden by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
The Garret by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
Gay Marigold is Frolic by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
Lines from ‘Gebir’ by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
Genius by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Gentle Alice Brown by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) |
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
German Art by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Get You Gone by Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916) |
The Giant Gwrveling Falls at Last by Aneirin (fl. Sixth Century) |
The Giants by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) |
From ‘The Gipsies’ by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
Glimpses by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Gloster and Anne: Gloster’s Soliloquy by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Gloucester Moors by William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) |
Song: ‘Go and catch a falling star’ by John Donne (1572–1631) |
The Goddess of Dullness is Addressed on Education by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
Final Chorus from ‘Goddwyn’ by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
The Godlike by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Song: ‘God Lyæus, ever young’ by John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
The Gods of Greece by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
God’s War by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) |
The God Zu—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Gold by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
Gold by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
From Bobrov—The Golden Palace by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
The Golden Silence by William Winter (1836–1917) |
From ‘The Golden Targe’ by William Dunbar (1460?–1520?) |
Goliath by Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807–1873) |
Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Gondoliera by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
Gone in the Wind by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Good Counsel by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
“Good Fighting!” by Paul Déroulède (1846–1914) |
“Good-Night, Babbette” by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Anicius Severinus Boethius (d. 524): The Government of the World—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
The Grammar of the Stars by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Grand Chorus of Birds by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Grass and the Rose by Sa’dī (c. 1213–1291) |
The Grasshopper by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
The Grasshopper by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
The Grasshopper and the Ant by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
The Grave in the Busento by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
A Grecian Sunset by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Greece by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Greece and her Heroes by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Greece and the Greeks before the Revolution by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Greediness Punished by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Green Grow the Rashes by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Green Leaves and Sere by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
A Grewsome Lover by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
Grishma; or The Season of Heat by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
The Growth of Love by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
Gude-Nicht, and Joy Be wi’ Ye A’ by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
Háconamál by Icelandic Literature |
Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Words for the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
‘Hamlet’ at the Boston Theatre by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
Hamlet Meditates Suicide by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Hamlet’s Revenge Accomplished by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
Happiness in Slumber by Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852) |
The Hare and Many Friends by John Gay (1685–1732) |
Hark! Hark! the Lark by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Haroun Al Raschid by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Harper’s Songs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
The Harp that Once through Tara’s Halls by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
The Harvest by Paul Déroulède (1846–1914) |
The Harvest by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Harvesters by Aleardo Aleardi (1812–1878) |
Harvest Song by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
Harvest Song by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Health, Beauty, Wealth by Anaxandrides (Fourth Century B.C.) |
He and She by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Heart-Break by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Song: The Heart of a Tar by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
Heat by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
Sextain: ‘The heaven doth not contain so many stars’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
Heaven Hath its Stars: Marcus Argentarius (First Century B.C.) by The Greek Anthology |
Heaven Overarches by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Hebe by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Hector Pursued by Achilles around Troy by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
Hector’s Funeral Rites by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
Hector to his Wife by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
Hecuba Hears the Story of her Daughter’s Death by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
He Extols the Beauty and Virtue of Laura by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
He Feels that the Day of their Reunion Is at Hand by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
The Hellespont and Troy by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Henry’s Wooing of Katharine by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
He Paints the Beauties of Laura, and his Unalterable Love by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Her Counsel Alone Affords him Relief by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Here Beginneth Villon to Enter upon Matter Full of Erudition and of Fair Knowledge by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
He Revisits Vaucluse by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Her First-Born by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
Hermann and Thusnelda by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
The Heron by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
He Seeks Solitude, but Love Follows him Everywhere by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower by Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848) |
Hesper by Bion of Smyrna (fl. c. 100 B.C.) |
Hesperia by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Hester by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
He Thanks her that from Time to Time she Returns to Console him with her Presence by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
The Highland Lassie by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
Highland Mary by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
From ‘The Hind and the Panther’ by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Songs from the ‘Hippolytus’ by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Hippolytus Rails at Womankind by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Hippolytus’s Disaster by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
His Lady’s Tomb by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
His Only Desire Is Again to be with her by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
al-Hariri: His Prayer—Arabic Literature |
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
Holy Thursday by William Blake (1757–1827) |
Homage by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Home by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962) |
Home by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
Home from Work by Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) |
Homer by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
The Homes of England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
Home to Sirmio by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Honest Lover by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Honor to Home Talent by Eupolis (c. 446–411 B.C.) |
Hope by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Hope by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
Hope by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
Hope Is Like a Harebell by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Horace’s Farm by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
Horatius by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
Horrida Tempestas by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (1859–1907) |
An Hour Ere Break of Day by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) |
The Hour-Glass of Ashes by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
Sonnets from ‘The House of Life’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
“How Paderewski Plays” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
How Sleep the Brave by William Collins (1721–1759) |
How’s My Boy? by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
How the Lover Perisheth in his Delight as the Fly in the Fire by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) |
Hudibras Described by Samuel Butler (1612–1680) |
The Humble-Bee by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
The Humming-Bird by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
The Hundred Pipers by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
The Hunted Squirrel by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
The Hunting of the Cheviot—The Ballad |
The Husbandman and the Stork by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
Hushed Be the Camps To-day by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
The Hyacinth by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
Hylas by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
A Hymn for Children at Christmas by Martin Luther (1483–1546) |
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
Hymn of Pan by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Anicius Severinus Boethius (d. 524): The Hymn of Philosophy—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
The Hymn on the Nativity by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Hymns to Amen Ra by Egyptian Literature |
Hymn to Demeter by The Homeric Hymns |
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Hymn to Joy by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Hymn to Jupiter by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
Hymn to Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Hymn to the Aten by Egyptian Literature |
Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Hymn to the Sun by Frederik Paludan-Müller (1809–1876) |
Hymn to Virtue by Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) |
Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes (331–232 B.C.) |
From ‘Hyperion’ by John Keats (1795–1821) |
Iago’s Soldier-Songs by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
I Am So Sad, O God! by Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) |
Iceland First Seen by William Morris (1834–1896) |
Ichabod! by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Ichabod: the Glory has Departed by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
Identity by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Idyll by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310–c. 395): Idyl of the Roses—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
“If I Were Dead” by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
“If This Were Faith” by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
If You but Knew by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
Il Penseroso by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Imaginary Verses of Alexander Selkirk by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
The Immortality of Genius by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
Impatience by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
The Impeachment of Night by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) |
Al-Fadl ibn al-Abbas, ibn Utbah: Implacability—Arabic Literature |
Imports of Athens; The Best Wines by Hermippus (Fifth Century B.C.) |
In a Gothic Church by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
In Autumn by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
In a Winter Night by Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909) |
In a Year by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
Inconstancy Upbraided by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638) |
In Death’s Despite by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
India by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) |
The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Indifference by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Inez by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
The Infinite by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
In Goethe’s Garden by Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859) |
In Good Quarters by Paul Déroulède (1846–1914) |
Scottish: In Hebrid Seas—Celtic Literature |
From ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
In My Own Album by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
The Inquiry by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
In School Days by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Inscription for a Fountain by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
Inscription for an Altar Dedicated to Artemis by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Inscription of Sennacherib—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Inspiration by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
Inspiration by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
In the Cathedral of Toledo by José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) |
In the Children’s Hospital: Emmie by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
In the Church-Yard by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
In the Fisher’s Cabin by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
In the Lane by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
In the Shadow of the Beeches by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
“In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy”: Meleager of Gadara (First Century B.C.) by The Greek Anthology |
In the Tunnel by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
In Three Days by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Into the Twilight by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Introduction of the Poem on Nature by Parmenides (fl. early Fifth Century B.C.) |
Introduction to the last Act by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
The Inundation by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
Song: ‘In vain you tell your parting lover’ by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
An Invitation by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
Invitation by Johanna Ambrosius (1854–1939) |
An Invitation to Dinner by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
An Invitation to Mæcenas by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
Invocation to Helen by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
Invocation to Poetry by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
Invocation to the Goddess Beltis—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Invocation to the Muse by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Claudius Claudianus (c. 370–404): Invocation to Victory—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Ion’s Song by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Song: ‘I prithee send me back my heart’ by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Ipswich by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
The Irish Avatàr by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Irish Maiden’s Song by John (1798–1842) and Michael (1796–1874) Banim |
An Ironic Requiem by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Irreparable Loss by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) |
Isaac Ashford by George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
Guillaume de Cabestaing (1181–1196): I See the Days are Long—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
The Island by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Isolation—To Marguerite by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
An Italian Sunset by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
It Fortifies My Soul to Know by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Claudius Rutilius Numatianus: Prologue to the ‘Itinerarium’—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
It Is Not to be Thought of by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Song: ‘I told my nymph, I told her true’ by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
It Was on a Morn when we Were Thrang by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Song: ‘I would I were an English rose’ by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
Jaffár by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
Jessie Lee by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
The Jester’s Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Jesu, My Strength, My Hope by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Jesus, Lover of My Soul by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Jesus shall Reign Where’er the Sun by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
The Jewels by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
From ‘The Jew of Malta’ by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
Jim by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle by John Hay (1838–1905) |
Song: Jock o’ Hazeldean by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Jogadhya Uma by Toru Dutt (1856–1877) |
John Anderson, my Jo by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Johnie Cock—The Ballad |
The Jovial Supper by Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606) |
Joy to the World, the Lord is Come by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
Juana by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
From ‘Judith’—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
The Juggler by John Gay (1685–1732) |
June by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Jupiter and the Monkey by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
Kambalu by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Kant and his Interpreters by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Katharina by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Kiartan Bids Farewell to Gudrun by William Morris (1834–1896) |
King Arthur Addresses the Grail-Seekers by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
The King of Yvetot by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The King’s Dust by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
The Kiss Refused by Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) |
Kit Carson’s Ride by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
The Kitten by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
The Knight Lohengrin’s Narrative of the Grail by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
The Knight Toggenburg by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Alba—Bertrand d’Aamanon (End of Twelfth Century): A Knight was Sitting by Her Side—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Kosmos by Parmenides (fl. early Fifth Century B.C.) |
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1795–1821) |
La Charpie by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
The Ladies of St. James’s by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Lady Hero’s Epitaph by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
The Lady’s Lap-Dog by Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799) |
The Lady’s Looking-Glass by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
From Nizami’s ‘Laila and Majnun’ by Nizami Ganjavi (1140/1–1202/3) |
The Laird o’ Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
L’Allegro by John Milton (1608–1674) |
The Lamentation for Bion by Moschus? (fl. 150 B.C.) |
Labîd: A Lament for the Afflictions of his Tribe, the ’Âmir—Arabic Literature |
Zuhéir: Lament for the Destruction of his Former Home—Arabic Literature |
The Lament of the Old Nurse by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
L’Amour par Terre by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
The Lamp by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
The Land o’ the Leal by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
The Largest Life by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
The Lark and the Farmer by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
The Last Eve of Summer by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Last Hour of Beatrice by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
The Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Last Wishes by Paul Déroulède (1846–1914) |
The Last Word by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
Last Word to Lesbia by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
The Lattice at Sunrise by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
The Laugh of Madame d’Albret by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
Launcelot and Old Gobbo by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Launching by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Lay of St. Cuthbert, or, The Devil’s Dinner-Party by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) |
A Lay of St. Nicholas by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) |
The Lay of Thrym—The Eddas (Icelandic; Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries) |
Lay, or Rather Roundel by François Villon (1431–1463?) |
Leandro’s Song by John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Learning and Riches by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) |
Learning by Doing by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Lear’s Recovery by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Least of Evils by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
The Leaves by Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
Le Faune by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
Le Rossignol by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
Les Roses de Sâdi by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) |
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
Lethe by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
Lettice White by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
Letty’s Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
Life by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
Life by Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) |
Life and Death by Amphis (Fourth Century B.C.) |
Life and Song by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
Life for Song by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
Life Hidden by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
A Life Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
Life Well Lost by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
Songs from ‘Light Conceits of Lovers’ by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
Envoi to ‘The Light of Asia’ by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Light of Life, Seraphic Fire by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
The Lily of the Valley by George Croly (1780–1860) |
The Lily of the Valley by Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855) |
Lincoln by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) |
Lines by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Lines on the Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
Lines Printed under Milton’s Portrait by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns’s Adaptation) by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638) |
The Lions by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
The Lion’s Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) |
The Lion’s Skeleton by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
The Little Black Boy by William Blake (1757–1827) |
The Little Field of Peace by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
Live with Me by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Live without Dining by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
Lochiel’s Warning by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
London, 1802 by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Longing by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
Longing for Jerusalem by Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141) |
Longings by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
Lord Randal—The Ballad |
Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Lorelei by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) |
The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Lorenzo and Jessica by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Lost Caravan by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) |
The Lost Eden by William Watson (1858–1935) |
The Lost Pleiad by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
The Lost Steamship by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862) |
Louisiana by Louis Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908) |
Love by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
Love by Jāmī (1414–1492) |
Love by Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
Love Among the Ruins by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Song: ‘Love and harmony combine’ by William Blake (1757–1827) |
Love at Sea by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Love Divine, All Love Excelling by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
From ‘Love in Exile’ by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
Love in Springtime by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Love in the Country by Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.) |
Love in the Valley by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
Love Is All by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Song: ‘Lovely Idol of my soul’ by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) |
Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Love on the Island by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Lover Prayeth Not to be Disdained, Refused, Mistrusted, nor Forsaken by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
The Lovers by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) |
The Lovers by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
Song: The Lover’s Lute Cannot be Blamed by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
From ‘The Lover’s Melancholy’ by John Ford (1586–c. 1640) |
A Lover’s Sigh by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
Love Serviceable by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
Love’s Ferriage: Agathias (c. 530–582) by The Greek Anthology |
Love’s Growth by John Donne (1572–1631) |
Love’s Lament by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Love Songs by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Love’s Rhapsody by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Love’s Somnambulist by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
Love’s Young Dream by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Love the Life-Giver by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) |
The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) |
From ‘Lucifer’ by Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) |
Lucile’s Letter by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) |
The Luck of Edenhall by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
Lullaby by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
Lullaby by Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850) |
From ‘The Lusiads’ by Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) |
Lützow’s Wild Chase by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
From ‘Lycidas’ by John Milton (1608–1674) |
Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) |
Macbeth before the Deed by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Macbeth’s Despair by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Madness of King Goll by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—Celtic Literature |
The Madness of Orlando by Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) |
The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
The Maiden from Afar by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Maiden’s Lament by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Maid of Athens by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
From ‘The Maid of Honour’ by Philip Massinger (1583–1640) |
Malbrouck by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) |
The Manchy by Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894) |
Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) |
Mandoline by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
Man in Harmony with Nature by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
A Man’s a Man for A’ Tha by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Man Was Made to Mourn by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
March by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
Song: “Marchaunt Adventurers” by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) |
Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
Marriage by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962) |
Marriage Song by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Married Life by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
From ‘The Marsh’ by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
From ‘The Marshes of Glynn’ by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
Marsyas by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
Bernard de Ventadour (1140–1195): Marvel is it if I Sing—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Mary Booth by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
Mary Hamilton—The Ballad |
Master Paul by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Mater Triumphalis by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
The Matricide by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) |
Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Maxims by Hesiod (fl. Eighth Century B.C.) |
May by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
May-Day Song—Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples |
Ode: ‘May fewer roses calls her own’ by André Chénier (1762–1794) |
May Morn Song by William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
May-Night by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Mazeppa’s Ride by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Medea Resolving to Slay her Children by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Meditation by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
The Meeting by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) |
Meeting of Francesca and Paolo by Silvio Pellico (1789–1854) |
Melancholia by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Memoriæ Positum by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Memorial Verses by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
Memory by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Mercedes by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
An Ode: ‘The merchant, to secure his treasure’ by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
The Mermaid by Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855) |
The Merry Lark was Up and Singing by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
From ‘The Messiah’ by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
The Metamorphosis by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Metternich Encounters Napoleon’s Shadow by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
Michelangelo by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
Mignon’s Song by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Mila and Aligi in the Cavern by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) |
Milken Time by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
Milton by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Milton on his Blindness by John Milton (1608–1674) |
From ‘Mindowe’ by Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) |
Song: ‘Mine is the fortune of a simple child’ by Heinrich von Morungen (d. 1222) |
Song from ‘Minstrel Love’ by Friedrich, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué (1777–1843) |
The Minstrel’s Curse by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Invocation from ‘Miréio’ by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
Mirza-Jussuf by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
The Misanthrope by Callimachus (c. 310–240 B.C.) |
The Missal by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
‘The Missionary Hymn’ by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
Mixture of Greek and Roman Manners by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
From ‘Modern Love’ by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
Mon Rêve Familier by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
A Monument by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Moonlight March by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
Song: ‘The moon shines bright aloft’ by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Morning by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (1802–1884) |
Morning by John Keble (1792–1866) |
A Morning Call by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
Morning Song by Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789–1862) |
A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
Mors Benefica by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
Moses by Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) |
Sonnet: ‘Most men know love but as a part of life’ by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) |
The Mother by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
Mother and Daughter by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) |
Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Mothers by Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) |
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310–c. 395): A Mother’s Epitaph—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
A Mother’s Grave by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Mountain Boy by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Mouse that Fell into the Pot by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
The Mower’s Song by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
The Mower to the Glow-Worms by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Much Taste and Small Estate by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
The Murder of Desdemona by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Murder Scene by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Music by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Musketaquid by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
My Books by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
From ‘My Country’ by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
My Creed by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
My Heart and I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
My Heart’s Desire by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
My Heart’s in the Highlands by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
My Heart with Hidden Tears is Swelling by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
My Hickory Fire by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
Song: ‘My lady dearly loves a pretty bird’ by Heinrich von Morungen (d. 1222) |
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
My Life by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
My Little May by Norman Macleod (1812–1872) |
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
My Native Land by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
My Neighbor Rose by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Mynstrelles Songe by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
My River by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) |
Song: ‘My silks and fine array’ by William Blake (1757–1827) |
The Mystery of Amergin—Celtic Literature |
The Mystic’s Vision by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
My Studies by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
A Myth by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
My Thoughts of Ye by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
My Tomb by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
My Troubles! by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
A Nameless Grave: Paulus Silentiarius by The Greek Anthology |
The Nameless One by James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) |
Nameless Pain by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
The Name of Old Glory by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
Names by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
Napoleon by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
From ‘Nathan the Wise’ by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
Nature More than Science by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Nearer, My God, to Thee by Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848) |
‘The Negative Confession’ by Egyptian Literature |
The Epilogue from ‘Nerto’ by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
Never Is, but Always to Be by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Two Songs from ‘The New Day’ by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
The New Household by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
A New Sculptor by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
From ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ by Philip Massinger (1583–1640) |
The New-Year’s Night of a Miserable Man by Jean Paul (J. P. F. Richter) (1763–1825) |
New Year’s Wishes by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
From the Nibelungenlied by Nibelungenlied (Twelfth Century) |
Night by Alcman (Seventh Century B.C.) |
Night by Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852) |
Night by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
Night by William Blake (1757–1827) |
The Nightingale by John Keble (1792–1866) |
The Nightingale by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
The Nightingale and the Swallow by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
From ‘The Nightingale of Wittenberg’ by Hans Sachs (1494–1576) |
Night in Venice by John Hay (1838–1905) |
The Night Piece—To Julia by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
Night Song by Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) |
Night-Song of a Wandering Asian Shepherd by Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) |
From ‘Night Thoughts’ by Edward Young (1681–1765) |
The Nile by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
The Noble Nature by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
No Boy Knows by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
A Nocturnal Sketch by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
Non Sine Dolore by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
Nora Creina by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Nora’s Vow by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
Northwest Passage by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
The North Wind and the Sun by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
A Sonnet from ‘Norway’s Dawn’ by Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807–1873) |
From Luis de Góngora—Not All Nightingales by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
Song: ‘No thanks to Tristan that his heart had been’ by Heinrich von Veldeke (c. 1140–50–c. 1190) |
Nothin’ to Say by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
No Treasure Avails without Gladness by William Dunbar (1460?–1520?) |
Noureddin Reads from an Old Folio by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
The Nun by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
The Nurse’s Watch by Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) |
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618) |
The Oak by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
The Oak and the Reed by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
The Ocean by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1795–1821) |
Ode on the Death of Thomson by William Collins (1721–1759) |
Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (1795–1821) |
Ode to Beauty by Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) |
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Ode to Melancholy by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Ode to Melancholy by John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
From ‘Ode to Napoleon’ by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
From the ‘Ode to Napoleon’ by Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) |
Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
Ode to the Lake of B—— by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) |
Ode to the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
Ode to the River Metauro by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Ode to Venice by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
From the ‘Ode to Winter’ by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Ode to Zion by Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141) |
The Odyssey by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) |
Oehlenschläger’s Only Hymn by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Of Corinna’s Singing by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
Office of Tragedy by Timocles (Fourth Century B.C.) |
Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Maysters by Sebastian Brant (1458–1521) |
Of Immensity by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
Of Providence by Vincenzo da Filicaia (1642–1707) |
Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Comtesse de Die (Twelfth Century): Of that I would not—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead—The Eddas (Icelandic; Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries) |
Oft, in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Of To[o] Moche Spekynge or Bablynge by Sebastian Brant (1458–1521) |
Oh! Breathe Not His Name by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Oh, Love So Long as Love Thou Canst by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) |
“Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible” by George Eliot (1819–1880) |
“Oh That ’Twere Possible” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
‘Oh, Time and Change’ by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
Old Age by George Peele (1556–1596) |
Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Old English Charms and Folk Customs—Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples |
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
The Old Farmer’s Advice to his Son by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
Old John Henry by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
The Old Man’s Return by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
Old Ocean by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
The Old Sedan-Chair by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
Old-Time Love by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
Old Times! Old Times! by Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) |
The Old Tramp by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
The Old Woman of Berkeley by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
O Little Town of Bethlehem by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) |
‘O Moon, Large Golden Summer Moon!’ by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
On a Cone of the Big Trees by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
On a Fowler: Isidorus (date undetermined) by The Greek Anthology |
On a Girdle by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
On a Long and Perilous Journey by Paul Fleming (1609–1640) |
Abu Sakhr: On a Lost Love—Arabic Literature |
On a Nankin Plate by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
On an Antique Medal by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
On an Infant Dying as soon as Born by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
On an Old Woman Singing by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
On a Sermon against Glory by Mark Akenside (1721–1770) |
From ‘On a Slab of Rose Marble’ by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines by William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) |
On Christian Patience by Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) |
On Dreams by Petronius (c. 27–66) |
One in Ten by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
One Only Thought by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
One Word More by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Sonnet: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats (1795–1821) |
On his Blindness by John Milton (1608–1674) |
On Keeping within One’s Proper Sphere by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
On Lending a Punch-Bowl by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
On Love by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
On Mr. R—— by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
On my Bed of a Winter Night by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
On my First Daughter by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
On Pierre Ronsard’s Book of Love by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
On Refusal of Aid between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
Sonnet: On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats (1795–1821) |
On Shakespeare by John Milton (1608–1674) |
On Skobelev by Yakov Polonsky (1819–1898) |
On the Announcement of the Death of Laura by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
On the Campagna by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
On the Contrarieties of Love by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) |
On the Death of Corinna’s Parrot by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
On the Death of Crashaw by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
On the Death of Garcilaso by Juan Boscán (d. 1542) |
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
On the Joys of Heaven by Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont by John Milton (1608–1674) |
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
On the Loss of the Royal George by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
On the Pleasures of a Country Life by Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.) |
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America by George Berkeley (1685–1753) |
On the Saints of the Church at York by Alcuin (735–804) |
On the Sixth Centenary of Dante by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
On the Tombs in Westminster by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) |
On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Onward by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
The Opening Scene of ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Ophelia’s Lament by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Or Che L’aura Mia by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Order by Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) |
Oriental Royalty by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Origin of the Lyre by The Homeric Hymns |
Origin of the Peloponnesian War by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
From ‘Origo Mundi,’ in the ‘Ordinalia’—Celtic Literature |
Orion by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
The Ornament by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
The Orphan by Sa’dī (c. 1213–1291) |
Song: ‘O Spirit of the Summer-time!’ by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Othello’s Story of his Wooing by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Others by Alexis Piron (1689–1773) |
Our Casuarina-Tree by Toru Dutt (1856–1877) |
Our Country by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
Our History by Louis Honoré Fréchette (1839–1908) |
Our Mary and the Child Mummy by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
Our Orders by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
‘Out of the Night that Covers Me’ by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
Out to Old Aunt Mary’s by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Over the Lofty Mountains by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
The Ox by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Pain in Autumn by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
The Palace by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
The Palm-Tree by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
Pan by Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894) |
Pancras’s Monologue by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
Pandora by Hesiod (fl. Eighth Century B.C.) |
From ‘A Panegyric to My Lord Protector’ by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) |
Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
From ‘Paolo and Francesca’ by Stephen Phillips (1868–1915) |
A Parable by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
Paradise and the Peri by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Paradisi Gloria by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
Pardon by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) |
From ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
Hittân ibn al-Mu’allà of Tayyi: Parental Affection—Arabic Literature |
Parental Influence by Juvenal (c. 55–127) |
A Parental Ode to my Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Paris, Hector, and Helen by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
The Parish Workhouse and Apothecary by George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
Parnassus Within by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
A Parody of Euripides’s Lyric Verse by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Parricide by François Coppée (1842–1908) |
The Parting of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Passage by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Passing of the Fairies by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
The Passing of Wåinåmoinen by The Kalevala |
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
The Passions by William Collins (1721–1759) |
Pastoral Ballad by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
The Pastoral, the Elegy, the Ode, and the Epigram by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) |
Ibrahîm, Son of Kunaif of Nabhan: Patience—Arabic Literature |
The Patriot by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Patriotic Song by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) |
The Patriot’s Lament by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
Paulina’s Appeal to Severus by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Peace in Acadia by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
“Peace! What do Tears Avail?” by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
The Peasant’s Musing by Alekseï Koltsov (1809–1842) |
Peccavi, Domine by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
From ‘Peer Gynt’ by Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) |
Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
From ‘The Pen and the Album’ by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
Penitential Psalms—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
Penthea’s Dying Song by John Ford (1586–c. 1640) |
The People’s Reminiscences by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
Perfect Unity by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
From ‘Perkin Warbeck’ by John Ford (1586–c. 1640) |
Author Unknown: From the ‘Pervigilium Veneris’—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
Petronella by John Gower (1325?–1408) |
Phantom or Fact? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Philina’s Song by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
Philomela’s Ode by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Highland Song: Pibroch of Donuil Dhu by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
A Picture by Steen Steensen Blicher (1782–1848) |
A Picture of Domestic Happiness by Juan Boscán (d. 1542) |
The Picture of T. C. by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
Ash-Shanfarà of Azd: A Picture of Womanhood—Arabic Literature |
The Pilgrimage by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
The Pilgrims by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
Pilgrim’s Isle by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
The Pillar of the Cloud by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
The Pine by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
Pine and Palm by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
The Pine-Tree: Allegory of the Ancient Kingdom of Bulgaria by Ivan Vazov (1850–1921) |
The Pinnace by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Piper and the Child by William Blake (1757–1827) |
A Place in Thy Memory, Dearest by Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) |
The Plague of Apathy by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Plain Language from Truthful James by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
Plautus’s Epitaph on Himself by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
The Plea of King Magnus by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
From the ‘Pleasures of Memory’ by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) |
A Pledge to the Dead by William Winter (1836–1917) |
The Ploughman’s Song by Alekseï Koltsov (1809–1842) |
From ‘The Poem of My Cid’ by El Cid (c. 1043–1099) |
From ‘The Poem of the Passion’—Celtic Literature |
The Poet and His Songs by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Poet and the Crowd by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
The Poet-Duellist by Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
The Poet’s Apology by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
The Poet’s Choice by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
A Poet’s Epitaph: Simmias of Thebes (fl. Fifth–Fourth Century B.C.) by The Greek Anthology |
A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
The Poet’s Fame by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
The Poet’s Place in Life by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
The Poet’s Song to his Wife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
The Poor Fisherman by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
The Poor Relation by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) |
Poppies in the Wheat by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
The Post by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
The Pot of Flowers by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
Poverty by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
Poverty by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
Song, ‘Poverty Parts Good Company’ by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
Power of Aphrodite by The Homeric Hymns |
The Power of Song by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Praise of Fortune by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
Praise to God by Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) |
Prayer by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
Prayer by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
The Prayer by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
Prayer during the Battle by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
A Prayer for Strength by Michaelangelo (1475–1564) |
A Prayer to Artemis by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
Preludes by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) |
Prescience by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
From ‘The Pretty Maid of the Mill’ by Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) |
Primrose by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
The Princely Leper by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) |
Prince Sohráb Learns of his Birth, and Resolves to Find Rustem by Firdawsī (c. 940–1020) |
The Princess by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
The Prince’s Song by Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) |
The Prisoner by Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) |
From ‘The Prisoner of Chillon’ by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
The Proem by The Kalevala |
The Prologues of Euripides by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Prologue to Gaul—Celtic Literature |
Prometheus by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
From ‘Prometheus Unbound’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Prophecy by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
The Prophet by Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) |
Dedication to ‘Prose Fancies’ by Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) |
The Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Prospice by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Protesilaos by Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807–1873) |
The Protestation by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
Prothalamion by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
Provençal Lovers—Aucassin and Nicolette by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
A Psalm of Montreal by Samuel Butler (1835–1902) |
Psychaura by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
Puck by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Pulley by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
Punch Song by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Pure Sacrifice of Buddha by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Pyrrhus’s Speech by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Queen by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
Queen Mab’s Excursion by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
The Rain by Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916) |
The Rainbow’s Treasure by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
The Rain It Raineth by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
A Rainy Day on the Farm by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
Raphael’s Song by William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) |
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
Reason and Feeling by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
Tarafah ibn al ’Abd: A Rebuke to a Mischief-Maker—Arabic Literature |
The Reconciliation by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) |
The Reconciliation by Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) |
The Reconciliation of Rinaldo and Armida by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Red May by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857–1944) |
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Reminiscence by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Remorse by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
Renewal by Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875) |
A Renouncing of Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
Reproaches to a Dissipated Student by Egyptian Literature |
Repudiated Responsibility by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Rest by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Rest in the Beloved by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) |
Retirement by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
The Retreate by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
The Retreat from Moscow by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
Revenues by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
The Revival by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
Revolt of Tiamat—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
The Revolution of 1848 by Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807–1873) |
Rewards of Heroism by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
Rhea Silvia’s Dream by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
Rhine Wine by Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) |
The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
Richard II. in Prison by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
“A Rich Man Loses his Child, a Poor Man Loses his Cow” by Jacob Cats (1577–1660) |
Riddles by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Right Use of Prayer by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
The Rivals by Jean Racine (1639–1699) |
Robert Burns by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne—The Ballad |
Robin Redbreast by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
A Rocking Hymn by George Wither (1588–1667) |
The Rock of Cashel by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
Roma by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
Romance of the Swan’s Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Rondeau by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
Ronsard to his Mistress by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
The Rookery by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
Rosalind, Orlando, Jaques by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Rosalind’s Madrigal by Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
The Rose by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Rose and the Ring by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
“Rose-dark the Solemn Sunset” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
Annius Florus: Roses—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Roses by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
‘Roses, their sharp spines being gone’ by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
The Rose-Wreath by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
A Royal Banquet by Statius (c. 45–c. 96 A.D.) |
Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) |
Prologue of ‘Rudens’ by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
The Ruined Chapel by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Ruit Hora by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
Rule, Britannia! by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
The Rural Deities by Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.) |
A Russian Scene by Afanasy Fet (Shenshin) (1820–1892) |
The Russian Soldier by Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) |
Russian Song by Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860) |
From Bogdanovich (Old Russian)—Song by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
Calpurnius Siculus: The Rustic in the Amphitheatre—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
Rustic Song by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
Ruth by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
The Sacking of the City by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) |
The Sacrifice by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) |
Sonnet: ‘Sad is our youth, for it is ever going’ by Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
Sad Spring by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
A Safe Stronghold Our God Is Still by Martin Luther (1483–1546) |
Sahara by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
The Sailor’s Return by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
Saint Bernard’s Hymn by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090/1–1153) |
St. Bridget’s Milking Song by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855–1905)—Celtic Literature |
St. Margaret’s Eve by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Saint Patrick by William Maginn (1794–1842) |
St. Patrick’s Hymn before Tarah by James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) |
The Salt of the Earth by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
The Samurai by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
Sancho the Brave by Lope de Vega (1562–1635) |
Sand Martins by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
The Sandpiper by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
The Sands of Dee by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
From Sarbiewski—Sapphics to a Rose by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
Sappho and Phaon by Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872) |
Satire by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
Saturnalia by Statius (c. 45–c. 96 A.D.) |
A Savage Prayer by Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.) |
The Saving of Medoro by Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533) |
Say Not, the Struggle Naught Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
The Scaling of Ventour by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
From ‘The Schoolmistress’ by William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
A Scotch Song by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
A Sea Child by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
The Seafarer—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
Sea-Fever by John Masefield (1878–1967) |
The Sea, I by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Sea, II by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
Sea Longings by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Sea Song by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
Seaward by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
Seaweed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Second-Sight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
The Secretary by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
Song: ‘See how from the meadows pass’ by Konrad von Würzburg (1220?–1287) |
Seeking by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
The Seer by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
See’st Thou the Sea? by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
From ‘Sejanus’ by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Selected Ghazals or Odes by Hafez (c. 1325–c. 1389) |
Selected Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Selected Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
Selections by Philemon (c. 368–c. 264 B.C.) |
Selections by Menander (c. 342–c. 292 B.C.) |
Self-Dependence by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Sensitive Plant: Part First by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Separation by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) |
Separation by Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141) |
Separation by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
The Separation of Friends by John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
Sephestia’s Song to her Child by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Serenade by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794) |
Serenade by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
A Serenade by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Serenade by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Shadow of the Hand by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
A Shadow of the Night by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
From ‘The Shadowy Waters’ by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Shameful Death by William Morris (1834–1896) |
The Shandon Bells by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) |
The Sharing of the Earth by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
The Sheep-Washing by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
She Is ever Present to him by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Shepherds’ Song by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
The Shepherd’s Song on the Lord’s Day by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
The Shepherd’s Wife’s Song by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Sheridan’s Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
From ‘The Ship in the Desert’ by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913) |
The Shipwreck by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Shylock and Antonio by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Sick King in Bokhara by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Sick Man and the Angel by John Gay (1685–1732) |
Sic Vos Non Vobis by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
Silence is Golden by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Silent Sorrow by Jāmī (1414–1492) |
Silvia by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
A Simile by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
Similia Similibus by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
A Simple Story by Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864) |
Sin and Death by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
“Since Cleopatra Died” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
Sonnet: ‘Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part’ by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
The Siren with the Heart of Ice by Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864) |
Sir Galahad Achieves the Grail-Quest by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
Sir Guyon and the Palmer Visit and Destroy the Bower of Bliss by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Sir Launcelot’s Tale by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
Sir Patrick Spens—The Ballad |
Sir Percivale’s Tale to Ambrosius by The Legend of the Holy Grail |
“Sit Down, Sad Soul” by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Skipper Ireson’s Ride by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Sky Is a Drinking-Cup by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Skylark by James Hogg (1770–1835) |
The Slave by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Slave and Philosopher: Anonymous (date undetermined) by The Greek Anthology |
Nusaib: The Slave-Mother Sold—Arabic Literature |
The Slaying of Owain by Aneirin (fl. Sixth Century) |
Sleep by Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606) |
The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
The Sleep-Walking Scene by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Slighted Love by Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) |
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
The Smithying of Sigfrid’s Sword by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
Society by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) |
The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
Sodoma’s ‘Christ Scourged’ by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
Arnaut de Maroill (1170–1200): Softly Sighs the April Air—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Soggarth Aroon by John (1798–1842) and Michael (1796–1874) Banim |
A Soldier’s Bride by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
The Soldier’s Dream by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Soliloquy of Sejanus by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Soliloquy of Teura by Tahitian Literature |
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Solitude by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Solomon and the Ant by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Solon Speaks his Mind to the Athenians by Solon (c. 630–560 B.C.) |
So Near and Yet So Far by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Song, by Glycine by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
A Song: for Music by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Song for the Crowning of Pomare by Tahitian Literature |
A Song from the Suds by Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) |
The Song of Fionn—Celtic Literature |
Song of Lament by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Song of Reproof by Tahitian Literature |
Extracts from ‘The Song of the Bell’ by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Song of the Bower by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
The Song of the Camp by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
The Song of the Cider by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
The Song of the Cossack by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) |
The Song of the Field-Marshal by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) |
A Song of the Future by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
Song of the Ichthyosaurus by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886) |
Song of the “Marner”—Anonymous |
The Song of the Nine Singers by Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) |
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
Song of the Pair in Paradise by John Milton (1608–1674) |
The Song of the Pirate by José de Espronceda (1808–1842) |
Song of the Sea by William Maginn (1794–1842) |
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Song of the Sirens by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
The Song of Wandering Ængus by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Songs of Hiddigeigei, the Tom-Cat by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886) |
The Songs of Summer by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
Song: Spring and Winter by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Songs to the Harp by Egyptian Literature |
Song: Take, Oh! Take by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Song to Celia by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
From John Kollar—Sonnet by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
Sonnet Found in Laura’s Tomb by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Sonnets by John Masefield (1878–1967) |
Sonnets by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
Sonnets to Cælia by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
Sonnets to his Mother by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Sonnets to Stella by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
Sonnet to Britain. “By the Duke of Wellington” by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) |
Sorrow—Anonymous |
Sorrow by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
Sorrow and Joy by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
A Sorrowful Fytte by Alfred the Great (849–899) |
Sorrow’s Barren Grave: Heracleitus (Third Century B.C.) by The Greek Anthology |
The Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
The Soul by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
Sound the Loud Timbrel by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
The Sower by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
Hymn, ‘The Spacious Firmament’ by Joseph Addison (1672–1719) |
The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
The Spell by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) |
Spenser’s Imitation of the Opening Lines of the ‘Nature of Things’ by Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99–c. 55 B.C.) |
Spinning by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) |
Song: ‘The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
The Spring by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
Spring by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) |
From ‘The Spring Festival’ by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
Spring Song by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
Spring Waters by Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
Stanzas by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of ‘Obermann’ by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
Stanzas Written in my Library by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
Starving Armenia by William Watson (1858–1935) |
The State by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
The Steam Guillotine by Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850) |
The Stirrup Cup by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
The Stone-Cutter by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
The Storm by Alcæus (c. 620–c. 580 B.C.) |
The Stormy Petrel by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
The Story of Bellario by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
Strange by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
Struggle and Peace by Johanna Ambrosius (1854–1939) |
Sudden Hope by Richard Dehmel (1863–1920) |
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
A Summer Mood by Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) |
The Summer Night by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
A Summer Night by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
A Summer Night by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
A Summing-Up by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Summons by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
The Summons by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Sun and the Brook by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
A Sun-Day Hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
The Sun-God’s Palace by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
The Sunken Crown by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
Sunrise by Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) |
Sunset by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
Sunset by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
Super Flumina Babylonis by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
A Supplication by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
Suspiria Noctis by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) |
Svanhvit’s Colloquy by Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855) |
The Swallow by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) |
The Swan by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
Sweet and Twenty by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Sweet are the Thoughts by Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
Song: ‘Sweetest Love, I do not go’ by John Donne (1572–1631) |
Sweetheart, Sigh No More by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Sweet Music by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay (1685–1732) |
Sweet William’s Ghost—The Ballad |
The Sword-Bearer by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
Sword Song by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
Sylvia by Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) |
Syrinx by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
Tale. How the Devil Took to Himself an Old Wife by Hans Sachs (1494–1576) |
From ‘Tamburlaine’ by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Tampa Robins by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
Tancred in Ignorance Slays Clorinda by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Tartarus and the Styx by Hesiod (fl. Eighth Century B.C.) |
Song: ‘Tears, Idle Tears’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Temples of Venus, Mars, and Diana by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
Tennyson by Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) |
Terrors of Conscience by Juvenal (c. 55–127) |
Tertium Quid by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
A Test of Love by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
Thangbrand the Priest by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
A Thanksgiving by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
Song—That Women are but Men’s Shadows by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Theogony—Accadian-Babylonian and Assyrian Literature |
There Is a God by Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731) |
There Is a Land of Pure Delight by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
A Song: ‘There is ever a song somewhere, my dear’ by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
There Is No God by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Choric Song: ‘There is sweet music here that softer falls’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
There Was a Time when I Was Very Little by Jens Baggesen (1764–1826) |
They are All Gone by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
The Thistle and the Rose by William Dunbar (1460?–1520?) |
Madrigal: ‘This world a-hunting is’ by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
Thompson of Angel’s by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
Thoreau’s Flute by Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) |
“Thou Art, O God” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Thou Didst Delight My Eyes by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
Thought and Existence by Parmenides (fl. early Fifth Century B.C.) |
Thoughts at a Railway Station by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
Thou Hidden Love of God, Whose Height by John Wesley (1703–1791) |
Thou Reason’st Well by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Thou Very Present Aid by Charles Wesley (1707–1788) |
An Thou Were My Ain Thing by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) |
Thou Whom My Soul Admires Above by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Three Ghazals or Odes (Clarke trans.) by Hafez (c. 1325–c. 1389) |
Three Ghazals or Odes (McCarthy trans.) by Hafez (c. 1325–c. 1389) |
The Three Ravens—The Ballad |
The Three Stars by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) |
The Three Treasures by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
From the ‘Threnody’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
Threnody by Bion of Smyrna (fl. c. 100 B.C.) |
Threnos by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
The Throstle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
Thunder by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) |
A Thunderstorm by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
The Tiger by William Blake (1757–1827) |
Time by Vincenzo da Filicaia (1642–1707) |
Time Is Fleeting by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
Time, Real and Imaginary by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Time’s Glory by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
‘’Tis Noon; the Light is Fierce’ by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
To —— by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
To —— by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) |
To a Child of Quality by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
From ‘To a Comrade’ by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
To a Coquette by Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
To a Coy Maiden: Asclepiades (286 B.C.) by The Greek Anthology |
To a Friend by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
To a Gentleman by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
To a Lady by Matthew Prior (1664–1721) |
To a Lady by Voltaire (1694–1778) |
To a Lady who Wished to Behold Marot by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
To a Millionaire by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
To a Mouse by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
Sonnet: To Angelette by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
To an Impromptu of Chopin by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) |
To Aphrodite by Sappho (fl. c. 610–580 B.C.) |
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
A Madrigal: To Astræa by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
To Aurora by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
To Autumn by John Keats (1795–1821) |
To a Violet by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
To a Young Lady by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
To Caius Cilnius Mæcenas by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
To Calvus in Bereavement by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
To Carnations by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Cassandra by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
A Toccata of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
To Cerinthus, on his Birthday by Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.) |
To Chloe by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To Cynthia by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton (1608–1674) |
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Daisies, not to Shut so Soon by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Edmund Clerihew Bentley by G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
To Evening by William Collins (1721–1759) |
To Find God by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Francesca by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) |
To Geeraert Vossius: On the Loss of his Son by Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) |
To God the Compassionate by Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) |
To Hampstead by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
To Hartley Coleridge—Six Years Old by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
To H. C. by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
To His Book by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To his Sister by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Emperor Hadrian (76–138): To his Soul—Roman Poets of the Later Empire |
To His Wife—Written in Upper India by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
The Toilet of an Exquisite by Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799) |
To Italy by Vincenzo da Filicaia (1642–1707) |
To Keep a True Lent by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Laura by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Told by a Brahmin by Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
To Leonora of Esté by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To Leuconoë by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To M—— by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
Song: To Marie by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
From ‘The Tomb of Burns’ by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
To Meadows by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Molière by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) |
To Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Mrs. Siddons by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
To my Dear Friend, Master Benjamin Jonson, upon His ‘Fox’ by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) |
To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve by John Dryden (1631–1700) |
To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
To My Lamp by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) |
To my Lyre by José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) |
To My Ring by Paul Fleming (1609–1640) |
To Myself by Paul Fleming (1609–1640) |
To my Wife: An Invitation to a Journey by Statius (c. 45–c. 96 A.D.) |
To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
To Pépa by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
To Phidyle by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To Primroses Filled with Morning Dew by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Quintus Dellius by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To Rienzi, Beseeching him to Restore to Rome her Ancient Liberty by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
To Rome by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
The Tortoise and the Hare by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
To Satan by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
To Schelling by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
To Sleep by Statius (c. 45–c. 96 A.D.) |
To Spain by José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893) |
To Spain: An Elegy by José de Espronceda (1808–1842) |
To Tarquinia Molza by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To Thaliarchus by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To the Beloved by Sappho (fl. c. 610–580 B.C.) |
To the Blackbird of Derrycarn by Ossian and Ossianic Poetry |
To the Body by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
To the Duke Alphonso by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Duke of Ferrara by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Fountain of Vaucluse—Contemplations of Death by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
To the Memory of my Beloved Master, William Shakespeare by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
To the Month of Mary by Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) |
To the Muse by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
To the Passing Saint: Christmas by Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
To the Past by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
To the Princes of Italy, Exhorting them to Set her Free by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
To the Princesses of Ferrara by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Princess Leonora When Forbidden by Her Physicians to Sing by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Princess Leonora Written Soon After the Poet’s Arrival at Ferrara by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
To the Queen of Navarre by Clément Marot (1496–1544) |
To the Reader by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
To the Ship of State by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To the Small Celandine by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
To the Tragedian Rossi by José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
To the Unknown God by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
To the Virgin Mary by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
To the Water-Crowfoot by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
To Toussaint L’Ouverture by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
To Tullus by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) |
Toujours Amour by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
To Ulla by Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
To Violets by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
To Virgil by Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
To Will. H. Low by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
To Young by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
The Toys by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
From the ‘Tragedy of Man’ by Imre Madách (1823–1864) |
A Transformation by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
Translation of a Romaic Song by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Translation of the 137th Psalm by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
The Tree by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
A Trial of Orthodoxy by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Sa’d, son of Malik, of the Kais Tribe: A Tribesman’s Valor—Arabic Literature |
The Tribute of Noménoë by Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) |
Sonnet: ‘The tricks of pleasing thou hast aye disdained’ by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) |
Trinity Sunday by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
Prologue of ‘Trinummus’ by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
Triolet by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
The Triumph of Christianity by Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) |
The Triumph of Dullness by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
The Trojan Elders and Helen by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
From ‘The Trojan Women’ by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
Tropic Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
“The Tropics Vanish” by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
True Beauty by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) |
The Trumpet by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Truth—Ballade of Good Counsel by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
Tryst by Afanasy Fet (Shenshin) (1820–1892) |
The Tunny Fishing by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) |
The Turk in Armenia by William Watson (1858–1935) |
The Turnstile by William Barnes (1801–1886) |
Tuscan Cypress by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857–1944) |
The Twa Brothers—The Ballad |
Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) |
Twilight by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Two by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
The Two Brides by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Two Butterflies by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Two Chords by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Two Doves by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
Two Fragments by Solon (c. 630–560 B.C.) |
The Two Knights in Search for Rinaldo Reach the Fortunate Island, and Discover the Fountain of Laughter by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
Two Lovers by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) |
The Two Muses by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) |
The Two Songs by William Blake (1757–1827) |
The Two Things Needful by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) |
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
Ulysses and Calypso by Stephen Phillips (1868–1915) |
Ulysses and Nausicaa by George Chapman (1559?–1634) |
Umbricius’s Farewell to Rome by Juvenal (c. 55–127) |
Unchanging by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
The Undertaking by John Donne (1572–1631) |
Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Alba—Unknown Author (Twelfth Century): Under the Hawthorns—Provençal Literature (The Troubadours), 1090–1290 |
Under the Moon by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Under the Pressure of Care or Poverty by Hans Sachs (1494–1576) |
Une Marquise by Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
The Universal Shyp by Sebastian Brant (1458–1521) |
The Universe by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
The Unkindest Cut by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
The Unknown Course by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
Unknown Friends by Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
The Unlike Children of Eve by Hans Sachs (1494–1576) |
Unplaced Fragments by Ennius (239–169 B.C.) |
Unpopularity of Tragedy by Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
The Unsleeping by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
’Umar ibn Rabí’a: The Unveiled Maid—Arabic Literature |
Up at a Villa—Down in the City by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
Up-Hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne (1572–1631) |
Vale of Tears by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) |
The Valley of the Black Pig by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Vanity Fair by Alexis (c. 375–c. 287 B.C.) |
From ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) |
Vaucluse has Become to him a Scene of Pain by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
The Veery by Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) |
al-Find: Vengeance—Arabic Literature |
Vengeance on the Traitors by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
Venice by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
Venice by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
Venice by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
Vergiss Mein Nicht by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
Verses by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Verses from an Epithalamium by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.) |
The Vesper Bells by Ivan Kozlov (1779–1840) |
The Vesper Hymn of Abelard by Peter Abelard (1079–1142) and Héloïse d’Argenteuil (1090?/1100?–1164) |
The Veterans by Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) |
Veteran Sirens by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) |
The Vicar by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) |
The Victory of Orpheus by The Argonautic Legend |
Vigil by Richard Dehmel (1863–1920) |
The Viking Code by Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) |
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Village Girl by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
The Village Schoolmaster by Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) |
Vineta by Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) |
Violet by William Winter (1836–1917) |
Virtue by George Herbert (1593–1633) |
Virtue Coy and Hard to Win by Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
Vision of a Fair Woman—Celtic Literature |
The Vision of Cassandra by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) |
The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
The Vision of the Future by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
Visions by Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) |
Vita Nuova by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Dirge from ‘Vittoria Corombona’ by John Webster (c. 1580–1634) |
The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
Voices from the Tomb by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Song from ‘Volpone’ by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
Voluntary Exile by August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835) |
A Vow by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
Waiting by John Burroughs (1837–1921) |
The Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd—The Eddas (Icelandic; Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries) |
Walled Out by Jane Barlow (1857–1917) |
From ‘Wallenstein’s Death’ by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) |
From ‘The Wanderer’—Anglo-Saxon Literature |
From Prologue to ‘The Wanderer’ by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) |
Wanderer’s Night Songs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
From ‘The Wanderer’s Storm Song’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
The Wandering Knight’s Song by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) |
From ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—Celtic Literature |
From ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
Wanted by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) |
The Warrior Sām Describes his Victory over a Dragon by Firdawsī (c. 940–1020) |
The Washers of the Shroud by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
The Watchman by Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881) |
Watchman! What of the Night? by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
The Watch of Boon Island by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
The Way to Arcady by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
The Weary Pund o’ Tow by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
A Welcome to Death by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
Westminster Abbey by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) |
“We Twa” by Persius (34–62 A.D.) |
Wha’ll Be King but Charlie? by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
From ‘What D’ye Call It?’ by John Gay (1685–1732) |
What is Greatness? by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
What is the German’s Fatherland? by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) |
What Maids Lack by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
What Mr. Robinson Thinks by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
When Daffodils Begin to Peer by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
“When First You Went” by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
Song: ‘When from the sod the flowerets spring’ by Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230) |
When from thy Shame by Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1877) |
Song: ‘When I am dead, my dearest’ by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
When I beneath the Cold Red Earth am Sleeping by William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Isaac Watts (1674–1748) |
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
Song: ‘When love in the faint heart trembles’ by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) |
When Maggy Gangs Away by James Hogg (1770–1835) |
When Phyllis Laughs by John Hay (1838–1905) |
When She Comes Home by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
When the Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
When the Kye Comes Hame by James Hogg (1770–1835) |
Wherefore? by Semyon Nadson (1862–1887) |
Where Is Fancy Bred? by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
Where to Find True Joy by Alfred the Great (849–899) |
White and Red by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
A White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
The White Squall by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
Whitsun Eve by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
Whoever Beholds her must Admit that his Praises cannot Reach Laura’s Perfection by Petrarch (1304–1374) |
Who Knows Where by Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909) |
Song: ‘Why so pale and wan, fond lover?’ by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
Widow Machree by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) |
The Widow’s Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
Wife and Sword by Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) |
The Wife of Usher’s Well—The Ballad |
A Wife’s Influence by George Croly (1780–1860) |
Wild Geese by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
From ‘The Wild Mare in the Desert’ by Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) |
William and Helen by Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794) |
Will She Come? by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
Will Ye No Come Back Again? by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
Wind and Wave by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
Wine versus Water by Cratinus (Fifth Century B.C.) |
Wine by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
The Wine of the Gauls and the Dance of the Sword by Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) |
Winter by Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) |
Winter In-Doors by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
The Winter Pear by William Allingham (1824–1889) |
Winter Sleep by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
Winter Song by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776) |
A Winter’s Tale by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
Winter Uplands by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
The Winter Walk at Noon by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
Wisdom by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) |
Wisdom and Knowledge by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
Wishing: Anonymous (date undetermined) by The Greek Anthology |
Song: ‘With the graceful corn upspringing’ by Steinmar (13th Century) |
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794) |
The Wolf and the Dog by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) |
The Woman and her Maid-Servants by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
A Woman’s Love by John Hay (1838–1905) |
From ‘Woman’s Love and Life’ by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) |
A Woman’s Question by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) |
Women by Susarion (Sixth Century B.C.) |
A Wondrous Likeness by William Watson (1858–1935) |
Woo’d and Married and A’ by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
The Woodland by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884) |
From ‘The Woods of Westermain’ by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
The Wood-Wax by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
The Wooing of Megara by Seneca (c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.) |
al-Hariri: The Words of Hareth ibn-Hammam—Arabic Literature |
From ‘Wordsworth’s Grave’ by William Watson (1858–1935) |
The Work-Girl by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
Worldly Wisdom by Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.) |
The World’s a Bubble by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
Worth of Women by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
Song: ‘Would I the lofty spirit melt’ by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170–c. 1220) |
Would You Be Young Again? by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) |
Song: ‘Would you know what’s soft?’ by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
The Wrath of Camilla by Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) |
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
The Wreck of the “Julie Plante” by William Henry Drummond (1854–1907) |
Written in Sickness at Corcyra by Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.) |
Sonnet: Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare’s Poems by John Keats (1795–1821) |
The Yankee Girl by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) |
The Yarn of the “Loch Achray” by John Masefield (1878–1967) |
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) |
Song: ‘Ye Little birds that sit and sing’ by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
The Yellow Moon by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
Yesterday and To-morrow by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) |
You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) |
Song: ‘You know the old Hidalgo’ by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
The Young Captive by André Chénier (1762–1794) |
The Young Cocks by Babrius (c. Second Century A.D.) |
The Young Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
Youth and Age by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
Youth and Calm by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
The Youth of Buddha by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) |
Yule-Log Ceremony—Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples |
Zara’s Earrings by John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) |
’Umar ibn Rabí’a: Zeynab at the Ka’bah—Arabic Literature |
Zulīkhā’s First Dream by Jāmī (1414–1492) |
Zummer an’ Winter by William Barnes (1801–1886) |