Edited by William Harmon

1 This Is It!
Anonymous (c.1250-c.1350)
7 Cuckoo Song
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
8 General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Anonymous (c.1400-1600)
10 Sir Patrick Spens
14 Western Wind
15 Edward, Edward
18 Thomas the Rhymer
21 The Wife of Usher's Well
23 As You Came from the Holy Land of Walsingham
25 Corpus Christi Carol
26 The Three Ravens
28 Tom o' Bedlam's Song
31 Adam Lay I-bounden
32 Lord Randal
33 The Cherry-Tree Carol
35 The Lord Is My Shepherd
36 I Sing of a Maiden
37 A Lyke-Wake Dirge
39 My Love in Her Attire
40 The Demon Lover
43 Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
44 The Unquiet Grave
46 Waly, Waly
John Skelton (1460?-1529)
48 To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
50 They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek
52 The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love
54 Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618)
55 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
57 The LIe
60 Even Such Is Time
61 The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
64 One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand
65 Prothalamion
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
71 With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Though Climb'st the Skies!
72 Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But to Dust
73 My True Love Hath My Heart
74 Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show
75 Come Sleep! O Sleep, the Certain Knot of Peace
George Peele (c.1558-1597)
76 His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned
78 Whenas the Rye Reach the Chin
Robert Southwell (c.1561-1595)
79 The Burning Babe
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
80 Care-Charmer Sleep, Son of the Sable Night
Michael Drayton (1536-1593)
81 Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
82 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
84 That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
86 Shal I Copmare Thee to a Summer's Day?
87 Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
88 Fear No MOre the Heat o' the Sun
89 When Icicles Hang by the Wall
90 Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies
91 When to the Sessions of Sweet Siletn Thought
92 O Mistress Mine
93 The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame
94 When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
95 When Daisies Pied
96 It Was a Lover and His Lass
97 My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun
98 Poor Soul, the Center of My Sinful Earth
99 Hark! Hark! the Lark!
100 Take, O Take Those Lips Away
101 Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing
102 Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
103 When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
104 Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
105 No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead
106 Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry
107 Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
108 When Daffodils Begin to Peer
109 How like a Winter Hath My Absense Been
110 Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea
111 Come Away, Come Away, Death
112 Come unto These Yellow Sands
113 Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
114 My Sweet Lesbia
115 Rose-cheeked Laura
116 There Is a Garden in Her Face
117 Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes in the Air
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
118 Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss
120 Spring, the Sweet Spring
Chidiock Tichborne (c.1568-1586)
121 Tichborne's Elegy
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
123 On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
John Donne (1572-1631)
125 Death, Be Not Proud
126 Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God
127 The Good Morrow
128 At the Round EArth's Imagined Corners
129 Go and Catch a Falling Star
131 The Sun Rising
133 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
135 A Hymn to God the Father
136 The Ecstasy
139 The Canonization
141 The Flea
143 Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
145 Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go
147 A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
149 The Funeral
150 The Apparition
151 The Relic
153 Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
155 The Anniversary
Ben Johnson (1572-1637)
157 Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
158 On My First Son
159 Hymn to Diana
160 Still to Be Neat
161 The Triumph of Charis
163 Epitaph on S.P.
164 Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time with My Salt Tears
165 Come, My Celia, Let Us Prove
166 To Pensburst
John Webster (c.1578-1632)
170 Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren
William Browne (c.1590-1645)
171 On the Countess Dowarger of Pembroke
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
172 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
173 Upon Julia's Clothes
174 Delight in Disorder
175 To Daffodils
176 The Argument of His Book
177 Corinna's Going a-Maying
180 The Night-Piece to Julia
181 Grace for a Child
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
182 Exequy on His Wife
George Herbert (1593-1633)
186 Love Bade Me Welcome
188 The Collar
190 Virtue
191 The Pulley
192 Redemption
193 Easter Wings
194 Jordan
195 Prayer to the Church's Banquet
Thomas Carew (1595-1639)
196 Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows
198 To My Inconstant Mistress
Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)
199 The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
200 Go, Lovely Rose
202 On a Girdle
John Milton (1608-1674)
203 Lycidas
209 On His Deceased wife
210 On His Blindness
211 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
212 L'Allegro
217 Il Penseroso
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
222 Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
223 To My Dear and Loving Husband
Richard Lovlace (1618-1658)
224 To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
225 To Althea, from Prison
227 The Grasshopper
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
229 To His Coy Mistress
231 The Garden
234 The Definition of Love
236 Bermudas
238 An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
242 The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
244 The Mower to the Glow-Worms
245 A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
247 The Retreat
249 The World
251 They Are All Gone into the World of Light
253 Peace
254 The Night
John Dryden (1631-1700)
256 To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
258 Mac Clecknoe
265 A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
268 Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Edward Taylor (c.1645-1729)
275 Huswifery
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
276 A Description of the Morning
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
277 Know Then Thyself
279 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
291 An Essay on Criticism
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
312 A Short Song of Congratulation
314 On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic
316 The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
327 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
333 Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
William Collins (1721-1759)
335 Ode to Evening
337 How Sleep the Brave
Oliver Goldsmith (c.1730-1774)
338 When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
339 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
341 The Deserted Village
William Cowper (1731-1800)
354 Light Shining out of Darkness
356 The Poplar Field
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
357 The Indian Burying Ground
William Blake (1757-1827)
359 The Tyger
361 London
362 And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time
363 Piping down the Vailleys Wild
364 The Sick Rose
365 The Lamb
366 Ah! Sun-Flower
367 Hear the Voice of the Bard
368 Auguries of Innocence
372 How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field
373 The Little Black Boy
375 A Poison Tree
376 The Chimney Sweeper
378 To the Evening Star
379 The Garden of Love
380 The Clod and the Pebble
381 Holy Thursday
382 Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
383 A Red, Red Rose
384 To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
386 John Anderson, My Jo
387 The Banks o' Doon
388 For A' That and A' That
390 Holy Willie's Prayer
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
394 The World Is Too Much with Us
396 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
397 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
398 The Solitary Reaper
400 Ode: Intimations of Imortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
407 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Lucy (comprising:)
412 She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
412 I Traveled among Unkown Men
413 Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
414 Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
415 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
416 It Is a Beauteous Evening
417 London, 1802
418 My Heart Leaps Up
419 Surprised By Joy
420 She Was a Phantom of Delight
421 Resolution and Independence
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
426 Proud Maisie
427 Breathes There the Man with Soul So Dead
428 Lochinvar
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
430 Kubla Khan
433 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
458 Dejection: An Ode
463 Frost at Midnight
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
466 The Battle of Blenheim
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
469 Rose Aylmer
470 Dirce
471 I Strove with None, for None Was Worth My Strife
472 Past Ruined Ilion Helen Lives
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
473 Hohenlinden
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
475 A Visit from St. Nicholas
Leigh Hunt *1784-1859)
477 Jenny Kissed Me
478 Abou Ben Adhem
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)
479 So We'll Go No More a-Roving
481 She Walks in Beauty
482 The Destruction of Sennacherib
484 When We Two Parted
486 The Ocean
489 There Was a Sound of Revelry by Night
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
493 The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
495 Ozymandias
497 Ode...