User:CopperKettle/poetry

Word usage

• Stevenson
  • Hail! Childish slaves of social rules - publican, wynds, "I own, a very strange proceeding"
• Burns
  • Anna, Thy Charms - "oh, how bootless to admire when fated to despair"
• Heloise Durant
  • Oasis - sweet strain
• Keats
  • A Party of Lovers - interesting: direct speech
• Millay
  • Upon this Age - "rowlocks of the wind", "leech us of our ill"

• • The Little Ghost - the wall is built 'in new'
  • No rose that in a garden ever grew - v.: to incarnadine
• Walter Scott
  • The Lady of the Lake/Canto Three - dingle

• Robert Service
  • Rhymes of a Rolling Stone/The Rover - lilting feed, green dingle
• Dickinson
  • So bashful when I spied her! - dingle
• Edward Lear
  • Dingle Bank - dingle: a small narrow valley
• Leunig
  • Ode to a Jet Ski Person - hoonish, fink
• Anonymous
  • Finnegan's Wake ..he carried a hod; brogue; ruction //good
• Keats
  • La Belle Dame sans Merci - ..and fragrant zone
• Robert Seymour Bridges
  • There is a hill - myosote, flag (in vegetation), gibbous,
• Madison Cawein
  • Garden Gossip - gibbous moon
• George MacDonald
  • The Early Bird - gibbous crops
• Wilfred Owen
  • Hospital Barge - slewed //good first part
  • The Calls - verger, rusks; about the poem
  • Poems by Wilfred Owen/Apologia pro Poemate Meo - oblation // nice
• Ralph Emerson
  • Holidays - "lovely hoyden"
• Author:Thomas Hardy
  • Birds at Winter Nighfall - cotoneaster
  • The Oxen - barton, coomb; // nice Xmas verse
• John Crowe Ransom
  • Dead Boy - lineament; //good verse
  • Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter - "brown study" //another elegy
  • Blue Girls - white fillets
• Henry Lawson
  • +For'ard - steerage; wether;
• The "American Sovereign", by O'Neill - "Piffle"
• Banjo Paterson (top 20)
  • There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down - turn out a picket; handsprings
  • An Evening in Dandaloo - spielers
  • The Man from Ironbark - he was flash; tote //good
• +Confined Love - by Donne: w:Jointure?
• by Hopkins
  • +Hurrahing in Harvest - stook
  • +Peace (Hopkins) : reaving, plumes
  • Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice - last line?
  • +The Habit of Perfection - ruck
  • Inversnaid //burn = stream
• Leaves_of_Grass/Book_XXI#Beat.21_Beat.21_Drums.21 - expostulation; trestles
• The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl - toothsome, henpecked; a gread verse
• The poems of John Godfrey Saxe/The Blind Men and the Elephant - ween
• Let us all be Unhappy on Sunday - effulgence; droll verse
• To Daffodils - daffodils
• Only be still - "cavil"; Wilcox
• Circumstance (Shelley) - another pelf. And "Heaven's cope"
• The secret of prayer - searching for usage examples of "pelf". A powerful verse. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• To My Cigar - бобрик - from the Banker Bard of Boston
• The Change - taper, scamp, up hill down dale;
• The City of Dreadful Night - "baleful"; powerful
  • +Dulce et Decorum est (Stallworthy edition)
• Author:Clark Ashton Smith
  • Desire of Vastness - copious, balanced, artful
  • The Last Night - imagery
  • Before Sunrise - ..that cheek incarnadine
• The Heritage - "to hold in fee"
• Rhymes of a Rolling Stone/While the Bannock Bakes - bannock; good verse
• Going down Hill on a Bicycle, A Boy's Song, By Henry Charles Beeching - treadle; good

To Check Out

(Seen posted by someone somewhere)

• Longfellow
  • The Rainy Day

To decipher

• Roberb Burns
  • To a Mouse - "the best-laid schemes of mice and men"
  • Rantin, Rovin Robin - video
  • A dream
• Wilfried Owen
  • On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
• Charles Lamb
  • A timid grade sits trembling in her eye
  • Saint Crispin to Mr. Gifford
• Elinor Wylie
  • Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water -- On Turning Latin into English
  • Spring Pastoral
• Christina Rossetti
  • Aloof
  • Is it Well with the Child?
  • Somewhere or Other
  • At Last
• Author:Robert Frost
  • The Oven Bird
• Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The first time that the sun rose on thine oath - "may do and doat"; so tender and open
  • The Face of All the World - "Because thy name moves right in what they say."
  • Sonnet 44 - "Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers"
• Thomas Hardy
  • He Never Expected Much
  • Hap - "How arrives it .." ?
• John Donne
  • The Dissolution
• Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Father Jardine - emphatically told, but some stanzas are hard to get; W: cincture
• John Clare
  • To John Clare
  • The Peasant Poet - 'evening rack'?
• Keats
  • On Death (Keats) - alone?
• Millay
  • Love Me no More -- "now let the god depart"?
  • I think I should have loved you presently
  • I, being born a woman and distressed - think not for this - reason - treason ..
  • Night is my sister and how deep in love - ?
  • Into the golden vessel of great song - fron 'longing alone' onwards
  • Let you not say of me when I am old - 'a curious superstition in these lands'?
• Richard Wilbur
  • June Light - see blogpost \\ pearskin's fleck
  • Worlds - the shore of Profundity (=Universe) which he had not made (it was made by God)
• Wordsworth
  • The Small Celandine - last stanza
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
• Theodore Roethke
  • I knew a woman, lovely in her bones; The Waking;
• Philip Larkin
  • Money - "I listen to money singing"
• Francis Thompson (selected at Gutenberg)
  • The Hound of Heaven
  • Nocturn - last 5 lines
• Hopkins
  • St. Alphonsus Rodriguez - w:Alphonsus Rodriguez
  • Carrion Comfort second half
  • In the Valley of the Elwy - beautiful first half, cryptic second
    • Hopkins = inmate; air = outward appearance
    • "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." - great line
  • To R. B. - to Robert Bridges // doubleplus good
  • The Soldier (Hopkins)
  • A Lecture Upon the Shadow
  • Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail - wow but cryptic
  • As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame analysis
  • The Lantern out of Doors starts great then I loose the thread
  • Brothers
  • The Shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns
  • What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been - how did I overlook this one

Of note

• Yeats
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree - seems popular, and rhymes

• Walter Raleigh (probably)
  • The Lie Translations

• Anonymous
  • Tom O'Bedlam
• Browning
  • “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
  • w:Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", a nice sonnet
• Keats
  • Ode_to_a_Nightingale - lines 65-70
  • Why Did I Laugh Tonight? - with a good explanation
• De Grice
  • On Charles Lamb Leading His Sister to the Asylum
• Tennyson
  • The Brook - often quoted
• Milton
  • Cromwell, our chief of men - mentioned by Pushkin. " Help us to save free Conscience from the paw / Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
• Matthew Arnold
  • Dover Beach famous last stanza. en:Dover Beach

Good

• Wilcox

Fleeing away

• Jennifer Reeser (modern poet)
  • Half-breed ("both sides accepted me, both sides denied")
• Edith Nesbit

On Dit

• Hartley Coleridge

November

• Rupert Brooke

The Hill

• Milton
  • When I consider how my light is spent

• E.E. Cummings
  • Next to of course god america i

• • Said Hanrahan
• Eliza Acton
  • Eliza Acton
• Marvell
  • To His Coy Mistress
• James Russell Lowell
  • Impartiality

• Thomas Traherne, a metaphysical poet of the 16th century
  • His Power Bounded, Greater Is His Might
• Philip Freneau
  • Human Frailty - good last stanza
• Edgar Albert Guest
  • My Creed

• George Herbert
  • Life_(Herbert)
  • Love (III)
  • Pulley - liked by J. Oppenheimer
• Alfred Noyes
  • The Highwayman
• Edgar Allan Poe
  • Alone
• Leigh Hunt
  • Abou Ben Adhem
• James Stephens
  • Inis Fal - "Now may we turn aside and dry our tears"
  • Midnight
  • The Turn of the Road
  • Breakfast Time
  • White Fields
• Charles Lamb
  • To Margaret W
• William Cowper
  • Familiarity Dangerous
  • The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy
  • Vanity of the World
  • The Snail
  • Dependence
  • On Late Acquired Wealth
  • Mortals! Around your destined heads
  • On a Miser
  • The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk - and in Palgrave's collection of 1875
  • The Negro's Complaint
  • The lapse of time and rivers is the same
  • Hatred of Sin
  • A Tale. June 1793
  • Living and A Dead Faith - "Easy indeed it were to reach a mansion in the courts above"
  • God Moves in a Mysterious Way
  • An Enigma

• Robert Frost*
  • My November Guest
  • To the Thawing Wind
• Charlotte Mew
  • Not For That City
• Emily Pauline Johnson
  • At Husking Time
• Ernest Dowson
  • A Last Word (print)
• Dylan Thomas
  • In my craft of sullen art
• Thomas Hardy
  • The Darkling Thrush - "Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew and I was unaware"
• Trumbull Stickney
  • Mnemosyne
  • Six O'clock
  • Live Blindly - "and all his island shivered into flowers" (to print)
  • The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain
  • They Lived Enamored of the Lovely Moon
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Binsey Poplars
• Christina Rossetti
  • Oh, why is heaven built so far (De Profundis: "from the depths")
  • From Sunset to Star Rise - "Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not"
  • When My Heart Is Vexed, I Will Complain
  • A Green Cornfield
  • Rest
  • Remember
  • A Fisher-Wife
• Dante Rossetti
  • Three Girls And Their Talk (Boccaccio /Rossetti)
  • Silent Noon
• Elizabeth Jennings
  • Absence
• Arthur Hugh Clough
  • There Is No God, the Wicked Sayeth
  • Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
• Gwendolyn Brooks
  • A song in the front yard
  • The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
• Yeats
  • Had I the Heaven's Embroidered Clothes
• Wendy Cope
  • Valentine
• George Herbert
  • Memento Mori - "like seasoned timber never gives"
• Dryden
  • Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow
  • Happy The Man
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • I Thank All - sonnet. (".. and salute love that endures from life that disappears")
  • A Sea-side walk - two final stanzas (And, had we seen each other's face, we had \ Seen haply, each was sad)
  • The Poet and the Bird
  • Past and Future
  • Sonnet 26 - "I lived with visions for my company"
  • Say over again, and yet once over again - "Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed." - beautiful
  • How Do I Love Thee
  • Romance of The Swan's Nest - here
  • The Best Thing in the World
  • Sonnet 22 - When Our Two Souls Stand Up Erect and Strong..
  • Patience Taught by Nature - Patience Taught by Nature
• Charled Dibdin
  • The Perfect Sailor - "for death has broached him to"
• Richard Lovelace
  • Going to the Wars and From Prison (same link)
• Sir Henry Wotton:
  • The Character of a Happy Life seems to resonate with Invictus
• William Ernest Henley (At Gutenberg)
  • In Fisherrow - creel, mutch
  • Lady Probationer
  • Barmaid
  • News-boy (sonnet)
  • ’LIZA
  • Bus Driver - beautiful
  • Invictus captain of my soul
  • O, Gather Me the Rose
  • Notes on the Firth - the imagery!
  • Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
  • While the West is Paling
  • We Flash Across the Level - "now, as the train bears west.."
  • Let Us Be Drunk - Sympathy dimpling
  • Children: Private Ward
• W.H. Auden
  • The Fall of Rome
  • The Unknown Citizen
  • The More Loving One
• John Donne
  • A Burnt Ship
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • A Fever - "oh wrangling schools"
  • To His Mistress Going to Bed
  • The Autumnal
• Byron
  • To A Lady, On Being Asked My Reason For Quitting England In The Spring
• Christina Rosetti
  • After Death
  • Buds and babies Nothing was ever beautiful in vain, Or all in vain was good.
  • A pin has a head, but has no hair
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Sleep
  • Enamored architect of airy rhyme - not as good as "Sleep"
• William Wetmore Story
  • After long days of dull perpetual rain
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
  • -
• Tennyson
  • In_Memoriam_A._H._H.#XCVI - "faith in honest doubt"
• James Thomson (B.V.)
  • Two Sonnets
  • Through Foulest Fogs
  • In a Christian Churchyard
  • Once in a Saintly Passion
• Ogden Nash
  • The Panther
  • A Word to Husbands
  • Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis
  • Song of the Open Road
• Anne Bradstreet (17th cent)
  • To my dear and loving husband
  • By Night When Others Soundly Slept
  • In Reference to Her Children

• Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • John Evereldown and there's also a song
  • The World "own them" - their own masters
  • Dear Friends - cryptic a tad
  • The Dead Village of Pripyat
  • George Crabbe
  • Zola
  • The Garden
  • Ballad of Dead Friends
  • As it looked then
  • The Clerks - analysis
  • An Old Story
  • A Song at Shannon's
  • Amaryllis
• Wilfred Owen
  • The Chances

• Longfellow
  • The Ladder of St. Augustine
  • The Builders
  • The Cross of Snow
  • The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
  • My Books
  • The Builders
  • The Warning (Longfellow)
  • A Psalm of Life - "not enjoyment, and not sorrow"
  • The Arrow and the Song
  • The Village Blacksmith
• Thomas Campbell
  • Hohenlinden - from Lady Sale's diaries
  • Napoleon and Sailor
• A. E. Housman
  • If here today the cloud of thunder lours
  • Terence, this is stupid stuff
  • When the bells justle in the tower
  • When I would muse in boyhood
  • Revolution - "The belfries tingle to the noonday chime"
  • Good creatures, do you love your lives?
  • He Would not stay for me, and who can wonder
  • It Is No Gift I tender
  • Could Man be Drunk Forether
  • If it chance your eye offend you
  • Yonder See the Morning Blink
• Benjamin Franklin
  • Death is a Fisherman
• Oscar Wilde
  • We are made one with what we touch and see
  • To drift with every passion till my soul (HELAS)
• Sara Teasdale
  • Blue Squills
• Robert Browning
  • House (Browning) a reply to Wordsworth
  • Meeting at Night
• John Keats
  • [Chatterton]
  • On a Picture of Leander
  • Stanzas
  • A Party of Lovers - just love this.
  • Written on a Blank Space
  • Dawlish Fair
  • To A CAT
  • The Human Seasons
  • Happy Insensibility
  • O blush not so! O blush not so
  • On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour
  • O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve
  • To My Brother - "small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals"
  • On Fame
  • On Fame II - How fever'd is the man, who cannot look
  • When I have fears that I may cease to be
  • O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
  • Happy is England! I could be content
  • Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born - "Fancy is dead and drunken at its goal"
  • Give Me Women, Wine and Snuff and rock-n-roll
  • To Autumn (1919)
  • Sonnet to Sleep - oiled wards; eyes embowered from the light
• John Clare
  • Schoolboys in Winter
  • Approaching Night
  • The Thrush's Nest
  • All Nature Has a Feeling
• Claude McKay (Harlem Renaissance)
  • In Bondage
  • The White House
  • If We Must Die
  • Russian Cathedral
  • Enslaved
• Matthew Arnold
  • Quiet Work - good sonnet
  • Shakespeare - good imagery

• Elinor Wylie (Millay's friend) - at Gutenberg - book "Nets to Catch the Wind" is considered her best
  • Incantation
  • Now Let No Charitable Hope
  • The Eagle and the Mole - "as haggards of the rock" (Much Ado)
  • August - "Why should this Negro insolently stride"
  • Nancy for her sister
  • My Honoured Lord, Forgive the Unruly Tongue

• Millay

• • I know I am but summer to your heart
  • The Return from Town
  • The Return
  • Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea
  • The Philosopher
  • The Light Comes Back with Columbine
  • The Little Tavern
  • The Penitent - "I might as well be glad" - At Bartleby
  • Was It For This I Uttered Prayers
  • Love is not blind, I see with single eye
  • Thou art not lovelier than lilacs, no
  • When I too long have looked upon your face
  • Sorrow, like a ceaseless rain
  • Love, Though for this you riddle me with darts
  • Sometimes when I am wearied suddenly
  • Not in a Silver Casket Cool With Pearls
  • I Shall Go Back
  • Departure
  • Pity Me Not Because The Light of Day
  • Burial
  • When You, That at This Moment are to Me - "moonlight ... splintered on the sea"
  • [City Trees]
  • Recuerdo
  • I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear
  • Once More into My Arid Days like Dew
  • No rose that in a garden ever grew, - beautiful use of 'incarnadine'
  • Here is a wound that never will heal, I know
  • An Ancient Gesture
  • To the Not Impossible Him
  • Love is not all
  • Bluebeard - use of the modal 'might'
  • Autumn Daybreak - "The hill all summer hid from me"
  • Travel - and better friends I'll not be knowing
• Richard Wilbur (ranged by hits)
  • First Snow in Alsace
  • The House - to hold a title to, to put to sea, fanlight, widow's walk
  • A barred owl //bravely clear - domesticate a fear
• Wordsworth
  • Simon Lee
  • The Tables Turned - "Up! up! my friend, and quit your books"
  • Venice
  • Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
• Countee Cullen
  • Yet Do I Marvel //catechism as series of questions
  • Locked Arm in Arm they Cross the Way
  • To a Brown Girl
  • To a Brown Boy
  • Uncle Jim
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • A Lazy Day 1913
• Theodore Roethke
  • Open House (1941)
  • The Pause; The Auction; Highway: Michigan; The Reminder; Vernal Sentiment; Lull (Nov. 1939); Death Piece; The Adamant; On the Road to Woodlawn
• J C Ransom
  • Prometheus in Straits // like a rap song
  • Winter Remembered //parsnip;
• Philip Larkin
  • This Be The Verse
• Francis Thompson
  • Grace of the Way
  • To a Snow-flake
• Sassoon
• Poet as Hero - "wound for red wound I burn to smite their wrongs, and there is absolution in my songs"
  • IF I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath
  • December Stillness
  • Remorse (Sassoon)
  • Counter-Attack and Other Poems/Trench Duty: "cabins candle-chinked with light"
  • The Dug-out "candle's guttering gold"
• Stevenson
  • Bed in Summer
  • The Swing
  • The Land of Counterpane
• Robert Herrick
  • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - tarry
  • The Argument of His Book - like the feel of it
• Shakespeare
  • Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle
  • Sonnet 116 - "It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken"
  • Sonnet 2 (Shakespeare) When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
  • Sonnet 27 "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"
• Edward Thomas
  • The year's at the spring/Thomas, E
  • Aldestrop - unwontedly
  • Lights Out
• Thomas Gray
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - glebe
  • Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Faves

• Charles Lamb
  • Thoughtless Cruelty
  • Hester
• Dylan Thomas
  • A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
  • Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night
• A. E. Housman (selection)
  • 8 O'clock
  • Here Dead We Lie
• John Keats
  • Bright Star
• John Clare
  • What is Life?
  • Autumn (Clare) - beautiful
  • I Am - written in an asylum - w:I Am (poem)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (Voetica collection)
  • Elegy Before Death
  • On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven - "sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale"
  • God's World - reminds me of Hopkins
  • Conscientious Objector - great
  • Apostrophe to Man - "Homo called Sapiens"
  • To Jesus on His Birthday
  • Eight_Sonnets What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
  • Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare - beautiful sonnet
  • Afternoon on a hill
  • If I should learn, in some quite casual way
  • And you as well must die, belovèd dust - 'altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost' - wow
  • How healthily their feet upon the floor
  • Still will I harvest beauty where it grows
• Wilfred Owen
  • The Next War
  • Conscious
  • Anthem for Doomed Youth (Stallworthy edition) - great poem
  • Poems by Wilfred Owen/Disabled //Born on the Fourth of July, in verse
    • sleep .. mothered them / glow-lamps budded / drank a peg / giddy jilts / and care of arms
  • Poems by Wilfred Owen/The Send-off - the ending is great
• Theodore Roethke
  • My Papa's Waltz [1] - wow.
  • Long Live the Weeds // a nod to Hopkins?
  • The waking //beautiful villanelle
  • In Praise of Prairie //genius, love this
  • Night Journey - wow. [2]
  • Double Feature
• Monica Meynell Saleeby, to Fransis Thompson
  • Retrospect
• Siegfried Sassoon
  • DIED OF WOUNDS - "and some Slight Wound lay smiling on his bed"
  • Lamentations - "Such men have lost all patriotic feeling"
  • Dreamers [3]
  • Glory of Women - probably "o British mother" censured out
  • Autumn (Sassoon)
  • Does it Matter?
  • The General - cheery old card
  • The Investiture
  • Memorial Tablet
  • Suicide in Trenches
• Chesterton
  • Elegy in a Country Churchyard
• W. H. Auden
  • Epitaph on a Tyrant
• Kipling
  • Harp Song of the Dane Women
  • If— ->
• Tennyson
  • By An Evolutionist
  • Circumstance (Tennyson) - wow.
• Banjo Paterson
  • Clancy of the Overflow -> Up The Country (divinely translated by Анатолий Сендык)
• Henry Reed
  • Naming of parts
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The Times are nightfall, look, their light grows less
  • Felix Randall - "bright and battering sandal"
  • Ribblesdale // "To thriftless reave both our rich round world bare" ??
  • Spring and Fall - cryptic; see explanation beautiful rendition (17:00)
  • The Shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns - great poem
  • To R. B.
  • Pied Beauty - wow.
  • Cheery Beggar
  • The Windhover - twice wow.
  • God’s Grandeur
  • No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
  • The Caged Skylark
  • Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend - fretty chervil; thralls of lust
  • The Child is father to the man - mini villanelle
  • I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
  • It was a hard thing to undo this knot
  • Heaven—Haven - wow. (fields - flies / sharp - sided)
  • The Furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
• Dorothy Parker
  • -
• Ozymandias (Shelley)
• Robert Frost
  • Fire and Ice
  • Two Tramps in Mud Time
  • "And miles to go before I sleep"
• Kate Tempest
  • Shakespeare
  • Cannibal Kids
• Whittier
  • The Human Sacrifice
• Guy Carryl
  • The Inhuman Wolf and the Lamb Sans Gene

• John Masefield
  • Up on the Downs - while watching Kes!
  • Cargoes
  • A Ballad of John Silver lissome; taffrail; quidding; hornpipe;
• Austin Dobson
  • The Forgotten Grave
• Langston Hughes
  • Bad Morning
  • April Rain Song
• Introductory to Switzerland, by Oliver Goldsmith - good rhyming, copious vocabulary
• Leisure - by William Henry Davies
• Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (aka "They are not long") - by Ernest Dowson
• "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil"
• "Up-Hill" by Christina Rossetti
  • WHY?
  • Uphill
• "Come, Send Round The Wine" by Thomas Moore
• "Lines on Ale" by Poe
• by Countee Cullen:
  • "Fruit of the flower"
  • "From the Dark Tower"
  • "I Have a Rendezvous With Life"
    • see Alan Seeger on the same ".. with Death"
  • "Incident"
  • "For a poet"
• "The Heritage" by James Russell Lowell
• By Shakespeare:
  • Sonnet 130 - "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
  • Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
  • "O! never say that I was false of heart"
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • "Richard Cory"
  • Aaron Stark "as if a cur were chary of its bark"
• "The Turtle" by Ogden Nash
• By Sara Teasdale:
  • The Song Maker
  • I Shall Not Care (wabi-sabi)
• By Emily Dickinson
  • The pedigree of Honey
  • If you were coming in the Fall,
  • How happy is the little Stone
  • Hope is the Thing with Feathers
  • We never know we go when we are going —
  • There is no Frigate like a Book
  • My life closed twice before its close — - wow
  • To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
  • September's Baccalaureate
  • Much Madness is divinest Sense —
  • He ate and drank the precious Words —
  • Few, yet enough, ..но мы в тельняшках.
  • We send the Wave to find the Wave — - cryptic
  • Each that we lose takes part of us
  • Not Sickness stains the Brave,
  • Death and Life
  • I've seen a Dying Eye
  • I reason, Earth is short —
  • The Brain, within its Groove
  • As by the dead we love to sit, - wow
  • I'm Nobody! Who are you?
  • I shall know why, when time is over
  • SOME, too fragile for winter winds,
  • THEY say that “time assuages”,—
  • ’T WAS just this time last year I died.
  • WILD nights! Wild nights!
  • ALTER? When the hills do.
  • Success is counted sweetest
  • A WORD is dead
  • THE PAST is such a curious creature,
  • I STEPPED from plank to plank
  • Because I could not stop for Death,
  • Where Ships of Purple — gently toss — - wow. And "daffodil".
  • A soft Sea washed around the House
  • The Sun and Fog contested
  • A Bird came down the Walk —

• By Longfellow
  • The Slave in the Dismal Swamp - good translation
• By Raymond Carver
  • Happiness
• By Elizabeth Bishop
  • One Art

Free verse

• Wilfred Owen
  • The Show
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Spring
• w:Amy Lowell
  • Patterns, of course
• Whitman
  • Beat! Beat! Drums!
• Seamus Heaney
  • Mother of the Groom
• Basil Bunting
  • What the Chairman Told Tom
• James Russell Lowell
  • Love

Children's verse (and about children)

• Jack Prelutsky
  • Homework! O Homework!

• Charles Lamb
  • Cleanliness
  • Parental recollections
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A Child's Thought ("At seven, when I go to bed")

New Formalism

• R. S. Gwynn
  • God's Secretary

Song faves

• The Water is Wide - Joan Baez

Humor and satire

• Robert Graves
  • A Slice of Wedding-Cake
• Anonymous
  • The Leisure Class
• Hillaire Beloc
  • The Justice of the Peace
• Oliver Goldsmith
  • Elegy for Mary Blaize
• Guy Wetmore Carryl
  • The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven

Riddles

• You sigh for a cipher, but I sigh for thee

Poetry quotes

• From The Wreck of Deutchland

 For how to the heart's cheering 
      The down-dugged ground-hugged grey 
   Hovers off, the jay-blue heavens appearing 
      Of pied and peeled May! 
 Blue-beating and hoary-glow height; or night, still higher, 
 With belled fire and the moth-soft Milky way, 
      What by your measure is the heaven of desire,
 The treasure never eyesight got, nor was ever guessed what for the hearing?

Links

• John Donne collection at Bartleby
• A poem a day
• A Book of Verse for Boys - selected by William Henley
• Amatory Verse
• Martin Hardcastle's poetry page
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Samuel Griswold Goodrich aka Peter Parley:
  • At Gutenberg
• The Cry for Justice - collection at Bartleby
• The "Bab" Ballads by W.S. Gilbert

List of poets

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - poems by hit
• Gerard Manley Hopkins - the best English poet, period.
• Sir Philip Sidney
• Christina Rosetti
  • [I wish I could remember that first day https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50500/i-wish-i-could-remember-that-first-day]

• William Henley - the inspiration behind Long John Silver; "Invictus" a famous poem. "Notes on the Firth" beautiful imagery.
• Wilfried Owen: sublime war poetry. "So secretly, like wrongs hushed up, they went."
• Edwin Arlington Robinson - The Clerks, Zola, Aaron Stark, Richard Cory
• Enid Blyton - children poetry, via Farooq: check out

Lists of poems

• 100 favorite poems of Britain

Poetic Websites

• My Poetic Side

Erotic poetry

• Digital Miscellanies Index - 18th century
• Kick him Jenny, a Tale - 1735

To check out

• John Clare

The Shepherd's calendar

• James Riley
  • Dead Leaves
• Sir Philip Sidney
  • Astrophel and Stella
• Housman
  • Selected
• Goldsmith
  • The Deserted Village]
• Longfellow
  • Saga of King Olaf
• Byron
  • Don Juan (Byron, versions)
  • The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)
  • Peppo
• Liz Browning
  • Aurora Leigh
• Keats
  • I stood tiptoe upon a little hill
• William Cowper
  • Conversation
  • Friendship
  • What is Man?

Ukrainian

• Дмитро Павличко
  • Пророцтво