| 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) |
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| 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.) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| “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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
