Title: Longing
Author: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and then
Title: Philomela
Author: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
First Line: Hark! ah, the Nightingale!
Title: XLIII
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
First Line: How Do I love Thee? Let me count the ways
Title: Meeting At Night
Author: Robert Browning (1812-98)
First Line: The grey sea and the long black land;
Title: The CLOD & the PEBBLE
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Love seeketh not Itself to please
Title: Infant Sorrow
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: My mother groan'd, my father wept
Title: The Lamb
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Little Lamb, who made thee?
Title: The Little Vagabond
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold
Title: A Poison Tree
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: I was angry with my friend
Title: The Tyger
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
Title: To My Dear and Loving Husband
Author: Anne Bradstreet (1612-72)
First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we.
Title: My Last Duchess
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Title: Rabbi Ben Ezra
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: Grow old along with me!
Title: Summum Bonum
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: All the breath and the bloom of the year
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
Title: Comin thro' the Rye
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: Comin thro' the rye, poor body
Title: A Red, Red Rose
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: O, my luve is like a red, red rose
Title: She Walks In Beauty
Author: Lord Byron (1788-1824)
First Line: She walks in beauty, like the night
Title: We'll Go No More A-roving
Author: Lord Byron (1788-1824)
First Line: So, we'll go no more a-roving
Title: Freedom and Love
Author: Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
First Line: How delicious is the winning
Title: Jabberwocky
Author: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
First Line: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Title: The Walrus and The Carpenter
Author: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
First Line: The sun was shining on the sea
Title: Love
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Title: Kubla Khan
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: It is an ancient Mariner,
Title: The Battlefield
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
Title: The Chariot
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: Because I could not stop for Death
Title: Contrast
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: A door just opened on a street --
Title: I died for beauty...
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce
Title: I Heard a Fly Buzz
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died
Title: The Lost Thought
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I felt a cleaving in my mind
Title: Parting
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: My life was closed twice before its close
Title: There's been a death...
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: There's been a death in the opposite house
Title: There's a Certain Slant of Light
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: There's a certain slant of light
Title: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Author: Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
First Line: I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Title: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
First Line: The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
Title: On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of
Gold Fishes
Author: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side,
Title: Invictus
Author: William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
First Line: Out of the night that covers me,
Title: The Chambered Nautilus
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Title: Old Ironsides
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Title: Abou Ben Adhem
Author: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
First Line: Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Title: Jenny Kiss'd Me
Author: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
First Line: Jenny kiss'd me when we met
Title: To Celia
Author: Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes
Title: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Author: John Keats (1795-1821)
First Line: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Title: Where be you going, you Devon maid?
Author: John Keats (1795-1821)
First Line: Where be you going, you Devon maid?
Title: The Rubaiyat
Author: Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)
First Line: A Book of Verses underneath the bough
Title: Trees
Author: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
First Line: I think that I shall never see
Title: The Conundrum of the Workshops
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
First Line: When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold
Title: If-
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you
Title: The Jumblies
Author: Edward Lear (1812-1888)
First Line: They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
Title: Paul Revere's Ride
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Listen my children and you shall hear
Title:The Song of Hiawatha
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Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree
Title: To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
Author: Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
First Line: Amarantha sweet and fair,
Title: High Flight
Author: John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
Title: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Author: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
First Line: Come live with me and be my love,
Title: To His Coy Mistress
Author: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
First Line: Had we but world enough, and time,
Title:In Flanders Fields
Author: John McCrae (1872-1918)
First Line: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Title: The Night Before Christmas
Author: Clement C. Moore
First Line: Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
Title: A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)
Author: George Peele (1558?-1597)
First Line: His golden locks Time hath to silver turn'd;
Title: Annabel Lee
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
First Line: It was many and many a year ago
Title: The Raven
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered...
Title: Silent Noon
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)
First Line: Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass...
Title: VIII.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Title: CXXX.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Title: XVIII.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Title: XXIX.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Title: New Love and Old
Author: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
First Line: In my heart the old love
Title: Break, Break, Break
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Break, break, break
Title: Charge of the Light Brigade
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Half a league, half a league,
Title: Crossing the Bar
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Sunset and evening star
Title: The Miller's Daughter
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: It is the miller's daughter,
Title: Ulysses
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: It little profits that an idle king
Title: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern
Author: Theodore Watts-Dunton (1836-1914)
First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place,
Title: O Captain! My Captain!
Author: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
First Line: O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
Title: Theocritus (a villanelle)
Author: Oscar Wilde (1809-1894)
First Line: O singer of Persephone!
Title: Daffodils
Author: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
First Line: I wander'd lonely as a cloud
Title: Solomon to Sheba
Author: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
First Line: Sang Solomon to Sheba,
Title: When You are Old
Author: William Butler Yeats
First Line: When you are old and gray and full of sleep
