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The Penguin Book of English VersePreface 1300-1350 (Rawlinson Lyrics) Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande' Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay' Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë' (Harley Lyrics) Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril' Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe' 1350-1400 (Grimestone Lyrics) Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn' Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est' Anonymous 'Love me broughte' Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls (Catalogue of the Birds) (Roundel) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus (Envoi) Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span' William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman (Prologue) (Gluttony in the Ale-house) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote' from The General Prologue (The Prioress) from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars) from The Knight's Tale (Saturn) from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun) from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour' from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle' Anonymous from Patience (Jonah and the Whale) Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Gawain Journeys North) Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan John Gower from Confessio Amantis (Pygmaleon) (The Rape of Lucrece) 1430 Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve 'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves' 1440 Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady') 1450 (Sloane Lyrics) Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden' Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden' Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe' Anonymous (Christ Triumphant) Anonymous (Holly against Ivy) Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu' 1500 John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe 'Whan I remembre agayn' Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid 'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend' William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik 1510 William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak' William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis' 1515 Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds) from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados Anonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol) Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere' Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere' 1520 Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow' 1523 John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell (The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song) To Maystres Isabell Pennell John Skelton from Speke Parott (Parrot's Complaint) 1530 William Cornish 'Pleasure it is' 1535 Myles Coverdale from The Bible Psalm 137: Super flumina 1540 Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar' Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent' Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know' 1542 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat 1547 Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate 1557 from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes Sir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe') Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis (Aeneas searches for his wife) 1560 from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time') Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth' 1563 Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne Barnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald 1565 Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid (Proserpine and Dis) (Daphne and Apollo) 1567 Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid (Medea's Incantation) 1568 Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane' Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it' 1579 Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay) 1580 Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum 1581 Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens) 1582 Thomas Watson My Love is Past 1584 Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves 1586 Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares' 1588 Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses' Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus (Adonis) 1589 Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his' 1590 Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land' Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin') Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd' Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene from Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed) from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis) from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane) 1591 Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella 1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show' 31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies' 33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might' Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep' Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon) 1592 John Lyly from Midas 'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed' Samuel Daniel from Delia 45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night' Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken' Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie 1593 from The Phoenix Nest Anonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light' Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love Barnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina) ('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare') Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines' 1594 William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost 'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew' Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content' 1595 Edmund Spenser from Amoretti Sonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace') Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day') Robert Southwell S. J. Decease Release Robert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New Warre Robert Southwell S.J. The Burning Babe George Peele from The Old Wives Tale 'When as the Rie reach to the chin' 'Gently dip: but not too deepe' 1596 Edmund Spenser Prothalamion Sir John Davies In Cosmum Sir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing ('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing') 1597 Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely' William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand William Alabaster Of His Conversion Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest' 1598 Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure' Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust' Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just') Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine') Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander 'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand' Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above' Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids Elegies Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day') Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing') John Donne On His Mistris 1599 Michael Drayton from Idea 5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No' Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall 'O perfite light, quhik schaid away' George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe 'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire' Samuel Daniel from Musophilus (Stonehenge) 1600 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from Caelica Sonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce') Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth') Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive') Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity') Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast') from Englands Helicon Anonymous The Sheepheeards Description of Love Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love Sir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard Thomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament 'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore' 'Adieu, farewell earths blisse' Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham) Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new' Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography' 1601 John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated' William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night 'When that I was and a little tiny boy' William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle) Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love' Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe' Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground' 1602 Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall' Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come' 1603 Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines' 1604 Anonymous The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage Nicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion 'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me' 1607 Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone 'Come my Celia, let us prove' 1608 Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!' 1609 Ben Jonson from Epicoene 'Still to be neat, still to be dresst' Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie) William Shakespeare from Sonnets 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?' 55. 'Not marble, nor the guilded monuments' 60. 'Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore' 66. 'Tyr'd with all these for restfull death I cry' 73. 'That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold' 94. 'They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none' 107. 'Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule' 116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindes' 124. 'Yf my deare love were but the childe of state' 129. 'Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame' 138. 'When my love sweares that she is made of truth' 144. 'Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire' William Shakespeare from Cymbeline 'Feare no more the heate o'th'Sun' Anonymous (Inscription in Osmington Church, Dorset) Anonymous (Inscription in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London) 1610 John Davies of Hereford The Author Loving These Homely Meats 1611 from The Authorized Version of the Bible 2 Samuel 1:19-27 David lamenteth the death of Jonathan Job 3:3-26 Job curseth the day, and services of his birth Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 The Creator is to be remembered in due time George Chapman/Homer from The Iliads of Homer from The Third Booke (Helen and the Elders on the Ramparts) from The Twelfth Booke (Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus) Anonymous A Belmans Song William Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale 'When Daffadils begin to peere' 'Lawne as white as driven Snow' William Shakespeare from The Tempest 'Come unto these yellow sands' 'Full fadom five they Father lies' 1612 John Webster from The White Divel 'Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren' George Chapman/Epictetus Pleasd with thy Place Thomas Campion 'Never weather-beaten Saile' William Fowler 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss' 1614 John Webster from The Dutchesse of Malfy 'Hearke, now every thing is still' 1615 Sir John Harington Of Treason Anonymous (Tom o' Bedlam's Song) 1616 Ben Jonson from Epigrammes XIV. To William Camden XLV. On My First Sonne LIX. On Spies CSVIII. Inviting a Friend to Supper CI. On Gut Ben Jonson from The Forrest To Heaven William Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnet ('How many times Nights silent Queene her Face') William Browne from Britannia's Pastorals (The Golden Age: Flower-weaving) Thomas Campion 'There is a Garden in her face' Thomas Campion 'Now winter nights enlarge' 1618 Sir Walter Ralegh (Sir Walter Ralegh to his Sonne) Sir Walter Ralegh from The Ocean to Scinthia 'Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way' Sir Walter Ralegh 'Even suche is tyme that takes in trust' 1619 Michael Drayton from Idea 61. 'Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part' Anonymous 'Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight' 1620 John Donne The Canonization John Donne A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day John Donne Loves Growth John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne The Exstasie John Donne from Holy Sonnets VII. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners' X. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee' XIV. 'Batter my heart, three person'd God' John Donne A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last Going into Germany John Donne A Hymne to God the Father 1621 Katherine, Lady Dyer (Epitaph on Sir William Dyer) Lady Mary Wroth from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 77. 'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne? 96. 'Late in the Forest I did Cupid see' 1623 William Drummond of Hawthornden (For the Baptiste) William Drummond of Hawthornden (Content and Resolute) William Browne On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke 1624 Sir Henry Wotton On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia 1626 George Sandys/Ausonius Echo 1627 Ben Jonson My Picture left in Scotland Ben Jonson An Ode. To Himselfe Michael Drayton from Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie (Queen Mab's Chariot) 1631 Michael Drayton These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton ('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I') Anonymous Felton's Epitaph Anonymous (Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham) 1633 George Herbert from The Temple Redemption Prayer Church-monuments Deniall Hope The Collar The Flower The Answer A Wreath Love 1635 Francis Quarles Embleme IV (Canticles 7.10 I am my Beloved's) 1637 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney Robert Sempill of Beltrees The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan Thomas Jordan A Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna Blvnt John Milton from A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 (Comus) 'The Star that bids the Shepherd fold' 1638 Thomas Randolph A Gratulatory to Mr Ben. Johnson Sir John Suckling Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?') John Milton Lycidas 1640 Ben Jonson from A Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces (Her Triumph) Ben Jonson (A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter) Sidney Godolphin 'Faire Friend, 'tis true, your beauties move' Sidney Godolphin 'Lord when the wise men came from Farr' Henry King An Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten Freind Thomas Carew Song. Celia singing Thomas Carew Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers Thomas Carew Maria Wentworth Thomas Carew A Song ('Aske me no more whither doe stray') Thomas Carew Psalme 91 William Habington Nox nocti indicat Scientiam William Habington To Castara, Upon an Embrace 1641 Anonymous On Francis Drake Sir Henry Wotton/Martial Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife 1642 Sir John Denham from Cooper's Hill 'Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise' 1645 Edmund Waller Song ('Go lovely Rose') Edmund Waller Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs Edmund Waller To a Lady in a Garden John Milton from On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos'd 1629 'It was the Winter wilde' 1646 Richard Crashaw from Divine Epigrams Upon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was Laid Upon the Infant Martyrs Richard Crashaw Musicks Duell Sir John Suckling (Loves Siege) John Hall An Epicurean Ode James Shirley Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham James Shirley 'The glories of our blood and state' 1647 John Cleveland Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford 1648 Sir Richard Fanshawe/Gongora A Great Favorit Beheaded Robert Herrick from Hesperides The Argument of His Book Upon Julia's Voice Delight in Disorder To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time The Comming of Good Luck To Meddowes The Departure of the Good Daemon Upon Prew His Maid On Himselfe Robert Herrick The White Island: Or Place of the Blest 1649 Richard Lovelace from Lucasta Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres To Althea from Prison The Grasse-hopper William Drummond/Passerat Song "Shephard loveth thow me vell?' 1650 James Graham, Marquis of Montrose On Himself, upon Hearing What was His Sentence Anonymous from The Second Scottish Psalter Psalm 124 Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans, Or Sacred Poems The Retreate 'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now' The World 1651 William Cartwright No Platonique Love John Cleveland The Antiplatonick John Cleveland A Song of Marke Anthony Thomas Stanley The Snow-ball Thomas Stanley The Grassehopper Sir Henry Wotton Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset Sir Richard Fanshawe/Horace Odes. IV, 7 To L. Manlius Torquatus Richard Crashaw from The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa 1653 Aurelian Townshend A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World 1655 Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans II 'They are all gone into the world of light!' Cock-crowing The Night 1656 Abraham Cowley from Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the Greek II. Drinking X. The Grashopper Abraham Cowley from Davideis (Lot's Wife) William Strode Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone') William Strode On Westwell Downes John Taylor and Anonymous Non-sense Sir John Suckling 'Out upon it, I have lov'd' 1657 George Daniel Ode. The Robin 1659 Richard Lovelace The Snayl 1662 Samuel Butler from Hudibras (The Presbyterian Knight) 1663 Abraham Cowley Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey Abraham Cowley/Horace The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 6 1665 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet. Made upon the Groves near Merlou Castle John Dryden/Ovid from The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Deucalion and Pyrrha) 1694 John Dryden To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call'd The Double-Dealer 1697 John Dryden/Virgil from Virgil's Aeneis from The Second Book ('The Death of Priam) from The Fourth Book (Fame) from The Sixth Book (Charon) 1700 John Dryden/Ovid Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen John Dryden from The Secular Masque 'Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace' 1701 Sir Charles Sedley Song ('Phillis, let's shun the common Fate') Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea from The Spleen 'O'er me, alas! thou dost too much prevail' 1704 William Congreve Song ('Pious Celinda goes to Pray'rs') William Congreve A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret 1706 Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick 1707 Isaac Watts Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.14 1709 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Pos'd Matthew Prior An Ode ('The Merchant, to secure his Treasure') Ambrose Phillips A Winter-Piece 1710 Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower 1712 Joseph Addison Ode ('The Spacious Firmament on high') 1713 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea A Nocturnal Reverie 1714 Samuel Jones The Force of Love Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock from Canto I from Canto V 1716 John Gay from Trivia: Or The Art of Walking the Streets of London (Of the Weather) 1717 Alexander Pope Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 1718 Matthew Prior A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous Matthew Prior The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus Matthew Prior A True Maid 1719 Isaac Watts Man Frail, and God Eternal 1720 Allan Ramsay Polwart on the Green John Gay My Own Epitaph 1722 Alexander Pope To Mr. Gay . . . on the Finishing His House Jonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General William Diaper/Oppian from Oppian's Halieuticks (The Loves of the Fishes) 1724 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to her Husband 1725 Edward Young from Love of Fame. Satire V 'The languid lady next appears in state' Henry Carey from Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification 1726 Abel Evans On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph John Dyer from Grongar Hill 'Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow' Allan Ramsay/Horace 'What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass' James Thomson from Summer ('Forenoon. Summer Insects Described') ('Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet') 1727 John Gay from Fables The Wild Boar and the Ram Thomas Sheridan Tom Punsibi's Letter to Dean Swift Henry Carey A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession 1728 John Gay from The Beggar's Opera 'Were I laid on Grrenland's Coast' 1731 Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Burlington 'At Timon's Villa let us pass a day' Jonathan Swift The Day of Judgement Jonathan Swift An Epigram on Scolding 1732 Jonathan Swift Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan 1733 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a lady') Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Bathurst (Sir Balaam) George Farewell Quaerè 1734 Jonathan Swift A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 1735 Alexander Pope from Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady 'Nothing so true as what you once let fall' Alexander Pope from An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot 'You think this cruel? take it for a rule' Alexander Pope Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton John Dyer My Ox Duke 1737 Matthew Green from The Spleen 'To cure the mind's wrong biass, spleen' 1738 Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal 'Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel' Alexander Pope from Epilogue to the Satires Alexander Pope Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey 1739 Jonathan Swift from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift 'The Time is not remote, when I' 1740 Alexander Pope On Queen Caroline's Death-bed Samuel Johnson An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician Charles Wesley Morning Hymn Alexander Pope from The Dunciad (The Tribe of Fanciers) (The Triumph of Dullness) 1744 Anonymous On the Death of Mr. Pope from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Anonymous Cock Robbin Anonymous London Bridge 1745 Charles Wesley 'Let Earth and Heaven combine' 1746 William Collins Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 William Collins Ode to Evening 1747 William Shenstone Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow 1748 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Receipt to Cure the Vapours Mary Leapor Mira's Will Christopher Smart A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers 1749 Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from The Vanity of Human Wishes 'When first the College Rolls receive his Name' 1751 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1755 Anonymous This is the House That Jack Built 1761 Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno 'For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent' 'For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry' 1763 Christopher Smart from A Song to David 'O David, highest in the list' 1764 Oliver Goldsmith from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society (Britain) Samuel Johnson (Lines contributed to Goldsmith's 'The Traveller') 1765 from Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle Anonymous 'High diddle diddle' from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence Anonymous Edward, Edward Anonymous Lord Thomas and Fair Annet Christopher Smart Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1766 Oliver Goldsmith from The Vicar of Wakefield 'When lovely woman stoops to folly' 1769 Thomas Gray On L(or)d H(olland')s Seat near M(argat)e, K(en)t 1770 Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village 'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close' 1772 John Byrom On the Origin of Evil Robert Fergusson The Daft-Days 1774 William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness William Cowper 'Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion' Anonymous (Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman, Charlton, Sussex) Oliver Goldsmith from Retaliation (Edmund Burke) (David Garrick) (Joshua Reynolds) 1777 Richard Brinsley Sheridan On Lady Anne Hamilton Samuel Johnson Prologue to Hugh Kelly's 'A Word to the Wise' Samuel Johnson (Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth's 'The Rival) Richard Brinsley Sheridan from The School for Scandal Song and Chorus ('Here's to the maiden of Bashful fifteen') 1779 William Cowper The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15 Robert Fergusson/Horace Odes I. II 1780 Samuel Johnson A Short Song of Congratulation 1783 Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet William Blake To the Evening Star 1784 William Cowper from The Task (The Winter Evening) (The Winter Walk at Noon) 1786 Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785 1787 Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous 1789 William Blake from Songs of Innocence Holy Thursday Charlotte Smith Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex Elizabeth Hands On an Unsociable Family 1791 Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter. A Tale 1792 Robert Burns Song ('Ae fond kiss, and then we sever') 1793 William Blake from Visions of the Daughters of Albion 'Then Oothoon waited silent all the day' William Blake 'Never seek to tell thy love' 1794 William Blake from Songs of Innocence and of Experience Introduction ('Hear the voice of the Bard!') The Clod and the Pebble The Sick Rose The Tyger Ah! Sun-Flower The Garden of Love London A Poison Tree 1796 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Eolian Harp Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose 1797 George Canning and John Hookham Frere Sapphics Charlotte Smith Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea 1798 from Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts 'It is an ancyent Marinere' William Wordsworth Old Man Travelling William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight 1799 William Wordsworth from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 'Was it for this?' Robert Burns from Love and Liberty. A Cantara 'See the smoking bowl before us' 1800 William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads 'A slumber did my spirit seal' Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') 1801 Robert Burns 'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast' Robert Burns The Fornicator. A New Song 1802 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802 Sir Walter Scott (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Anonymous The Wife of Usher's Well Anonymous Thomas Rhymer Anonymous Lord Randal Anonymous A Lyke-Wake Dirge 1803 Anonymous The Twa Corbies William Cowper The Snail William Cowper The Cast-away 1804 William Blake from Milton (Preface) 'And did those feet in ancient time' William Blake 'Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau' 1805 William Blake The Crystal Cabinet William Blake from Auguries of Innocence 'To see a World in a Grain of Sand' 1806 Anonymous Lamkin 1807 William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle William Wordsworth The Small Celandine William Wordsworth Ode (Intimations of Immortality) 1808 Thomas Moore 'Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers' 1810 George Crabbe from The Borough from Prisons (The Condemned Man) from Peter Grimes ('Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand') Sir Walter Scott from The Lady of the Lake Coronach 1815 George Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for Music 1816 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment John Keats On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Percy Bysshe Shelley To Wordsworth 1817 Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner! John Keats 'After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains' 1818 John Keats from Endymion 'But there are Richer entanglements' Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias Sir Walter Scott from The Heart of Mid-Lothian 'Proud Maisie is in the wood' 1819 Sir Walter Scott from The Bride of Lammermoor (Lucy Ashton's song) George Crabbe from Tales of the Hall from Delay has Danger ('Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now') William Blake To the Accuser Who is the God of This World Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Mask of Anarchy 'As I lay asleep in Italy' George Gordon, Lord Byron from Don Juan from Canto I (Juan's Puberty) from Canto II (The Shipwreck) John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes John Keats Ode to a Nightingale John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats To Autumn John Keats Ode on Melancholy John Keats 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art -' 1820 John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Sensitive-Plant 'Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that' 1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley from Adonais 'The One remains, the many change and pass' 1822 George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment 'Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate' 1823 George Gordon, Lord Byron Aristomenes. Canto First 1824 George Gordon, Lord Byron January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year George Gordon, Lord Byron 'Remember Thee, Remember Thee!' Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane. The Invitation Percy Bysshe Shelley from Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation 'I rode one evening with Count Maddalo' Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Triumph of Life 'As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay' Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Laird o' Cockpen Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Land o' the Leal 1826 Anonymous (A Metrical Adage) Anonymous Tweed and Till Anonymous (A Rhyme from Lincolnshire) 1827 Winthrop Mackworth Praed Good-night to the Season 1828 Thomas Hood Death in the Kitchen Samuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Surviving Self-Love 1829 Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca Dorothy Wordsworth Floating Island Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Lines of Life Laetitia Elizabeth Landon Revenge Thomas Love Peacock The War-Song of Dinas Vawr Winthrop Mackworth Praed Arrivals at a Watering Place 1830 George Gordon, Lord Byron 'So, we'll go no more a roving' 1831 Walter Savage Landor'Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives' Walter Savage Landor Dirce Walter Savage Landor On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia 1832 George Gordon, Lord Byron Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron was Ill 1833 Hartley Coleridge 'Long time a child, and still a child, when years' 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Knight's Tomb 1835 John Clare The Nightingales Nest John Clare The Sky Lark John Clare Mist in the Meadows John Clare Sand Martin George Darley from Nepenthe 'Hurry me Nymphs!' 1836 John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud 1837 George Darley The Mermaidens' Vesper-Hymn John Clare 'I found a ball of grass among the hay' John Clare 'The old pond full of flags and fenced around' John Clare from The Badger 'When midnight comes a host of dogs and men' 1838 Leigh Hunt from The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit To Fish A Fish Answers 1839 Thomas Hood Sonnet to Vauxhall 1842 Robert Browning My Last Duchess Robert Browning from Waring 'What's become of Waring' Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses Elizabeth Barrett Browning Grief 1844 William Barnes The Clote 1845 William WordsworthThe Simplon Pass Thomas Hood Stanzas ('Farewell, Life! My senses swim') Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1846 Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense 'There was an Old Man with a beard' 'There was an Old Person of Basing' 'There was an Old Man of Whitehaven' Emily Jane Bronte 'The night is darkening round me' Emily Jane Bronte 'Fall leaves fall die flowers away' Emily Jane Bronte 'All hushed and still within the house' Emily Jane Bronte Remembrance James Clarence Mangan Siberia 1847 Alred, Lord Tennyson from The Princess 'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white' 'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height' 1848 John Clare 'I am' 1849 Walter Savage Landor 'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife' Matthew Arnold from Resignation. To Fausta ('He sees the gentle stir of birth') 1850 Emily Jane Bronte and Charlotte Bronte The Visionary Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam A.H.H. II. 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones' VII. 'Dark house, by which once more I stand' XI. 'Calm is the morn without a sound' LVI. '"So careful of the type?" but no' CXV. 'Now fades the last long streak of snow' Thomas Lovell Beddoes from Death's Jest Book, or the Fool's Tragedy 'And what's your tune?' 1851 Thomas Lovell Beddoes from The Last Man A Crocodile A Lake 1852 Matthew Arnold To Marguerite - Continued 1853 Walter Savage Landor 'Our youth was happy: why repine' Walter Savage Landor Separation 1854 James Henry 'Another and another and another' James Henry 'The son's a poor, wretched, unfortunate creature' 1855 Robert Browning Love in a Life Robert Browning How It Strikes a Contemporary Robert Browning Memorabilia Robert Browning Two in the Campagna 1856 Coventry Patmore from Victories of Love, Book 1, 2 'He that but once too nearly hears' 1858 Arthur Hugh Clough from Amours de Voyage (Canto II) V. 'Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears' VII. 'So, I have seen a man killed!' VIII. 'Only think, dearest Louisa' IX. 'It is most curious to see what a power' X. 'I am in love, meantime, you think' 1859 Edward Fitzgerald from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night' William Barnes My Orcha'd in Linden Lea William Barnes False Friends-like 1860 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus 1861 Dante Gabriel Rossetti/Dante Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni Adelaide Anne Procter Envy 1862 Christina Rossetti May Christina Rossetti Song ('When I am dead, my dearest') Christina Rossetti Winter: My Secret Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lord Walter's Wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument George Meredith from Modern Love I. 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes' XVII. 'At dinner she is hostess, I am host' XXXIV. 'Madam would speak with me. So now it comes' L. 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat' Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue Algernon Charles Swinburne Free Thought William Barnes Leaves-a-Vallèn William Barnes The Turnstile 1863 Walter Savage Landor Memory Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sudden Light 1864 Robert Browning Youth and Art John Clare 'The thunder mutters louder and more loud' 1865 Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland '"You are old, Father William," the young man said' 'They told me you had been to her' George Eliot In a London Drawingroom Arthur Hugh Clough from Dipsychus '"There is no God," the wicked saith' 1866 Algernon Charles Swinburne Itylus Algernon Charles Swinburne from Sapphics 'All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids' Christina Rossetti The Queen of Hearts Christina Rossetti 'What Would I Give' 1867 Matthew Arnold Dover Beach Matthew Arnold Growing Old Dora Greenwell A Scherzo. (A Shy Person's Wishes) 1868 Charles Turner On a Vase of Gold-Fish Mortimer Collins Winter in Brighton 1869 Matthew Arnold 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light' 1870 Augusta Webster from A Castaway 'Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts' Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Match with the Moon Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Woodspurge 1871 Edward Lear 'There was an old man who screamed out' Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 1872 Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass 'In winter, when the fields are white' Christina Rossetti from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book 'Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush' 'A city plum is not a plum' 'If a pig wore a wig' 'I caught a little ladybird' Robert Browning (Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus) 1875 Christina Rossetti By the Sea 1877 Coventry Patmore Magna est Veritas Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ our Lord Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins from The Wreck of the Deutschland 'Thou mastering me' 1878 Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden Algernon Charles Swinburne A Vision of Spring in Winter 1880 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Rizpah Charles Turner Letty's Globe 1881 Joseph Skipsey 'Get Up!' Christina Rossetti 'Summer is Ended' Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid Gerard Manley Hopkins 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' Robert Louis Stevenson from Treasure Island Pirate Ditty Robert Louis Stevenson 'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style' 1882 William Allingham 'Everything passes and vanishes' 1884 Amy Levy Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed) 1885 Alfred, Lord Tennyson To E. FitzGerald Gerard Manley Hopkins Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves Gerard Manley Hopkins 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' 1886 Dante Gabriel Rossetti from A Trip to Paris and Belgium I. from London to Folkestone XVI. Antwerp to Ghent 1887 Anonymous Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye Robert Louis Stevenson To Mrs Will H. Low Robert Louis Stevenson 'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves' May Kendall Lay of the Trilobite 1888 A. Mary F. Robinson Neurasthenia W. E. Henley from In Hospital II. Waiting III. Interior 1889 Amy Levy A Ballade of Religion and Marriage W. B. Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens 1891 William Morris Pomona 1892 Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever Rudyard Kipling Mandalay W. B. Yeats The Sorrow of Love Arthur Symons At the Cavour 1894 John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week 1895 Robert Louis Stevenson To S. R. Crockett Alice Meynell Cradle-Song at Twilight Alice Meynell Parentage May Probyn Triolets Tête-à-Tête Masquerading A Mésalliance 1895 Mary E. Coleridge An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar Christina Rossetti Promises like Pie-crust Ernest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam A. E. Housman from A Shropshire Lad XII. 'When I watch the living meet' XL. 'Into my heart an air that kills' LII. 'Far in a western brookland' John Davidson A Northern Suburb 1897 Arthur Symons White Heliotrope Rudyard Kipling Recessional 1898 Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading Gaol 'He did not wear his scarlet coat' W. E. Henley To W. R. Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy Thoughts of Phena 1900 Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush 1906 Walter De La Mare The Birthnight Walter De La Mare Autumn Walter De La Mare Napoleon 1908 Mary E. Coleridge No Newspapers Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) The Mummy Invokes His Soul 1909 John Davidson Snow J. M. Synge On an Island 1910 J. M. Synge The 'Mergency Man 1911 W. H. Davies Sheep 1912 Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain T. E. Hulme Autumn T. E. Hulme Image Ezra Pound The Return 1913 Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 1914 H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Oread Thomas Hardy from Poems of 1912-13 The Walk The Voice After a Journey At Castle Boterel W. B. Yeats The Cold Heaven W. B. Yeats The Magi Charlotte Mew Fame 1915 Ezra Pound The Gypsy Ezra Pound/Rihaku from Cathay The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Lament of the Frontier Guard Rupert Brooke Peace Rupert Brooke Heaven 1916 D. H. Lawrence Sorrow Charles Hamilton Sorley 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' Edward Thomas Cock-Crow Edward Thomas Aspens Anna Wickham The Fired Pot Charlotte Mew A quoi bon dire Charlotte Mew The Quiet House 1917 T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot Aunt Helen Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg August 1914 Isaac Rosenberg 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth' Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain Edward Thomas Old Man Edward Thomas Tall Nettles Edward Thomas Blenheim Oranges Edward Thomas Rain 1918 Wilfred Owen Futility Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen The Send-Off Wilfed Owen Maundy Thursday Siegfried Sassoon Base Details Siegfried Sassoon The General 1919 Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang Ivor Gurney To His Love Ivor Gurney The Silent One Rudyard Kipling from Epitaphs of War, 1914-18 A Servant A Son The Coward The Refined Man Common Form Rudyard Kipling Gethsemane Laurence Binyon For the Fallen (September 1914) W. B. Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales Ezra Pound from Homage to Sextus Propertius VI. 'When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids' 1920 Ezra Pound from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley II. 'The age demanded an image' IV. 'These fought in any case' V. 'There died a myriad' W. B. Yeats Easter, 1916 T. S. Eliot Gerontion A. E. Housman from Last Poems XII. 'The laws of God, the laws of man' XXXIII. 'When the eye of day is shut' XXXVII. Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries XL. 'Tell me not here, it needs not saying' A. E. Housman 'It is a fearful thing to be' 1922 T. S. Eliot from The Waste Land I. The Burial of the Dead IV. Death by Water Ivor Gurney Possessions Ivor Gurney The High Hills 1923 D. H. Lawrence Medlars and Sorb-Apples D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito D. H. Lawrence The Blue Jay Hilaire Belloc On a General Election Hilaire Belloc Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck W. B. Yeats Leda and the Swan 1925 Robert Graves Love Without Hope Robert Bridges To Francis Jammes Edmund Blunden The Midnight Skaters Basil Bunting from Villon 'Remember, imbeciles and wits' Edwin Muir Childhood Hugh Macdiarmid from Sangschaw The Watergaw The Eemis Stane 1926 Hugh Macdiarmid Empty Vessel Hugh Macdiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 'O wha's the bride that carries the bunch?' 1927 James Joyce from Pomes Penyeach Bahnhofstrasse 1928 Thomas Hardy Lying Awake Austin Clarke The Planter's Daughter W. B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium W. B. Yeats from Meditations in Time of Civil War V. The Road at My Door VI. The State's Nest by My Window W. B. Yeats Among School Children W.H. Auden 'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings' 1929 D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned D. H. Lawrence Innocent England E. C. Bentley (Clerihews) 'George the Third' 'Nell' Edmund Blunden Report on Experience Robert Graves Sick Love Robert Graves Warning to Children Robert Graves It Was All Very Tidy 1930 W. H. Auden 'This lunar beauty' T. S. Eliot Marina 1932 Basil Bunting from Chomei at Toyama 'I have been noting events forty years' D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians 1933 Rudyard Kipling The Bonfires W. B. Yeats In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse 1934 Hugh Macdiarmid from On a Raised Beach 'All is lithogenesis - or lochia' 1935 William Empson This Last Pain William Empson Homage to the British Museum Louis Macneice Snow William Soutar The Tryst 1936 W. H. Auden 'Out on the lawn I lie in bed' W. H. Auden 'Now the leaves are falling fast' Elizabeth Daryush Still-Life Laura Riding The Wind Suffers Patrick Kavanagh Inniskeen Road: July Evening A. E. Housman from More Poems XXIII. 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry' XXXI. 'Because I liked you better' 1937 A. E. Housman 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?' John Betjeman The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel David Jones from In Parenthesis from Part 3 'And the deepened stillness' from Part 7 'But sweet sister death' 1938 Austin Clarke The Straying Student Robert Graves To Evoke Posterity Elizabeth Daryush 'Children of wealth in your warm nursery' Louis Macneice The Sunlight on the Garden 1939 W. B. Yeats Long-legged Fly W. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats Louis Macneice from Autumn Journal I. 'Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire' XV. 'Shelley and jazz and lieder and love and hymn-tunes' 1940 W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts John Betjeman Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden William Empson Missing Dates William Empson Aubade 1941 Louis Macneice Meeting Point Louis Macneice Autobiography 1942 T. S. Eliot from Little Gidding II. 'Ash on an old man's sleeve' Alun Lewis Raiders' Dawn Norman Cameron Green, Green is El Aghir Stevie Smith Bog-Face Stevie Smith Dirge Patrick Kavanagh from The Great Hunger from I. 'Clay is the word and clay is the flesh' III. 'Poor Paddy Maquire, a fourteen-hour day' from XI. 'The cards are shuffled and the deck' from XII. 'The fields were bleached white' 1943 Henry Reed Judging Distances David Gascoyne Snow in Europe David Gascoyne A Wartime Dawn Keith Douglas Desert Flowers 1944 H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) from The Walls Do Not Fall I. 'An incident here and there' Sorley Maclean Hallaig Laurence Binyon Winter Sunrise Laurence Binyon The Burning of the Leaves Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht 1945 Robert Graves To Juan at the Winter Solstice Dylan Thomas Poem in October W. H. Auden from The Sea and the Mirror Miranda Ruth Pitter But for Lust William Empson Let It Go 1946 Samuel Beckett Saint-Lô Keith Douglas How to Kill 1949 Edwin Muir the Interrogation 1950 Marion Angus Alas! Poor Queen Stevie Smith Pad, Pad 1951 Dylan Thomas Over Sir John's Hill 1952 Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night W. H. Auden The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles 1954 John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1 Robert Garioch Elegy Thom Gunn The Wound Philip Larkin At Grass 1955 Norman Maccaig Summer Farm 1956 Edwin Muir The Horses 1957 Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox Louis Macneice House on a Cliff Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning Stevie Smith Magna est Veritas 1959 Geoffrey Hill A Pastoral 1960 Ted Hughes Pike Patrick Kavanagh Epic Patrick Kavanagh Come Dance with Kitty Stobling Patrick Kavanagh The Hospital 1961 R. S. Thomas Here Roy Fisher from City from By the Pond Toyland Thom Gunn In Santa Maria del Popolo Thom Gunn My Sad Captains 1962 Malcolm Lowry (Strange Type) Christopher Logue/Homer from Patrocleia (Apollo Strikes Patroclus) 1963 Charles Tomlinson The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone R. S. Thomas On the Farm Louis Macneice Soap Suds Louis Macneice The Taxis Austin Clarke Martha Blake at Fifty-One 1964 Philip Larkin Mr Bleaney Philip Larkin Here Philip Larkin Days Philip Larkin Afternoons Donald Davie The Hill Field 1965 Sylvia Plath Sheep in Fog Sylvia Plath The Arrival of the Bee Box Sylvia Plath Edge 1966 Basil Bunting from Briggflatts I. 'Brag, sweet tenor bull' R. S. Thomas Pietà R. S. Thomas Gifts Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon 1967 Ted Hughes Thistles Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda John Montague from A Chosen Light II. rue Daguerre George Theiner/Miroslav Holub The Fly 1968 Geoffrey Hill Ovid in the Third Reich Geoffrey Hill September Song Roy Fisher As He Came Near Death Roy Fisher The Memorial Fountain 1969 Michael Longley Persephone Douglas Dunn A Removal from Terry Street Douglas Dunn On Roofs of Terry Street Norman Maccaig Wild Oats Iain Crichton Smith Shall Gaelic Die? 1970 W. S. Graham Malcolm Mooney's Land Ian Hamilton The Visit Ian Hamilton Newscast Tom Leonard from Unrelated Incidents 3. 'this is thi' Ted Hughes from Crow A Childish Prank 1971 Thom Gunn Moly Geoffrey Hill from Mercian Hymns I. 'King of the perennial holly-graves' VI. 'The princes of Mercia were badger and raven' VII. 'Gasholders, russet among fields' XXVII. 'Now when King Offa was alive and dead' George Mackay Brown Kirkyard 1972 Stevie Smith Scorpion Charles Tomlinson Stone Speech Derek Mahon An Image from Beckett Seamus Heaney The Tollund Man Seamus Heaney Broagh Douglas Dunn Modern Love Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin Swineherd Éilean Ní Chuilleanáin The Second Voyage 1973 Thomas Kinsella Hen Woman Thomas Kinsella Ancestor Michael Longley Wounds Paul Muldoon Wind and Tree 1974 Philip Larkin This Be the Verse Philip Larkin Money Philip Larkin from Livings II. 'Seventy feet down' Philip Larkin The Explosion Padraic Fallon A Bit of Brass 1975 Seamus Heaney from Singing School 6. Exposure Derek Mahon The Snow Party Derek Mahon A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford D. J. Enright Remembrance Sunday John Fuller Wild Raspberries 1976 Michael Longley Man Lying on a Wall Elma Mitchell Thoughts after Ruskin Thom Gunn The Idea of Trust 1977 Donald Davie from In the Stopping Train 'I have got into the slow train' Norman Maccaig Notations of Ten Summer Minutes W. S. Graham Lines on Roger Hilton's Watch Robert Garioch The Maple and the Pine 1978 Geoffrey Hill from An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 9. The Laurel Axe 12. The Eve of St Mark Thomas Kinsella Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore James Fenton In a Notebook Jeffrey Wainwright 1815 1979 Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Christopher Reid Baldanders Ted Hughes February 17th Seamus Heaney The Strand at Lough Beg Michael Longley from Wreaths The Linen Workers 1980 Tom Paulin Where Art is a Midwife Paul Muldoon Why Brownlee Left Paul Muldoon Anseo Paul Durcan Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour Paul Durcan The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious 1981 James Fenton A German Requiem Tony Harrison The Earthen Lot Derek Mahon Courtyards in Delft 1983 Paul Muldoon Quoof Paul Muldoon The Frog Tom Paulin Desertmartin 1984 Seamus Heaney Widgeon Seamus Heaney from Station Island VII. 'I had come to the edge of the water' Douglas Dunn from Elegies The Sundial 1985Derek Mahon Antarctica John Agard Listen to Mr Oxford don 1987 Peter Didsbury The Hailstone Paul Muldoon Something Else Ciaran Carson Dresden Eavan Boland Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening 1988 Charles Causley Eden Rock Edwin Morgan The Dowser Norman Maccaig Chauvinist 1989 Ted Hughes Telegraph Wires 1990 Ken Smith Writing in Prison Ciaran Carson Belfast Confetti Nuala Níi Dhomhnaill (trans. Paul Muldoon) The Language Issue Eavan Boland The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me 1991 Seamus Heaney from Lightenings VIII. 'The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise' Michael Longley The Butchers 1992 Denise Riley A Misremembered Lyric Thom Gunn The Hug Thom Gunn The Reassurance 1994 Hugo Williams Prayer Hugo Williams Last Poem Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Studying the Language Christopher Reid/Ovid Stories and Bones Acknowledgements Index of Poets Index of First lines Index of Titles

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