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Word usage

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


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


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

To Check Out
(Seen posted by someone somewhere)
 * Longfellow
 * The Rainy Day

To decipher

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

Of note

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


 * Walter Raleigh (probably)
 * The Lie Translations


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

Good

 * Wilcox
 * Fleeing away


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


 * Hartley Coleridge
 * November


 * Rupert Brooke
 * The Hill


 * Milton
 * When I consider how my light is spent


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


 * Millay


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

Faves

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


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


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

Free verse

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

Children's verse (and about children)

 * Jack Prelutsky
 * Homework! O Homework!


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

New Formalism

 * R. S. Gwynn
 * God's Secretary

Song faves

 * The Water is Wide - Joan Baez

Humor and satire

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

Riddles

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

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

Links

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

List of poets

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


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

Lists of poems

 * 100 favorite poems of Britain

Poetic Websites

 * My Poetic Side

Erotic poetry

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

To check out

 * John Clare
 * The Shepherd's calendar


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

Ukrainian

 * Дмитро Павличко
 * Пророцтво