The Classic Hundred Poems

Opening

Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous)

Edward, Edward (Anonymous)

Western Wind (Anonymous)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek (Sir Thomas Wyatt)

Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (Sir Walter Ralegh)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

With How Sad Steps, O Moon (Sir Philip Sidney)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe)

William Shakespeare (1564-1593)

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (William Shakespeare)

When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (William Shakespeare)

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (William Shakespeare)

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (William Shakespeare)

The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame (William Shakespeare)

That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (William Shakespeare)

When Icicles Hang by the Wall (William Shakespeare)

John Donne (1572-1631)

Death, Be Not Proud (John Donne)

Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (John Donne)

At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (John Donne)

The Good Morrow (John Donne)

The Sun Rising (John Donne)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / John Donne

Go and Catch a Falling Star (John Donne)

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

On My First Son (Ben Jonson)

Song: To Celia (Ben Jonson)

Still to be Neat (Ben Jonson)

Robert Herrick 1591-1674

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick)

Upon Julia's Clothes (Robert Herrick)

Delight in Disorder (Robert Herrick)

George Herbert 1593-1633

Love III (George Herbert)

The Pulley (George Herbert)

Virture (George Herbert)

Thomas Carrey 1595-1639

Ask Me No More Where Love Bestows (Thomas Carew)

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Go, Lovely Rose / Edmund Waller

John Milton (1608-1674)

Lycidas (John Milton)

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Sir John Suckling)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (Richard Lovelace)

To Althea, from Prison (Richard Lovelace)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

To his coy mistress - Andrew Marvell

The Garden (Andrew Marvell)

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

The Retreat (Henry Vaughan)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray)

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat (Thomas Gray)

William Blake (1757-1827)

The Tyger (William Blake)

London (William Blake)

And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (William Blake)

The Lamb (William Blake)

Auguries of Innocence - William Blake

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (William Wordsworth)

The World is Too Much With Us (William Wordsworth)

The Solitary Reaper (William Wordsworth)

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (William Wordsworth)

A Slumber did my Spirit Seal (William Wordsworth)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)

So, We'll Go No More A-Roving - Byron

She Walks in Beauty (Byron)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ode to the West Wind (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

To a Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

John Keats (1795-1821)

To Autumn (John Keats)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (John Keats)

Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe)

Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Break, Break, Break (Tennyson)

The eagle (Tennyson)

Ulysses (Tennyson)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)

Meeting at Night (Robert Browning)

Home Thoughts from Abroad (Robert Browning)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)

The Latest Decalogue (Arthur Hugh Clough)

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Dover Beach (Matther Arnold)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)

I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died (Emily Dickinson)

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Jabbberwocky (Lewis Carroll)

'Thomas Hardy 1840-1928...'

The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Spring and Fall (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Windhover (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats)

The Lake of Innisfree (W.B. Yeats)

Leda and the Swan (W.B. Yeats)

Sailing to Byzantium (W.B. Yeats)

Ernest Dawson (1867-1900)

Non Sum Qualis Eram Banae Sub Regno Cynarae (Ernest Dawson)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Miniver Cheevy (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Mr. Flood's Party (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Walter Da la Mare (1873-1956)

The Listeners (Walter De la Mare)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost

Mending Wall (Robert Frost)

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen)

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

Musee des Beaux Arts - W. H. Auden

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Randall Jarrell)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (Dylan Thomas)