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Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Wife of Bath
‘I syng of a maiden’
Lord Randal
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‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’
Song from Arcadia
Elegy
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The Good Morrow
O
The Burning Babe
‘The weary yeare his race now having run’ (Amoretti, LXII)
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’
To Celia
Love
To Althea from Prison
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Epitaph
An Exequy to His Matchless Never to be Forgotten Friend
Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Paradise Lost (Book 1, II. 242-270)
The Garden
A Song for St Cecilia’s Day
A Thousand Martyrs
The Mistress
A Nocturnal Reverie
Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town, after the Coronation
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
The Visit
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland
Epitaph on a Hare
Slavery: A Poem
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Song (‘Ae fond kiss, and then we sever’)
The Rights of Woman
London
The Complaints of the Poor
Female Fashions for 1799
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Kubla Khan
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
Proud Maisie
Ozymandias
To Autumn
The War Song of Dinas Vawr
‘I found a ball of grass among the hay’
Porphyria’s Lover
My Last Duchess
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Ulysses
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
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Remembrance
‘There is no God’
Boat Stealing (excerpt from The Prelude)
How Do I Love Thee?
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea
‘An upper chamber in a darkened house’
Envy
I Started Early – Took my Dog
Dover Beach
Dirge for Two Veterans
Ode
Invictus
A Forsaken Garden
Lucifer in Starlight
A Frog’s Fate
The Windhover
Philosophy
London Snow
‘Sing me a song of a lad that is gone’
If
We Wear the Mask
Invitation to Love
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Things that Matter
The Song of the Smoke
The God Abandons Antony
Miss Loo
The Rolling English Road
A Blockhead
The Voice
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
The Inquest
Sea Rose
Fin de Fête
‘Out, Out -‘
Divorce
Strange Hells
Rouen
Adlestrop
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Second Coming
‘Tell me not here, it needs not saying’
Harlem Shadows
Ha’nacker mill
‘I, being born a woman and distressed’
Peach
The Journey of the Magi
Welsh Incident
‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’
Poetry
Still-Life
Partridges
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
Bagpipe music
Musée des Beaux Arts
Aubade
Goodbye
Naming of Parts
My Papa’s Waltz
How to Kill
Heart and Mind
The Fish
Mr Bleaney
A Supermarket in California
After Midsummer
The Thought Fox
To the Snake
Skunk Hour
Epic
Considering the Snail
Morning Song
War Music (excerpt from Patrocleia)
Badly Chosen Lover
Dream Songs No 67: I don’t operate often
The Day Lady Died
What The Chairman Told Tom
Thoughts after Ruskin
Ballad of the Bread Man
Strawberries
The Beast in the Space
The Galloping Cat
Wounds
A, a, a, Domine Deus
A Disused Shed in County Wexford
‘My father in a white space suit’
A Summer Place
The Ex-Queen among the Astronomers
WEA Course
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Ö
Sonny’s Lettah
The Colonel
Timer
The Lost Woman
God, A Poem
Your Attention Please
The Boys Bump-starting the Hearse
Catching Crabs
The Cleaner
Proverbial Ballade
What is Worth Knowing?
Boy Breaking Glass
The Way We Live
Meeting the British
Border
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
Originally
Explaining Magnetism
Rubaiyat
Love from a Foreign City
The Eater
Phrase Book
The Country at My Shoulder
Marvin Gaye
Dusting the Phone
The Emigrée
Judith
Birmingham River
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955
St Kevin and the Blackbird
Blackout
Wedding
Minority
A Minute’s Silence
Prince Rupert’s Drop
Machines
A Misremembered Lyric
Cousin Coat
The Lammas Hireling
Waking with Russell
Two Pages
Pelt
The shout
Bread
Mametz Wood
The Full Indian Rope Trick
Toussaint L’Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth’s sonnet “To Toussaint L’Ouverture”
Look We Have Coming to Dover
The Stopped Train
Josephine Baker Finds Herself
Maren
A Verandah Ceremony
What If
Conductors of His Mystery
A Life in Dreams
Shake My Future
Langley Lane
The Fish in Australia
Homing
Sound Machine
The posh mums are boxing in the square
