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Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Wife of Bath
‘I syng of a maiden’
‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’
Song from Arcadia
‘In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day’
Elegy
The Good Morrow
Walsingham
O
The Burning Babe
‘So oft as I her beauty do behold’ (Amoretti, LV)
‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’
To Celia
Love
To Althea from Prison
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Bermudas
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)
A Song for St Cecilia’s Day
A Thousand Martyrs
The Mistress
The Hog, the Sheep and Goat, Carrying to a Fair
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
A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
‘For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry’
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland
Epitaph on a Hare
Slavery: A Poem
The Chimney Sweeper
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Song (‘Ae fond kiss, and then we sever’)
The Rights of Woman
After Blenheim
Female Fashions for 1799
Lord Randal
The Wife of Usher’s Well
The Solitary Reaper
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Kubla Khan
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
Proud Maisie
Ozymandias
Ode to a Nightingale
Casabianca
The War Song of Dinas Vawr
‘I found a ball of grass among the hay’
Porphyria’s Lover
Ulysses
Remembrance
Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV
‘There is no God’
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea
‘An upper chamber in a darkened house’
Envy
‘You are old, Father William’
Snake
Dover Beach
Dirge for Two Veterans
Invictus
A Forsaken Garden
Inversnaid
Lucifer in Starlight
A Frog’s Fate
Philosophy
London Snow
Thoughts of Phena
‘Sing me a song of a lad that is gone’
The Witch
Invitation to Love
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Things that Matter
The Song of the Smoke
The Way through the Woods
The God Abandons Antony
Miss Loo
The Rolling English Road
A Blockhead
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
The Inquest
Sea Rose
‘Out, Out -‘
Fame
Divorce
Strange Hells
Lights Out
Rouen
The Show
The Second Coming
‘Tell me not here, it needs not saying’
Harlem Shadows
Ha’nacker mill
‘I, being born a woman and distressed’
The Journey of the Magi
Welsh Incident
Bavarian Gentians
‘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
Wind
To the Snake
Skunk Hour
Epic
Considering the Snail
Morning Song
War Music (excerpt from Patrocleia)
On the Farm
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
Mercian Hymns VII
Sea Canes
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
It’s Work
Cousin Coat
The Lammas Hireling
Waking with Russell
Two Pages
Pelt
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
Conductors of His Mystery
A Life in Dreams
The Death of King Arthur lines 4209-4253
Langley Lane
The Fish in Australia
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