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by Paul Keegan


  Futility, 857

  Garden, The, 372

  Garden of Love, The, 541

  General, The, 860

  Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, The, 92

  German Requiem, A, 1072

  Gerontion, 871

  ‘Get Up!’, 789

  Gethsemane, 862

  Gifts, 1007

  Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell, A, 74

  Good-night to the Season, 663

  Grashopper, The, 319

  Grassehopper, The, 310

  Grasse-hopper, The, 299

  Gratulatory to Mr Ben. Johnson for his Adopting of Him to be his Son, A, 257

  Great Favorit Beheaded, A, 292

  Great Hunger, The, 946

  Green, Green is El Aghir, 944

  Grief, 698

  Grongar Hill, 436

  Growing Old, 764

  Gypsy, The, 839

  Hailstone, The, 1085

  Hallaig, 955

  Heart of Mid-Lothian, The, 611

  Heaven, 841

  Heaven, To, 217

  Hen Woman, 1034

  Here (Larkin), 997

  Here (Thomas), 982

  Hero and Leander, 156

  Hesperides, 293

  High Diddle Diddle, 495

  High Hills, The, 879

  Hill Field, The, 999

  Holy Sonnets, 231

  Holy Thursday, 527

  Homage to Sextus Propertius, 866

  Homage to the British Museum, 913

  Hope, 246

  Horat. Ode 29. Book 3 Paraphras’d in Pindarique Verse, 381

  Horatian Ode upon Cromwel’s Return from Ireland, An, 364

  Horses, The, 975

  Hospital, The, 981

  House on a Cliff, 977

  How It Strikes a Contemporary, 722

  How to Kill, 963

  Hudibras, 326

  Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret, A, 410

  Hug, The, 1099

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 867

  HYMN. The Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 502

  Hymne to Christ, at the Authors Last Going into Germany, A, 232

  Hymne to God the Father, A, 233

  ‘I Am’, 710

  Iambicum Trimetrum, 102

  Idea, 163, 223

  Idea of Trust, The, 1049

  Iliads of Homer, The, 205

  Image, 833

  Image from Beckett, An, 1029

  Imitation of Horace, Book I. Satyr IX, An, 374

  Important Man, The, 1063

  In a London Drawingroom, 757

  In a Notebook, 1060

  In a Station of the Metro, 833

  In Cosmum, 148

  In Hospital, 802

  In Memorian A.H.H., 713

  In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz, 908

  In Memory of W. B. Yeats, 929

  In Parenthesis, 922

  In Santa Maria del Popolo, 985

  In the Stopping Train, 1051

  Inniskeen Road: July Evening, 919

  Innocent England, 897

  Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar, An, 813

  Interior, 803

  Interrogation, The, 964

  Introduction, 538

  Inversnaid, 790

  Inviting a Friend to Supper, 216

  It was All Very Tidy, 901

  Itylus, 758

  January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year, 649

  Job 3:3–26: Job curseth the day, and services of his birth, 203

  Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye, 797

  Jubilate Agno, 488

  Judging Distances, 949

  Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation, 653

  Kirkyard, 1026

  Knight’s Tomb, The, 682

  Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment, 604

  La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad, 640

  Lady of the Lake, The, 603

  Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus, The, 427

  Laird o’ Cockpen, The, 660

  Lake, A, 719

  Lament, When He Wes Seik, 59

  Lament of the Frontier Guard, 840

  Lamkin, 587

  Land o’ the Leal, The, 661

  Language Issue, The, 1096

  Last Man, The, 219

  Last Poem, 1101

  Last Poems, 873

  Latest Decalogue, The, 748

  Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius. Against the Fear of Death, 384

  Laurel Axe, The, 1056

  Lay of the Trilobite, 800

  Leaves a-Vallèn, 749

  Leda and the Swan, 885

  Let It Go, 963

  Letter from Artemiza in the Towne to Chloe in the Countrey, A, 356

  Letty’s Globe, 789

  Lie, The, 126

  Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan, The, 252

  Light Shining out of Darkness, 511

  Lightenings, 1097

  Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties’ Accession, A, 445

  Linen Workers, The, 1068

  Lines of Life, 671

  Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron was Ill, 680

  Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch, 1054

  Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, 554

  Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow, 478

  Listen Mr Oxford don, 1084

  Little Gidding, 941

  Livings, 1040

  London, 541

  London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, 461

  London Bridge, 474

  Long-legged Fly, 928

  Lord Randal, 578

  Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, 498

  Lord Walter’s Wife, 741

  Love, 249

  Love and Liberty. A Cantata, 565

  Love and Life. A Song, 355

  Love in a Life, 722

  Love of Fame. Satire V, 434

  Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The, 847

  Love Without Hope, 886

  Loves Growth, 227

  Love’s Labours Lost, 137

  Lucasta, 297

  Lycidas, 259

  Lying Awake, 891

  Lyke-Wake Dirge, A, 579

  Lyrical Ballads, 547, 566

  Magi, The, 838

  Magna est Veritas (Patmore), 777

  Magna est Veritas (Smith), 978

  Malcolm Mooney’s Land, 1017

  Man Frail, and God Eternal, 427

  Man Lying on a Wall, 1048

  Mandalay, 806

  Maple and the Pine, The, 1055

  Maria Wentworth, Thomæ Comitis Cleveland, filia præmortua prima Virgineam animam exhalavit An. Dom. 1632 Æt. suae 18., 271

  Marina, 902

  Marriage A-la-Mode, 354

  Martha Blake at Fifty-One, 991

  Martian Sends a Postcard Home, A, 1064

  Mary the Cook-Maid’s Letter To Dr. Sheridan, 449

  Mask of Anarchy, The, 615

  Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 [Comus], A, 255

  Masquerading, 812

  Match with the Moon, A, 771

  Maundy Thursday, 859

  May, 739

  Meditations in Time of Civil War, 893

  Medlars and Sorb-Apples, 879

  Meeting Point, 939

  Memorabilia, 725

  Memorial Fountain, The, 1013

  Memory, 751

  Mercian Hymns, 1025

  ‘Mergency Man, The, 830

  Mermaidens’ Vesper-Hymn, The, 688

  Mésalliance, A, 813

  Midas, 125

  Midnight Skaters, The, 886

  Mill-girl, The, 1062

  Milton [Preface], 584

  Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 573

  Miranda, 962

  Mira’s Will, 480

  Misremembered Lyric, A, 1098

  Missing Dates, 937

  Mist in the Meadows,
686

  Mistress. A Song, The, 394

  Modern Love (Dunn), 1032

  Modern Love (Meredith), 746

  Moly, 1024

  Money, 1039

  More Poems, 919

  Morning Hymn, 468

  Morning Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers, A, 481

  Mosquito, The, 881

  Mosquito Knows, The, 897

  Mother Goose’s Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle, 495

  Mower against Gardens, The, 370

  Mower to the Glo-Worms, The, 369

  Mr Bleaney, 996

  Mummy Invokes His Soul, The, 826

  Musée des Beaux Arts, 936

  Musical Instrument, A, 745

  Musicks Duell, 285

  Musophilus, 168

  My Last Duchess, 692

  My Love is Past, 103

  My Orcha’d in Linden Lea, 734

  My Own EPITAPH, 429

  My Ox Duke, 459

  My Picture left in Scotland, 238

  My Sad Captains, 986

  Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification, Address’d to A— P—, Esq., 435

  Napoleon, 826

  Nepenthe, 687

  Neurasthenia, 802

  Neutral Tones, 823

  new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves. To the new tune of Greensleeves, A, 103

  New Heaven, New Warre, 141

  Newscast, 1022

  Night, The, 317

  Nightingales Nest, The, 683

  Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie, 240

  Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard, The, 175

  No Newspapers, 826

  No Platonique Love, 306

  Nocturnal Reverie, A, 417

  Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day, A, 225

  Non-sense, 322

  Northern Suburb, A, 817

  Not Waving But Drowning, 977

  Notations of Ten Summer Minutes, 1053

  Nox nocti indicat Scientiam, 274

  Ocean to Scinthia, The, 221

  Ode (Intimations of Immortality) from Recollections of Early Childhood, 594

  Ode on a Grecian Urn, 637

  Ode on Melancholy, 639

  Ode. The Robin, 323

  Ode (‘The Spacious Firmament on High’), 416

  Ode to a Nightingale, 635

  Ode to Evening, 477

  Ode. To Himselfe, An, 238

  Ode to the West Wind, 642

  Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey, 328

  Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746, 477

  Of His Conversion, 151

  Of Many Worlds in This World, 314

  Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, 454

  Of the Day Estivall, 163

  Of the Last Verses in the Book, 386

  Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs, 279

  Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen, 403

  Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour’s Hand, 150

  Of Treason, 212

  Of Youth He Singeth, 93

  Old Man, 854

  Old Man Travelling. Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch, 553

  Old Wives Tale, The, 142

  On a Cock at Rochester, 396

  On a General Election, 884

  On a Raised Beach, 910

  On a Vase of Gold-Fish, 765

  On an Indian Tomineois, the Least of Birds, 395

  On an Island, 829

  On an Unsociable Family, 528

  On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, 606

  On Francis Drake, 276

  On Gut, 217

  On Himself, upon Hearing What was His Sentence, 301

  On Himselfe, 296

  On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, 237

  On His Mistris, 161

  On Lady Anne Hamilton, 515

  On L[or]d H[olland’]s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t, 504

  On My First Sonne, 215

  On Queen Caroline’s Death-bed, 467

  On Roofs of Terry Street, 1015

  On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia, 680

  On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph, 436

  On Spies, 216

  On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke, 236

  On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, 519

  On the Death of Mr. Pope, 472

  On the Farm, 990

  On the Late Massacher in Piemont, 352

  On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos’d 1629, 280

  On the Origin of Evil, 508

  On Westwell Downes, 321

  Oppian’s Halieuticks, 431

  Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing, 148

  Oread, 834

  Over Sir John’s hill, 966

  Ovid in The Third Reich, 1011

  Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The, 772

  Ozymandias, 611

  Pad, Pad, 966

  Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, 234

  Paradise Lost, 333

  Parentage, 812

  Parliament of Fowls, The, 9

  Parthenophil and Parthenophe, 132

  Passionate Mans Pilgrimage, The, 186

  Passionate Sheepheard to his Love, The, 174

  Pastoral, A, 978

  Patience, 31

  Patrocleia: an Account of Book 16 of Homer’s Iliad, 987

  Peace, 841

  Persephone, 1014

  Personal Helicon, 1008

  Peter Grimes, 602

  Philosopher and the Lover; to a Mistress Dying. Song, The, 351

  Phyllyp Sparowe, 50

  Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone, The, 988

  Pied Beauty, 778

  Pietà, 1007

  Pike, 979

  Pilgrims Progress, The, 379

  Pillar of the Cloud, The, 687

  Planter’s Daughter, The, 892

  Pleasd with thy Place, 210

  Poem in October, 960

  Poems of 1912–13, 834

  Poison Tree, A, 542

  Polwart on the Green, 428

  Pomes Penyeach, 891

  Pomona, 804

  Possessions, 879

  Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 936

  Prayer (Gunn), 1100

  Prayer (Herbert), 243

  Princess, The, 709

  Prisons, 600

  Prologue to Hugh Kelly’s ‘A Word to the Wise’, 515

  Promises Like Pie-crust, 814

  Prothalamion, 143

  Psalm 58, 154

  Psalm 124, 301

  Psalm 137, 79

  Psalm 139, 155

  Psalme 91, 273

  Quaerè, 452

  Queen of Hearts, The, 761

  Quiet House, The, 845

  Quoof, 1078

  Raiders’ Dawn, 944

  Rain, 856

  Rape of the Lock, The, 419

  Reassurance, The, 1100

  Receipt to Cure the Vapours, A, 479

  Recessional, 818

  Red, Red Rose, A, 544

  Redemption, 243

  Refined man, The, 862

  Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 495

  Remember Thee, Remember Thee!, 650

  Remembrance, 706

  Remembrance Sunday, 1047

  Removal from Terry Street, A, 1015

  Report on Experience, 899

  Resignation. To Fausta, 711

  Resurrection, The, 362

  Retaliation, 513

  Retreate, The, 303

  Return, The, 833

  Revenge, 674

  Rhyme from Lincolnshire, A, 663

  Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The, 607

  Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts, The, 547

  River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, The, 839

  Rizpah, 786

  Road at My Door, The, 893

  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 732

  Sailing to Byzantium, 892

  Saint-Lô, 963

  Samson Agonistes, 342

  2 Samuel 1:19–27 David lamenteth the death o
f Jonathan, 202

  Sand Martin, 686

  Sangschaw, 889

  Sapphics (Canning and Frere), 545

  Sapphics (Swinburne), 760

  Sarpedon’s Speech to Glaucus in the 12th Book of Homer, 341

  Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General, A, 430

  Satyr against Reason and Mankind, A, 360

  Scherzo. (A Shy Person’s Wishes), A, 765

  School for Scandal, The, 516

  Scorpion, 1027

  Sea and the Mirror, The, 962

  Second Scottish Psalter, The, 301

  Second Voyage, The, 1033

  Secular Masque, The, 405

  Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening, 1091

  Send-Off, The, 858

  Sensitive-Plant, The, 644

  Separation, 721

  September Song, 1011

  Servant, A, 862

  Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni, 737

  Shadows in the Water, 347

  Shall Gaelic Die?, 1016

  Sheep, 830

  Sheep in Fog, 1000

  Sheepheards Description of Love, The, 173

  Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love, The, 129

  Shepheardes Calender, The, 100

  Shield of Achilles, The, 970

  Short Song of Congratulation, A, 518

  Shropshire Lad, A, 815

  Siberia, 707

  Sick Love, 899

  Sick Rose, The, 539

  Silent One, The, 861

  Silex Scintillans, 303

  Silex Scintillans II, 314

  Simplon Pass, The, 699

  Singing School, 1043

  Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, 775

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 33

  Sir Patrick Spence, 495

  Sixe Idillia… chosen out of… Theocritus, 107

  Sixth Satyr of Juvenal, The, 396

  Sky Lark, The, 685

  Small Celandine, The, 593

  Snail, The, 581

  Snayl, The, 324

  Snow (Davidson), 827

  Snow (MacNeice), 913

  Snow in Europe, 950

  Snow Party, The, 1044

  Snow-ball, The, 310

  Soap Suds, 990

  Solemne Long Enduring Passion, A, 188

  Something Else, 1086

  San, rt, 862

  Song. Celia singing, 270

  Song. Endimion Porter, and Olivia, 350

  Song. Love Arm’d, 355

  SONG of a Young LADY. To Her Ancient Lover, A, 392

  Song of Marke Anthony, A, 308

  Song to David, A, 491

  Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres, 297

  Songs of Innocence, 527

  Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 538

  Sonnet. Made upon the Grove near Merlou Castle, 333

  Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It was Frequented by a Lunatic, 546

  Sonnet to Vauxhall, 691

  Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex, 527

  Sorrow, 842

  Sorrow of Love, The, 807

  Speke Parott, 76

  Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves, 794

  Spleen, The, 460

  Spleen. A Pindaric Poem, The, 407

  Stanzas, 700

  Stanzas for Music, 604

  Stare’s Nest by My Window, The, 894

 

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