The Penguin Book of English Verse
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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