English Romantic Poets

CHILDHOOD JOHN CLARE     Childhood WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There was a boy JOHN CLARE     Evening Schoolboys WILLIAM BLAKE         Song of Experience: The chimney sweeper WILLIAM BLAKE         Song of Innocence: Infant Joy WILLIAM BLAKE         Song of Experience: Infant Sorrow WILLIAM BLAKE         Song of Innocence: Holy Thursday WILLIAM BLAKE         Song of Experience: Holy Thursday MARY ROBINSON     The savage of Aveyron FELICIA HEMANS       Casabianca   MEMORY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  To the River Otter WILLIAM COWPER    from The Task: Winter’s Evening SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Frost at midnight WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS  from A Farewell, for two years, to England JOHN CLARE     Remembrances JOHN CLARE     The flitting JOANNA BAILLIE        To Mrs Siddons   INFLUENCE OF NATURAL OBJECTS CHARLOTTE SMITH  Written at the close of spring ROBERT BURNS        To a mountain-daisy WILLIAM BLAKE         Ah! sunflower HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS  Sonnet to the strawberry WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Influence of natural objects SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  This lime-tree bower my prison PERCY SHELLEY        Mont Blanc DOROTHY WORDSWORTH      Floating island ROBERT SOUTHEY   The cataract of Lodore LETITIA LANDON      Airey Force CHARLOTTE SMITH  from Beachy Head JOHN CLARE     The pettichap’s nest JOHN CLARE     Pewit’s nest JOHN CLARE     The skylark PERCY SHELLEY        To a skylark LEIGH HUNT     To the grasshopper and the cricket JOHN KEATS      On the grasshopper and cricket JOHN KEATS      To Autumn JOHN CLARE     from The Shepherd’s Calendar: October PERCY SHELLEY        Ode to the west wind JOHN CLARE     Emmonsails heath in winter JOHN CLARE     Snow Winter fields LORD BYRON   from Childe Harold’s pilgrimage FELICIA HEMANS       The rock of Cader Idris JOHN KEATS      On the sea WILLIAM BLAKE         The tyger   SOCIETY AND POLITICS WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Old man travelling MARY ROBINSON     London’s summer morning WILLIAM BLAKE         London WILLIAM BLAKE         The garden of love HANNAH MORE        from Slavery: A Poem ROBERT SOUTHEY   Poems on the slave trade: sonnet VI WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To Toussaint L’Ouverture WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from The Prelude: Residence in France WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Jones! As from Calais southwards WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Composed by the sea-side, near Calais PERCY SHELLEY        The mask of anarchy PERCY SHELLEY        England in 1819 JOHN CLARE     The fallen elm WILLIAM BLAKE         from Auguries of innocence WILLIAM WORDSWORTH          Resolution and independence WILLIAM BLAKE         Preface to Milton: And did those feet   LOVE LORD BYRON   She walks in beauty like the night JOHN KEATS      The eve of St Agnes LORD BYRON   from Don Juan LORD BYRON   So, we’ll go no more a’roving THOMAS MOORE      Alone in crowds to wander on JOHN CLARE     Song: True love lives in absence LETITIA LANDON      Juliet after the masquerade THOMAS CAMPBELL Freedom and love   JOURNEYS OF THE IMAGINATION JOHN KEATS      On first looking into Chapman’s Homer WILLIAM BLAKE         The crystal cabinet JOHN KEATS      La belle dame sans merci SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner GEORGE CRABBE      from Peter Grimes SIR WALTER SCOTT from Marmion: the arrival of Lochinvar INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY JOHN KEATS      Ode to a nightingale WILLIAM BLAKE         The sick rose WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from Lyrical Ballads: three ‘Lucy’ songs SAMUEL ROGERS      A wish SIR WALTER SCOTT Proud Maisie PERCY SHELLEY        Ozymandias HORACE SMITH         On a stupendous leg of granite JOHN KEATS      Ode on a Grecian urn LORD BYRON   Darkness JOHN KEATS      Bright star PERCY SHELLEY        from Adonais LORD BYRON   On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year JOHN CLARE     Sonnet: I am JOHN CLARE     Lines: I am WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Surprised by joy FELICIA HEMANS       To Wordsworth WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ode: Intimations of Immortality JOHN CLARE     An invite to eternity   List of Poets