Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Kraken
Mariana
The Lady of Shalott
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
Tithonus
Locksley Hall
Break, Break, Break
Sweet and Low
The Splendor Falls
Tears, Idle Tears
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Flower in the Crannied Wall
Crossing the Bar
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
Thomas Hood
The Song of the Shirt
The Bridge of Sighs
Time of Roses
The Death-bed
Edward Lear
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
The Jumblies
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Porphyia's Lover
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
The Lost Leader
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
Fra Lippo Lippi
A Toccata of Galuppi's
The Last Ride Together
Adrea del Sarto
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Caliban upon Setebos
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
I I thought once how Theocritus had sung
V I lift my heavy heart up solemnlym
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XX Belovèd, my Belovèd, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again,
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
XXXV If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
XLI I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,
XLIII How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
XLIV Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
Grief
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
A Musical Instrument
Edward FitzGerald
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám
Emily Brontë
Stars
Remembrance
Song
The Prisoner: A Fragment
Hope
How Clear She Shines
The Old Stoic
The Night-Wind
No Coward Soul Is Mine
Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
The Latest Decalogue
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
To a Friend
The Foresaken Merman
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
The Buried Life
The Scholar Gipsy
To Marguerite
The Last World
Coventry Patmore
Departure
The Toys
A Farewell
Magna Est Veritas
Woman
Thoughts
The Kiss
Auras of Delight
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight
Seed-Time
From Modern Love
I By this he knew she wept with waking eyes:
II It ended, and the morrow brought the task.
III This was the woman; what now of the man?
V A message from her set his brain aflame.
XVI In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour,
XXXIV Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes:
XLV It is the season of the sweet wild rose,
XLVI At last we parely: we so strangely dumb
XLIX He found her by the ocean's moaning verge,
L Thus piteously Love closed what he begat.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessèd Damozel
The Choice
The Woodspurge
Penumbra
The Sea-Limits
From The House of Life
A Sonnet
III Love's Testament
IV Lovesight
XI The Love-Letter
XIX Silent Noon
XXVII Heart's Compass
XLIII Love and Hope
XLVIII Death-in-Love
XLIX Willowwood 1
L Willowwood 2
LI Willowwood 3
LII Willowwood 4
XCVII A Superscription
CI The One Hope
Christina Rossetti
A Triad
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An Apple Gathering
Winter: My Secret
"No, Thank You, John"
Song
A Portrait
Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky
The Walrus and the Carpenter
James Thomson
The Bridge
Midsummer Courtship
Art
In the Room
William Morris
The Message of the March Wind
Summer Dawn
Shameful Death
The Sailing of the Sword
Love Is Enough
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Hymn to Proserpine
Chorus from 'Atalanta'
Super Flumina Babylonis
Love and Sleep
Child's Song
A Ballad of Life
A Ballad of Death
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur
The Starlight Night
Spring
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Duns Scotus's Oxford
Felix Randal
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Spring and Fall
(Carrion Comfort)
No Worst, There Is None, Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
Tom's Garland
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend
William Ernest Henley
Invictus
On the Way to Kew
Oscar Wilde
Hélas!
Impression du Matin
E Tenebris
Impressions
1. Les Silhouettes
2. La Fuite de la Lune
The Harlots House
Symphony in Yellow
Francis Thompson
The Hound of Heaven
Rudyard Kipling
Danny Deever
Gunga Din
The Widow at Windsor
If-
Recessional
The Female of the Species
Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
To One in Bedlam
A Last Word
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