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British Poetry
Ted Hughes, “Rain”
14 Mar 2025
How Death Comes (a poem from 1250)
5 Mar 2025
A Love Poem that Still Stings After 700 Years
3 Mar 2025
An anonymous poem of incredible cynicism, from c. 1325
30 Jan 2025
Geoffrey Chaucer, “Ballade to Rosamund”
29 Jan 2025
“Smoke-blackened smiths” (an anonymous poem from c. 1450)
24 Jan 2025
“A Friar Complains” (anonymous poem from c. 1500)
23 Jan 2025
2 Early Versions of “The Holly and the Ivy”
22 Jan 2025
Thomas Wyatt, “What does this mean?”
20 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: 3 Sonnets on Love, Lust, and Exhaustion
17 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “I stay too long by thee; I weary thee” (from Henry IV pt. 2)
16 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: King Lear Out in the Elements
15 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
Ben Jonson, from “The Triumph of Charis”
9 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”
8 Jan 2025
Henry King, “The Exequy”
6 Jan 2025
George Herbert, “The Flower”
30 Dec 2024
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”
26 Dec 2024
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
23 Dec 2024
Anne Finch, “Adam Pos’d”
20 Dec 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
18 Dec 2024
Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring”
16 Dec 2024
Gilbert White, “The Naturalist’s Summer-Evening Walk”
13 Dec 2024
Mark Akenside, from “The Pleasures of Imagination”
12 Dec 2024
Joseph Warton, from “The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature”
11 Dec 2024
Mary Leapor, “Mira’s Will”
9 Dec 2024
Thomas Cole, from “The Life of Hubert”
6 Dec 2024
Thomas Warton, “Sonnet: To the River Lodon”
5 Dec 2024
William Cowper, from “The Task”
28 Nov 2024
Thomas Holcroft, “Gaffer Gray”
27 Nov 2024
George Farewell, from “The Country Man”
25 Nov 2024
2 Anonymous Poems from the 18th Century
21 Nov 2024
William Blake, 3 excerpts from “Jerusalem” on Creativity & Vision
20 Nov 2024
William Wordsworth, Three Sonnets on How to Live
15 Nov 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”
14 Nov 2024
Walter Savage Landor, “Separation”
13 Nov 2024
John Clare, “An Invite to Eternity”
11 Nov 2024
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
7 Nov 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “’Tis better to have loved and lost”: 3 poems from “In Memoriam”
6 Nov 2024
Emily Brontë, “The night is darkening round me”
4 Nov 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”
31 Oct 2024
Christina Rossetti, “A Dirge”
28 Oct 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
27 Oct 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”
25 Oct 2024
A. E. Housman, “I hoed and trenched and weeded”
24 Oct 2024
Walter de la Mare, “The Scarecrow”
2 Oct 2024
Edward Thomas, “Rain”
29 Sep 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Everyone Sang”
23 Sep 2024
T. S. Eliot, “Preludes”
19 Sep 2024
Wilfred Owen, 2 War Poems
18 Sep 2024
Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse”
29 Aug 2024
Derek Walcott, “Sea Grapes”
8 Aug 2024
Ted Hughes, “October Salmon”
7 Aug 2024
Frances Horovitz, “Rain – Birdoswald”
4 Aug 2024
Alice Oswald, “The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards”
15 Jul 2024
Two Anonymous Poems from ca. 1325
14 Jul 2024
William Langland, from “The Vision of Piers Plowman”
12 Jul 2024
Geoffrey Chaucer, from “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
11 Jul 2024
Two Anonymous Poems from ca. 1500
10 Jul 2024
Alexander Barclay, from “Certayne Ecloges”
8 Jul 2024
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes”
7 Jul 2024
Edward Dyer, “A Silent Love”
5 Jul 2024
George Turberville, “To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule”
4 Jul 2024
Edmund Spenser, “The Garden of Adonis”
3 Jul 2024
Philip Sidney, “Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show”
2 Jul 2024
Chidiock Tichborne, “My prime of youth is but a froste of cares”
1 Jul 2024
William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”
30 Jun 2024
Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love”
28 Jun 2024
Thomas Campion, “Never weather-beaten Saile”
27 Jun 2024
Ben Jonson, “On My First Sonne”
26 Jun 2024
John Donne, “Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed”
24 Jun 2024
Katharine, Lady Dyer, “My dearest dust could not thy hasty day”
23 Jun 2024
Henry King, “A Contemplation upon Flowers”
21 Jun 2024
George Herbert, “The Pearl”
20 Jun 2024
William Cartwright, “No Platonique Love”
18 Jun 2024
Ralph Knevet, “The Vote”
17 Jun 2024
2 Anonymous Poems from 1600
16 Jun 2024
Thomas Randolph, “Upon His Picture”
14 Jun 2024
John Milton, from “Paradise Lost”
13 Jun 2024
Richard Crashaw, from “The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa”
11 Jun 2024
John Bunyan, “Valiant-for-Truth’s Song”
9 Jun 2024
Andrew Marvell, “The Garden”
6 Jun 2024
Katharine Philips, “To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. 17th. July 1651”
5 Jun 2024
Thomas Traherne, “The Preparative”
4 Jun 2024
Richard Leigh, “Greatness in Little”
31 May 2024
Anne Finch, “A Nocturnal Reverie”
30 May 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
29 May 2024
James Thomson, from “Summer”
28 May 2024
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
26 May 2024
Christopher Smart, from “Jubilate Agno”
24 May 2024
William Cowper, “The Contrite Heart”
22 May 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Work Without Hope”
20 May 2024
William Blake, “Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring” (from “Milton”)
19 May 2024
Mary Robinson, “A London Summer Morning”
17 May 2024
William Wordsworth, “Was it for this”
16 May 2024
Walter Savage Landor, “The leaves are falling; so am I”
13 May 2024
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Adonais”
12 May 2024
John Clare, “Mouse’s Nest”
10 May 2024
John Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
8 May 2024
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 3 Sonnets from the Portuguese
5 May 2024
Edward Fitzgerald, from “The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam”
3 May 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
2 May 2024
Emily Brontë, “Remembrance”
1 May 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
29 Apr 2024
Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill”
26 Apr 2024
William Morris, “Pomona”
23 Apr 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed”
22 Apr 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
21 Apr 2024
A. Mary F. Robinson, “Twilight”
17 Apr 2024
E. Nesbit, “The Things That Matter”
15 Apr 2024
A. E. Housman, “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”
14 Apr 2024
May Kendall, “The Lay of the Trilobite”
12 Apr 2024
Walter de la Mare, “The Railway Junction”
11 Apr 2024
Charlotte Mew, “À quoi bon dire”
7 Apr 2024
Laurence Binyon, from “The Burning of the Leaves”
6 Apr 2024
John Masefield, “Sea-Fever”
29 Mar 2024
Edward Thomas, “Digging”
26 Mar 2024
T. E. Hulme, “Image”
20 Mar 2024
D. H. Lawrence, “The Piano”
17 Mar 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Attack”
13 Mar 2024
Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
11 Mar 2024
T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
10 Mar 2024
C. Day-Lewis, “My Mother’s Sister”
1 Mar 2024
V. Sackville-West, “Craftsmen”
28 Feb 2024
Wilfred Owen, “Disabled”
26 Feb 2024
Ruth Pitter, “But For Lust”
25 Feb 2024
Stevie Smith, “Dirge”
14 Feb 2024
Kathleen Raine, “Two Invocations of Death”
12 Feb 2024
Stephen Spender, “I think continually of those who were truly great”
7 Feb 2024
George Barker, “To My Mother”
28 Jan 2024
Laurie Lee, “Milkmaid”
16 Jan 2024
Charles Causley, “Eden Rock”
14 Jan 2024
Philip Larkin, “Here”
10 Jan 2024
Karen Gershon, “I Was Not There”
9 Jan 2024
Molly Holden, “Photograph of a Haymaker, 1890”
3 Jan 2024
George Theiner, “The Fly”
1 Jan 2024
Peter Porter, “Eat Early Earthapples”
31 Dec 2023
Roy Fisher, “The Entertainment of War”
29 Dec 2023
Derek Walcott, “Tales of the Islands #10”
28 Dec 2023
Ted Hughes, “Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days”
27 Dec 2023
Sean O’Brien, “Cousin Coat”
13 Dec 2023
Alice Oswald, “Various Portents”
11 Dec 2023
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