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The Sale of Saint Thomas (BB)
The End of the World (BB)

(1881 - 1960) - American Newspaperman and parodist, known as a member of the 'Algonquin Round Table' literary circle and as author of 'The Conning Tower' newspaper column

Something Else Again [1920], the complete book of 86 poems and parodies
from Something Else Again:
   Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"
   "It Was a Famous Victory"
   A Psalm of Labouring Life
   Lines on Reading Frank J. Wilstach's "A Dictionary of Similies"
   What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: "Annabel Lee"
from Tobogganing on Parnassus [1910]:
To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour [1915] (BB)
Baseball's Sad Lexicon [1910] (BB)
from In Other Words [1912]
Us Potes (BTH)
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens (BTH)

Henry Brooks Adams

(1838 - 1918) - American Historian

Buddha and Brahma [1915] (WG)

John Quincy Adams

(1767 - 1848) American Poet, Teacher, Diplomat, and Sixth President of the United States from 1825-1829

from Poems of Religion and Society [1848]:
To the Sun-Dial [1840] (NM)
The Wants of Man [1841] (BB)

Sarah Flower Adams

(1805-1848) English Poet and Hymn Writer

Nearer My God to Thee [1840] (BB)

Joseph Addison

(1672 - 1719) English Essayist, Poet, and Playwright

Ode (NM)

A.E. (George William Russell)

(1867 - 1935) Irish Poet and Editor

from Homeward: Songs by the Way [1894]:
   By the Margins of the Great Deep (BB)
   The Hermit (BB)
   Inheritance (BB)
from The Earth Breath [1897]:
Parting (BB)
from New Poems [1904]:
Reconciliation (BB)

Conrad [Potter] Aiken

(1889 - 1973) American Poet, critic, and author; winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Selected Poems"

Senlin: A Biography - the complete cycle of 22 songs [1918]
from Senlin:
Morning Song of Senlin [1918]
Evening Song of Senlin [1918]
Discordants (including Bread and Music) [1914]
All Lovely Things [1916]
Selections from Turns and Movies [1916]
Selections from The Charnel Rose [1918]
Chiarascuro: Rose [1921]
Improvisations: Lights and Snow [1922]

Mark Akenside

(1721 - 1770) English Physician and Poet

from The Poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. [1772]:
Ode on a Sermon Against Glory (BB)

Zoë Akins

(1886 - ?) American Poet

Louisa May Alcott

(1832 - 1888) American Novelist

The Lay of the Golden Goose [1870] (BB)
Our Little Ghost (BB)

Fredric James Alden

Dartmouth Harbor [1893] (JL)

Richard Aldington

Goodbye! [1923]

Anne Reeve Aldrich

American Poet

from Songs About Life, Love and Death [1892]:
Recollection

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

(1836 - 1907) American Author, Editor, and Poet

Memory
Miracles (BB)
Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme (NM)
Reminiscence (NM)
Heredity (NM)
28 Sonnets in Bookshelf Format (BB)
The Sisters' Tragedy, a book of 34 poems by Aldrich in Bookshelf Format
Hesperides (BB)
Before the Rain
After the Rain

Cecil Frances Alexander

(1818 - 1895) English Poet

from Hymns for Little Children [1848]:
All things bright and beauteous

William Allingham

(1824 - 1889) Irish Poet and Editor

from Poems [1850]:
The Fairies (BB)
Amy Margaret's Five Years Old [1882]
from Blackberries [1884]:
Writing (NM)
Meadowsweet (NM)
from Flower Pieces and Other Poems [1888]:
   An Evening (NM)
   Half-waking
   Robin Redbreast

Washington Allston

(1779 - 1843) American Artist, Author, and Poet

from The Sylphs of the Seasons [1813]:
And Now In Accents Deep And Low
On Rembrant
Boyhood

Alqamah

(6th Century)

His Camel (AK)

Anakreon

(6th Century) Greek Lyric Poet

Beauty (AK)
The Grasshopper (AK)
All Things Drink (AK)
English Paraphrases of the Odes of Anacreon - 55 odes translated by Thomas Stanley, Abraham Cowley, and Thomas Moore (BB)

Edwin Arnold

(1832 - 1904) English Poet and Journalist

from Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems [1893]:
   The Musmee (BB)
   A Song (BB)
   Sonnet to America (BB)

George Arnold

American Poet

Matthew Arnold

(1822 - 1888) English Poet and Critic, Professor of Poetry at Oxford

Kenneth H. Ashley

Rudkin [1923]

Margaret Lee Ashley

In April [1913] (BB)

Herbert Asquith

(1881 - 1947) English Soldier

The Fallen Subaltern (BB)
The Volunteer (BB)

Alfred Austin

(1835 - 1913) English Poet and Editor; became England's Poet Laureate in 1896

Love's Trinity (BB)
from Is Life Worth Living? (BB)

Sir Robert Aytoun

(1570 - 1638) Scottish Courtier

To An Inconstant Mistress (BB)

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

(1818 - 1865) Scottish Poet and Parodist

from Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems [1848]:
Blind Old Milton (BB)

Poets 'B' | Poets 'A'

Philip James Bailey

(1816 - 1902) English Poet

from Festus: A Poem [1839]:
   Helen's Song (BB)
   We live in deeds . . . (BB)
   I loved her for that she was beautiful . . . (BB)

Joanna Bailley

(1762 - 1851) Scottish Poet

John Codrington Bampfylde

(1754 - 1796) English poet

Sonnet on a Wet Summer (NM)
Sonnet to the Redbreast (NM)
from Sixteen Sonnets [1778]:
   Sonnet on Christmas (NM)
   Sonnet on Hearing the Torture was Suppressed Throughout the Austrian Dominions, in Consequence of Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments (NM)
   'As when, to one who long hath watched' (BB)
   Written at a Farm (BB)
   On a Frightful Dream (BB)

Janet Norris Bangs

Care [1923]

Benjamin Banneker

(1731-1806) Publisher of an Almanac, vocal opponent of slavery, and street designer for the District of Columbia

A Mathematical Problem in Verse (JL)

Anna Lætitia Barbauld

(1743 - 1825) English Author and Hymnist

William Barnes

(1800 - 1886) English )Dorset Dialect) Poet

Evenén in the Village (BB)

Bernard Barton

(1784 - 1849) English Poet and Hymnist; the English "Quaker Poet"

Katharine Lee Bates

(1859 - 1929) American(Mass.) Educator, Author, and Poet

James Beattie

(1735 - 1803) Scottish Poet and Essayist

Law (BB)
An Epitaph (BB)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

(1803-1849), English Physician, Anatomist, and Poet

from The Bride's Tragedy [1822]:
Poor Old Pilgrim Misery (NM)
A Ho! A Ho! (NM)
from Death's Jest Book, or The Fool's Tragedy [1850]
   If thou wilt ease thine heart (NM)
   To Sea, To Sea! (NM)
   The Swallow Leaves Her Nest (NM)
   A Cypress-Bough, and A Rose-Wreath Sweet (NM)
   Old Adam, The Carrion Crow
from The Poems, Posthumous and Collected [1851]:
   Song of the Stygian Naiades
   Song from The Second Brother (NM)
   Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the Prometheus Unbound (NM)
   Let Dew the Flowers Fill (NM)
   Dream-Pedlary (NM)

Ethyl Lynn Beers

(1827 - 1879), American Poet

The Picket Guard (BB)
Which Shall It Be? (BB)

Aphra Behn

(1640 - 1689) English Author, Poet

[Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc

(1870 - 1953) English Author, Biugrapher, Poet, Journalist, and Essayist; born in France

from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts: [1896]
  Introduction (BB)
  The Yak (BB)
  The Dromedary (BB)
  The Elephant (BB)
  The Whale (BB)
  The Hippopotamus (BB)
  The Marmozet (BB)
  The Big Babboon (BB)
  The Frog (BB)
  The Lion
  The Tiger (JH)
from More Beasts for Worse Children:
  Introduction
  The Scorpion
  The Vulture
  The Microbe
from Cautionary Tales: [1907]
  Henry King 'Who chewed bits of string, and was early cut off in dreadful agonies' (BB)
  Jim 'Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion' (BB)
  Charles Augustus Fortescue 'Who always did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune.'
  Rebecca 'Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably' (JH)
  Franklin Hyde 'Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle' (JH)
  Godolphin Horne 'Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black' (JH)
  Algernon 'Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father' (JH)
  Hildebrand 'o was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason ' (JH)
  George 'Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions ' (JH)
  Lord Lundy 'Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career ' (JH)
  Lord Lundy 'Second Canto' (JH)
from Verses: [1910]
The South Country (BB)
from Sonnets and Verse [1923]:
Ha'nacker Mill (BB)
Tarantella (BB)

John Adams Bellows

Waiting [1893](JL)

William Rose Benét

(1898 - 1943) American Poet and Short-Story Writer; brother of Stephen

Stephen Vincent Benét

(1898 - 1943) American Poet and Short-Story Writer

Young Adventure [1918] - the complete book of 33 poems (BB)
campus Sonnets from Young Adventure:
   Before an Examination
   Talk
   May Morning
   Return --1917

Arthur Christopher Benson

(1862 - 1925) English Poet

February (NM)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

(1875 - 1956) English Journalist and Novelist

from Biography for Beginners: [1905]
Clerihews (BB)

Charles Best

(Late 16th/Early 17th Cent.) Elizabethan Gentleman

A Sonnet of the Moon (BB)

Francis Bickley

The Players (BB)

Ambrose [Gwinnet] Bierce

(1842-1914) American Journalist, Satirist

from Black Beetles in Amber: [1892]
   The Key Note (NM)
   Matter for Gratitude (NM)
   The Legatee (NM)
   Adair Welcker, Poet (NM)
   On the Wedding of an Aeronaut (NM)
   A Wreath of Immortelles (NM)
from The Cynic's Word Book: [1906]
   Alone
   Freedom
   Egotist (NM)
   Elegy (NM)
Another Way

Laurence Binyon

(1869 - 1943) English Poet and Art Critic

from The Secret [1920]:
   Nothing is enough!
   The rain was ending, and light
   In the shadow of a broken house
   In the high leaves of a walnut
   The House that Was
   The Wood's Entry
   The Children Dancing
   Commercial
   The Tamarisk Hedge
Men of Verdun (BB)
To the Belgians (BB)
For the Fallen (BB)
The Healers (BB)
The Anvil (BB)
Edith Cavell (BB)
Magnets [1923]
The Zeppelin (BB)

Joseph Warren Bishop

The Lament of the Late Riser [1893] (JL)

William Blake

(1757 - 1827) English Poet, Artist, Mystic, Engraver, Publisher

Jerusalem [1820]
Auguries of Innocence "To see a World in a Grain of Sand..."
Song [1783]
The Two Songs [1794]
Love's Secret [1794]
Songs of Innocence and Experience [1789]
from Songs of Innocence:
Introduction
The Echoing Green
from Songs of Experience[1794]:
   The Clod and the Pebble
   The Tyger
   A Poison Tree (CK)
   The Divine Image (CK)

Laman Blanchard

(1803-1845) English Writer

Hidden Joys (BB)
The Mother's Hope (BB)

Mathilde Blind

(1841 - 1896) English Poet, born in Germany

Songs and Sonnets [1893] - A Complete Book of 86 Poems
Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and the Occident [1895] - A Complete Book of 53 Poems
Lassitude
The Sower
Reapers

Maxwell Bodenheim

City Girl [1923]

Louise Bogan

(1897 - 1970) American Poet

from Body of this Death [1923]:
Women [1922] (BB)
Medusa [1921]
Portrait [1922]
A Tale [1921]
Epitaph for a Romantic Woman [1923]

George Henry Boker

(1823 - 1890) American Poet, Playwright and Diplomat

The Awaking of the Poetic Faculty (BB)
Love is that orbit . . . (BB)

John Henry Boner

The Lightwood Fire

Gordon Bottomly

(1874 - 1948) English Poet and Playwright

The Ploughman
To Iron-Founders and Others (BB)
The End of the World from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series (BB)
Babel: The Gate of God from 'Chambers of Imagery,' 2nd series (BB)
King Lear's Wife (BB)

Francis William Bourdillon

(1852 - 1921)

William Lisle Bowles

(1762 - 1850) English Clergyman

Fourteen Sonnets [1789] (BB)

Gamaliel Bradford

American (Mass.) Poet

Anne Bradstreet

(1612 - 1672) American Puritian Poet, born in England

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

(1796 - 1828) American Poet, Attorney, and Journalist

The Fall of Niagara [1825] (NM)
Epithalamium [1825] (NM)
The Indian Summer [1825] (NM)
The Two Comets [1825] (NM)
Stanzas

William Stanley Braithwaite

(1878 - 1962) American poet, editor and educator

from The House of Falling Leaves [1908]:
The House of Falling Leaves (BB)

Nicholas Breton

(1545 - 1626 or thereabouts) English Poet, stepson of George Gascoigne

Lt. Paul Brewsher

The Dawn Patrol (BB)

Robert [Seymour] Bridges

(1844-1930) English Poet and Doctor, England's poet Laureate (1913-1930)

from Poems by the Author of The Growth of Love [1879]:
I Have Loved Flowers That Fade (NM)
A Passer-by (NM)
from Poems by the Author of The Growth of Love, Third Series [1880]:
London Snow (NM)
from Shorter Poems, Book V [1893]:
North Wind in October (NM)
The Evening Darkens Over
My Delight and Thy Delight
Nightingales
Low Barometer
I Love All Beauteous Things
"For Beauty Being the Best of All We Know" (NM)
To the United States of America (BB)
Lord Kitchener (BB)

Mabel Down [Northam] Brine

(1816 - 1913), American Children's Writer

Somebody's Mother [1878] (BB)

Alexander Brome

(1620 - 1666) English Poet, Attorney and Royalist Soldier

The Royalist (BB)
For General Monk, his entertainment at Clothworkers' Hall (BB)
The Mad Lover (BB)
The Resolve (NM)
Courtship (NM)
To a Painted Lady (NM)
The Anti-Politician (NM)
To His Friend J. H. (NM)

Anne Brontë

(1820 - 1849) English Poet; Sister to Branwell, Charlotte, and Emily

Branwell Brontë

(1817 - 1848) Brother to Anne, Charlotte, and Emily

Thorp Green

Charlotte Brontë

(1816 - 1855) English Novelist, Poet, Teacher

Emily Brontë

(1818 - 1848) English Novelist, Poet

The Night
Remembrance (CS)
Holyday
The Sun Has Set
No Coward Soul is Mine [1850] - according to Charlotte, this was her last poem (BB)
The Old Stoic
Shall Earth no more inspire thee
If grief for grief can touch thee
'Tis moonlight
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending
Come hither, child
Mild the mist upon the hill
Love and Friendship (BTH)
I Know Not How It Falls on Me [1831] (SUB)
The Visionary [1850] (SUB)

Rupert Brooke

(1887 - 1915) English Poet, died in WWI

the Collected Poems - the complete book of 82 poems, plus a biography, maintained by Bob Blair as part of the War Poets collection
1914 (Parts I-V) [1915]
The Chilterns
Retrospect
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (BB)
Dust (BB)
The Fish (BB)
Town and Country (BB)
Dining-room Tea (BB)
Tiare Tahiti (BB)
The Great Lover (BB)
Beauty and Beauty (BB)
Heaven (BB)
Clouds (BB)
Sonnet (BB)
The Soldier (BB)

Phillips Brooks

(1835 - 1893) American Episcopal Bishop

Christmas Everywhere (JL)
Bethlehem

William Broome

(1689 - 1745) English Poet

To a Lady of Thirty (NM)
The Rose-Bud (NM)

Thomas Edward Brown

(1830 - 1897) Manx clergyman

My Garden (BB)

William Browne of Tavistock

(1590-1645) English Poet, Lawyer, Oxford Tutor, Country Squire

Song (NM)
from Britannia's Pastorals
   Gentle Nymphs, Be Not Refusing (NM)
   So Shuts The Marigold Her Leaves (NM)
   As I Have Seen Upon A Bridal Day (NM)
A Round (NM)
Shall I Love Again (NM)
Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing (NM)
On The Dowager Countess Of Pembroke (NM)
A Rose, As Fair As Ever Saw The North (NM)
Down In A Valley, By A Forest's Side (NM)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(1806 - 1861) English Poet, married to Robert Browning

Sonnnets from the Portuguese - all 44 poems [1850] (BB)
Sonnet XLIII "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
A Musical Instrument (BH)
Change upon Change (BH)
Grief (BH)
Lord Walter's Wife
The Best Thing in the World
The Cry of the Children [1843]

Robert Browning

(1812 - 1889) English Poet, married to Elizabeth Barret Browning

from Paracelsus 1835
Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes (NM)
from Dramatic Lyrics 1843
Porphyria's Lover (NM)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (NM)
from Pippa Passes [1841]:
Pippa's Song [1841]
from Dramatic Lyrics [1843]:
My Last Duchess (BB)
Incident of the French Camp (BB)
from Dramatic Romances and Lyrics [1845]:
   How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix (BB)
   Meeting at Night
   Parting at Morning
   Home Thoughts, From Abroad (BB)
from Men and Women [1855]:
   A Grammarian's Funeral, Shortly After the Revival of Learning in Europe (BB)
   My Star
   The Statue and the Bust (SM)
from Dramatis Personae [1864]:
   Rabbi Ben Ezra "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be..." (BB)
   Abt Volger
   Prospice (BB)
from The Ring and the Book [1868]:
O lyric Love (NM)
from Fifine at the Fair [1872]:
Prologue: Amphibian (NM)
from Dramatic Idyls, Second Series [1880]:
Pan and Luna (NM)
from Ferishtah's Fancies [1884]:
Man I am and man would be, Love (NM)
Verse-making was least of my virtues (NM)
Why I Am A Liberal [1885] (NM)
from Asolando: Fancies and Facts [1890]:
   Summum Bonum
   Now (BB)
   Prologue (NM)
   Epilogue (NM)

William Cullen Bryant

(1794-1878) American Poet, Editor, and Lawyer

Thanatopsis[1817] (BB)
To a Waterfowl [1817] (BB)
To the Fringed Gentian (BB)
June (JM)
A Forest Hymn "The groves were God's first temples..." (JM)
Consumption (JM)
The Death of the Flowers (JM)
The Death of Lincoln (JFB)
The Strange Lady
The Skies
October
November
The Gladness of Nature
from Poems [1832]:
After a Tempest (NM)
Summer Wind (NM)
from Poems, Collected and Arranged by the Author [1872]:
The Constellations (NM)
The Yellow Violet
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
Mutation
Hymn of the City

Henry Cuyler Bunner

(1855 - 1896) American Poet and Fiction Writer, Reporter and Magazine Editor('Puck'); friend of Twain

Dana Burnet

The Battle of Liège (BB)

Robert Burns

(1759 - 1796) Scottish National Poet, Tennant Farmer, Exciseman

A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne (times long gone)
Afton Water
Of A' the Airts
Address to a Haggis (BB)
The Banks o' Doon
The Gloomy Night is Gath'ring Fast
John Barleycorn: A Ballad (BB)
Address To The Unco Guid
To A Louse [1786] (BB)
To A Mouse [1786] "...The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men..." (BB)
Epistle to a Young Friend (BB)
For A' That (BB)
Comin' Thro the Rye - verse used in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (BB)
Go Fetch To Me a Pint (BB)
Ae Fond Kiss (BB)
My Heart's in the Highlands (BB)
My Love, She's But a Lassie Yet (BB)
Bonie Lesley (BB)
John Anderson My Jo (BB)
Green Grow the Rashes (BB)
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn (BB)

Amelia Josephine Burr

(1878 - ?) American Poet

Perugia [1913] (BB)

John Burroughs

(1837 - 1921) American Naturalist and Essayist

Waiting [1863] (BB)

C. Kennet Burrow

Sheep

Richard [Eugene] Burton

(1861 - 1940)

Human [1913] (BB)
Here Lies Pierrot [1913] (BB)

Witter Bynner

(1881 - 1968) American Poet and Translator; also used the pen name Emmanuel Morgan

Lest I Learn [1913] (BB)
Train-Mates [1913] (BB)
Wistaria [1923]

John Byrom

English stenographer and inventer of a shorthand writing system

On Clergymen Preaching Politics (BB)
Hymn for Christmas Day (BB)

Lord Byron, George Gordon

(1788 - 1824) English Poet, one of the best known Romantic Poets

From Hours of Idleness [1807]
I Would I Were a Careless Child
Hebrew Melodies the complete collection of 29 poems (BB)
from Hebrew Melodies:
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib (CK)
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [1812-1816]
   Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore (song following Canto I, verse 13)
   He Who Ascends to Mountain-Tops (Canto III, verse 45)
   There is a pleasure in the pathless woods (Canto IV, Verse 178)
Occasional Pieces:
   When We Two Parted [1816]
   Stanzas for Music "There be none of beauty's daughters With a magic like thee..." [1816]
   So We'll Go No More A'Roving [1817]
   Sonnet to Lake Leman [1816] (BB)
   Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (BB)
Don Juan (BB) - Bob's annotated version
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (BB)
The Prisoner of Chillon (BB)
Sonnet to Lake Leman (BB)
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (BB)

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