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(1831 - 1884) English poet, humorist, parodist, and translator; his promising career as a lawyer was cut short by a severe head injury which, however, did not impair his mental faculties.

from Fly Leaves [1872]:
   Companions (NM)
    Lovers and a Reflection (NM)
   The Auld Wife (NM)
   Forever (NM)
   Changed (NM)

A. Y. Campbell

The Dromedary

Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)

(1881 - ?) Irish poet

Robert Argyle Campbell

Valentine Song [1893] (JL)

Thomas Campbell

(1777 - 1844) Scottish poet and Journalist

Lord Ullin's Daughter (BB)
Hohenlinden (BB)
Ye Mariners of England (BB)
Lines on Revisiting a Scottish River (NM)
Field Flowers (NM)
Song to the Evening Star (NM)
The Spectre Boat (NM)
The Lover to His Mistress, On Her Birthday (NM)

Wilfred Campbell

(1861 - 1918) Canadian Poet

How One Winter Came in the Lake Region (BB)
Langemarck at Ypres (BB)

Thomas Campion

(1567 - 1620) English Poet, Composer, and Doctor

The Garden
Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air [1617]
Follow Thy Fair Sun (NM)
Now Winter Nights Enlarge (NM)
Amaryllis (NM)
from A Book of Airs:
   Corinna (NM)
   My Sweetest Lesbia -- An immitation of Catullus (BB)
   When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground (BB)
from Observations in the Art of English Poesy:
Rose-Cheeked Laura (BB)

Thomas Carew

(1594 - 1640) English Poet

from Poems: [1640]
   Disdain Returned
   Song: Mediocrity in Love Rejected (NM)
   Song (NM)
   Song: Persuasions to Enjoy (NM)
   The Spring (NM)
   A Divine Mistress (NM)
   Song: Eternity of Love Protested (NM)
   To Saxham (NM)
   Elegy for Maria Wentworth (NM)
   An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul's (NM)

Henry Carey

(1690? - 1743) English poet and Musician

Sally In Our Alley (BB)
God Save the King [1740] (BB)

[William] Bliss Carman

(1861 - 1929) Canadian Poet

Julia A. (Fletcher) Carney

(1823 - 1908)

Little Things (BB)
Think Gently of the Erring (BB)

Sir John Carr

(1732-1807) English Barrister and Travel Writer

Sonnet Upon a Swedish Cottage (BB)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

(1832 - 1898) English mathematician and Author, best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [1865]:
   Prologue (BB)
   How doth the little crocodile... {Chapter 2} (BB)
   You are old, father William... {Chapter 5} (BB)
   Speak roughly to your little boy... {Chapter 6} (BB)
   The Lobster-Quadrille {Chapter 10} (BB)
   The Voice of the Lobster {Chapter 10} (BB)
   Beautiful Soup {Chapter 10} (BB)
from Through the Looking Glass [1871]:
   Prologue (BB)
   Jabberwocky {Chapter 1} (CK)
   The Walrus and the Carpenter {Chapter 4} (BB)
   The Knight's Song {Chapter 8} (BB)
   Epilogue (BB)
The Hunting of the Snark [1876]
from Sylvia and Bruno:
The Mad Gardener's Song (JH)
The Pig's Tale (JH)

William Herbert Carruth

(1859 - 1924) American Educator

Charles Edward Carryl

(1840 - 1920) American Poet

A Nautical Ballad
Robinsoin Crusoe (NM)

Alice Cary

(1820 - 1871) American Poet and Fiction Writer; Political Activist; sister of Phoebe Cary

from The Last Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary [1873]
Autumn (NM)
from The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary [1882]
January (NM)
April (BB)
A Dream (BB)

Phoebe Cary

(1824 - 1871) American Poet and Parodist; friend of Whittier and P. T. Barnum

The Leak in the Dike (BB)
from Poems and Parodies [1854]
   Jacob (NM)
   When Lovely Woman (NM)
   Ballad of the Canal (NM)
The Lovers (BB)

Willa [Sibert] Cather

(1876 - 1947) American Fiction Writer and Journalist

A Likeness [1913] (BB)
Spanish Johnny (BB)

Madison [Julius] Cawein

(1868 - 1914) American Poet

John White Chadwick

(1840 - 1904) American poet, Unitarian minister, and author of works on ethics, biography, and literary criticism

Patrick R. Chalmers

Irish writer

The Guns of Verdun (BB)

Grace Ellery Channing

Qui Vive? (BB)

Geoffrey Chaucer

(1340-1400) English Poet, Satirist

John Vance Cheney

Great is To-day

Cecil Chesterton

(1879 - 1918) English Editor; brother of G.K.Chesterton

France (BB)

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

(1874 - 1936) English Journalist, Author, Poet

from Poems [1915]:
   Lepanto [1915] (BB)
   A Cider Song (BB)
   Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode (BB)
   A Song of Defeat (BB)
   The New Freethinker (BB)
   A Hymn (BB)
   The Shakespeare Memorial (BB)
   The Secret People (BB)
   A Ballade of Suicide (BB)
from The Flying Inn [1914]:
   The Rolling English Road [1914] (BB)
   The Englishman (BB)
   Wine and Water (BB)
   The Song of the Oak (BB)
   The Song against Grocers (BB)
   The Road to Roundabout (BB)
   Who Goes Home? (BB)
A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan [1915] (BB)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard [1922] (BB)
The Donkey (SM)
The Song of Elf - a fragment from the Ballad of the White Horse (BB)
The Wife of Flanders (BB)

Lydia Maria Child

(1802-1880) American Poet, Novelist, Editor

from Flowers for Children [1844]:
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day (NM)

Oscar C.A. Child

To a Hero (BB)

Colley Cibber

(1671 - 1757), English Dramatist; Poet Laureate from 1730

The Blind Boy (BB)

John Clare

(1793 - 1864) English Poet

George Herbert Clarke

American Educator, Editor of the Sewanee Review

Lines Written in Surrey, 1917 (BB)
The Virgin of Albert (BB)

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

(1876 - 1959) American Socialist

Elizabeth C. Clephane

(1830 - 1869) Scottish Orphan and Children's Writer

The Ninety and Nine (BB)
Beneath the Cross (BB)

John Cleveland

(1613 - 1658) Cavalier poet

Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford [1653] (BB)
Mark Antony (NM)
Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising (NM)

Reginald McIntosh Cleveland

Destroyers off Jutland(BB)

'V' (Carolyn Clive)

(1803 - 1873) English Poet

Old Age

Arthur Hugh Clough

(1819 - 1861) English Poet

Amours de Voyage, edited by Ed Brandon
from Ambarvalia [1849]:
In a Lecture Room
from Poems [1862]:
   Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
   The Last Decalogue
   In the Depths
   Noli Aemulari
   Through a Glass Darkly
   Ah! Yet Consider It Again!
How in all wonder . . . (BB)
from The Poems and Prose Remains [1869]:
The Thread of Truth
All Is Well
from Songs in Absence:
Ye Flags of Piccadilly
from Dipsychus
'There Is No God,' the Wicked Saith

Florence Earle Coates

(1850 - 1927) American Poet

Mary E. Coleridge

(1861 - 1907) English Poet, Great Niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hartley Coleridge

(1796 - 1849) English 'Man of Letters', eldest son of Samuel

Address to Certain Goldfishes (BB)
November (BB)
She is not Fair to Outward View (BB)
To Wordsworth (BB)
The Flight of Youth (BB)
"How long I sailed . . . " (BB)
No Life Vain (BB)
"Long time a child . . . " (BB)
"Full well I know . . . " (BB)
Written on the Anniversary of Our Father's Death (BB)
Christmas Day (NM)
September (NM)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772 - 1834) English Poet and Critic

from Poems on Various Subjects [1796]:
The Eoliean Harp (NM)
from Lyrical Ballads [1798]:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
from Fears in Solitude [1798]:
Frost at Midnight (NM)
from Annual Anthology [1800]:
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (NM)
from Christabel [1816]:
Christabel (BB)
Kubla Khan
from The Bijou [1828]:
Work Without Hope (BB)
from Friendship's Offering [1834]:
Cologne (BB)
Metrical Feet (BB)

William Collins

(1721 - 1759) English Poet

Ode (BB)
Ode to Evening (BB)

Helen Gray Cone

(1859 - 1934) American Poet

A Chant of Love for England (BB)

Grace Hazard Conkling

(1878 - ?) American Poet

The Rheims Cathedral -- 1914 (BB)

Henry Constable

(1562 - 1613) English Poet

Ebenezer Cook

The Sot-Weed Factor [i.e. the tobacco seller] (AK)
with an Introduction by Arthur Kay

Eliza Cook

(1818 - 1889)

Where There's a Will There's a Way

Rose Terry Cooke

(1827 - 1892) American Poet, Novelist, and Short Story Writer

from Poems [1861]:
Blue-Beard's Closet
from Poems [1888]:
Arachne (NM)

Frances Cornford (nee Frances Crofts Darwin)

(1886 - 1960) English Poet

Barry Cornwall

(1787-1874) pen name of Bryan Waller Procter, English barrister and administrator

William [Johnson] Cory

(1823 - 1892) English Poet and Teacher

Heraclitus (BB)

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

(1895 - 1919) African-American poet; precursor to the Harlem Renaissance; died of tuberculosis at 24

The Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics [1918] a book of 25 poems in bookshelf format
selections from The Band of Gideon:
   A Prayer (NM)
   And What Shall You Say? (NM)
   Is It Because I Am Black? (NM)
   Supplication (NM)
Poems [1922] a book of 14 poems in bookshelf format
selections from Poems:
Rain Music (NM)

Charles Cotton

(1630 - 1687) English poet and translator

from Poems [1689]:
   The Angler's Ballad (NM)
   Clepsydra (NM)
   The Morning Quatrains (NM)
   The Noon Quatrains (NM)
   The Evening Quatrains (NM)
   The Night Quatrains (NM)

Sgt Leslie Coulson

(? - 1916) English Soldier

But a Short Time to Live (BB)

Abraham Cowley

(1618 - 1667) English Poet

William Cowper

(1731 - 1800) English Poet, Translater, noted Letter-Writer

Verses
Olney Hymns - the complete cycle of 68 poems (BB)
Ode to Apollo (NM)
On the Grasshopper (NM)
The Flatting-Mill (NM)
To Mrs. Unwin (NM)
The Winter Nosegay (NM)
The Distressed Travellers; or Labour in Vain (NM)
My Mary (NM)
The Castaway (NM)
Epitaph on a Hare (NM)
The Glow-Worm by William Cowper (NM)
To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 (NM)
The Nightingale and the Glowworm (SUB)
To a Young Lady (SUB)

Isaac Joslyn Cox

And So Did I [1893] (JL)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

(1815 - 1892) American Unitarian minister, Landscape Artist, and Poet; close friend of Emerson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and James Russell Lowell

from Poems: [1844]
Gnosis
from The Bird and the Bell, with Other Poems: [1875]
   The Spirit of the Age (NM)
   December (NM)
   My Old Paulette (NM)
   Bird Language (NM)
from Ariel and Caliban with Other Poems: [1887]
from Seven Wonders of the World
The Locomotive (NM)
The Photograph (NM)

[Harold] Hart Crane

(1899 - 1932) American Symbolist Poet

Carmen de Boheme [1918] (BB)
Forgetfulness [1918] (BB)
Interior [1919] (BB)
The Great Western Plains [1922] (BB)

Stephen Crane

(1871 - 1900) American Author, Journalist, War Correspondent

The Black Riders and Other Lines [1895] - a book of 68 poems in Bookshelf Format
War is Kind and Other Lines [1899] - a book of 27 poems in Bookshelf Format
Legends
Voices
Little Birds of the Night
Intrigue
The way your little finger moved
Tell me why
I heard thee laugh
Unwind my riddle

Adelaide Crapsey

(1878 - 1914) American Poet; inventor of the Cinquain form

from Verse: [1915]
  Dirge (NM)
  The Lonely Death (NM)
  November Night (NM)
  Moon Shadows (NM)
  The Guarded Wound (NM)
  Amaze (NM)
  The Warning (NM)
  Adventure
Adventure [1913] (BB)

Richard Crashaw

(1612 - 1649) English Courtier and Poet

from Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems: [1646]
A Hymn on the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds (BB)
from Delights of the Muses [1646]:
   Music's Duel (NM)
   Wishes (BB)
   On Marriage (BB)
from Carmen Deo Nostro: [1652]
The Flaming Heart ... (BB)
Out of Catallus (BB)

Charlotte Holmes Crawford

Vive la France (BB)

Isaballa Valancy Crawford

(1850 - 1887) Canadian Poet

The Lily Bed (BB)

Gerald Crow

Betwixt new loves and newer loves

e.e. [Edward Estlin] cummings

(1894 - 1962) American Poet, Painter, and Essayist; inventor of "cubist poetry" and the nonhero "i"

If [1910]
The Eagle [1910]
from Tulips and Chimneys: [1923]
   when life is quite through with
   Thy fingers make early flowers of
   All in green my love went riding
   Where's Madge then,
   when god lets my body be
   In Just-
   unto thee i
   if i believe
   O sweet spontaneous
   the sky was
   Buffalo Bill's
   this is the garden:colours come and go
   it may not always be so; and i say
   i have found what you are like
nobody loses all the time [1923]

Allan Cunningham

(1791 - 1839) English Botanist and Explorer

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea (BB)

John Cunningham

(1729 - 1773) English Poet

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Moray Dalton

Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam) (BB)

Richard Henry Dana

(1787-1879) American Author and Poet

The Pleasure Boat

Samuel Daniel

(1562 - 1619) English Poet

Delia- a cycle of 60 sonnets (NM)
   Sonnets 1-20
   Sonnets 21-40
   Sonnets 41-60
Love is a Sickness
To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland (BB)
Ulysses and the Siren (BB)
Sonnet 54 (BB)
An Ode (NM)

Hugh Antoine D'Arcy

(1843 - 1925)

The Face on the Barroom Floor [1887] (BB)

George Darley

(1795-1846) Irish Mathematician and Poet

Erasmus Darwin

Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, Near Botany Bay (BB)

William Davenant

(1606 - 1668) English Poet, Courtier and Dramatist; unofficial Poet Laureate after Ben Jonson

Aubade (BB)
A Song (BB)

John Davidson

(1857 - 1909)

Sir John Davies

(1569 - 1626) English lawyer, Speaker of the Irish Parliament, and Lord Chief Justice

From Nosce Teipsum (BB)

W.H. (William Henry) Davies

(1870 - 1940) Welsh Poet, Author, Vagabond
(Editor's Note: as some of Davies' poems are difficult to date, these are essentially taken from the 1916 edition of Collected Poems except for the last three entries. --Steve)