Poets' Corner - Index of Poets

from Histriomastix [1599]:
The Nut-Brown Ale (NM)
from The Scourge of Villany [1599]:
To Everlasting Oblivion (NM)
from Jack Drum's Entertainment [1600]:
Delicious Beauty That Doth Lie (NM)
from The Dutch Courtesan [1605]:
O Love, How Strangely Sweet (NM)

Andrew Marvell

(1621 - 1678) English Metaphysical Poet, Politician

The Definition of Love
The Fair Singer
The Garden
To His Coy Mistress (FC)
To Christina, Queen of Sweden (BB)
To his Noble Friend, Mr Richard Lovelace, upon his Poems (BB)
The Character of Holland (BB)
Tom May's Death (BB)
Blake's Victory (BB)
Cromwell's Return [1650] (BB)
First Anniversary (BB)
The Death of Cromwell (BB)
Last Instructions to a Painter [1667] (BB)
The Mower to the Glow-Worms (NM)
The Mower's Song (NM)
Bermudas (BB)
Music's Empire (NM)

John (Edward) Masefield

(1878 - 1967) English Poet, Playwright, Journalist, Vagabond, Poet Laureate from 1930-1967

from Salt Water Ballads [1902]
   Sea Fever(BB)
   A Wanderer's Song
   Trade Winds
   On Eastnor Knoll
   The West Wind(BB)
from Ballads [1903]
   Cargoes (BB)
   A Creed
   The Tewkesbury Road(BB)
   Captain Stratton's Fancy(BB)
   The Seekers(BB)
The Island of Skyros(BB)
The Everlasting Mercy, complete [1911] (AK)
edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Kay
selections from The Everlasting Mercy:
Roadways
Beauty(BB)
Dauber, complete [1912] (AK)
edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Kay
Biography (BB)
from The Widow in the Bye Street [1912]
C.L.M. (BB)
from Sonnets and Poems [1916]
The Wanderer
Flesh, I have knocked at many a dusty door
from Lollingdon Downs and Other Poems [1917]
Lollingdon Downs VIII

Walt Mason

(1862 - 1939) American (orignally Canadian) newspaper writer and humorist

from Walt Mason: His Book [1911]:
Lions and Ants (BB)

Thomas B. Masson

The Red Cross Nurses (BB)

Edgar Lee Masters

(1869 - 1950) American Poet and Attorney

O Glorious France (BB)
from Spoon River Anthology [1915]:
   The Hill
   Hod Putt
   Ollie McGee
   Fletcher McGee
   Robert Fulton Tanner
   Cassius Hueffer
   Serepta Mason
   Amanda Barker
   Constance Hately
   Chase Henry
   Harry Carey Goodhue
   Judge Somers
   Kinsey Keene
   Benjamin Painter
   Mrs. Benjamin Painter
   Lucinda Matlock
   Knowlt Hoheimer
   Fiddler Jones
   Anne Rutledge
   Petit, the Poet
   Mrs. Kessler
   Bert Kessler
   Richard Bone
   Elizabeth Childers (FB)
   John Horace Burleson
   Ernest Hyde
   Josiah Tompkins
   Dippold the Optician
   Rutherford McDowell
   Scholfield Huxley
   Griffy the Cooper (BTH)

Beaulah May

The Wanderer [1923]

Peter Dodds McCormick

(1834-1916) Scots Songwriter

Advance Australia Fair [1878](BB)

John McCrae

(1872 - 1918) Canadian Poet, Physician; died in W.W. I

In Flanders Fields --the complete book of 29 poems (BB)
In Flanders Fields [1915]

Alexander McLachlan

(1818-1896) Canadian Poet

O! come to the greenwood shade (BB)

Claude McKay

(1889-1948) Jamaican-born African-American Poet and Novelist; a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Shadows [1922] - a complete book of 74 poems with an introduction by Nelson Miller (NM)

Herman Melville

(1819-1891) American Sailor, Author, Customs Inspector

George Meredith

(1829 - 1909) English Novelist and Poet

from Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside [1862]:
Modern Love (BB)
from Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth [1883]:
   Lucifer in Starlight
   Love in the Valley (BB)
   The Lark Ascending (NM)
from A Reading of Earth [1888]:
Outer and Inner (NM)
Nature and Life (NM)
Pictures of the Rhine (BB)

Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)

(1831 - 1891) British Statesman, Poet, and Novelist; nephew of Edward George Lytton Bulwer

See-Saw (BB)

Charlotte Mew

(1870 - 1928) English Poet

Alice Meynell

(1847 - 1922) English Poet

from Preludes [1875]:
   A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
   A Poet of One Mood
   Parted
   Builders of Ruins
   Your Own Fair Youth
   In Autumn
   The Lover Urges the Better Thrift
   In February
   An Unmarked Festival
from Poems [1893]:
   Renouncement (BB)
   Singers to Come
   After Parting
from Other Poems [1896]:
   The Shepherdess
   A Song of Derivations
   The Fold
   The Lady Poverty
   Cradle-Song at Twilight
from Later Poems [1902]:
A Dead Harvest
from Later Poems [1902]:
Free Will
A Thrush before Dawn

Michelangelo [di Lodovico Buonarroti]

(1475 - 1564) Italian artist, poet, and engineer

On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel (tr. John Addington Symonds) (BB)

Thomas Middleton

(1570 - 1627) English Poet and Playwright

Love for Such a Cherry Lip (NM)

Lloyd Mifflin

(1846- 1921) American Poet and Artist; failing health forced him to abandon painting in 1877 and he turned thereafter to writing poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay

(1892 - 1950) American Poet, Playwright, Feminist, Political Activist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923 for The Harp Weaver and Other Poems
(Here's an excellent image I found, c/o the Library of Congress).

Renascence and Other Poems - the complete book of 25 poems [1917]
selections from Renascence:
  The Dream
   Tavern "...There sound will sleep the traveller, And dream his journey's end..."
  The Little Ghost
  Afternoon on a Hill "...I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one..."
  Ashes of Life "...Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike..."
  Sorrow "...Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart..." (CS)
  Bluebeard (CS)
from Second April [1921]
   Spring
   City Trees
   Journey
   Eel-grass
   Weeds
   Passer Mortuus Est
   Assault
   Travel
   Song of a Second April "...Is full of whispers, full of sighs, Dazzling mud and dingy snow..." (CS)
   Rosemary
   Alms (CS)
   Inland
   Ebb
   Mariposa
   Lament (CS)
   The Death of Autumn
   Into the Golden Vessel
   Once More Into My Arid Days (CS)
   When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
   Only until this cigarette is ended... (BB)
A Few Figs from Thistles - the complete book of 24 poems [1922]
selections from A Few Figs from Thistles:
   First Fig
   Recuerdo
   Thursday
   To the Not Impossible Him
   The Unexplorer
   Grown-up
   Daphne
   Portrait by a Neighbour
   Midnight Oil
   The Philosopher
   I think I should have loved you presently
   Oh, think not I am faithful (BB)
   I will forget you presently (BB)
May the Fruit Never Be Plucked [1923]
We talk of taxes (BB)

Gerald Miller

Luna [1923]

Joaquin Miller (pen name of Cincinnatus Hiner)

(1839 - 1913) American Miner, Farmer, Lawyer, Journalist and Writer

Richard Monckton Milnes

(1809 - 1885) English politician and literary figure

To Charles Lamb (BB)
Sir Walter Scott at the Tomb of the Stuarts in St Peter's (BB)
London Churches (BB)
Columbus and the Mayflower (BB)

John Milton

(1608 - 1674) English Poet

Lycidas (BB)
Upon the Circumcision (BB)
L'Allegro (BB)
Il Penseroso (BB)
Captain or Colonel... (BB)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) (BB)
Daughter to That Good Earl (BB)
To Oliver Cromwell (BB)
On the late Massecher in Piemont (BB)
To Sir Henry Vane (BB)
To My Lord Fairfax (BB)
On His Blindness (JL)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint (NM)
At a Solemn Music (NM)
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament (BB)
Song. On May Morning (NM)
O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray (NM)
On Time (NM)

Ruth Comfort Mitchell

(1882 - 1954) American Writer

The Sin Eater [1913] (BB)

Harold Monro

(1879 - 1932) English Poet, born in Belgium

from Before Dawn:
Child of Dawn (BB)
Lake Leman (BB)
from Children of Love:
   Milk for the Cat (BB)
   Overheard on a Saltmarsh (BB)
   Children of Love (BB)
Solitude [1917]

Harriet Monroe

(1860 - 1936) American poet and editor, [Poetry]

On the Train [1923]
The Blue Ridge

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(1682 - 1762) English Writer

On the death of Mrs Bowes

William Vaughn Moody

(1869-1910) American Poet

Gloucester Moors (NM)
A Grey Day (NM)

Clemment C.(Clarke) Moore

(1779 - 1863) American Theologian

A Visit from St. Nicholas [1823] (JL)

Thomas Moore

(1779 - 1852) Irish Poet

from Odes and Epistles [1806]:
The Lake of the Dismal Swamp (BB)
Irish Melodies (in 10 parts) [1808-1834], a collection of 124 poems by Moore (BB)
from Irish Melodies:
   Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms (BB)
   'Tis The Last Rose of Summer (BB)
   The Minstrel Boy (BB)
   The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls (BB)
   The Young May Moon (BB)
   Go where Glory waits thee (BB)
   She is Far from the Land (BB)
   The Time I've Lost in Weeping (BB)
from National Airs (in 6 parts) 1818-1827
   Oft in the Stilly Night (BB)
   Hark! The Vesper Hymn is Stealing (NM)
   A Canadian Boat Song (BB)

T. Sturge Moore

(1870 - 1944) English Poet and Wood Engraver

The Rower's Chant
A Sicilian Idyll, part 1 (BB)

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

(1730 - 1809) English Army Officer

The Call (BB)

Charles Langbridge Morgan

(1894 - 1958) English Writer and Critic

To America (BB)

Christopher Morley

(1890 - 1957) American Novelist, Essayist, Rhodes Scholar

from Chimneysmoke [1921]:
   Dedication for a Fireplace
   Taking Title
   The Secret
   Six Weeks Old
   Reading Aloud
   Only a Matter of Time
   At the Mermaid Caffeteria
   Our House
   On Naming a House
   The Milkman
   The Old Swimmer
   Washing the Dishes
   The Church of Unbent Knees
   Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin
   Smells
   The Poet
   To a Child
   Burning Leaves in Spring
   Burning Leaves, November
   Two O'Clock
   The Commercial Traveler
   The Wedded Lover
   To You, Remembering the Past
   Caught in the Undertow
   The Intruder
   Tit for Tat
   Song for a Little House
   The Music Box
   To a Discarded Mirror (original)
   To a Discarded Mirror (easier to read)

George Pope Morris

(1802 - 1864) American Journalist and Poet

William Morris

(1834 - 1896) English Poet, Translator and Artist

Louise Chandler Moulton

[April 10, 1835-August 10, 1908] American poet and children's fiction writer; was for many years the Boston literary correspondent for the New York Tribune; close friend of Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whistler, the Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Alice Meynell.