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William Ross Wallace

(1819-1881)

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World (BB)

Edmund Waller

(1606-1687) English Poet and Politician

William Walsh

(1663 - 1708) English Poet and Critic; friend of Alexander Pope

Rivals (BB)
The Despairing Lover (BB)

Izaak Walton

(1593 - 1683) English Biographer and Angler

from The Compleat Angler:
The Angler's Song (BB)

C. Henry Warren

The Stricken Peasant [1923]

Joseph Warton

(1722 - 1800) English poet and scholar; editor of Pope's works; brother of Thomas Warton

Thomas Warton

(1728 - 1790) English critic; Poet laureate from 1785

Gilbert Waterhouse

(1888 - ?) English Linguist

The Casualty Clearing Station (BB)

Sir William Watson

(1858 - 1935) English Poet

Song [1880] (BB)
World-Strangeness [1889] (BB)
England, My Mother [1892] (BB)
The Soverign Poet [1894] (BB)
Ode in May [1897] (BB)
The Eternal Search [1915] (BB)
Thomas Hood [1915] (BB)

Alaric Alexander Watts

(1797 - 1864) English Anthologist

The Siege of Belgrade [1825] (JL)

Isaac Watts

(1674 - 1748) English Churchman and Hymnist

Against Idleness and Mischief (BB)
Against Quarreling and Fighting (BB)
The Sluggard (BB)
A Cradle Hymn (BB)
Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ (BB)
Man Frail and God Eternal (BB)
The Day of Judgement (BB)
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy (BB)
Horace Paraphrased

Charles H. Webb ('John Paul')

(1834 - 1905) American Poet

Autumn Leaves (NM)

Cornelius Webb

(1790? - 1850?) English Poet and Essayist

January (NM)
March (NM)

John Webster

(1580 - 1625) English Poet

from The White Devil [1612]
Call For the Robin Redbreast (NM)
from The Duchess of Malfi [1623]
Hark, Now Everything Is Still (NM)
from The Devil's Law Case [1623]
All the Flowers

Amelia B. Welby

American Poet

Twilight at Sea

Carolyn Wells

(1869 - 1942) American poet and anthologist; known particularly for her anthologies of nonsense verse.

from Such Nonsense: An Anthology [1918]:
Diversions of the Re-Echo Club (NM)

Edith Wharton

(1862 - 1937) American Poet and Novelist

Life [1894] (NM)
from Artemis to Acteaon and Other Verse [1909]:
Chartres (NM)
An Autumn Sunset (NM)
Belgium (BB)

Phillis Wheatley

(1753? - 1784), American Poet, born in Senegal; abducted and pressed into slavery; first African American to publish a volume of literature

from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral [1793]:
On Being Brought from Africa to America (JL)
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works (JL)
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England (JFB)
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (JFB)
On Imagination (JFB)

Edward Jewitt Wheeler

(1859 - 1922) American Editor

Night's Mardi Gras [1894] (BB)

John Hall Wheelock

(1886 - 1978) American Poet

Departure [1913] (BB)

Gilbert White

(1720 - 1793) Minister and Naturalist

The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk (NM)

Joseph Blanco White (José Maria Blanco)

(1775 - 1841) Spanish-born English theologician

To Night (BB)

William Whitehead

(1715 - 1785) English dramatist; Succeeded Cibber as poet laureate in 1757

The Je Ne Scai Quoi (BB)

James Monroe Whitfield

(1822-1871) African American spokesperson

from America and Other Poems [1853]:
Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams (JL)

William Whiting

(1825 - 1878) English Educator

Eternal Father, Strong to Save (BB)

Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892) American Poet

Aboard at a Ship's Helm
A Clear Midnight
A Noiseless Patient Spider [1881]
The Last Invocation
On the Beach at Night [1881]
Miracles
I hear America Singing
As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado (SUB)
from Drum Taps [1865]:
   Cavalry Crossing a Ford
   By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
   When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
   Beat! Beat! Drums!
   Long, Too Long America (originally "Long, Too long O Land")
   Look Down Fair Moon (BTH)
   Bivouac on a Mountain Side
from Sequal to Drum Taps "(since the preceding came from the press)" [1866]:
   When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
   O Captain! My Captain!
   Reconciliation (AK)
Had I the Choice
Hush'd Be the Camps Today
COME, SAID MY SOUL
To a Locomotive In Winter [1881]
The Dalliance of the Eagles [1881] (AK)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing [1867]
The World below the Brine [1871]
As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods

John Greenleaf Whittier

(1807 - 1892) American Poet, sometimes called The Quaker Poet

The Frost Spirit
The Pumpkin
Flowers in Winter
Barbara Frietchie
The Sycamores
In School Days
Stanzas for the Times [1835] (JL)
The Barefoot Boy [1855] (JL)
Snowbound, A Winter Idyl [1866] (BB)
Maud Muller "...For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' " (BB)

George John Whyte-Melville

(1821 - 1878) Scots Soldier and Novelist

Goodbye! (BB)

Anna Wickham

(1884 - 1947) English Poet and Critic

The Cherry-Blossom Wand

Michael Wigglesworth

(1631 - 1705) American Poet

Vain, short-lived and miserable Man

Carlos Wilcox

(1794 - 1827) American Poet

Sights and Sounds of the Night (NM)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

(1850 - 1919) American Journalist, Poet, Activist
Here is a lovely portrait someone sent me from Wisconsin.

from Drops of Water [1872]:
What we Want
Arise
from Poems of Passion [1883]:
Solitude "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone..."
from Custer and Other Poems [1896]
   The Undiscovered Country
   Thanksgiving
   Life
   The Traveled Man
   Will
   Life's Harmonies
   Which are You?
from Maurine and Other Poems [1888]
   Two Sunsets
   "Artist's Life"
   "It Might Have Been"
   If
   Advice
   Over the Banisters
   The Engine
   The Past
   Will
   The Two Glasses
   The Year
   Leudeman's-on-the-River
   In the Long Run
   Fleeing Away
   Foes
   Possession
   My Home
from Poems of Reflection [1905]
   Bohemia
   Penalty
   Lines from "Maurine"
   The Room Beneath the Rafters
   My Comrade
   AT an Old Drawer
   My Vision
   A Golden Day
   The King and the Siren
from The Englishman and Other Poems [1912]
The Tavern of Last Times

Jane Francesca Lady Wilde ('Speranza')

(1821 - 1896) Irish Nationalist, Poet, Editor, and mother of Oscar

Corinne's Last Love Song

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde

(1854-1900) Irish Playwright, Poet, Lecturer, Essayist, and Humorist

from Rosa Mystica [1890]
   Hellas
   Requiescat (CS)
   Salve Saturnia Tellus
   San Miniato
   Ave Maria Plena Gratia
   Italia
   Sonnet
   Rome Unvisited
   Urbs Sacra Aeterna
   Sonnet
   On Easter Day
   E Tenebris
   Vita Nuova
   Madonna Mia
   The New Helen
   The Grave of Shelley (BB)
from Wind Flowers [1890]
   Impression du Matin
   Magdalen Walks
   Athenasia
   Serenade
   Endymion
   La Bella Donna del Mia Mente
   Chanson
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (JH)
Symphony in Yellow (NM)
Theoretikos (NM)
Santa Decca (NM)
The Harlot's House (NM)
To My Wife (NM)
Pan (NM)
On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters (NM)

Richard Henry Wilde

(1789 - 1847) Irish-born American poet, scholar, and prominent New Orleans lawyer

William Carlos Williams

(1883 - 1963) American Physician, Author, Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1963

from Poems [1909]:
The Uses of Poetry (NM)
On a Proposed Trip South (NM)
from The Tempers [1913]:
   Peace on Earth (NM)
   First Praise (NM)
   Hic Jacet (NM)
from Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems [1917]
   Danse Russe [1917] (NM)
   Pastoral (NM)
   Tract (NM)
   Metric Figure (NM)
   Pastoral (a nother one) (NM)
   Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad! (NM)
   Love Song (NM)
   Dawn (NM)
   Smell (NM)
   Dedication for a Plot of Ground (BB)
   January Morning (BB)
The Young Housewife [1916]
Portrait of a Lady [1920] (NM)
Sour Grapes [1921] (NM) - a book of 51 poems
selections from Sour Grapes:
   To Waken an Old Lady (NM)
   The Great Figure (NM)
   The Widow's Lament in Springtime (NM)
   Queen Anne's Lace (NM)

Nathaniel Parker Willis

(1806-1867) American Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Journalist, and Editor

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

(1647-1680) English Poet and Courtier

Alexander Wilson

(1766 - 1813) Scottish-born American poet, weaver and peddler, teacher, encyclopedia editor, and ornithologist; published American Ornithology in 9 volumes.

The Fisherman's Hymn (NM)
The Blue-Bird (NM)

T. P. [Theodore Percival] Cameron Wilson

(1889 - 1918) English Writer

Still

William Winter

(Jul 15, 1836-Jun 30, 1917) American poet, stage historian and influential drama critic for the New York Tribune for 44 years; wrote numerous volumes of biography of American actors and of history of American stage; he was encouraged in poetry by Longfellow and Thomas Bailey Aldrich while in his twenties, and published volumes of poetry throughout his life.

George Wither

(1588 - 1667) English Poet and Soldier

from Fair Virtue, the Mistress of Philarete [1622]:
   Sonnet 4 "Shall I wasting in despair/Die because a woman's fair?" (BB)
   Sonnet 5 (BB)
   A Christmas Carol (BB)
   A Sonnet upon a Stolen Kiss (BB)
   The Manly Heart (SUB)

P. G. Wodehouse

(1881 - 1976) English Humorist

John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar")

(1738 - 1819) English Satirist

King Canute and his Nobles (BB)

Humbert Wolfe

Excerpts from "Kensington Gardens" [1923]

Charles Wolfe

(1791 - 1823) Irish Anglican Clergyman

The Burial of Sir John Moore [1817] (BB)

George Edward Woodberry

(1855-1930) American Critic (America in Literature)

St. John and the Faun [1913] (BB)
On the Italian Front, MCMXVI (BB)
Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914 (BB)

Samuel Woodworth

(1785-1842) American Poet

The Bucket Air-The Flower of Dumblane

Constance Fenimore Woolson

(1840 - 1894) American Poet

Dorothy Wordsworth

(1771 - 1855) William's Sister and Companion

Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening [1815] (BB)

William Wordsworth

(1770 - 1850), England's Poet Laureate from 1843-1850

There Was A Boy [1799]
Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone [1800]
Foresight [1802]
The Forsaken [1804]
from Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems [1798]
   Lines Written in Early Spring
   Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
   Expostulation and Reply (SUB)
   The Tables Turned (SUB) --a companion to Expostulation and Reply
   We Are Seven (SUB)
from Lyrical Ballads, 2nd Edition [1800]
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (NM)
from Poems, in 2 Volumes [1807]
   I Travelled Among Unknown Men
   The Rainbow "My heart leaps up when I behold..."
   Written in March
   Resolution and Independence
   The Sun Has Long Been Set
   Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
   It is a Beauteous Evening
   London, 1802
   The Solitary Reaper
   Stepping Westward
   I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
   She Was a Phantom of Delight
   With ships the sea was sprinkled
   Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room (NM)
   The world is too much with us (BTH)
from Poems [1815]:
The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said
from The Waggoner... [1819]
Composed During a Storm
from The River Duddon; Vandracour and Julia; and other Poems [1820]:
The Longest Day
from The Poetical Works [1827]:
Memory
Scorn Not the Sonnet (NM)
From Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems [1835]:
By the Seaside
From The Poetical Works [1850]:
I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell

Sir Henry Wotton

(1568 - 1639) English Poet

Willard Huntington Wright

(1888-1939) English Mystery Writer (as S.S. Van Dine)

Later [1913] (BB)
What of the Night? [1913] (BB)
Later (BB)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

(1503? - 1542) English Poet

They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek [1527]
The Long Love
Whoso List to Hunt
Forget Not Yet
My Galley Chargèd with Forgetfulness [1530]
My Lute, Awake [1535]
Farewell Love (NM)
I Find No Peace (NM)
With Serving Still (NM)
Lux, My Fair Falcon (NM)
Madame, withouten many words (NM)
The Furious Gun (NM)
Satire II:The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse (NM)
Translation of Petrarch's Rima, Sonnet 134 (NM)

Elinor Wylie

(1885 - 1928) American Poet, Lyracist, Author

Nets to Catch the Wind - a book of 31 poems, in Bookshelf format [1921]
from Nets to Catch the Wind:
   The Eagle and the Mole
   Beauty (NM)
   Wild Peaches - a 4-Sonnet Cycle (NM,SS)
Les Lauriers Sont Coupée [1920]
The Child on the Curbstone [1920]
The Lost Path [1920]
Phases of the Moon [1921]
Nadir [1921]
The Poor Old Cannon [1921]
October [1921]
Ophelia [1921]
Poor Earth [1922]
Love Song [1922]
Quarrel [1922]
Death and the Maiden [1923]
Primavera in the North [1923]
Little Joke [1921]
Venetian Interior [1921]
The Pekingese [1922]
Curious Circumstance [1922]
The Puritan's Ballad [1923]

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