Collected English Verse
Table of contents
Authors List  
Preface  
Preface to New Edition  
Acknowledgements  
Index Of First Lines  
Anonymous. XIII-XIV Century  
Robert Mannyng of Brunne. b. 1288, d. 1338  
William Langland. b. ?1332, d. ?1400  
John Barbour. b. ?1316, d. 1395  
Geoffrey Chaucer. b. ?1340, d. 1400  
Thomas Hoccleve. b. ?1368/9, d. ?1450  
John Lydgate. b. ?1370, d. ?1450  
King James I of Scotland. b. 1394, d. 1437  
Robert Henryson. b. 1425, d. 1500  
William Dunbar. b. 1465, d. ?1520  
Anonymous. XV-XVI Century  
John Skelton. b. ?1460, d. 1529  
Stephen Hawes. d. 1523  
Sir Thomas Wyatt. b. 1503, d. 1542  
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. b. 1516, d. 1547  
Nicholas Grimald. b. 1519, d. 1562  
Alexander Scott. b. ?1525, d. ?1584  
Robert Wever. c. 1550  
Richard Edwardes. b. 1523, d. 1566  
George Gascoigne. b. ?1525, d. 1577  
Alexander Montgomerie. b. ?1540, d. ?1610  
William Stevenson. b. ?1530, d. 1575  
Anonymous. XVI-XVII Century  
Nicholas Breton. b. 1542, d. 1626  
Sir Walter Raleigh. b. 1552, d. 1618  
Edmund Spenser. b. 1552, d. 1599  
John Lyly. b. 1553, d. 1606  
Anthony Munday. b. 1553, d. 1633  
Sir Philip Sidney. b. 1554, d. 1586  
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. b. 1554, d. 1628  
Thomas Lodge. b. ?1556, d. 1625  
George Peele. b. ?1558, d. 1597  
Robert Greene. b. 1560, d. 1592  
George Chapman. b. 1560, d. 1634  
Robert Southwell. b. ?1561, d. 1595  
Henry Constable. b. ?1562, d. ?1613  
Samuel Daniel. b. 1562, d. 1619  
Mark Alexander Boyd. b. 1563, d. 1601  
Joshua Sylvester. b. 1561, d. 1618  
Michael Drayton. b. 1563, d. 1631  
Christopher Marlowe. b. 1564, d. 1593  
William Shakespeare. b. 1564, d. 1616  
Richard Rowlands. b. 1565, d. ?1630  
Thomas Nashe. b. 1567, d. 1601  
Thomas Campian. b. 1567, d. 1619  
John Reynolds. 16th Cent.  
Sir Henry Wotton. b. 1568, d. 1639  
Sir John Davies. b. 1569, d. 1626  
Sir Robert Ayton. b. 1570, d. 1638  
Ben Jonson. b. 1573, d. 1637  
John Donne. b. 1573, d. 1631  
Richard Barnefield. b. 1574, d. 1627  
Thomas Dekker. b. 1575, d. 1641  
Thomas Heywood. b. ?1575, d. 1650  
John Fletcher. b. 1579, d. 1625  
John Webster. b. ?1580, d. ?1630  
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. b. ?1580, d. 1640  
Phineas Fletcher. b. 1580, d. 1650  
Lord Herbert of Cherbury. b. 1583, d. 1648  
Sir John Beaumont. b. 1583, d. 1627  
William Drummond, of Hawthornden, b. 1585, d. 1649  
Giles Fletcher. b. ?1588, d. 1623  
Francis Beaumont. b. 1586, d. 1616  
John Ford. b. 1586, d. 1639  
George Wither. b. 1588, d. 1667  
William Browne, of Tavistock. b. 1588, d. 1643  
Robert Herrick. b. 1591, d. 1674  
Francis Quarles. b. 1592, d. 1644  
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester. b. 1592, d. 1669  
George Herbert. b. 1593, d. 1632  
James Shirley. b. 1596, d. 1666  
Thomas Carew. b. ?1595, d. ?1639  
Jasper Mayne. b. 1604, d. 1672  
William Habington. b. 1605, d. 1654  
Thomas Randolph. b. 1605, d. 1635  
Sir William Davenant. b. 1606, d. 1668  
Edmund Waller. b. 1606, d. 1687  
John Milton. b. 1608, d. 1674  
Sir John Suckling. b. 1609, d. 1642  
Sir Richard Fanshawe. b. 1608, d. 1666  
William Cartwright. b. 1611, d. 1643  
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. b. 1612, d. 1650  
Thomas Jordan. b. ?1612, d. 1685  
Richard Crashaw. b. ?1613, d. 1649  
Richard Lovelace. b. 1618, d. 1658  
Abraham Cowley. b. 1618, d. 1667  
Alexander Brome. b. 1620, d. 1666  
Andrew Marvell. b. 1621, d. 1678  
Henry Vaughan. b. 1621, d. 1695  
John Bunyan. b. 1628, d. 1688  
Anonymous Ballads and Songs  
William Strode. b. 1602, d. 1645  
Thomas Stanley. b. 1625, d. 1678  
Thomas D’Urfey. b. 1653, d. 1723  
Charles Cotton. b. 1630, d. 1687  
Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). b. 1631, d. 1664  
Thomas Traherne. b. ?1637, d. 1674  
John Dryden. b. 1631, d. 1700  
Charles Webbe. c. 1678  
Sir George Etherege. b. 1635, d. 1691  
Thomas Flatman. b. 1637, d. 1688  
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset. b. 1638, d. 1706  
Sir Charles Sedley. b. 1639, d. 1701  
Aphra Behn. b. 1640, d. 1689  
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. b. 1647, d. 1680  
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. b. 1648, d. 1721  
Thomas Otway. b. 1652, d. 1685  
John Oldham. b. 1653, d. 1683  
Matthew Prior. b. 1664, d. 1721  
William Walsh. b. 1663, d. 1708  
Lady Grisel Baillie. b. 1665, d. 1746  
William Congreve. b. 1670, d. 1729  
Joseph Addison. b. 1672, d. 1719  
Isaac Watts. b. 1674, d. 1748  
Thomas Parnell. b. 1679, d. 1718  
Allan Ramsay. b. 1686, d. 1758  
William Oldys. b. 1687, d. 1761  
John Gay. b. 1685, d. 1732  
Alexander Pope. b. 1688, d. 1744  
Anonymous  
Henry Carey. b. ?1693, d. 1743  
William Broome. b. 1689, d. 1745  
James Thomson. b. 1700, d. 1748  
Charles Wesley. b. 1707, d. 1788  
Samuel Johnson. b. 1709, d. 1784  
Richard Jago. b. 1715, d. 1781  
Anonymous  
William Shenstone. b. 1714, d. 1763  
Thomas Gray. b. 1716, d. 1771  
William Collins. b. 1721, d. 1759  
Mark Akenside. b. 1721, d. 1770  
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt. b. 1730, d. 1809  
John Scott of Amwell. b. 1730, d. 1783  
Tobias George Smollett. b. 1721, d. 1771  
Christopher Smart. b. 1722, d. 1770  
Jane Elliot. b. 1727, d. 1805  
Oliver Goldsmith. b. 1728, d. 1774.  
Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore. b. 1735, d. 1797  
William Cowper. b. 1731, d. 1800  
James Beattie. b. 1735, d. 1803  
Isobel Pagan. b. 1740, d. 1821  
Anna Lætitia Barbauld. b. 1743, d. 1825  
Fanny Greville. 18th century  
Michael Bruce. b. 1740, d. 1767  
Lady Anne Lindsay. b. 1750, d. 1825  
Sir William Jones. b. 1746, d. 1794  
Thomas Chatterton. b. 1752, d. 1770  
George Crabbe. b. 1754, d. 1832  
William Blake. b. 1757, d. 1827  
Robert Burns. b. 1759, d. 1796  
Henry Rowe. b. 1754, d. 1819  
William Lisle Bowles. b. 1762, d. 1850  
Joanna Baillie. b. 1762, d. 1851  
Mary Lamb. b. 1765, d. 1847  
Carolina, Lady Nairne. b. 1766, d. 1845  
James Hogg. b. 1770, d. 1835  
William Wordsworth. b. 1770, d. 1850  
Sir Walter Scott. b. 1771, d. 1832  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. b. 1772, d. 1834  
Robert Southey. b. 1774, d. 1843  
Walter Savage Landor. b. 1775, d. 1864  
Joseph Blanco White. b. 1775, d. 1841  
Samuel Rogers. b. 1763, d. 1855  
Charles Lamb. b. 1775, d. 1834  
Thomas Campbell. b. 1774, d. 1844  
Thomas Moore. b. 1779, d. 1852  
Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow. b. 1781, d. 1829  
Ebenezer Elliott. b. 1781, d. 1849  
Allan Cunningham. b. 1784, d. 1842  
Leigh Hunt. b. 1784, d. 1859  
John Kenyon. b. 1784, d. 1856  
Thomas Love Peacock. b. 1785, d. 1866  
Bryan Waller Procter. b. 1787, d. 1874  
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. b. 1788, d. 1824  
Sir Aubrey de Vere. b. 1788, d. 1846  
Charles Wolfe. b. 1791, d. 1823  
Percy Bysshe Shelley. b. 1792, d. 1822  
John Keble. b. 1792, d. 1866  
John Clare. b. 1793, d. 1864  
Felicia Dorothea Hemans. b. 1793, d. 1835  
John Gibson Lockhart. b. 1794, d. 1854  
John Keats. b. 1795, d. 1821  
William Cullen Bryant. b. 1794, d. 1878  
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. b. 1795, d. 1829  
William Sidney Walker. b. 1795, d. 1846  
George Darley. b. 1795, d. 1846  
Hartley Coleridge. b. 1796, d. 1849  
Thomas Hood. b. 1798, d. 1845  
Anonymous  
William Thom. b. 1798, d. 1848  
Sir Henry Taylor. b. 1800, d. 1886  
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay. b. 1800, d. 1859  
William Barnes. b. 1801, d. 1886  
Winthrop Mackworth Praed. b. 1802, d. 1839  
Gerald Griffin. b. 1803, d. 1840  
James Clarence Mangan. b. 1803, d. 1849  
Thomas Lovell Beddoes. b. 1803, d. 1849  
Ralph Waldo Emerson. b. 1803, d. 1882  
Richard Henry Horne. b. 1803, d. 1884  
Charles Whitehead. b. 1804, d. 1862  
Robert Stephen Hawker. b. 1804, d. 1875  
Francis Mahony. b. 1805, d. 1866  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. b. 1806, d. 1861  
Frederick Tennyson. b. 1807, d. 1898  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. b. 1807, d. 1882  
John Greenleaf Whittier. b. 1807, d. 1892  
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. b. 1808, d. 1876  
Charles Tennyson Turner. b. 1808, d. 1879  
Edgar Allan Poe. b. 1809, d. 1849  
Edward Fitzgerald. b. 1809, d. 1883  
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. b. 1809, d. 1885  
Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson. b. 1809, d. 1892  
Sir Samuel Ferguson. b. 1810, d. 1886  
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle. b. 1810, d. 1888  
William Makepeace Thackeray. b. 1811, d. 1863  
Robert Browning. b. 1812, d. 1889  
William Bell Scott. b. 1812, d. 1890  
Aubrey de Vere. b. 1814, d. 1902  
George Fox. b. 1815  
Emily Brontëe. b. 1818, d. 1848  
Charles Kingsley. b. 1819, d. 1875  
Arthur Hugh Clough. b. 1819, d. 1861  
Walt Whitman. b. 1819, d. 1892  
John Ruskin. b. 1819, d. 1900  
Ebenezer Jones. b. 1820, d. 1860  
Anonymous  
Matthew Arnold. b. 1822, d. 1888  
William Brighty Rands. b. 1823, d. 1880  
William Philpot. b. 1823, d. 1889  
William (Johnson) Cory. b. 1823, d. 1892  
Coventry Patmore. b. 1823, d. 1896  
Sydney Dobell. b. 1824, d. 1874  
William Allingham. b. 1824, d. 1889  
George Macdonald. b. 1824, d. 1905  
Walter Chalmers Smith. b. 1824, d. 1908  
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b. 1828, d. 1882  
George Meredith. b. 1828, d. 1909  
Emily Dickinson. b. 1830, d. 1886  
Christina Georgina Rossetti. b. 1830, d. 1894  
Jean Ingelow. b. 1820, d. 1897  
Thomas Edward Brown. b. 1830, d. 1897  
Richard Watson Dixon. b. 1833, d. 1900  
James Thomson. b. 1834, d. 1882.  
George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier b. 1834, d. 1896  
William Morris. b. 1834, d. 1896  
John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley. b. 1835, d. 1895  
Algernon Charles Swinburne. b. 1837, d. 1909  
Bret Harte. b. 1836, d. 1902  
William Dean Howells. b. 1837, d. 1920  
Thomas Hardy. b. 1840, d. 1928  
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. b. 1840, d. 1922  
Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840, d. 1921  
Henry Clarence Kendall. b. 1841, d. 1882.  
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. b. 1844, d. 1881  
Gerard Manley Hopkins. b. 1844, d. 1889.  
John Boyle O’Reilly. b. 1844, d. 1890  
Andrew Lang. b. 1844, d. 1912  
Robert Bridges. b. 1844, d. 1930  
Alice Meynell. b. 1847, d. 1922  
Hon. Emily Lawless. b. 1845, d. 1913  
William Ernest Henley. b. 1849, d. 1903  
Sir Edmund Gosse. b. 1849, d. 1928  
Selwyn Image. b. 1849, d. 1930  
Robert Louis Stevenson. b. 1850, d. 1894  
Francis William Bourdillon. b. 1852, d. 1921  
Dora Sigerson. d. 1918  
Margaret L. Woods. b. 1856  
Thomas William Rolleston. b. 1857, d. 1920  
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux. b. 1857  
John Davidson. b. 1857, d. 1909  
Sir William Watson. b. 1858, d. 1935  
Francis Thompson. b. 1859, d. 1907  
Ernest Rhys. b. 1859  
Henry Charles Beeching. b. 1859, d. 1919.  
Alfred Edward Housman. b. 1859, d. 1936  
Bliss Carman. b. 1861, d. 1929  
Douglas Hyde. b. 1861  
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. b. 1861, d. 1907  
May Probyn  
Sir Gilbert Parker. b. 1862, d. 1932  
Henry Cust. b. 1861, d. 1917  
Sir Henry Newbolt. b. 1862, d. 1938  
Eden Phillpotts. b. 1862  
Katharine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861, d. 1931  
Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862, d. 1925  
Norman Gale. b. 1862  
Frances Bannerman  
Stephen Phillips. b. 1864, d. 1915  
Rudyard Kipling. b. 1865, d. 1936  
William Butler Yeats. b. 1865, d. 1939  
Herbert Trench. b. 1865, d. 1923  
Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866  
Lionel Johnson. b. 1867, d. 1902  
George William Russell (‘Æ’). b. 1867, d. 1935  
Ernest Dowson. b. 1867, d. 1900  
Laurence Binyon. b. 1869  
Lord Alfred Douglas. b. 1870  
Thomas Sturge Moore. b. 1870  
Hilaire Belloc. b. 1870  
William Henry Davies. b. 1871  
John Swinnerton Phillimore. b. 1873, d. 1926  
Gilbert Keith Chesterton. b. 1872, d. 1936  
Ralph Hodgson. b. 1872  
Walter De La Mare. b. 1873  
Gordon Bottomley. b. 1874  
John Alexander Chapman. b. 1875  
John Masefield. b. 1878  
Oliver St. John Gogarty. b. 1878  
Wilfrid Thorley. b. 1878  
Edward Thomas. b. 1878, d. 1917  
Alfred Noyes. b. 1880  
Herbert Edward Palmer. b. 1880  
Lascelles Abercrombie. b. 1881, d. 1938  
Padraic Colum. b. 1881  
James Joyce. b. 1882  
James Stephens. b. 1882  
James Elroy Flecker, b. 1884, d. 1915  
Charles Williams. b. 1886, d. 1945  
Siegfried Sassoon. b. 1886  
Rupert Brooke. b. 1887, d. 1915  
Julian Grenfell. b. 1888, d. 1915  
Wilfrid Owen. b. 1893, d. 1918  
Charles Hamilton Sorley. b. 1895, d. 1915  
Edmund Blunden b. 1896  
Richard Doddridge Blackmore. b. 1825, d. 1900  

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