The poets' corner: the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family

Dover beach / Matthew Arnold

Musée des Beaux Arts / W. H. Auden

Dream song 76: Henry's confession / John Berryman

Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop

The tyger / William Blake

We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To a mouse / Robert Burns

I would I were a careless child / George Gordon, Lord Byron

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll

from The general prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer

Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane

if everything happens that can't be done / E. E. Cummings

There is no frigate like a book (1263) / Emily Dickinson

Song (Go and catch a falling star) / John Donne

Rhapsody on a windy night / T. S. Eliot

Birches / Robert Frost

Love unrequited, or the nightmare song / William S. Gilbert

A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg

The beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen / Robert Herrick

Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins

When I was one-and-twenty / A. E. Housman

The weary blues / Langston Hughes

The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell

Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Jonson

To autumn / John Keats

Days / Philip Larkin

The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear

A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The public garden / Robert Lowell

To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell

Love is not all / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poetry / Marianne Moore

No doctors today, thank you / Ogden Nash

Afternoon / Dorothy Parker

Annabel Lee / Edgar Allen Poe

The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound

Up-hill / Christina Rossetti

Chicago / Carl Sandburg

Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare

To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) / Edmund Spenser

If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein

The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman

The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams

I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth

The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats.