Adieu, farewell earth's bliss / Thomas Nashe -- After his Death / Norman MacCaig -- After looking into a book belonging to my great-grandfather ... / Hyam Plutzik -- Afterwards / Thomas Hardy -- Ah! Sunflower / William Blake -- Alfried Corning Clark / Robert Lowell -- Allansford pursuit / Robert Graves -- All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare -- Among the Narcissi / Sylvia Plath -- Ancients of the world / R.S. Thomas -- And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas -- 51st year of that century / Hyam Plutzik -- Days are not full enough / Ezra Pound -- Angelica the doorkeeper / Anon -- Angel that presided o'er my birth / William Blake -- Anger lay by me all night long / Elizabeth Daryush -- Animal alphabet / Edward Lear -- Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings -- Apple Blossom / Louis MacNeice -- Artist / William Carlos Williams -- As I came in by Fiddich-side / Anon -- As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden -- As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- As much as you can / C.P. Cavafy -- As the team's head-brass flashed out -- Edward Thomas -- As you came from the holy land / Sir Walter Ralegh -- At Grass / Philip Larkin -- At the bomb testing site / William Stafford -- At the grey round of the hill / W.B. Yeats -- Auguries of Innocence / William Blake -- Aunt Julia / Norman MacCaig -- Autobahnmotorwayautoroute / Adrian Mitchell -- Autobiography / Louis MacNeice -- Auto Wreck / Karl Shapiro -- Aye, but to die, and go we know not where / William Shakespeare -- Baby Song / Thom Gunn -- Badger / John Clare -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice -- Bags of Meat / Thomas Hardy -- Ballad of Rudolph Reed / Ballad of the Bread Man / Charles Causley -- Be Merry / Anon -- Beeny Cliff / Thomas Hardy -- Before I knocked and flesh let enter / Dylan Thomas -- Behaviour of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden / Keith Douglas -- La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats -- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises / William Shakespeare -- Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- Bethsabe's song / George Peele -- Bifocal / William Stafford -- The bight / Elizabeth Bishop -- Binsey poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Birth of the foal / Ferenc Juhász -- The black cloud / W.H. Davies -- Black rock of Kiltearn / Andrew Young -- The blacksmiths / Anon -- Blue girls / John Crow Ransom ? Boat stealing / William Wordsworth -- Bog-face / Stevie Smith -- Break, break, break / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Breathing space July / Tomas Transtromer -- Brian O?Linn / Anon -- Buffalo Bill's / e.e. Cummings -- The buffalo skinners / Anon -- Bullfight / Miroslav Holub -- The burglar of Babylon / Elizabeth Bishop -- The burning Babe / Robert Southwell -- The cable ship / Harry Edmund Martinson -- Call for the robin redbreast and the wren / John Webster -- The cap and bells / W.B. Yeats -- Carentan O Carentan / Louis Simpson -- Carry her over the water / W.H. Auden -- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- A charm / Anon -- The child dying / Edwin Muir -- A child's pet / W.H. Davies -- Child's song / Robert Lowell -- The chimney sweeper / William Blake -- The clod and the pebble / William Blake -- Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue / Anon -- Cock-crow / Edward Thomas -- The cold heaven / W.B. Yeats -- The collarbone of a hare / W.B. Yeats -- The combe / Edward Thomas -- The compassionate fool / Norman Cameron -- Cotton / Harry Edmund Martinson -- Could mortal lip divine / Emily Dickinson -- The cow / Ogden Nash -- Cowper's tame hare / Norman Nicholson -- A crocodile / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Crossing the Alps / William Wordsworth -- Crossing the water / Sylvia Plath -- Crystals like blood / Hugh MacDiarmid -- The cuckoo / Anon -- Cut grass / Philip Larkin -- Dahn the plug'ole / Anon -- The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Days / Philip Larkin -- The dead crab / Andrew Young -- Death / Anon -- Death in Leamington / Sir John Betjeman -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Delayed action / Christian Morgenstern -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron -- A devil / Zbigniew Herbert -- The devil in Texas / Anon -- Dinograd's petticoat / Anon -- Dirge / Kenneth Fearing -- Disillusionment of Ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- A divine image / William Blake -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Donal Og / Anon -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton -- Don't let that horse / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The dream about our master, William Shakespeare / Hyam Plutzik -- A drover / Padraic Colum -- The duck / Ogden Nash -- Dusk in the country / Harry Edmund Martinson -- The dying airman / Anon -- from Eagle in New Mexico / D.H. Lawrence -- The earthworm / Harry Edmund Martinson -- Earthy anecdote / Wallace Stevens -- Elegy for himself / Chidiock Tichborne -- Epigrams / J.V. Cunningham -- An epitaph / Walter de la Mare -- Epitaph on an army of mercenaries / A.E. Housman -- Epitaph on a tyrant / W.H. Auden -- Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester / Sir Walter Ralegh -- Eternity / William Blake -- Even such is time / Sir Walter Ralegh -- The explosion / Philip Larkin -- Exposure / Wilfred Owen -- Fable / Janos Pilinszky -- The face of the horse / Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky -- The fair maid of Amsterdam / Anon -- Fairy tale / Miroslav Holub -- The faking boy / Anon -- The fallow deer at the lonely house / Thomas Hardy --
Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare
Field-glasses / Andrew Young
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
The flight / Theodore Roethke
A flower given to my daughter / James Joyce
The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay
Flowers by the sea / William Carlos Williams
Flying crooked / Robert Graves
For a lamb / Richard Eberhart
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower' / Dylan Thomas
Forgotten girlhood / Laura Riding
Fox dancing / Suzanne Knowles
Francis Jammes: a prayer to go to paradise with the donkeys / Richard Wilbur
Frankie and Johnny / Anon
The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart
Futility / Wilfred Owen from Games / Vasco Popa
The garden of love / William Blake
The garden seat / Thomas Hardy
Gathering leaves / Robert Frost
The gazelle calf / D.H. Lawrence
Giving potatoes / Adrian Mitchell
A glass of beer / James Stephens
the goose and the gander / Anon
Great and strong / Miroslav Holub
The habit of perfection / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ha'nacker mill / Hilaire Belloc
The hand that signed the paper felled a city / Dylan Thomas
The happy heart / Thomas Dekker
Hares at play / John Clare
The hart loves the high wood? / Anon
The hawk / George Mackay Brown
He hears the cry of the sedge / W.B. Yeats
Hear the voice of the Bard! / William Blake
Heaven-haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The hen / Christian Morgenstern
Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom
A history lesson / Miroslav Holub
Hospital barge at Cérisy / Wilfred Owen
The hosue of hospitalities / Thomas Hardy
How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll
How the old mountains drip with sunset? / Emily Dickinson
How to kill / Keith Douglas
Humming-bird / D.H. Lawrence
Hunter poems of the Yoruba / Anon ; Baboon, Blue Cuckoo, Buffalo, Chicken, Colobus monkey, Elephant, Hyena, Kob antelope, Leopard, Red monkey.
Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers
I cannot grow / W.H. Auden
I saw a peacock with a fiery tail / Anon
I think that the root of the wind is water / Emily Dickinson
I will give my love an apple without e'er a core / Anon
If I might be an ox / Anon
In beauty may I walk / Anon
In Golden Gate Park that day / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In the deep channel / William Stafford
In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In time of the breaking of nations / Thomas Hardy
Infant sorrow / William Blake
Innocence / Patrick Kavanagh
The inquest / W.H. Davies
Interruption to a journey / Norman MacCaig
Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins
It is not growing like a tree / Ben Jonson
It's such a little thing to weep / Emily Dickiinson
It was all very tidy / Robert Graves
It was a lover and his lass' / William Shakespeare
Jabberwockly / Lewis Carroll
Janet Waking / John Crowe Ransom
Jerusalem / William Blake
Jim Desterland / Hyam Plutzik
John Barleycorn / Robert Burns
John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore / W.B. Yeats
John Mouldy / Walter de la Mare
The jungle husband / Stevie Smith
Kerr's ass / Patrick Kavanagh
The knee / Christian Morgenstern
The knight's tomb / Samuel Taylor coleridge
Lament for Tadhg Cronin's children / Michael Hartnett
New hampshire: Viginia, Usk, Rannock by Glencoe, Cape Ann
The last words of my English grandmother / William Carlos Williams
The leaden-eyed/ Vachel Lindsay
Lepanto / G.K. Chesterton
The lie / Sir Walter Ralegh
Like rain it sounded till it curved / Emily Dickinson
Lines for an old man / T.S. Eliot
The lion for real / Allen Ginsberg
Little fish / D.H. Lawrence
The little mute boy / Federico Garcia Lorca
Little Trotty Wagrail / John Clare
Lonely the sea-bird lies at her rest / W.B. Yeats
Long John Brown and little Mary Bell / William Blake
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall / Edward Dyer
Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot
Mad Gardiner's song / Lewis Carroll
Maggie and milly and molly and may / e.e. Cummings
The Maldive shark / Herman Melville
Man and bat / D.H. Lawrence
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
Manners / Elizabeth Bishop
The marvel / Keith Douglas.