Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
W. B. Yeats: The Song of Wandering Aengus
William Wordsworth: ‘Daffodils’
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
George Gordon, Lord Byron: ‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’
Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night
William Shakespeare: ‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!’, from King Lear
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through the Woods
Emily Dickinson: ‘This World is not Conclusion’
Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christina G. Rossetti: A Birthday
Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Christopher Smart: ‘My Cat Jeoffry’
Thomas Gray: Ode On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
William Shakespeare: ‘Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed’, from Macbeth
Thomas Hardy: The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Frost at Midnight
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Clement Clarke Moore: The Night Before Christmas
William Blake: ‘To see a World in a Grain of Sand’, from Auguries of Innocence
William Carlos Williams: This Is Just To Say
Christina G. Rossetti: ‘Morning and evening’, from Goblin Market
A. E. Housman: ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’, from A Shropshire Lad: II
Thomas Hardy: ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’
Robert Louis Stevenson: From a Railway Carriage
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Mary Howitt: The Spider and the Fly
Sir Thomas Wyatt: ‘They flee from me, that sometime did me seek’
Christina G. Rossetti: Remember
Thomas Campion: ‘Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air’
William Shakespeare: ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’, Sonnet 130
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Robert Herrick: The Coming of Good Luck
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’
Robert Browning: Love in a Life
William Shakespeare: ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’, Sonnet 116
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott
William Shakespeare: ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’, Sonnet 30
Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
Edmund Spenser: Sonnet, ‘Oft when my spirit doth spread her bolder wings’