The Penguin Book of English Verse Page 3
1740 ALEXANDER POPE On Queen Caroline’s Death-bed
SAMUEL JOHNSON An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician
CHARLES WESLEY Morning Hymn
ALEXANDER POPE from The Dunciad
[The Tribe of Fanciers]
[The Triumph of Dullness]
1744 ANONYMOUS On the Death of Mr. Pope
from Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book
ANONYMOUS Cock Robbin
ANONYMOUS London Bridge
1745 CHARLES WESLEY ‘Let Earth and Heaven combine’
1746 WILLIAM COLLINS Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
WILLIAM COLLINS Ode to Evening
1747 WILLIAM SHENSTONE Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow
1748 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A Receipt to Cure the Vapours
MARY LEAPOR Mira’s Will
CHRISTOPHER SMART A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers
1749 SAMUEL JOHNSON / JUVENAL from The Vanity of Human Wishes ‘When first the College Rolls receive his Name’
1751 THOMAS GRAY Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
1755 ANONYMOUS This is the House That Jack Built
1761 CHRISTOPHER SMART from Jubilate Agno
‘For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent’
‘For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry’
CHRISTOPHER SMART from A Song to David 1763 ‘O DAVID, highest in the list’
OLIVER GOLDSMITH from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society 1764
[Britain]
SAMUEL JOHNSON [Lines contributed to Goldsmith’s ‘The Traveller’]
from Mother Goose’s Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle 1765
ANONYMOUS ‘High diddle diddle’
from Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
ANONYMOUS Sir Patrick Spence
ANONYMOUS Edward, Edward
ANONYMOUS Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
CHRISTOPHER SMART HYMN. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
OLIVER GOLDSMITH from The Vicar of Wakefield 1766 ‘When lovely woman stoops to folly’
THOMAS GRAY On L[or]d H[olland’]s Seat near M[argat]e, 1769 K[en]t
OLIVER GOLDSMITH from The Deserted Village 1770 ‘Sweet was the sound when oft at evening’s close’
JOHN BYROM On the Origin of Evil 1772
ROBERT FERGUSSON The Daft-Days
WILLIAM COWPER Light Shining out of Darkness 1774
WILLIAM COWPER ‘Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion’
ANONYMOUS [Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman. Charlton, Sussex]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH from Retaliation
[Edmund Burke]
[David Garrick]
[Joshua Reynolds]
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN On Lady Anne Hamilton 1777
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prologue to Hugh Kelly’s ‘A Word to the Wise’
SAMUEL JOHNSON [Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth’s ‘The Rival’]
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN from The School for Scandal
Song and Chorus (‘Here’s to the maiden of Bashful fifteen’)
WILLIAM COWPER The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15 1779
ROBERT FERGUSSON / HORACE Odes I. II
SAMUEL JOHNSON A Short Song of Congratulation 1780
SAMUEL JOHNSON On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet 1783
WILLIAM BLAKE To the Evening Star
1784 WILLIAM COWPER from The Task
[The Winter Evening]
[The Winter Walk at Noon]
1786 ROBERT BURNS To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785
1787 ROBERT BURNS Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous
1789 WILLIAM BLAKE from Songs of Innocence Holy Thursday
CHARLOTTE SMITH Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
ELIZABETH HANDS On an Unsociable Family
1791 ROBERT BURNS Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale
1792 ROBERT BURNS Song (‘Ae fond kiss, and then we sever’)
1793 WILLIAM BLAKE from Visions of the Daughters of Albion ‘Then Oothoon waited silent all the day’
WILLIAM BLAKE ‘Never seek to tell thy love’
1794 WILLIAM BLAKE from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Introduction (‘Hear the voice of the Bard!’)
The Clod and the Pebble
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Garden of Love
London
A Poison Tree
1796 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Eolian Harp
ROBERT BURNS A Red, Red Rose
1797 GEORGE CANNING and JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Sapphics
CHARLOTTE SMITH Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea
1798 from Lyrical Ballads
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts ‘It is an ancyent Marinere’
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Old Man Travelling
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Frost at Midnight
1799 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 ‘Was it for this?’
ROBERT BURNS from Love and Liberty. A Cantata ‘See the smoking bowl before us’
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from Lyrical Ballads 1800
‘A slumber did my spirit seal’
Song (‘She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways’)
ROBERT BURNS ‘Oh wert thou in the cauld blast’ 1801
ROBERT BURNS The Fornicator. A New Song
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802 1802
SIR WALTER SCOTT (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
ANONYMOUS The Wife of Usher’s Well
ANONYMOUS Thomas Rhymer
ANONYMOUS Lord Randal
ANONYMOUS A Lyke-Wake Dirge
ANONYMOUS The Twa Corbies 1803
WILLIAM COWPER The Snail
WILLIAM COWPER The Cast-away
WILLIAM BLAKE from Milton [Preface] 1804 ‘And did those feet in ancient time’
WILLIAM BLAKE ‘Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau’
WILLIAM BLAKE The Crystal Cabinet 1805
WILLIAM BLAKE from Auguries of Innocence ‘To see a World in a Grain of Sand’
ANONYMOUS Lamkin 1806
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1807
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Small Celandine
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ode (Intimations of Immortality)
THOMAS MOORE ‘Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the 1808 bowers’
GEORGE CRABBE from The Borough 1810
from Prisons [The Condemned Man]
from Peter Grimes (‘Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand’)
SIR WALTER SCOTT from The Lady of the Lake Coronach
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Stanzas for Music 1815
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a 1816 Dream. A Fragment
JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To Wordsworth
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from The Rime of the Ancient 1817 Mariner ‘I fear thee, ancient Mariner!’
JOHN KEATS ‘After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains’
1818 JOHN KEATS from Endymion ‘But there are Richer entanglements’
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ozymandias
SIR WALTER SCOTT from The Heart of Mid-Lothian ‘Proud Maisie is in the wood’
1819 SIR WALTER SCOTT from The Bride of Lammermoor
[Lucy Ashton’s song]
GEORGE CRABBE from Tales of the Hall
from Delay has Danger (‘Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now’)
WILLIAM BLAKE To the Accuser Who is the God of This World
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from The Mask of Ana
rchy ‘As I lay asleep in Italy’
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON from Don Juan
from Canto I [Juan’s Puberty]
from Canto II [The Shipwreck]
JOHN KEATS The Eve of St. Agnes
JOHN KEATS Ode to a Nightingale
JOHN KEATS Ode on a Grecian Urn
JOHN KEATS To Autumn
JOHN KEATS Ode on Melancholy
JOHN KEATS ‘Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art –’
1820 JOHN KEATS La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ode to the West Wind
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from The Sensitive-Plant ‘Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that’
1821 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from Adonais ‘The One remains, the many change and pass’
1822 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON from The Vision of Judgment ‘Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate’
1823 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Aristomenes. Canto First
1824 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth Year
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON ‘Remember Thee, Remember Thee!’
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To Jane. The Invitation
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation ‘I rode one evening with Count Maddalo’
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from The Triumph of Life ‘As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay’
CAROLINE OLIPHANT, BARONESS NAIRNE The Laird o’ Cockpen
CAROLINE OLIPHANT, BARONESS NAIRNE The Land o’ the Leal
ANONYMOUS [A Metrical Adage] 1826
ANONYMOUS Tweed and Till
ANONYMOUS [A Rhyme from Lincolnshire]
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Good-night to the Season 1827
THOMAS HOOD Death in the Kitchen 1828
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Duty Surviving Self-Love
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Casablanca 1829
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Floating Island
LAETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Lines of Life
LAETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Revenge
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK The War-Song of Dinas Vawr
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Arrivals at a Watering Place
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON ‘So, we’ll go no more a 1830 roving’
WALTER SAVAGE LAND OR ‘Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives’ 1831
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Dirce
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Lines on Hearing That Lady 1832 Byron was Ill
HARTLEY COLERIDGE ‘Long time a child, and still a child, when 1833 years’
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Knight’s Tomb 1834
JOHN CLARE The Nightingales Nest 1835
JOHN CLARE The Sky Lark
JOHN CLARE Mist in the Meadows
JOHN CLARE Sand Martin
GEORGE DARLEY from Nepenthe ‘Hurry me Nymphs!’
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN The Pillar of the Cloud 1836
GEORGE DARLEY The Mermaidens’ Vesper-Hymn 1837
JOHN CLARE ‘I found a ball of grass among the hay’
JOHN CLARE ‘The old pond full of flags and fenced around’
JOHN CLARE from The Badger ‘When midnight comes a host of dogs and men’
LEIGH HUNT from The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit 1838
To Fish
A Fish Answers
THOMAS HOOD Sonnet to Vauxhall 1839
ROBERT BROWNING My Last Duchess 1842
ROBERT BROWNING from Waring ‘What’s become of Waring’
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Ulysses
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Grief
1844 WILLIAM BARNES The Clote
1845 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Simplon Pass
THOMAS HOOD Stanzas (‘Farewell, Life! My senses swim’)
ROBERT BROWNING The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
1846 EDWARD LEAR from A Book of Nonsense
‘There was an Old Man with a beard’
‘There was an Old Person of Basing’
‘There was an Old Man of Whitehaven’
EMILY JANE BRONTE ‘The night is darkening round me’
EMILY JANE BRONTE ‘Fall leaves fall die flowers away’
EMILY JANE BRONTE ‘All hushed and still within the house’
EMILY JANE BRONTE Remembrance
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Siberia
1847 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON from The Princess
‘Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white’
‘Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height’
1848 JOHN CLARE ‘I am’
1849 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ‘I strove with none, for none was worth my strife’
MATTHEW ARNOLD from Resignation. To Fausta (‘He sees the gentle stir of birth’)
1850 EMILY JANE BRONTE and CHARLOTTE BRONTE The Visionary
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON from In Memoriam A.H.H.
II ‘Old Yew, which graspest at the stones’
VII ‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’
XI ‘Calm is the morn without a sound’
LVI ‘ “So careful of the type?” but no’
CXV ‘Now fades the last long streak of snow’
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES from Death’s Jest Book, or the Fool’s Tragedy ‘And what’s your tune?’
1851 THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES from The Last Man
A Crocodile
A Lake
1852 MATTHEW ARNOLD To Marguerite – Continued
1853 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ‘Our youth was happy: why repine’
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Separation
1854 JAMES HENRY ‘Another and another and another’
JAMES HENRY ‘The son’s a poor, wretched, unfortunate creature’
1855 ROBERT BROWNING Love in a Life
ROBERT BROWNING How It Strikes a Contemporary
ROBERT BROWNING Memorabilia
ROBERT BROWNING Two in the Campagna
COVENTRY PATMORE from Victories of Love, Book 1, 2 1856 ‘He that but once too nearly hears’
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH from Amours de Voyage (Canto II) 1858
V ‘Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears’
VII ‘So, I have seen a man killed!’
VIII ‘Only think, dearest Louisa’
IX ‘It is most curious to see what a power’
X ‘I am in love, meantime, you think’
EDWARD FITZGERALD from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1859 ‘Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night’
WILLIAM BARNES My Orcha’d in Linden Lea
WILLIAM BARNES False Friends-like
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Tithonus 1860
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI / DANTE Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli 1861 Scrovigni
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Envy
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI May 1862
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Song (‘When I am dead, my dearest’)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Winter: My Secret
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Lord Walter’s Wife
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A Musical Instrument
GEORGE MEREDITH from Modern Love
I ‘By this he knew she wept with waking eyes’
XVII ‘At dinner she is hostess, I am host’
XXXIV ‘Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes’
L ‘Thus piteously Love closed what he begat’
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH The Latest Decalogue
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Free Thought
WILLIAM BARNES Leaves a-Vallèn
WILLIAM BARNES The Turnstile
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Memory 1863
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Sudden Light
ROBERT BROWNING Youth and Art 1864
JOHN CLARE ‘The thunder mutters louder and more loud’
LEWIS CARROLL from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1865
‘ “You are old, Father William,” the young man said’
‘They told me you had been to her’
GEORGE ELIOT In a London Drawingroom
ARTH
UR HUGH CLOUGH from Dipsychus “There is no God,” the wicked saith’
1866 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ItyluS
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE from Sapphics ‘All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids’
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The Queen of Hearts
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ‘What Would I Give’
1867 MATTHEW ARNOLD Dover Beach
MATTHEW ARNOLD Growing Old
DORA GREENWELL A Scherzo. (A Shy Person’s Wishes)
1868 CHARLES TURNER On a Vase of Gold-Fish
MORTIMER COLLINS Winter in Brighton
1869 MATTHEW ARNOLD ‘Below the surface-stream, shallow and light’
1870 AUGUSTA WEBSTER from A Castaway ‘Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts’
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A Match with the Moon
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Woodspurge
1871 EDWARD LEAR ‘There was an old man who screamed out’
EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
1872 LEWIS CARROLL from Through the Looking-Glass ‘In winter, when the fields are white’
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
‘Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush’
‘A city plum is not a plum’
‘If a pig wore a wig’
‘I caught a little ladybird’
ROBERT BROWNING [Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus]
1875 CHRISTINA ROSSETTI By the Sea
1877 COVENTRY PATMORE Magna est Veritas
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Windhover: To Christ our Lord
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Pied Beauty
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS from The Wreck of the Deutschland ‘Thou mastering me’
1878 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A Forsaken Garden
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A Vision of Spring in Winter
1880 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Rizpah
CHARLES TURNER Letty’s Globe
1881 JOSEPH SKIPSEY ‘Get Up!’
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ‘Summer is Ended’
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Inversnaid
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ‘As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame’
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON from Treasure Island Pirate Ditty
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ‘Last night we had a thunderstorm in style’
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ‘Everything passes and vanishes’ 1882
AMY LEVY Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in 1884 Bed)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON To E. FitzGerald 1885
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI from A Trip to Paris and Belgium 1886
I from LONDON TO FOLKESTONE
XVI Antwerp to Ghent
ANONYMOUS Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye 1887
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To Mrs Will H. Low