Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) by William Wordsworth Begun on March 27, 1802 and finished before 1806, possibly in early 1804. Wordsworth stated that “two years at least passed...
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by Rebecca · Published July 14, 2012 · Last modified November 18, 2023
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth Five years have passed; five summers with the length Of...
THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ADDRESSED TO CHARLES LAMB, OF THE INDIA HOUSE, LONDON In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid a visit to the author’s cottage; and...
FROST AT MIDNIGHT by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at...
DEJECTION: AN ODE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge WRITTEN APRIL 4, 1802 “Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!...
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. 5 So twice...
TO A SKYLARK by Percy Bysshe Shelley Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year. There is a transcript in the Harvard manuscript. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird...
ODE TO THE WEST WIND by Percy Bysshe Shelley (This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose...
MONT BLANC by Percy Bysshe Shelley LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI [Composed in Switzerland, July, 1816 (see date below). Printed at the end of the “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” published...
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by John Keats 1. Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than...
ODE ON MELANCHOLY by John Keats 1. No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d By nightshade, ruby grape of...
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One...
The text below comes from the poetry collection, Men and Women, by Robert Browning. The helpful introductory and line notes (make sure you don’t miss those — they’re located at the end of the poem)...
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb” by Robert Browning is considered to be the first blank verse dramatic monologue poem in English. In it, a (fictional) dying bishop speaks to his sons and contemplates his...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legend in which a piper, hired as a rat-catcher, wreaks a clever revenge when the townspeople refuse to pay for his services. Here is Robert Browning’s poetic...
THE SECOND COMING by William Butler Yeats [This is the 1920 edition, as printed in Michael Robartes and the Dancer.] Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...
Robert Browning Poetry Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet, known for his dramatic verse. Considered one of the foremost poets of the Victorian era, Browning was born the same year as Charles Dickens....
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by Rebecca · Published July 10, 2012 · Last modified February 24, 2024
Here are few selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love sonnets by English Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She was well appreciated during her lifetime, and her work inspired other writers, including Emily...
Although poet John Keats wrote only 54 poems before he died at the age of 25, he is remembered as one of the outstanding English Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe...
Index of Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet whose contemporaries included Keats and Byron. Although famous for his long work Prometheus Unbound, his genius also shines in...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a Romantic poet and writer in the Gothic literary tradition. He was a friend of William Wordsworth Coleridge also wrote about philosophy, literature, theology, and science. You...
Poems by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet whose work celebrated the connection between man and nature. He was friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and became poet laureate in 1843....
Poems by John Milton John Milton (1608–1674) was an English writer of prose and poetry, as well as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He is best known for...
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by Rebecca · Published July 7, 2012 · Last modified July 20, 2020
Poems by George Herbert (1593–1633) George Herbert was a 17th-century British poet, now recognized as one of the best devotional poets in the English language. You may read two of his poems available from...
Poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been slaves in Kentucky before the...
Although Herman Melville is best known as the author of Moby Dick, from which sprang one of the best first sentences in literature — “Call me Ishmael.”— he also wrote poetry, essays, and travel...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American transcendentalist poet and writer. A native of Boston, he lived most of his life in that region of Massachusetts, and his book Nature inspired Henry David Thoreau,...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894), a professor of anatomy at Harvard University, wrote poetry as a hobby. Some of his most memorable poems tell historical stories. In both his life and his work, he...
Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892), often listed as one of the Fireside Poets, was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Enjoy Whittier’s poetry available from...
In poetry, an elegy is a reflective poem, usually a lament for the dead. In this elegy for American poet and author Nathaniel Hawthorne, his friend and college classmate, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow mourns his...
Here’s the Everyday Educator — our annual newsletter handout. It has book lists and helpful articles about homeschooling topics. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the Everyday Educator here. I hope you enjoy it!
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