CHILDHOOD
JOHN CLARE Childhood
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There was a boy
JOHN CLARE Evening Schoolboys
WILLIAM BLAKE Song of Experience: The chimney sweeper
WILLIAM BLAKE Song of Innocence: Infant Joy
WILLIAM BLAKE Song of Experience: Infant Sorrow
WILLIAM BLAKE Song of Innocence: Holy Thursday
WILLIAM BLAKE Song of Experience: Holy Thursday
MARY ROBINSON The savage of Aveyron
FELICIA HEMANS Casabianca
MEMORY
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To the River Otter
WILLIAM COWPER from The Task: Winter’s Evening
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Frost at midnight
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS from A Farewell, for two years, to England
JOHN CLARE Remembrances
JOHN CLARE The flitting
JOANNA BAILLIE To Mrs Siddons
INFLUENCE OF NATURAL OBJECTS
CHARLOTTE SMITH Written at the close of spring
ROBERT BURNS To a mountain-daisy
WILLIAM BLAKE Ah! sunflower
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Sonnet to the strawberry
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Influence of natural objects
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE This lime-tree bower my prison
PERCY SHELLEY Mont Blanc
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Floating island
ROBERT SOUTHEY The cataract of Lodore
LETITIA LANDON Airey Force
CHARLOTTE SMITH from Beachy Head
JOHN CLARE The pettichap’s nest
JOHN CLARE Pewit’s nest
JOHN CLARE The skylark
PERCY SHELLEY To a skylark
LEIGH HUNT To the grasshopper and the cricket
JOHN KEATS On the grasshopper and cricket
JOHN KEATS To Autumn
JOHN CLARE from The Shepherd’s Calendar: October
PERCY SHELLEY Ode to the west wind
JOHN CLARE Emmonsails heath in winter
JOHN CLARE Snow Winter fields
LORD BYRON from Childe Harold’s pilgrimage
FELICIA HEMANS The rock of Cader Idris
JOHN KEATS On the sea
WILLIAM BLAKE The tyger
SOCIETY AND POLITICS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Old man travelling
MARY ROBINSON London’s summer morning
WILLIAM BLAKE London
WILLIAM BLAKE The garden of love
HANNAH MORE from Slavery: A Poem
ROBERT SOUTHEY Poems on the slave trade: sonnet VI
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To Toussaint L’Ouverture
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from The Prelude: Residence in France
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Jones! As from Calais southwards
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Composed by the sea-side, near Calais
PERCY SHELLEY The mask of anarchy
PERCY SHELLEY England in 1819
JOHN CLARE The fallen elm
WILLIAM BLAKE from Auguries of innocence
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Resolution and independence
WILLIAM BLAKE Preface to Milton: And did those feet
LOVE
LORD BYRON She walks in beauty like the night
JOHN KEATS The eve of St Agnes
LORD BYRON from Don Juan
LORD BYRON So, we’ll go no more a’roving
THOMAS MOORE Alone in crowds to wander on
JOHN CLARE Song: True love lives in absence
LETITIA LANDON Juliet after the masquerade
THOMAS CAMPBELL Freedom and love
JOURNEYS OF THE IMAGINATION
JOHN KEATS On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
WILLIAM BLAKE The crystal cabinet
JOHN KEATS La belle dame sans merci
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
GEORGE CRABBE from Peter Grimes
SIR WALTER SCOTT from Marmion: the arrival of Lochinvar
INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY
JOHN KEATS Ode to a nightingale
WILLIAM BLAKE The sick rose
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from Lyrical Ballads: three ‘Lucy’ songs
SAMUEL ROGERS A wish
SIR WALTER SCOTT Proud Maisie
PERCY SHELLEY Ozymandias
HORACE SMITH On a stupendous leg of granite
JOHN KEATS Ode on a Grecian urn
LORD BYRON Darkness
JOHN KEATS Bright star
PERCY SHELLEY from Adonais
LORD BYRON On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year
JOHN CLARE Sonnet: I am
JOHN CLARE Lines: I am
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Surprised by joy
FELICIA HEMANS To Wordsworth
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ode: Intimations of Immortality
JOHN CLARE An invite to eternity
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