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Poems You Ought to Know

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Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt 107

All Francis A. Durivage 160

Althea from Prison, To Richard Lovelace 98

Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 178

Antony and Cleopatra William H. Lytle 226

Arsenal at Springfield, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 158

Babyhood Josiah Gilbert Holland 40

Ballade of Nicolete Graham R. Tomson 78

Ballad of Old-Time Ladies Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s version of Villon 128

Ballad of the Boat, The Richard Garnett 172

Ballad Upon a Wedding Sir John Suckling 192

Banks o’ Doon Robert Burns 76

Bedouin Love Song Bayard Taylor 67

Believe Me If All Those Thomas Moore 101

Bells of Shandon Francis Mahony 196

Bonny Dundee Sir Walter Scott 167

Border Ballad Sir Walter Scott 169

Break, Break, Break Lord Tennyson 24

Breathes There a Man Sir Walter Scott 104

Bridge, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 55

Bugle Song Lord Tennyson 108

Celia, To Ben Jonson 187

Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 87

Cherry Ripe Thomas Campion 36

Children, Cry of The Elizabeth Barrett Browning 106

Church Gate, At the William Makepeace Thackeray 92

Crossing the Bar Lord Tennyson 193

Cuckoo, To the John Logan 94

Daffodils, The William Wordsworth 162

Dandelion, To the James Russell Lowell 170

Dante, On A Bust of T. W. Parsons 126

Death-Bed, The Thomas Hood 33

Deed and a Word, A Charles Mackay 47

Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 62

Dirge for a Soldier George H. Boker 53

Ditty, A Sir Philip Sidney 118

Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True Dinah Maria Mulock 149

Drifting Thomas Buchanan Read 50

Elia E. J. McPhelim 70

Emperor’s Daughter Stands Alone, An Geoffrey Chaucer 60

Evening Song Sidney Lanier 54

Faith Thomas Chatterton 144

Fate Susan Marr Spalding 22

Flynn of Virginia Bret Harte 204

Fool’s Prayer, The Edward Rowland Sill 28

For All These Juliet Wilbor Tompkins 45

Fount of Castaly Joseph O’Connor 142

Garret, The William Makepeace Thackeray 198

Girdle, On a Edmund Waller 199

Go, Lovely Rose Edmund Waller 82

Grass, The Emily Dickinson 217

Graveyard, In the Macdonald Clarke 166

Grounds of the Terrible Harold Begbie 164

Hark, Hark the Lark William Shakespeare 71

Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls Thomas Moore 195

He’d Had No Show S. W. Foss 93

Heritage, The James Russell Lowell 116

Her Moral (Miss Kilmanseg) Thomas Hood 95

Highland Mary Robert Burns 152

Holy Nation, A Richard Realf 23

Indian Serenade Percy Bysshe Shelley 141

Indian Summer John G. Whittier 181

“In Memoriam” Lord Tennyson 121

Intra Muros Mary C. Gillington 21

Invictus W. E. Henley 131

I Remember Thomas Hood 123

Isles of Greece Lord Byron 232

Jerusalem the Golden John M. Neale 183

Jim Bludso John Hay 64

John Anderson, My Jo Robert Burns 185

Jonathan to John James Russell Lowell 222

June James Russell Lowell 194

Kubla Kahn Samuel Taylor Coleridge 190

Lamb, The William Blake 153

Last Leaf, The Oliver Wendell Holmes 84

Lead Kindly Light John Henry Newman 72

Life Mrs. A. L. Barbauld 161

Little Breeches John Hay 202

Lovers’ Quarrel, A Austin Dobson 188

Lucasta on Going to the Wars, To Richard Lovelace 35

Lucy William Wordsworth 59

Maid of Athens Lord Byron 186

Mary’s Dream John Lowe 124

Match, A Algernon Charles Swinburne 137

Mignon’s Song Johann Wolfgang Goethe 110

Misconceptions Robert Browning 184

Moral (“Lady Flora”) Lord Tennyson 66

Music, When Soft Voices Die Percy Bysshe Shelley 133

My Boat Is on the Shore Lord Byron 180

My Wife and Child Henry R. Jackson 220

Nathan Hale Francis Miles Finch 212

Nearer Home Phoebe Cary 174

Night James Blanco White 79

Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The Francis Williams Bourdillon 115

Nocturne Thomas Bailey Aldrich 210

O, Captain, My Captain Walt Whitman 38

Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats 97

Ode on Solitude Alexander Pope 103

Oft in the Stilly Night Thomas Moore 63

Old Familiar Faces, The Charles Lamb 18

Old Oaken Bucket Samuel Woodworth 86

One Touch of Nature William Shakespeare 89

Opportunity John James Ingalls 109

O, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? William Knox 228

O, Yet We Trust that Somehow Good (“In Memoriam”) Lord Tennyson 121

Patriotism Sir Walter Scott 104

Paradox of Time, The Austin Dobson 208

Pompadour’s Fan, The Austin Dobson 75

Portia’s Speech on Mercy William Shakespeare 207

Psalm XIX 74

Psalm XXIV 155

Psalm XLVI 44

Psalm XLVIII 231

Psalm LXXXIV 111

Psalm CXXI 119

Remembrance Emily Bronte 42

Requiem, A Robert Louis Stevenson 90

Requiescat Matthew Arnold 90

Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep Emma Willard 105

Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers Allen 30

Rose, The Pierre Ronsard 143

Ruthless Time William Shakespeare 46

Sally in Our Alley Henry Carey 68

Scots Wha Hae Robert Burns 182

Sea Song, A Allan Cunningham 134

Self-Dependence Matthew Arnold 156

Sennacherib’s Host, Destruction of Lord Byron 32

Serenade (From “The Spanish Student”) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 96

Shepherdess, The Alice Meynell 130

Shepherd’s Resolution, The George Wither 80

She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Lord Byron 57

Sleep, To William Wordsworth 17

Song John Bunyan 100

Song William Shakespeare 71

Song of Callicles Matthew Arnold 214

Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor 146

Song of the Mystic Abram Ryan 81

Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 85

Song of the Western Men Robert S. Hawker 129

Song on a May Morning John Milton 163

Society Upon the Stanislaus Bret Harte 210

Spacious Firmament on High, The Joseph Addison 58

Star Spangled Banner, The Francis Scott Key 120

Tears, Idle Tears (“Princess”) Lord Tennyson 151

Thalassa, Thalassa Brownlee Brown 140

Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 112

There Is No Death J. L. McCreery 25

Though Lost to Sight Thomas Moore 20

Three Fishers, The Charles Kingsley 230

Tiger, The William Blake 176

Time Hath My Lord (“Troilus and Cressida”) William Shakespeare 46

’Tis the Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 132

To Be or Not to Be (“Hamlet”) William Shakespeare 224

Today Thomas Carlyle 179

Tomorrow and Tomorrow (“Macbeth”) William Shakespeare 200

To Thine Own Self Be True Packenham Beatty 37

Two Lovers George Eliot 48

Untimely Thought, An Thomas Bailey Aldrich 73

Uphill Christina Rossetti 148

Virgins, Counsel to Robert Herrick 138

Virtue Immortal George Herbert 34

Waiting, The John G. Whittier 136

Warble for Lilac Time Walt Whitman 206

Water Fowl, To a William Cullen Bryant 225

When in Disgrace with Fortune William Shakespeare 19

Where Shall the Lover Rest? (“Marmion”) Sir Walter Scott 216

Why So Pale and Wan? Sir John Suckling 39

Widow Malone, The Charles Lever 218

World Is Too Much With Us, The William Wordsworth 102

Year’s at the Spring, The Robert Browning 135

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