Anthologies

English Romantic Verse

Edited by David Wright

New York: Penguin, 1968

Introduction

Acknowledgements

ALEXANDER POPE 1688-1744

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

JAMES THOMSON 1700-1748

From The Seasons

CHARLES WESLEY 1707-1778

Wrestling Jacob

THOMAS GRAY 1716-1771

The Fatal Sisters

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude

On Lord Holland's Seat

WILLIAM COLLINS 1721-1759

Ode on the Poetical Character

Ode to Evening

Ode on the Death of Thomson

MARK AKENSIDE 1721-1770

From The Pleasures of the Imagination

CHRISTOPHER SMART 1722-1771

A Song to David

From Jubilate Agno

WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800

From The Task

Lines Written During a Period of Insanity

To the Nightingale

Yardley Oak

The Castaway

JAMES MACPHERSON 1736-1796

From The Six Bards

THOMAS CHATTERTON 1752-1770

Song of the Three Minstrels

Minstrel's Song

Eclogue the Third

Songe of Seyncte Warburghe

GEORGE CRABBE 1754-1834

From The World of Dreams

WILLIAM BLAKE 1757-1827

To the Muses

Introduction to Songs of Innocence

The Ecchoing Green

Holy Thursday

On Another's Sorrow

The School Boy

Introduction toSongs of Experience

The Clod & the Pebble

Holy Thursday

The Sick Rose

The Tyger

London

Infant Sorrow

A Little Boy Lost

'I asked a thief'

'My Spectre around me night and day'

Several Questions Answered

Two Epigrams

'When Klopstock England defied'

Morning

The Mental Traveller

Auguries of Innocence

William Bond

To the Jews

To The Accuser who is The God of This World

ROBERT BURNS 1759-1796

Tam o' Shanter

Holy Willie's Prayer

It was a' for our Rightfu' King

Ye Flowery Banks

O, wert thou in the cauld blast

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD 1766-1823

From The Farmer's Boy

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770-1850

Remembrance of Collins

From The Borderers

Lines Written in Early Spring

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

From The Prelude

A Poet's Epitaph

Resolution and Independence

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

The Green Linnet

To the Cuckoo

The Affliction of Margaret

The Small Celandine

Fidelity

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Elegiac Stanzas

'Surprised by joy'

After-Thought

Mutability

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg

'Near Anio's stream I spied a gentle Dove'

Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838

SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832

Helvellyn

Boat Song from The Lady of the Lake

Pibroch of Donuil Dhu

The Song of the Tempest

The Dreary Change

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1772-1834

This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

The Nightingale

Dejection: A Letter

To William Wordsworth

Epitaph

ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774-1843

The Pig

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775-1864

Shepherd and Nymph from Gebir

To Wordsworth

Hegemon to Praxinoe

THOMAS MOORE 1779-1852

At the Mid Hour of Night

A Syrian Evening from Lalla Rookh

EBENEZER ELLIOT 1781-1849

The Fox-Hunters

Epigram

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785-1866

Chorus

Seamen Three

The Brilliancies of Winter

Taliesin and Melanghel

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 1788-1824

Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull

Fare Thee Well

So We'll Go no more A Roving

From Don Juan

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792-1822

From The Daemon of the World

From The Mask of Anarchy

From Letter to Maria Gisborne

From Adonais

'The cold earth slept below'

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples

Song to the Men of England

Similes for Two Political Characters

Ode to the West Wind

The Question

The Aziola

To Edward Williams

JOHN CLARE 1793-1864

The Nightingale's Nest

Remembrances

Love and Solitude

From Child Harold

The Pale Sun

Love Lies Beyond the Tomb

Mary

Cowper

Love's Story

Death

Meet Me in the Green Glen

Now is Past

'I peeled bits of straw'

I Hid My Love

An Invite, to Eternity

I Am

A Vision

JOHN KEATS 1795-1820

Sonnet Addressed to Haydon

Hymn to Pan from Endymion

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Psyche

To Autumn

Ode on Melancholy

Fragment of an Ode to Maia

What the Thrush Said

From Hyperion

Sonnet on the Sea

The Poet

Teignmouth

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Sonnet on the Sonnet

Dawlish Fair

Hither Hither Love

GEORGE DARLEY 1795-1846

Wherefore, Unlaurelled Boy

From Nepenthe

Queen Eleanor and her Dwarf from Thomas a Becket

The Mermaidens' Vesper-Hymn

HARTLEY COLERIDGE 1796-1849

November

From Country to Town

'Hast thou not seen an aged rifted tower'

THOMAS HOOD 1799-1845

Autumn

Silence

The Sea of Death

JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 1803-1849

Twenty Golden Years Ago

The Saw-Mill

Siberia

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 1803-1849

Song by Two Voices

Song by the Deaths

The Song that Wolfram Heard in Hell

Mandrake's Song

The New Cecilia

Song from the Ship

Love-in-Idleness

Song of the Stygian Naiades

The Phantom-Wooer

CHARLES TENNYSON-TURNER 1808-1879

A Summer Twilight

A Forest Lake

EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809-1841

Romance

The City in the Sea

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1809-1892

Claribel

The Dying Swan

The Deserted House

Song

A Character

The Kraken

ROBERT BROWNING 1812-1889

Waring

EMILY JANE BRONTË 1818-1848

To a Wreath of Snow

R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida

Julian M. and A.G. Rochelle

Last Lines

Index of Authors

Index of First Lines