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This is a small selection of classical poetry. If you have a favourite poem which you would like to see here, why not let us know. (But please remember that it must be out of copyright.)
We are constantly adding to this page, but realise there is still a long way to go. Many of the biography files (visible from the individual poem pages) include links to other web sites which have more information about the poets and may have other of their works available on-line.
| Anon |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Lewis Carroll |
| Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
| Emily Dickinson |
| John Donne |
| Michael Drayton |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
| Thomas Gray |
| Thomas Hardy |
| George Herbert |
| Robert Herrick |
| Thomas Hood |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| Leigh Hunt |
| John Keats |
| D.H. Lawrence |
| George MacDonald |
| Christopher Marlowe |
| Andrew Marvell |
| John Milton |
| Wilfred Owen |
| Walter Raleigh |
| William Brighty Rands |
| William Shakespeare |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
| Edmund Spenser |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Sir John Suckling |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Edward Thomas |
| Francis Thompson |
| Henry Vaughan |
| Edmund Waller |
| Oscar Wilde |
| William Wordsworth |
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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. Sir Walter A. Raleigh |
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