by Laura Barber
Brontë, Emily (1818–48) 314, 342
Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915) 316
Browning, Robert (1812–89) 164, 204, 350
Buckley, Vincent (1927–88) 209
Bugan, Carmen (1970–) 177
Burns, Robert (1759–96) 188, 281
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824) 100, 218, 282
Campion, Thomas (1567–1620) 309
Carr, Peggy (1955–) 196
Carroll, Lewis (1832–98) 44, 82, 251
Carver, Raymond (1938–88) 328
Causley, Charles (1917–2003) 324
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343–1400) 94, 214
Chitre, Dilip (1938–) 208
Clare, John (1793–1864) 63, 96, 245
Clough, Arthur (1819–61) 142
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) 16, 143
Constantine, David (1944–) 161, 203
Cornford, Frances (1886–1960) 56
Cory, William Johnson (1823–92) 347
Cowley, Abraham (1618–67) 182
Crabbe, George (1754–1832) 234
Crawford, Robert (1959–) 205
Cummings, E. E. (1894–1962) 9, 117
Daryush, Elizabeth (1887–1977) 97
Davidson, John (1857–1909) 127
Davies, W. H. (1871–1940) 145
Davis, Dick (1945–) 181
Dekker, Thomas (c.1570–1632) 15
de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956) 4
Dickinson, Emily (1830–86) 157, 307, 344
Donne, John (1572–1631) 158, 236, 311
Dooley, Maura (1957–) 185
Dowson, Ernest (1867–1900) 277
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631) 226
Dryden, John (1631–1700) 225
Duffy, Carol Ann (1955–) 73, 139, 180
Dugdale, Sasha (1974–) 103
Dunn, Douglas (1942–) 231, 337
Dyer, Lady Katherine (c.1600–1654) 323
Eliot, George (1819–80) 52, 315
Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965) 253
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82) 258
Fell, Alison (1944– ) 239
Field, Eugene (1850–95) 39
Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) 211
Frost, Robert (1874–1963) 87
Graves, Robert (1895–1985) 57, 97
Gray, Thomas (1716–71) 64, 355
Gunn, Kirsty (1960– ) 99
Gunn, Thom (1929–2004) 233, 345
Gurney, Ivor (1890–1937) 336
Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928) 21, 88, 319, 339, 361
Harwood, Gwen (1920–95) 67, 191
Hayden, Robert (1913–80) 207
Heaney, Seamus (1939– ) 54, 232
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835) 59
Henry, James (1798–1876) 271, 291
Herbert, George (1593–1633) 268
Herrick, Robert (1591–1674) 93, 154
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845) 131, 288
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–89) 26, 61, 334
Housman, A. E. (1859–1936) 120
Hughes, Ted (1930–98) 37
Hulme, T. E. (1883–1917) 277
Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859) 280
Jennings, Elizabeth (1926–2001) 210
Jones, Ebenezer (1820–60) 91
Johnson, Linton Kwesi (1952– ) 134
Johnson, Samuel (1709–84) 84
Jonson, Ben (c.1572/3–1637) 126, 195
Joseph, Jenny (1932– ) 262
Joyce, James (1882–1941) 190
Keats, John (1795–1821) 89, 111, 240
Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936) 80
Laird, Nick (1975– ) 228
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834) 193
Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864) 303, 327
Larkin, Philip (1922–85) 136, 183, 247, 364
Lawrence, D. H. (1885–1930) 117, 229, 289, 321
Lear, Edward (1812–88) 175
Lee, Sir Henry (1533–1611) 266
Lewis, C. Day (1904–72) 77
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–82) 246
MacNeice, Louis (1907–63) 121, 146, 318
Mahon, Derek (1941– ) 49
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93) 106, 155, 169, 299
Marvell, Andrew (1621–78) 109, 241
McCannon, Olivia (1973– ) 52
Meredith, George (1828–1909) 222
Merwin, W. S. (1927– ) 14
Mew, Charlotte (1869–1928) 212
Millay, Edna St Vincent (1892–1950) 297, 338
Milligan, Spike (1918–2002) 51
Milne, A. A. (1882–1956) 46
Milton, John (1608–74) 144, 220, 267
Mitchell, Adrian (1932– ) 102, 184
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762) 152
Moore, Thomas (1779–1852) 149, 283
Moraes, Dom (1938–2004) 235
More, Sir Thomas (1478–1535) 45
Morgan, Edwin (1920– ) 366
Muir, Edwin (1887–1959) 70, 170
Muzanenhamo, Togara (1975– ) 104
Nash, Ogden (1902–71) 151
Nichols, Grace (1950– ) 206
Nowlan, Alden (1933–83) 327
Okri, Ben (1959– ) 148
Oliphant, Caroline, Baroness Nairne (1766–1845) 322
Ondaatje, Michael (1943– ) 202
Owen, Wilfred (1893–1919) 301, 332
Patmore, Coventry (1823–96) 192
Philips, Ambrose (1674–1749) 22
Plath, Sylvia (1932–63) 3, 19
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744) 69, 310
Pound, Ezra (1885–1972) 219, 352
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802–39) 47
Ralegh, Sir Walter (c.1552–1618) 308
Ramanujan, A. K. (1929) 207
Robertson, Robin (1955– ) 195
Roethke, Theodore (1908–63) 130
Rossetti, Christina G. (1830–94) 118, 320
Satyamurti, Carole (1939– ) 261
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
xviii, 86, 178, 216, 230, 280, 290, 312
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 20, 349, 354
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–86) 179
Simic, Charles (1938– ) 156, 249
Sissay, Lemn (1967– ) 85, 166
Smith, Stevie (1902–71) 278
Southey, Robert (1774–1843) 250
Soyinka, Wole (1934– ) 263
Spender, Stephen (1909–95) 190, 276, 360
Spenser, Edmund (c.1552–99) 174
Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955) 353
Stevenson, Anne (1933– ) 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–94) 38, 201
Strand, Mark (1934– ) 186, 296
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909) 285
Symons, Arthur (1865–1945) 163
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–92) 8, 162, 264, 304, 326, 333, 346
Thomas, Dylan (1914–53) 298, 348
Thomas, Edward (1878–1917) 272, 284
Thomas, R. S. (1913–2000) 36, 343
Traherne, Thomas (1636–74) 5
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821–73) 105, 243
Turner, Charles (1808–79) 99
Untermeyer, Louis (1885–1977) 51
Vaughan, Henry (1622–95) 29, 302
Walcott, Derek (1930– ) 140
Waller, Edmund (1606–87) 152, 325
Wever, Robert (fl.c.1550) 92
Whitman, Walt (1819–92) 18, 41, 119, 362
Williams, Hugo (1942– ) 71
Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) 200
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647–80) 279
Wright, Judith (1915–2000) 55
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850) 30, 90, 138, 187, 270, 338
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639) 125
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503–42) 227
Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939) 260, 278
Young, Andrew (1885–1971) 79
Index of Titles and First Lines
‘A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me
with full hands’ 362
‘A child’s a plaything for an hour’ 193
‘A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket’ 37
‘A little learning is a dang’rous thing’ 69
‘A merry-go-round of freshly painted horses’ 49
‘A noiseless patient spider’ 18
‘A short direction’ 82
‘A snail is climbing up the window-sill’ 194
‘A son’s arrival’ 23
‘A sweet disorder in the dress’ 154
‘About ten days or so’ 345
‘Absorbed with each other’s flesh’ 235
Accidentally Falling 223
Adlestrop 284
Adonais 349
After a Journey 339
‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes –’ 344
‘After this iceblink and sudden death of the mammals –’ 228
Afterwards 319
Against Coupling 150
Age 303
‘Ah, Faustus’ 299
Alchemist, The 126
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 251
Alice Through the Looking-Glass 44
‘All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair –’ 143
‘All the handsome boys from school’ 99
‘All the world’s a stage’ xviii
‘am i’ 366
‘An upper chamber in a darkened house’ 105
‘Ancient person, for whom I’ 279
And death shall have no dominion 348
‘And did you get what’ 328
‘Another’ 85
‘Another and another and another’ 291
Anthem for Doomed Youth 332
Apple Blossom 121
Arundel Tomb, An 364
‘As a bathtub lined with white porcelain’ 219
‘As our bloods separate’ 161
‘As when down some broad river dropping, we’ 243
As You Like It xviii
‘At dinner she is hostess, I am host’ 222
‘At the merest handshake I feel his blood’ 209
Aurora Leigh 24
Bath Tub, The 219
Bavarian Gentians 321
‘Be plain in Dress and sober in your Diet’ 152
‘Because I could not stop for Death –’ 307
Birthday, A 118
Birthnight To F., The 4
‘Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger’ 190
Brother and Sister: I 52
‘By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted’ 106
‘Candy’ 151
Canterbury Tales, The 214
Casabianca 59
Character of a Happy Life, The 125
‘Cheers’ 223
Childhood (Cornford) 56
Childhood (More) 45
Childhood (Muir) 70
Childhood and His Visitors 47
Children 50
‘Children, if you dare to think’ 57
‘Children picking up our bones’ 353
Children’s Song 36
‘Clownlike, happiest on your hands’ 19
‘Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee’ 342
‘Come live with me, and be my love’ 169
‘Come on, sir. Now, you set your foot on shore’ 126
Comparisons 343
Confirmation, The 170
‘Cou’d we stop the time that’s flying’ 211
Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, The 179
Country Dance, A 99
Crazy about Her Shrimp 156
Creation, The 10
Crossing the Bar 326
Cymbeline 312
Dance Russe 200
‘Dark house, by which once more I stand’ 333
Day Trip 261
‘Daybreak: the household slept’ 67
‘Dearest, it was a night’ 4
‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’ 311
Death stands above me, whispering low’ 327
‘Death, tho I see him not, is near’ 303
Delight in Disorder 154
Did Not 149
Dirge Without Music 297
Doctor Faustus 299
Dolor 130
Do not go gentle into that good night 298
Don Juan 100, 218
‘Don’t jump off the roof, Dad…’ 203
Dover Beach 244
Dutch Lullaby 39
Dying Christian to His Soul, The 310
Ebb 140
Ecstasy, The 158
Eden Rock 324
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 355
Embankment, The 277
Emperor of the Moon, The 98
End, The 46
[Epitaph on Sir William Dyer] 323
Epitaphs: Fu I and Li Po 352
Escape at Bedtime 38
Essay on Criticism, An 69
Eve of St Agnes, The 111
‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy’ 195
Farewell to Court, A 308
Farmer’s Bride, The 212
Father and Child: I Barn Owl 67
Father Returning Home 208
‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’ 312
Field-Glasses 79
First Love (Clare) 96
First Love (Dugdale) 103
Flight of the Firstborn 196
‘For a brief moment I was lost in thought’ 104
For a Five-Year-Old 194
For Desire 153
Forerunners, The 268
Freight 185
‘from spiralling ecstatically this’ 9
Frost at Midnight 16
Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill 352
Full Moon and Little Frieda 37
Funeral Blues 331
Futility 301
Future Plans 235
Garden, The 241
‘Gather ye rose-buds while ye may’ 93
Generation Gap 23
‘Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best’ 153
Going Places 85
‘Golden slumbers kiss your eyes’ 15
Grayheaded Schoolchildren 249
Green 117
Grief 335
Growing Old 274
‘Had we but world enough, and time’ 109
‘Hail Matrimony, made of love!’ 173
‘Half of my life is gone, and I have let’ 246
Hamlet 86
‘Happy those early days, when I’ 29
‘Has canary-yellow curtains, so expensive’ 205
‘He always tried to make it better’ 53
‘He asked to see her breasts in the back room of the butcher’s store’ 103
‘He has not woo’d, but he has lost his heart’ 99
‘He streaks past his sixteenth year’ 196
Heraclitus 347
Heredity 21
‘Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost’ 339
Hero and Leander 106
‘He’s gone, and all our plans’ 336
High Summer 91
‘Hirsute hell chimney-spouts, black thunderthroes’ 263
‘His Golden locks, Time hath to Silver turn’d’ 266
Home 205
House of stone, A 177
‘How happy is he born and taught’ 125
‘How vainly men themselves amaze’ 241
Hug, The 233
‘I always remember your beautiful flowers’ 278
‘I Am’ 245
‘I am called Childhood, in play is all my mind’ 45
‘I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground’ 297
‘I am the family face’ 21
‘I am the ship in which you sail’ 185
‘I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows’ 245
‘I cannot choose but think upon the time’ 52
‘I couldn’t touch a stop and turn a screw’ 127
‘I envy not in any moods’ 346
‘I had eight birds hatched in one nest’ 197
‘I have carried it with me each day: that morning I took’ 295
‘I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils’ 130
I Held You in the Square 148
‘i like my body when it is with your’ 117
‘I look into my glass’ 279
‘I love thee, Baby! For thine own sweet sake’ 20
‘I love to rise in a summer morn’ 62
‘I met a traveller from an antique land’ 354
‘I ne’er was struck before that hour’ 96
‘I never wholly feel that summer is high’ 91
I Remember, I Remember 288
‘I resemble everyone’ 207
‘I scarce believe my love to be so pure’ 236
‘I see the amplified mouths of my little ones’ 203
‘I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless’ 335
‘I think continually of those who were truly great’ 360
‘I used to think that grown-up people chose’ 56
‘I was twelve as in the 12-bar blues, sick’ 72
‘I well remember how some threescore years’ 271
‘I wonder do you feel today’ 164
‘I write in praise of the solitary act’ 150
If 80
‘If ever two were one, then surely we’ 234
‘If I should die, think only this of me’ 316
‘If I when my wife is sleeping’ 200
‘If you can keep your head when all about you’ 80
‘I’m wearin’ awa’, John’ 322
‘In a harbour green asleep whereas I lay’ 92
‘In London’ 206
In Memoriam A. H. H. 333, 346
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class 73
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659 197
‘In summers heat and mid-time of the day’ 155
In the Park 191
‘In the village where I was born, we wish’ 177
In Youth is Pleasure 92
Infant Sorrow 4
Island in the Moon, An 173
‘It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day –’ 77
‘It is summer, and we are in a house’ 231
‘It is time to be old’ 258
‘It little profits that an idle king’ 264
‘It was like keeping a puppy in your underpants’ 102
‘It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined’ 233
Jabberwocky 44
Jardin du Luxembourg 49
‘Jenny kissed me when we met’ 280
John Anderson, my Jo 281
‘Just before winter’ 239
Just This 14
Kaleidoscope, The 337
Land ’o the Leal, The 322
‘Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine’ 224
Last Trees 317
Late Fragment 328
Legend 55
Leisure 145
‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’ 178
‘Let us go then, you and I’ 253
Like a Beacon 206