Penguin's Poems for Life
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‘Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired’ 308
‘Little bosom not yet cold’ 8
‘Long-expected one and twenty’ 84
‘Long time he lay upon the sunny hill’ 70
Love in a Life 204
Love Poem 166
‘Love set you going like a fat gold watch’ 3
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The 253
Love Without Hope 97
Love’s Growth 236
‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’ 120
‘Lying apart now, each in a separate bed’ 210
‘Márgarét, áre you gríeving’ 61
Marriage A-La-Mode 225
Mataatua 99
Meeting Point 146
Message Clear 366
Mezzo Cammin 246
Midnight Skaters, The 296
‘Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn’ 171
Modern Love (Dunn) 231
Modern Love (Meredith) 222
More Time 134
Morning, A 295
Morning Song 3
‘Move him into the sun –’ 301
Mrs Sisyphus 139
‘Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold’ 89
‘My dearest dust could not thy hasty day’ 323
‘My dog’s assumed my alter ego’ 202
‘My father travels on the late evening train’ 208
‘My heart is like a singing bird’ 118
‘My heart leaps up when I behold’ 187
‘My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves’ 201
My Last Duchess 350
‘My little Son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes’ 192
‘My mother groan’d, my father wept’ 4
‘My mother scratched the soles of my shoes’ 71
My Sister Laura 51
‘My true-love hath my hart, and I have his’ 179
New Gravity 195
‘Never weather-beaten Sail more willing bent to shore’ 309
‘No coward soul is mine’ 314
‘No vows written to wed you’ 180
‘No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief’ 334
Noiseless Patient Spider, A 18
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 224
North(west)ern 72
‘Not every man has gentians in his house’ 321
‘Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –’ 26
‘Now came still ev’ning on, and twilight grey’ 144
‘Now sire, thanne wol I telle yow forth my tale’ 214
‘Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white’ 162
‘O may I join the choir invisible’ 315
‘O pleasant exercise of hope and joy!’ 90
‘O tender time that love thinks long to see’ 285
Ode (Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood) 30
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 64
Of the Last Verses in the Book 325
‘Oft, in the stilly night’ 283
‘Oh we’ve got to trust’ 229
Old Fools, The 247
Old Man 272
‘Old Man, or Lad’s Love, – in the name there’s nothing’ 272
Old Man Travelling. Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch 270
Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them, The 250
‘Old men have bad dreams’ 249
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 89
On My First Son 195
On the Beach at Fontana 190
‘Once, in a finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy’ 277
‘Once on a time, when sunny May’ 47
One Flesh 210
Ovid’s Elegies 155
Owl and the Pussy-cat, The 175
Ozymandias 354
Pad, pad 278
Paradise Lost 144, 220
Parental Recollections 193
Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The 169
‘Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep –’ 349
‘Phillis, why should we delay’ 152
Piano 289
Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissil 15
Poet’s Welcome to his love-begotten Daughter, the first instance that entitled him to the venerable appellation of Father, A 188
‘Portion of this yew’ 361
Portrait of a Child 51
Postcard from the Volcano, A 353
Prelude, The 90
Princess, The 162
Probability 53
Prothalamion 174
Puppy Called Puberty, A 102
Pushing forty 239
Railway Children, The 54
Reassurance, The 345
Reflections on Ice-Breaking 151
Remember 320
‘Remember me when I am gone away’ 320
Remembrance 342
Retreat, The 29
Road Not Taken, The 87
Rondeau 280
‘Room after room’ 204
Rules and Regulations 82
Sailing to Byzantium 260
Salutation, The 5
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 142
School Boy, The 62
Schoolboys in Winter 63
Scratches 71
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ 240
Self-Portrait 207
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ 230
‘She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date’ 191
Short Song of Congratulation, A 84
Shropshire Lad, A 120
‘Side by side, their faces blurred’ 364
‘Sighing, and sadly sitting by my Love’ 147
‘Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part’ 226
Sister Gone 78
Skunk 232
Smoke 104
‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’ 282
‘Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me’ 289
Soldier, The 316
Song of a Young Lady. To her Ancient Lover, A 279
Song of Myself 362
Song of the Shirt, The 131
Sonnet 18 230
Sonnet 30 290
Sonnet 73 280
Sonnet 116 178
Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument, The 7
Spring 26
Spring and Fall (to a young child) 61
Still-life 97
‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’ 331
Strange Case, The 202
Stroke: VII 209
Subaltern’s Love-song, The 171
Summary of Lord Lyttleton’s ‘Advice to a lady’, A 152
‘Sundays too my father got up early’ 207
Sunlight on the Garden, The 318
‘Sunset and evening star’ 326
‘Surprized by joy – impatient as the Wind’ 338
Terminus 258
‘That is no country for old men. The young’ 260
‘That’s him pushing the stone up the hill, the jerk’ 139
‘That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall’ 350
‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’ 280
‘The Angel that presided o’er my birth’ 26
‘The blacksmith’s boy went out with a rifle’ 55
‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ 59
‘The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day’ 355
‘The dawn was apple-green’ 117
‘The Dreadful Has Already Happened’ 186
‘The feverish room and that white bed’ 163
‘The first blossom was the best blossom’ 121
‘The first night that I slept with you’ 181
‘The Frost performs its secret ministry’ 16
‘The harbingers are come. See, see their mark’ 268
‘The hop-poles stand in cones’ 296
‘The lights from the parlour and the kitchen shone out’ 38
‘The little hedge-row birds’ 270
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��The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea’ 175
‘The relatives are leaning over, staring expectantly’ 186
‘The ring so worn, as you behold’ 234
‘The schoolboys still their morning rambles take’ 63
‘The sea is calm to-night’ 244
‘The spirit is too blunt an instrument’ 7
‘The sunlight on the garden’ 318
‘The wind doth blow today, my love’ 341
‘The woods decay, the woods decay and fall’ 304
‘The world is too much with us; late and soon’ 138
‘There he lay upon his back’ 24
There Was a Child Went Forth 41
‘There was a little girl, who had a little curl’ 43
‘There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream’ 30
‘These little Limbs’ 5
‘They are all gone into the world of light!’ 302
‘They are not long, the weeping and the laughter’ 277
‘They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock’ 324
‘They flee from me, that sometime did me seek’ 227
‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad’ 183
‘They sat them down to weep, nor only tears’ 220
‘They told her how, upon St Agnes’ Eve’ 111
‘They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead’ 347
‘They tuck you up, your mum and dad’ 184
Thirty Bob a Week 127
This Be The Verse 183
This Be the Worst 184
This is What I Wanted to Sign Off With 327
Those Winter Sundays 207
‘Thou’s welcome, Wean! Mischanter fa’ me’ 188
‘Though buds still speak in hints’ 79
‘Three Summers since I chose a maid’ 212
‘Through the open French window the warm sun’ 97
‘Time does not bring relief; you all have lied’ 338
‘Time was away and somewhere else’ 146
‘Timely blossom, infant fair’ 22
‘’Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign’ 218
Tithonus 304
‘To all light things’ 343
To Autumn 240
‘To be, or not to be – that is the question’ 86
‘To climb these stairs again, bearing a tray’ 337
To His Coy Mistress 109
To His Love 336
To Ianthe 20
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her mother’s arms 22
To My Daughter 190
To My Dear and Loving Husband 234
To My First White Hairs 263
To Phillis 152
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 93
To The Wife 228
Toads 136
‘Too hot, too hot!’ 216
Toys, The 192
Transformations 361
‘Treading through the half-light of ivy’ 195
Troilus and Criseyde 94
Trust 229
‘’Twas a new feeling – something more’ 149
‘’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves’ 44
Two in the Campagna 164
‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ 87
‘Two women, seventies, hold hands’ 261
Ulysses 264
‘Unconscious of amused and tolerant eyes’ 51
Unequal Fetters, The 211
Unquiet Grave, The 341
‘Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble’ 232
Uxor Vivamus… 181
Very Old Man 271
Vision of Spring in Winter, A 285
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam 277
‘Vital spark of heav’nly flame!’ 310
Walking Away 77
Warning 262
Warning to Children 57
‘We don’t even take time’ 156
‘We live in our own world’ 36
‘We Two Boys together Clinging’ 119
‘Well then, I now do plainly see’ 182
‘What are little boys made of?’ 43
‘What do they think has happened, the old fools’ 247
‘What I expected, was’ 276
‘What is it to grow old?’ 274
‘What is this life if, full of care’ 145
‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ 332
‘When folk come on, as summer burns’ 50
‘When I am an old woman I shall wear purple’ 262
‘When I consider how my light is spent’ 267
‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’ 88
‘When I think of my death, I think of trees’ 317
‘When I think of the patience I have had’ 14
‘When I was One’ 46
‘When Maidens are young and in their Spring’ 98
‘When Mary on her wedding day’ 78
‘When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay’ 319
‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’ 290
‘When we climbed the slopes of the cutting’ 54
‘When we for Age could neither read nor write’ 325
When You are Old 278
‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’ 158
White Heliotrope 163
White Writing 180
‘Why should a foolish Marriage Vow’ 225
‘Why should I let the toad work’ 136
‘wi mawchin out di ole towards di new centri’ 134
‘Wild Nights – Wild Nights!’ 157
‘Wind whines and whines the shingle’ 190
Wish, The 182
Winter’s Tale, The 216
‘With fingers weary and worn’ 131
‘Withinne the temple he wente hym forth pleyinge’ 94
Work Without Hope 143
‘Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night’ 39
‘Ye distant spires, ye antique towers’ 64
‘Ye gentle Birds, the world’s fair ornament’ 174
‘Year round, year round, we’ll ride’ 140
‘Yes, I remember Adlestrop –’ 284
‘Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face’ 170
‘You are old, Father William, the young man cried’ (Southey) 250
‘You are old, Father William, the young man said’ (Carroll) 251
‘You could travel up the Blue Nile’ 73
‘You know what I’m’ 327
‘You remind me’ 166
You’re 19
‘Young Juan wandered by the glassy brooks’ 100