The Penguin Book of English VersePreface
1300-1350 (Rawlinson Lyrics) Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande' Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay' Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë' (Harley Lyrics) Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril' Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe'
1350-1400 (Grimestone Lyrics) Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn' Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est' Anonymous 'Love me broughte' Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls (Catalogue of the Birds) (Roundel) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus (Envoi) Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span' William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman (Prologue) (Gluttony in the Ale-house) Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales from The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote' from The General Prologue (The Prioress) from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars) from The Knight's Tale (Saturn) from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun) from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour' from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle' Anonymous from Patience (Jonah and the Whale) Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Gawain Journeys North) Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to Scogan John Gower from Confessio Amantis (Pygmaleon) (The Rape of Lucrece)
1430 Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve 'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves'
1440 Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!') Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')
1450 (Sloane Lyrics) Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden' Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden' Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe' Anonymous (Christ Triumphant) Anonymous (Holly against Ivy) Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'
1500 John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe 'Whan I remembre agayn' Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid 'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend' William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik
1510 William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak' William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis'
1515 Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneid from Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds) from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados Anonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol) Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere' Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere'
1520 Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'
1523 John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell (The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song) To Maystres Isabell Pennell John Skelton from Speke Parott (Parrot's Complaint)
1530 William Cornish 'Pleasure it is'
1535 Myles Coverdale from The Bible Psalm 137: Super flumina
1540 Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar' Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last' Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent' Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'
1542 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat
1547 Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate
1557 from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes Sir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe') Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis (Aeneas searches for his wife)
1560 from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time') Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth'
1563 Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of Spayne Barnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald
1565 Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid (Proserpine and Dis) (Daphne and Apollo)
1567 Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid (Medea's Incantation)
1568 Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane' Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it'
1579 Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay)
1580 Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum
1581 Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens)
1582 Thomas Watson My Love is Past
1584 Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves
1586 Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'
1588 Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses' Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus (Adonis)
1589 Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'
1590 Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land' Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin') Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd' Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queene from Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed) from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis) from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane)
1591 Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella 1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show' 31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies' 33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might' Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep' Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon)
1592 John Lyly from Midas 'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed' Samuel Daniel from Delia 45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night' Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken' Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie
1593 from The Phoenix Nest Anonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light' Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love Barnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina) ('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare') Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'
1594 William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost 'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew' Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'
1595 Edmund Spenser from Amoretti Sonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace') Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day') Robert Southwell S. J. Decease Release Robert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New Warre Robert Southwell S.J. The Burning Babe George Peele from The Old Wives Tale 'When as the Rie reach to the chin' 'Gently dip: but not too deepe'
1596 Edmund Spenser Prothalamion Sir John Davies In Cosmum Sir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing ('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing')
1597 Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely' William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand William Alabaster Of His Conversion Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'
1598 Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure' Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust' Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just') Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine') Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander 'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand' Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above' Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids Elegies Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day') Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing') John Donne On His Mistris
1599 Michael Drayton from Idea 5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No' Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall 'O perfite light, quhik schaid away' George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe 'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire' Samuel Daniel from Musophilus (Stonehenge)
1600 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from Caelica Sonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce') Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth') Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive') Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity') Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast') from Englands Helicon Anonymous The Sheepheeards Description of Love Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love Sir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard Thomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament 'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore' 'Adieu, farewell earths blisse' Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham) Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new' Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography'
1601 John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated' William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night 'When that I was and a little tiny boy' William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle) Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love' Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe' Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground'
1602 Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall' Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come'
1603 Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines'
1604 Anonymous The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage Nicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion 'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me'
1607 Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone 'Come my Celia, let us prove'
1608 Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!'
1609 Ben Jonson from Epicoene 'Still to be neat, still to be dresst' Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie) William Shakespeare from Sonnets 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?' 55. 'Not marble, nor the guilded monuments' 60. 'Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore' 66. 'Tyr'd with all these for restfull death I cry' 73. 'That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold' 94. 'They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none' 107. 'Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule' 116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindes' 124. 'Yf my deare love were but the childe of state' 129. 'Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame' 138. 'When my love sweares that she is made of truth' 144. 'Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire' William Shakespeare from Cymbeline 'Feare no more the heate o'th'Sun' Anonymous (Inscription in Osmington Church, Dorset) Anonymous (Inscription in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London)
1610 John Davies of Hereford The Author Loving These Homely Meats
1611 from The Authorized Version of the Bible 2 Samuel 1:19-27 David lamenteth the death of Jonathan Job 3:3-26 Job curseth the day, and services of his birth Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 The Creator is to be remembered in due time George Chapman/Homer from The Iliads of Homer from The Third Booke (Helen and the Elders on the Ramparts) from The Twelfth Booke (Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus) Anonymous A Belmans Song William Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale 'When Daffadils begin to peere' 'Lawne as white as driven Snow' William Shakespeare from The Tempest 'Come unto these yellow sands' 'Full fadom five they Father lies'
1612 John Webster from The White Divel 'Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren' George Chapman/Epictetus Pleasd with thy Place Thomas Campion 'Never weather-beaten Saile' William Fowler 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss'
1614 John Webster from The Dutchesse of Malfy 'Hearke, now every thing is still'
1615 Sir John Harington Of Treason Anonymous (Tom o' Bedlam's Song)
1616 Ben Jonson from Epigrammes XIV. To William Camden XLV. On My First Sonne LIX. On Spies CSVIII. Inviting a Friend to Supper CI. On Gut Ben Jonson from The Forrest To Heaven William Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnet ('How many times Nights silent Queene her Face') William Browne from Britannia's Pastorals (The Golden Age: Flower-weaving) Thomas Campion 'There is a Garden in her face' Thomas Campion 'Now winter nights enlarge'
1618 Sir Walter Ralegh (Sir Walter Ralegh to his Sonne) Sir Walter Ralegh from The Ocean to Scinthia 'Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way' Sir Walter Ralegh 'Even suche is tyme that takes in trust'
1619 Michael Drayton from Idea 61. 'Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part' Anonymous 'Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight'
1620 John Donne The Canonization John Donne A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day John Donne Loves Growth John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne The Exstasie John Donne from Holy Sonnets VII. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners' X. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee' XIV. 'Batter my heart, three person'd God' John Donne A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last Going into Germany John Donne A Hymne to God the Father
1621 Katherine, Lady Dyer (Epitaph on Sir William Dyer) Lady Mary Wroth from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 77. 'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne? 96. 'Late in the Forest I did Cupid see'
1623 William Drummond of Hawthornden (For the Baptiste) William Drummond of Hawthornden (Content and Resolute) William Browne On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke
1624 Sir Henry Wotton On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
1626 George Sandys/Ausonius Echo
1627 Ben Jonson My Picture left in Scotland Ben Jonson An Ode. To Himselfe Michael Drayton from Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie (Queen Mab's Chariot)
1631 Michael Drayton These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton ('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I') Anonymous Felton's Epitaph Anonymous (Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham)
1633 George Herbert from The Temple Redemption Prayer Church-monuments Deniall Hope The Collar The Flower The Answer A Wreath Love
1635 Francis Quarles Embleme IV (Canticles 7.10 I am my Beloved's)
1637 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney Robert Sempill of Beltrees The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan Thomas Jordan A Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna Blvnt John Milton from A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 (Comus) 'The Star that bids the Shepherd fold'
1638 Thomas Randolph A Gratulatory to Mr Ben. Johnson Sir John Suckling Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?') John Milton Lycidas
1640 Ben Jonson from A Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces (Her Triumph) Ben Jonson (A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter) Sidney Godolphin 'Faire Friend, 'tis true, your beauties move' Sidney Godolphin 'Lord when the wise men came from Farr' Henry King An Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten Freind Thomas Carew Song. Celia singing Thomas Carew Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers Thomas Carew Maria Wentworth Thomas Carew A Song ('Aske me no more whither doe stray') Thomas Carew Psalme 91 William Habington Nox nocti indicat Scientiam William Habington To Castara, Upon an Embrace
1641 Anonymous On Francis Drake Sir Henry Wotton/Martial Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife
1642 Sir John Denham from Cooper's Hill 'Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise'
1645 Edmund Waller Song ('Go lovely Rose') Edmund Waller Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs Edmund Waller To a Lady in a Garden John Milton from On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos'd 1629 'It was the Winter wilde'
1646 Richard Crashaw from Divine Epigrams Upon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was Laid Upon the Infant Martyrs Richard Crashaw Musicks Duell Sir John Suckling (Loves Siege) John Hall An Epicurean Ode James Shirley Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham James Shirley 'The glories of our blood and state'
1647 John Cleveland Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford
1648 Sir Richard Fanshawe/Gongora A Great Favorit Beheaded Robert Herrick from Hesperides The Argument of His Book Upon Julia's Voice Delight in Disorder To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time The Comming of Good Luck To Meddowes The Departure of the Good Daemon Upon Prew His Maid On Himselfe Robert Herrick The White Island: Or Place of the Blest
1649 Richard Lovelace from Lucasta Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres To Althea from Prison The Grasse-hopper William Drummond/Passerat Song "Shephard loveth thow me vell?'
1650 James Graham, Marquis of Montrose On Himself, upon Hearing What was His Sentence Anonymous from The Second Scottish Psalter Psalm 124 Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans, Or Sacred Poems The Retreate 'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now' The World
1651 William Cartwright No Platonique Love John Cleveland The Antiplatonick John Cleveland A Song of Marke Anthony Thomas Stanley The Snow-ball Thomas Stanley The Grassehopper Sir Henry Wotton Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset Sir Richard Fanshawe/Horace Odes. IV, 7 To L. Manlius Torquatus Richard Crashaw from The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa
1653 Aurelian Townshend A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World
1655 Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans II 'They are all gone into the world of light!' Cock-crowing The Night
1656 Abraham Cowley from Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the Greek II. Drinking X. The Grashopper Abraham Cowley from Davideis (Lot's Wife) William Strode Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone') William Strode On Westwell Downes John Taylor and Anonymous Non-sense Sir John Suckling 'Out upon it, I have lov'd'
1657 George Daniel Ode. The Robin
1659 Richard Lovelace The Snayl
1662 Samuel Butler from Hudibras (The Presbyterian Knight)
1663 Abraham Cowley Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey Abraham Cowley/Horace The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 6
1665 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet. Made upon the Groves near Merlou Castle John Dryden/Ovid from The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Deucalion and Pyrrha)
1694 John Dryden To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call'd The Double-Dealer
1697 John Dryden/Virgil from Virgil's Aeneis from The Second Book ('The Death of Priam) from The Fourth Book (Fame) from The Sixth Book (Charon)
1700 John Dryden/Ovid Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Fifteen John Dryden from The Secular Masque 'Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace'
1701 Sir Charles Sedley Song ('Phillis, let's shun the common Fate') Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea from The Spleen 'O'er me, alas! thou dost too much prevail'
1704 William Congreve Song ('Pious Celinda goes to Pray'rs') William Congreve A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret
1706 Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick
1707 Isaac Watts Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.14 1709 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Pos'd Matthew Prior An Ode ('The Merchant, to secure his Treasure') Ambrose Phillips A Winter-Piece
1710 Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower
1712 Joseph Addison Ode ('The Spacious Firmament on high')
1713 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea A Nocturnal Reverie
1714 Samuel Jones The Force of Love Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock from Canto I from Canto V
1716 John Gay from Trivia: Or The Art of Walking the Streets of London (Of the Weather)
1717 Alexander Pope Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation
1718 Matthew Prior A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous Matthew Prior The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus Matthew Prior A True Maid
1719 Isaac Watts Man Frail, and God Eternal
1720 Allan Ramsay Polwart on the Green John Gay My Own Epitaph
1722 Alexander Pope To Mr. Gay . . . on the Finishing His House Jonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General William Diaper/Oppian from Oppian's Halieuticks (The Loves of the Fishes)
1724 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to her Husband
1725 Edward Young from Love of Fame. Satire V 'The languid lady next appears in state' Henry Carey from Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification
1726 Abel Evans On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical Epitaph John Dyer from Grongar Hill 'Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow' Allan Ramsay/Horace 'What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass' James Thomson from Summer ('Forenoon. Summer Insects Described') ('Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet')
1727 John Gay from Fables The Wild Boar and the Ram Thomas Sheridan Tom Punsibi's Letter to Dean Swift Henry Carey A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession
1728 John Gay from The Beggar's Opera 'Were I laid on Grrenland's Coast'
1731 Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Burlington 'At Timon's Villa let us pass a day' Jonathan Swift The Day of Judgement Jonathan Swift An Epigram on Scolding
1732 Jonathan Swift Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan
1733 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a lady') Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Bathurst (Sir Balaam) George Farewell Quaerè
1734 Jonathan Swift A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
1735 Alexander Pope from Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady 'Nothing so true as what you once let fall' Alexander Pope from An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot 'You think this cruel? take it for a rule' Alexander Pope Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton John Dyer My Ox Duke
1737 Matthew Green from The Spleen 'To cure the mind's wrong biass, spleen'
1738 Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal 'Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel' Alexander Pope from Epilogue to the Satires Alexander Pope Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey
1739 Jonathan Swift from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift 'The Time is not remote, when I'
1740 Alexander Pope On Queen Caroline's Death-bed Samuel Johnson An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician Charles Wesley Morning Hymn Alexander Pope from The Dunciad (The Tribe of Fanciers) (The Triumph of Dullness)
1744 Anonymous On the Death of Mr. Pope from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Anonymous Cock Robbin Anonymous London Bridge
1745 Charles Wesley 'Let Earth and Heaven combine'
1746 William Collins Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 William Collins Ode to Evening
1747 William Shenstone Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow
1748 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Receipt to Cure the Vapours Mary Leapor Mira's Will Christopher Smart A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers
1749 Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from The Vanity of Human Wishes 'When first the College Rolls receive his Name'
1751 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
1755 Anonymous This is the House That Jack Built
1761 Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno 'For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent' 'For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'
1763 Christopher Smart from A Song to David 'O David, highest in the list'
1764 Oliver Goldsmith from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society (Britain) Samuel Johnson (Lines contributed to Goldsmith's 'The Traveller')
1765 from Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle Anonymous 'High diddle diddle' from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence Anonymous Edward, Edward Anonymous Lord Thomas and Fair Annet Christopher Smart Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
1766 Oliver Goldsmith from The Vicar of Wakefield 'When lovely woman stoops to folly'
1769 Thomas Gray On L(or)d H(olland')s Seat near M(argat)e, K(en)t
1770 Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village 'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close'
1772 John Byrom On the Origin of Evil Robert Fergusson The Daft-Days
1774 William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness William Cowper 'Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion' Anonymous (Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman, Charlton, Sussex) Oliver Goldsmith from Retaliation (Edmund Burke) (David Garrick) (Joshua Reynolds)
1777 Richard Brinsley Sheridan On Lady Anne Hamilton Samuel Johnson Prologue to Hugh Kelly's 'A Word to the Wise' Samuel Johnson (Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth's 'The Rival) Richard Brinsley Sheridan from The School for Scandal Song and Chorus ('Here's to the maiden of Bashful fifteen')
1779 William Cowper The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15 Robert Fergusson/Horace Odes I. II
1780 Samuel Johnson A Short Song of Congratulation
1783 Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet William Blake To the Evening Star
1784 William Cowper from The Task (The Winter Evening) (The Winter Walk at Noon)
1786 Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 1785
1787 Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous
1789 William Blake from Songs of Innocence Holy Thursday Charlotte Smith Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex Elizabeth Hands On an Unsociable Family
1791 Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter. A Tale
1792 Robert Burns Song ('Ae fond kiss, and then we sever')
1793 William Blake from Visions of the Daughters of Albion 'Then Oothoon waited silent all the day' William Blake 'Never seek to tell thy love'
1794 William Blake from Songs of Innocence and of Experience Introduction ('Hear the voice of the Bard!') The Clod and the Pebble The Sick Rose The Tyger Ah! Sun-Flower The Garden of Love London A Poison Tree
1796 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Eolian Harp Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
1797 George Canning and John Hookham Frere Sapphics Charlotte Smith Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea
1798 from Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts 'It is an ancyent Marinere' William Wordsworth Old Man Travelling William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight
1799 William Wordsworth from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 'Was it for this?' Robert Burns from Love and Liberty. A Cantara 'See the smoking bowl before us'
1800 William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads 'A slumber did my spirit seal' Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')
1801 Robert Burns 'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast' Robert Burns The Fornicator. A New Song
1802 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802 Sir Walter Scott (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Anonymous The Wife of Usher's Well Anonymous Thomas Rhymer Anonymous Lord Randal Anonymous A Lyke-Wake Dirge
1803 Anonymous The Twa Corbies William Cowper The Snail William Cowper The Cast-away
1804 William Blake from Milton (Preface) 'And did those feet in ancient time' William Blake 'Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau'
1805 William Blake The Crystal Cabinet William Blake from Auguries of Innocence 'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'
1806 Anonymous Lamkin
1807 William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle William
