W-X Poets Index

W-X By First Name

W. B. Yeats
Are You Content? – I call on those that call me son …
The Wild Swans at Coole – The trees are in their autumn beauty …
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W. H. Auden
As I Walked Out One Evening walking down Bristol Street …
Musée des Beaux Arts – About suffering they were never wrong …

W.H.C. Hosmer
Glen of Ghosts – Near the roadside yawns a dismal glen …

W. S. Gilbert
A Nightmare – When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache …

Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done …
Beat! Beat! Drums! Blow! Bugles! Blow!

Walter Raleigh, Sir
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd – If all the world and love were young …

Walter Scott, Sir (Bullwinkle impression)
My Native Land   – Breathes there a man with soul so dead …

Wilfrid Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth – What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?…
Dulce Et Decorum Est – Bent double, like old beggars under sacks …

William Allingham
The Fairies – Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen…

William Blake
The Tyger – Tyger! Tyger! burning bright …
A Poison Tree – I was angry with my friend …

William Cowper
Light Shining Out of Darkness – God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform …

William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopis -To him who in the love of nature holds communion …
The Lapse of Time – Lament who will, in fruitless tears …
The Murdered Traveller – When spring, to woods and wastes around …

William Ernest Henley
Invictus – Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit …

William Maginn The Irishman and The Lady There was a lady lived at Leith …

William Makepeace Thackeray
Little Billee – There were three sailors of Bristol city …

William Miller
Willie Winkie – Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun …

William Shakespeare
Sonnet 1 – From fairest creatures we desire increase
Sonnet 18 – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
Sonnet 116 – Let me not to the marriage of true minds …
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William Wordsworth
Daffodils – I wandered lonely as a cloud
Lucy Gray – Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray …
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