English Romantic Poetry

Stanley Appelbaum served for decades as Dover's Editor in Chief until his retirement in 1996. He continues to work as a selector, compiler, editor, and translator of literature in a remarkable range of languages that includes Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian.

• William BlakeFrom Songs of InnocenceIntroductionHoly ThursdayNurse's SongThe Little Black BoyThe LambFrom Songs of ExperienceIntroductionEarth's AnswerThe Clod and the PebbleThe Chimney SweeperThe Sick RoseThe TygerAh! Sun-FlowerThe Garden of LoveLondonA Poison TreeFrom Poetical Sketches"Song: "How sweet I roam'd from field to field"From Songs and Ballads"I saw a chapel all of gold""Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"The SmileAuguries of InnocenceThe Book of ThelFrom The Marriage of Heaven and HellProverbs of HellFrom America a ProphecyPreludiumFrom Milton"And did those feet in ancient time"William WordsworthWe Are SevenLines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern AbbeyNutting"Strange fits of passion have I known""She dwelt among the untrodden ways""I travelled among unknown men""A slumber did my spirit seal"Lucy Gray"My heart leaps up when I behold"Resolution and Independence"Composed upon Westminister Bridge, Sept. 3 1802"On the Extinction of the Venetian RepublicTo Toussaint L'Ouverture"In London, September 1802""London, 1802"The Solitary Reaper"She was a Phantom of delight" ""I wandered lonely as a cloud"Ode to DutyFrom The Prelude (1799-1805)"From Book I: "Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows""From Book XI: " O pleasant exercise of hope and joy!"Character of the Happy Warrior"The world is too much with us; late and soon"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early ChildhoodMutability"Scorn not the sonnet"Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James HoggSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThis Lime-Tree Bower My PrisonThe Dungeon"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98, revised later; marginal glosses added 1815-16)"On a Ruined House in a Romantic CountryChristabelPart IPart II"The Conclusion to Part II"Frost at MidnightFrance: An OdeKubla KhanDejection: An OdeThe Pains of Sleep"George Gordon, Lord Byron""When we two parted"The Girls of CadizFrom Hebrew Melodies"She walks in beauty"The Destruction of Sennacherib"Stanzas for Music: "There be none of Beauty's daughters"The Prisoner of ChillonDarknessStanzas to Augusta"So we'll go no more a roving"From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"Adieu, adieu! my native shore" (I, between xiii and xiv)""III, xxi-xxviii [Waterloo]""IV, clxxvii-clxxiv [Ocean]"From don Juan"I, cc-ccii""The isles of Greece" (III, between lxxxvi and lxxxvii)""Xl, lvii-lx"On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth YearPercy Bysshe ShelleyHymn to Intellectual BeautyOzymandias"Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples""Sonnet: "Lift not the painted veil . . ."Song to the Men of EnglandSonnet: England in 1819Ode to the West WindThe Indian SerenadeLove's PhilosophyThe CloudTo a SkylarkArethusaThe Waning MoonTo the MoonTo Night"To --: "Music, when soft voices die""Song: "Rarely, rarely, comest thou"Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John KeatsHellas: A Lyrical Drama [Excerpt: Final Chorus]"Lines: "When the lamp is shattered"To Jane: The InvitationTo Jane: The Recollection"With a Guitar, to Jane"A DirgeJohn KeatsFrom Poems"Sonnet: "To one who has been long in city pent"Sonnet: On first looking into Chapman's Homer"Sonnet: "Happy is England! . . .""From Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems""Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio"The Eve of St. AgnesOde to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOde to PsycheLines on the Mermaid TavernTo AutumnOde on Melancholy"From Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A BalladOde on IndolenceSonnet: On the Sea"Sonnet: "When I have fears ..."Sonnet: To Homer Sonnet: To Sleep"Sonnet: "Why did I laugh to-night? ...""Sonnet: "Bright star, ..."Sonnet: On Seeing the Elgin MarblesTo J. H. Reynolds Esq.From Other Posthumous and Fugitive PiecesSonnet: To Mrs. Reynold's CatAlphabetical List of Titles and First Lines