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Selected Poetry of ANONYMOUS (1100-2010)


from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

  1. Adam Lay Ibounden
  2. Adieu Vain World I've Seen Enough of Thee
  3. Al Nist by the Rose
  4. Alysoun
  5. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo
  6. As I was so be Yee
  7. At Liberty I Sit and See
  8. Ay Me, Ay Me, I Sigh the Scythe A-field
  9. Barbara Allan
  10. Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
  11. Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring
  12. The Bells of Hell
  13. Beowulf
  14. Blow, Northerne Wind
  15. Bonnie James Campbell
  16. A book and a jug and a dame
  17. The Braes of Yarrow
  18. Cleanness
  19. Clerk Saunders
  20. Corallina
  21. Cuckoo Song
  22. The Douglas Tragedy
  23. Down in the Valley
  24. Edom o' Gordon
  25. Edward
  26. England
  27. Erthe Toc of Erthe, Erthe wyth Woh
  28. Eternal Time, that Wastest Without Waste
  29. Fifth Villain
  30. The Fight at Montgomery's
  31. A flea and a fly in a flue
  32. The Football Match
  33. For Christmas Day, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
  34. For Christmas Day in the Morning
  35. Foweles in the Frith
  36. Frankie and Johnnie
  37. Get Up and Bar the Door
  38. God Rest you Merry, Gentlemen
  39. God Save The King
  40. He that Doth Wend Her
  41. The Hearse Song
  42. Her I was and Her I Drank
  43. Hind Horn
  44. His Golden Locks Time hath to Silver Turn'd
  45. The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women
  46. I Don't Want to Die
  47. I Have a Gentil Cook
  48. I Saw Three Ships
  49. I Sing of a Maiden
  50. Ich am of Irlaunde
  51. If all the World were Paper
  52. If I Ever Marry, I'll Marry A Maid
  53. If Man him Bethocte
  54. I'm Just Like You
  55. In the Garden of Eden lay Adam
  56. In Women is Rest, Peas, and Pacience
  57. A Jest of Robin Hood
  58. Knees up, Mother Brown
  59. A lady while dining at Crewe
  60. The Laily Worm and the Mackerel of the Sea
  61. Lawyers
  62. The Leather Bottel
  63. Lenten is Come with Loue to Toune
  64. Limericks
  65. A Little Lamb
  66. Lord Randall
  67. Lully, Lulley
  68. Mademoiselle from Armentières
  69. Madrigal (My Love in her Attire)
  70. Maiden in the Mor Lay
  71. Make we Mery bothe More and Lasse
  72. Mary Hamilton
  73. The Masque of B-ll--l
  74. May no Man Slepe in youre Halle
  75. Midnight Special
  76. The Mushroom
  77. My Friend Judge not me
  78. My Lefe ys Faren in a Lond
  79. Nou Goth Sonne under Wode
  80. Now I Lay me Down to Study
  81. O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asleep
  82. Occidit Miserum Crambe Repetita Pupillum
  83. Oh, the Sexual Life of the Camel
  84. An old maid in the land of Aloha
  85. The Old Man's Wish
  86. A pansy who lived in Khartoum
  87. Patience
  88. The Rabbit
  89. The Red River Valley
  90. Roll Me Over
  91. Say Me, Viit in the Brom
  92. The Seafarer
  93. She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain
  94. Sighs
  95. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  96. Sir Patrick Spence
  97. Soldiers who wish to be a hero
  98. The Song of the Stars
  99. A Sonnet upon the Pitiful Burning of the Globe Playhouse in London
  100. Spende, and Gode schal Sende
  101. Spring
  102. St. Stephen and Herod
  103. Stay with Me, God
  104. Summe Men Sayon that Y am Blac
  105. Swarte Smekyd Smethes
  106. A Taking Girl
  107. There is a Tavern in the Town
  108. There once was a young man of Ghent
  109. There was a young bard of Japan
  110. There was a young lady of Riga
  111. There was a young man from Darjeeling
  112. There was a young plumber of Leigh
  113. They say that I was in my youth
  114. Thirti Dayes hath Nouembir
  115. The Three Ravens
  116. Thys Boke ys On
  117. The Time When I First Fell in Love
  118. Times is Hard
  119. Tom Tyler and his Wife (I am a poor tiler in simple array)
  120. Trifles
  121. The Twa Corbies
  122. The Twa Sisters o' Binnorie
  123. The Two Sisters
  124. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?
  125. The Vicar Of Bray
  126. Waly, Waly
  127. Western Wind, When will thou Blow?
  128. Whanne Ich Thenche Thinges Thre
  129. When Aurelia First I Courted
  130. When Christ Was Born of Mary Fre
  131. When the Ice Worms Nest Again
  132. The Wife of Usher's Well
  133. Will He No Come Back Again?

Biographical information

Given name:
Family name: ANONYMOUS
Birth date: 1100
Death date: 2010