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
- Adam Lay Ibounden
- Adieu Vain World I've Seen Enough of Thee
- Al Nist by the Rose
- Alysoun
- As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo
- As I was so be Yee
- At Liberty I Sit and See
- Ay Me, Ay Me, I Sigh the Scythe A-field
- Barbara Allan
- Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
- Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring
- The Bells of Hell
- Beowulf
- Blow, Northerne Wind
- Bonnie James Campbell
- A book and a jug and a dame
- The Braes of Yarrow
- Cleanness
- Clerk Saunders
- Corallina
- Cuckoo Song
- The Douglas Tragedy
- Down in the Valley
- Edom o' Gordon
- Edward
- England
- Erthe Toc of Erthe, Erthe wyth Woh
- Eternal Time, that Wastest Without Waste
- Fifth Villain
- The Fight at Montgomery's
- A flea and a fly in a flue
- The Football Match
- For Christmas Day, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
- For Christmas Day in the Morning
- Foweles in the Frith
- Frankie and Johnnie
- Get Up and Bar the Door
- God Rest you Merry, Gentlemen
- God Save The King
- He that Doth Wend Her
- The Hearse Song
- Her I was and Her I Drank
- Hind Horn
- His Golden Locks Time hath to Silver Turn'd
- The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women
- I Don't Want to Die
- I Have a Gentil Cook
- I Saw Three Ships
- I Sing of a Maiden
- Ich am of Irlaunde
- If all the World were Paper
- If I Ever Marry, I'll Marry A Maid
- If Man him Bethocte
- I'm Just Like You
- In the Garden of Eden lay Adam
- In Women is Rest, Peas, and Pacience
- A Jest of Robin Hood
- Knees up, Mother Brown
- A lady while dining at Crewe
- The Laily Worm and the Mackerel of the Sea
- Lawyers
- The Leather Bottel
- Lenten is Come with Loue to Toune
- Limericks
- A Little Lamb
- Lord Randall
- Lully, Lulley
- Mademoiselle from Armentières
- Madrigal (My Love in her Attire)
- Maiden in the Mor Lay
- Make we Mery bothe More and Lasse
- Mary Hamilton
- The Masque of B-ll--l
- May no Man Slepe in youre Halle
- Midnight Special
- The Mushroom
- My Friend Judge not me
- My Lefe ys Faren in a Lond
- Nou Goth Sonne under Wode
- Now I Lay me Down to Study
- O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asleep
- Occidit Miserum Crambe Repetita Pupillum
- Oh, the Sexual Life of the Camel
- An old maid in the land of Aloha
- The Old Man's Wish
- A pansy who lived in Khartoum
- Patience
- The Rabbit
- The Red River Valley
- Roll Me Over
- Say Me, Viit in the Brom
- The Seafarer
- She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain
- Sighs
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Sir Patrick Spence
- Soldiers who wish to be a hero
- The Song of the Stars
- A Sonnet upon the Pitiful Burning of the Globe Playhouse in London
- Spende, and Gode schal Sende
- Spring
- St. Stephen and Herod
- Stay with Me, God
- Summe Men Sayon that Y am Blac
- Swarte Smekyd Smethes
- A Taking Girl
- There is a Tavern in the Town
- There once was a young man of Ghent
- There was a young bard of Japan
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There was a young man from Darjeeling
- There was a young plumber of Leigh
- They say that I was in my youth
- Thirti Dayes hath Nouembir
- The Three Ravens
- Thys Boke ys On
- The Time When I First Fell in Love
- Times is Hard
- Tom Tyler and his Wife (I am a poor tiler in simple array)
- Trifles
- The Twa Corbies
- The Twa Sisters o' Binnorie
- The Two Sisters
- Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?
- The Vicar Of Bray
- Waly, Waly
- Western Wind, When will thou Blow?
- Whanne Ich Thenche Thinges Thre
- When Aurelia First I Courted
- When Christ Was Born of Mary Fre
- When the Ice Worms Nest Again
- The Wife of Usher's Well
- Will He No Come Back Again?
Biographical information
Given name:
Family name: ANONYMOUS
Birth date: 1100
Death date: 2010