English Poetry

Arnell, Charles John, ed. Poets of the Wight. An anthology of Vectensian poets, namely of poets native to or otherwise identified with the Isle of Wight, with selections from their works and prefatory introductions and portraits. Newport, Isle of Wight: County Press, 1922. PR 8469 W56A7
Ball, Catherine. Old English Pages. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
The Bluestocking Archive. Ed. Elizabeth Fay. University of Massachusetts at Boston. Includes work by Elizabeth Carter, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anna Seward, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Lord Byron.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: An Electronic Collection of Texts from the Shields Library, University of California, Davis.
- Acton, Eliza [1799-1859]. Poems. 1826.
- Addison, Mrs. R. Poetry on Different Subjects. [1812?].
- Aikin, Lucy [1781-1864]. Epistles on Women. 1810.
- Bannerman, Anne [d. 1829]. Tales of Superstition and Chivalry. 1802.
- Barbauld, Anna Letitia Aikin [1743-1825]. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem by Letitia Barbauld. 1812.
- Betham, Mary Matilda [1776-1852]. Elegies and Other Small Poems by Matilda Betham. [1797].
- Beverley, Elizabeth. A Poetical Olio. 1819.
- Blamire, Susanna [1747-1794] The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire. 1842.
- Burton, Harriet Emma. The White-Rose Wreath. 1833.
- Cockle, Mary. Elegy on the Death of His Late Majesty George III. 1820. Lines Addressed to Lady Byron. 1817. Reply to Lord Byron's "Fare the Well." 1817.
- Dacre, Charlotte [b. 1782]. Hours of Solitude. A Collection of Original Poems. Volume I. 1805. Hours of Solitude. A Collection of Original Poems. Volume II. 1805.
- Day, Esther Milnes [d. 1792]. Poems and Fugitive Pieces. 1796.
- Daye, Eliza [b. ca 1734]. Poems on Various Subjects. 1798.
- Dixon, Charlotte Eliza. Bread Cast Upon the Waters. 1830.
- Dunnett, Jane. Poems on Various Subjects. 1818.
- Elizabeth, Charlotte. [1790-1846]. Osric: a Missionary Tale; with The Garden, and Other Poems. [18--].
- Evance, S[usan]. [fl. 1808-1818]. Poems by Miss S. Evance, selected from earliest productions to those of the present year. 1808.
- Franklin, Eleanor Anne Porden [1795-1825]. The Veils, or, The Triumph of Constancy : a poem, in six books by Miss Porden. 1815.
- Fry, Caroline [1787-1846]. Serious Poetry. 1822.
- Grant, Anne (nee Macvicar). [1755-1838] Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. A Poem. 1814.
- Gray, Mary Anne Browne [1812-1844]. The Coronal; Original Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous. 1833. Mont Blanc and Other Poems by Mary Anne Browne. 1827.
- Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne [1793-1835]. Poems. 1808. England and Spain: or, Valour and Patriotism. 1808. The Domestic Affections and Other Poems. 1812. Wallace's Invocation to Bruce. 1819. The Sceptic, A Poem. 1820. The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems. 1825.
- Hitchener, Elizabeth. Enigmas, Historical and Geographical. 1839.
- Hunter, Anne Home, (Mrs. John) [1742-1821]. Poems by Mrs. John Hunter.
- Lefanu, Alicia [fl. 1812-1826]. Rosara's Chain: or, the Choice of Life. A Poem. 1812.
- Lickbarrow, Isabella. Poetical Effusions. 1814.
- Little, Janet [1759-1813]. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. 1792.
- Maxwell, Caroline. Feudal Tales, being a collection of Romantic Narratives, and Other Poems. [1810].
- Morgan, Lady (Sydney) [also Owenson, Sydney] [1783-1859]. The Mohawks, a Satirical Poem with Notes. 1822.
- Opie, Amelia Alderson [1769-1853]. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. 1808.
- Philipps, Janetta. Poems. 1811.
- Pilkington, Mary Hopkins, (Mrs.) [1766-1839]. Original Poems by Mrs. Pilkington. 1811.
- Robinson, Ellen. Poem, Written on the Death of the Rev. Thomas Spencer. 1812.
- Robinson, Mary [1758-1800]. Sappho and Phaon. 1796. Lyrical Tales. 1800.
- Robinson, Maria Elizabeth [Mary Elizabeth Robinson] [ca. 1775-1818]. The Wild Wreath. 1804.
- Ryves, Mrs. F. Cumbrian Legends; or, Tales of Other Times. 1812.
- Smith, Charlotte Turner [1749-1806]. Beachy Head: With Other Poems. 1807. Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems. 1827. The Emigrants: A Poem. 1793.
- Taylor, Jane [1783-1824]. Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners. 1840.
- Temple, Laura Sophia. Poems. 1805.
- Walker, Mrs. Spencer. Commemorative Feelings, or Miscellaneous Poems. 1812.
- Williams, Helen Maria [1762-1827]. Poems on Various Subjects. 1823.
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
- Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits 1891.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Coleridge Archive.
- --. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [Illust.] (51 KB)
- Cristall, Ann Batten. Poetical Sketches. Introduction, by Jerome McGann.
- Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad
- Polwhele, Richard. The Unsex'd Females 1798.
- Robinson, Mary. Sappho and Phaon. 1796.
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The Rossetti Archive.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Charge of the Light Brigade
  a manuscript facsimile from the University of Virginia Tennyson collection.
- --. Lancelot and Elaine (80 KB)
- The Germ, Volume 1 1850 [various authors]
- The Germ, Volume 2 1850 [various authors]
- The Germ, Volume 3 1850 [various authors]
- The Germ, Volume 4 1850 [various authors]
- Anonymous: Beowulf
- Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village
- Marvell, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems
- Milton, John. Paradise Lost (1667)
- Sidney, Sir Philip. Defence of Poesie
- Spenser, Edmund: Amoretti and Epithalamion
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599: Shepheardes Calendar [Illust.]
Brown, Carleton, and Rossell Hope Robbins. The Index of Middle English verse. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Z 2012 B86 Supplement, Robbins with John L. Cutler. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965. Z 2012 B86 Suppl
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Translations from the Greek Christian Poets from The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Offered by the Saint Pachomius Orthodox Library
Case, Arthur E. A Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies 1521-1750. Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1935 (for 1929). Z 2014 P7C3
Child, Francis James, ed The English and Scottish popular ballads. 5 vols. 1884-98: New York: Dover, 1965. PR 1181 .C5 1965
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive. Ed. Marjorie A. Tiefert. University of Virginia, 1999.
Corns, Thomas N., ed. Cambridge companion to English poetry, Donne to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. PR 541 .C36 1993
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1999-). Cf. The Middle English Collection. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
- The alliterative Morte Arthure
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Harley lyrics
- Octovian (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2.38)
- Octovian (Lincoln, Dean, and Chapter Library, MS 91)
- The Owl and the nightingale (MS Cotton)
- The Owl and the nightingale (MS Jes. Col. 29)
- Pearl
- Pierce the Ploughmans Crede
- Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, in Prose and Verse
- Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse
- The siege of Jerusalem
- The Canterbury tales
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
- William Dunbar's The tretis of the twa mariit women and the wedo
- John Gower's Confessio amantis
- Robert Henryson's The testament of Cresseid
- Robert Henryson's The morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian
- Robert Henryson's The minor poems of Robert Henryson
- Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice
- The Works of William Herebert
- Hue de Rotelande's The Lyfe of Ipomydon
- William Langland's The vision of Piers Plowman (B-text)
- Layamon's Brut (British Museum Ms. Cotton Caligula A.IX)
- Layamon's Brut (British Museum Ms. Cotton Otho C.XIII)
- Works of John Metham : (Amoryus and Cleopes, &c.)
Dowling, Linda C. Aestheticism and decadence: a selective annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1977. Z 2013 D68
Dubinski, Roman R. English religious poetry pirated 1477-1640: a chronological bibliography with indexes. North Waterloo Academic Press, 1996. Z 2012 .D78 1996
Duggan, Hoyt N. The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. University of Virginia.
Duncan, Thomas G. Late Medieval English lyrics and carols 1400-1530. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000. PR 1195 .C2L38 2000
The Electronic Beowulf. British Library, London.
English Emblem Book Project. Penn State University Libraries Rare Books Room, no date. (photographic facsimile reproductions).
- Philip Ayres. Emblemata amatoria, Emblemes d'amour en quatre langue. Londen: L'Amoureux, [168-].
- Christopher Harvey. The School of the Heart, or, The heart of it self gone away from God, brought back again to him, and instructed by him, in 47 emblems=2E London, Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676.
- Sir Henry Goodyere The mirrour of maiestie, or, The badges of honor conceitedly emblazoned. Ed. by Henry Green and James Croston. Manchester, Pub. for the Holbein society by A. Brothers, 1870.
- Herman Hugo. Pia Desideria, Lugduni, sumpt. Petri Guillimin, in vico Bellae Corderiae, 1679.
- Claude Paradin. The heroicall devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of our Latin into English by P.S. William Kearney. London, 1591.
- Francis Quarles. Emblems, divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man. In the Savoy, Printed by J. Nutt, and sold by E. Nutt, [17--?].
- R. B. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems ... with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem. 6th ed. London, Printed for E. Parker, 1732.
- Geffrey Whitney. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises, For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised. Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, 1586.
- George Wither. A collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened with metricall illustrations, both Morall and divine: And Disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. London, Printed by A.M. for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunflanes, 1635.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Director: Sheila Cavanagh.
- The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653. Ed. Leigh Tillman Partington.
- Griffith, Mattie. Poems. New York, 1852.
- D'Anvers, Alicia. A Poem Upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage For Holland: By way of Dialogue, Between Belgia and Britannia. December 23, 1690. London: for Tho. Bever, 1691.
- Evelyn, Mary. Mundus Muliebris: Or, The ladie Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and her Toilette Spread. London, 1690.
- Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex. London: by H. C. for John Taylor, 1686.
Foxon, D. F. English verse 1701-1750: a catalogue of separately printed poems with notes on contemporary collected editions. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Z 2014 P7F69 Fisher Rare Book Library
Frank, Joseph. Hobbled Pegasus: a descriptive bibliography of minor English poetry, 1641-1660. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Z 2014 P7F7
Antonette di Paolo Healey, ed. The Complete Corpus of Old English. University of Toronto: Dictionary of Old English, 2000-.
Internet Library of Early Journals. Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. March 1999. Annual Register (1758-1778); Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-63); Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750); Notes and Queries (1849-69); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77); The Builder (1843-52)
Jackson, J. R. de J. Annals of English verse, 1770-1835: a preliminary survey of the volumes published. New York: Garland, 1985. Z 2039 P6J32 1985
Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic poetry by women: a bibliography 1770-1835. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Z 2013=2E5 W6J33 1993
Jokinen, Anniina. Luminarium, an anthology of medieval, Renaissance, and 17th-century poetry, lovingly edited.
Keats-Shelley Journal . Ed. Steven Jones. Stinehour Press, 1994-.
Kenner, Hugh. The Pound era. Berkeley, University of California Press 1972. PS 3531 O82Z696
Kline, Daniel T. "The Electronic Canterbury Tales. Anchorage: University of Alaska, 1999."
Landow, George, ed. The Victorian Web. Providence, R.I.: Brown University.
The Labyrinth at Georgetown University: a long-standing collaboration that include an on-line library of Middle English poetry, including Pearl, the Harley Lyrics, and The Owl and the Nightingale
Lonsdale, Roger, ed The New Oxford book of eighteenth century verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. PR 1215 N48 1984
Lynch, Jack, ed. Eighteenth-century Resources. Department of English, Rutgers University.
Lynch, Jack, ed. Eighteenth-century E-texts. Dept. of English, Rutgers University.
Mazzeno, Laurence W. Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Salem, 1995. Z 2014 P7M35 1995
Nokes, David, and Janet Barron. An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Augustan Poetry. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. Z 2014 P7N65 1989
Reilly, Catherine W. English poetry of the First World War: a bibliography. London: George Prior, 1978. Z 2014 P7R44 Fisher Rare Book Library
Reilly, Catherine W. English poetry of the Second World war: a biobibliography. London: Mansell, 1986. Z 2014 .P7R45 1986
Reilly, Catherine W. Mid-Victorian poetry 1860-1879: an annotated biobibliography. London: Mansell, 2000. Z 2014 .P7R454 2000
Reilly, Catherine W. Late Victorian poetry 1880-1899: an annotated biobibliography. London: Mansell, 1994. PR 581 R45
Reiman, Donald H. English romantic poetry. 1800-1835: a guide to information sources. Detroit: Gale, 1979. Z 2014 P7R46
Reimer, Stephen R. The Canon of John Lydgate Project. Department of English, University of Alberta, 1994-.
Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799. Ed. Richard Bear (assisted by Judy Boss and others). University of Oregon, 1994-. The texts include
- Anonymous, Spare your good (1555?)
- Sir John Beaumont, The Theatre of Apollo
- Thomas Campion Observations in the Art of English Poesie
- Henrie Chettle, Kind-hartes dreame (1592)
- William Collins, Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects
- Henry Constable, Diana
- Ebenezer Cook, The Sotweed Factor
- Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rhyme, Delia. Contayning certayne Sonnets:, vvith the complaint of Rosamond.
- Michael Drayton, Endimion and Ph=9Cbe.
- John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas & The complaynte of Philomene
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- William Goddard, A Neaste of Waspes
- Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
- Everard Guilpin, Skialetheia.
- Thomas Heywood, A Funerall Elegie upon the Death of Henry, Prince of Wales (1613)
- Samuel Johnson, The Vanitie of Human Wishes
- Thomas Lodge, A Reply to Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse in Defence of Poetry, Musick, and Stage Plays; Rosalynde: Euphues golden legacie.
- Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander
- John Milton, Comus, A Masque; Milton: Shorter Poems; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Psalm Paraphrases; Samson Agonistes
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Prose and Poetry
- Richard Niccols, The Beggers Ape
- John Norden, Vicissitudo Rerum
- William Percy. Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594)
- William Shakespeare, A Lovers Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and the Turtle; The Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets; Venus and Adonis
- Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella; A Defence of Poesie
- Christopher Smart, A Song to David
- Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum; A Mouzell for Melastomus
- James Thomson, Winter: A Poem
- John Webster, A Monumental Column Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle
- Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
- Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique
- Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (corrected edition, 1995)
- Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Ringler, W. A., Jr. A Bibliography and index of English verse printed 1476-1500. London: Mansell, 1988. Z 2014 P7R48 1988
Ringler, W. A., Jr. A Bibliography and index of English verse in manuscript, 1501-1558. London: Mansell, 1992. Z 2014 P7R475 1992
Romantic Circles. Ed. Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer.
- Aikin, Anna L=E6titia (Barbauld). Poems (1773). Ed. Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri.
- Hone, William. The Political House that Jack Built. Ed. Kyle Grimes. 44th edn. London: for William Hone, 1820.
- A John Keats Letter Rediscovered by Dearing Lewis.
- L.E.L.'s 'Verses' and The Keepsake for 1829. Ed. Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Devil's Walk. Ed. Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman. From The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998-).
- --. On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery. Ed. Neil Fraistat and Melissa Jo Sites. =46rom Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Mary W. Shelley (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824): pages 139-40.
Romanticism on the Net. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. 1996-.
Shakespeare, William. The Internet Shakespeare Editions, general editor, Michael Best, University of Victoria, a scholarly site for study. See also the first searchable Shakespeare on-line at MIT, The complete works of Shakespeare.
Sharp, William. Poems. Ed. Mrs. William Sharp. New York: Duffield, 1912. Electronic transcription by Mary Ann Dobratz.
Spenser, Edmund, The complete works of Edmund Spenser, at Cambridge University (as edited by Richard Bear)
TEAMS (Consortium for Teaching in the Middle Ages) Middle English Texts. General Editor, Russell Peck. University of Rochester and Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1996-.
- "Above All Thing Thow Arte a Kyng": Introduction ; Text
- Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley: Introduction ; Text
- "Adam lay ibowndyn, bowndyn in a bond": Introduction ; Text
- "Addresses of the Commons" (Knighton): Introduction ; Text
- "All haile, lady, mother, and virgyn immaculate": Introduction ; Text
- "Allas, What Schul We Freris Do": Introduction ; Text
- "Alleluya! (Now wel may we merthis make)": Introduction ; Text
- Alliterative Morte Arthure: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II ; Part III ; Part IV
- "Als I lay upon a nith/ I lokede upon a stronde": Introduction ; Text
- Amis and Amilous: Introduction ; Text
- "The angel to the vergyn said": Introduction ; Text
- "The angell sayde to thee that the fruyt off thi body sulde be blyssyde": Introduction ; Text
- "Ase y me rod this ender day": Introduction ; Text
- The Assembly of Ladies: Introduction ; Text
- The Assembly of the Gods: Introduction ; Text
- "At a spryng wel under a thorn": Introduction ; Text
- Athelston: Introduction ; Text
- "Ave maris stella, the sterre on the see": Introduction ; Text
- The Avowyng of Arthur: Introduction ; Text
- The Awntyrs off Arthur: Introduction ; Text
- "Be glad, of al maydens flourre": Introduction ; Text
- "Beati qui esuriunt": Introduction ; Text
- Bevis of Hampton: Introduction ; Text
- "The Bird with Four Feathers": Introduction ; Text
- "Blessed beo thu, lavedi, ful of hovene blisse (Egerton)": Introduction ; Text
- "Blessed be thou, levedy, ful of heovene blisse (Harley 2253)": Introduction ; Text
- "Blessed Mary, moder virginall": Introduction ; Text
- "Blissid be that lady bryght (Goddys Sonne is borne)": Introduction ; Text
- From Walter Bower's Continuation of John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (on Robin Hood): Introduction ; Text
- "The Canterbury Interlude" and the Merchant's "Tale of Beryn": Introduction ; Part I ; Part II
- The Carle of Carlisle: Introduction ; Text
- "Chaucer's Plowman": Introduction ; Text
- The Cloud of Unknowing: Introduction ; Text
- "Com, my swete, com, my flour": Introduction ; Text
- "The Cook's Tale": Introduction ; Text
- "The Death of Robin Hood": Introduction ; Text
- "The Dispute Between Mary and the Cross": Introduction ; Text
- Douglas, Gavin, The Palis of Honoure: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II
- "Ecce quod natura mutat sua iura (Beholde and see)": Introduction ; Text
- "Edi beo thu, hevene quene": Introduction ; Text
- Emaré: Introduction ; Text
- "Ercyldoun's Prophecy": Introduction ; Text
- Erle of Toulous: Introduction ; Text
- Eustache the Monk: Introduction ; Text
- The Floure and the Leafe: Introduction ; Text
- Fouke le Fitz Waryn: Introduction ; Text
- "The Four Leaves of the Truelove": Introduction ; Text
- "Freers, Freers, Wo Ye Be": Introduction ; Text
- "Friar Daw's Reply": Introduction ; Text
- "From heovene into eorthe, God gretynge he sende": Introduction ; Text
- "Gabriel, fram evene knigh": Introduction ; Text
- "A Gest of Robyn Hode": Introduction ; Text
- "Glade us, maiden, moder milde": Introduction ; Text
- "God Spede the Plow": Introduction ; Text
- Gower, John Confessio Amantis: Introduction ; Prologue ; Book 1 ; Book 8
- From Richard Grafton'sChronicle at Large (on Robin Hood): Introduction ; Text
- The Greene Knight: Introduction ; Text
- "Haile be thu, Mari maiden bright": Introduction ; Text
- "Haill, quene of hevin and steren of blis": Introduction ; Text
- "Hale, sterne superne; hale, in eterne": Introduction ; Text
- Havelok the Dane: Introduction ; Text
- "Hayl Mari,/ Hic am sori": Introduction ; Text
- "Hayl, oure patron and lady of erthe": Introduction ; Text
- "Hayle, luminary and benigne lanterne": Introduction ; Text
- "Hayle, glorious lady and hevenly quene": Introduction ; Text
- "Hayle mayden of maydyns, thorgth worde consaywyng": Introduction ; Text
- Henryson, Robert, The Poems of Robert Henryson:
- General Introduction;
- "The Abbey Walk": Introduction ; Text
- "Against Hasty Credence": Introduction ; Text
- "The Annunciation": Introduction ; Text
- "The Bludy Serk": Introduction ; Text
- "The Garmont of Gud Ladeis": Introduction ; Text
- The Morall Fabillis: Introduction ; Text
- Orpheus and Eurydice: Introduction ; Text
- "The Praise of Age": Introduction ; Text
- "Ane Prayer for the Pest": Introduction ; Text
- "The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth": Introduction ; Text
- "The Ressoning betuix Deth and Man": Introduction ; Text
- "Robene and Makyne": Introduction ; Text
- "Sum Practysis of Medecyne": Introduction ; Text
- The Testament of Cressid: Introduction ; Text
- "The Thre Deid Pollis": Introduction ; Text
- "The Want of Wyse Men": Introduction ; Text
- Hereward the Wake: Introduction ; Text
- "Heyl be thou, Marie, milde quene of hevene": Introduction ; Text
- "Heyl, levedy, se-stoerre bryht": Introduction ; Text
- "Heyle be thou, ladye so bryght": Introduction ; Text
- Hilton, Walter, The Scale of Perfection: Introduction ; Book I ; Book II
- Hoccleve, Thomas The Regiment of Princes: Introduction ; Text
- "Holy moder, that bere Cryst": Introduction ; Text
- "I passud thoru a garden grene": Introduction ; Text
- "I pray thee, lady, the moder of Crist": Introduction ; Text
- "I syke when y singe": Introduction ; Text
- "I syng of a myden/ That is makeles": Introduction ; Text
- "I-blessyd Be Cristes Sonde": Introduction ; Text
- "In a tabernacle of a toure": Introduction ; Text
- "In a Valley of This Restless Mind": Introduction ; Text
- "In Erth It Is a Litill Thing": Introduction ; Text
- "In that time, als was ful wel": Introduction ; Text
- "The infinite power essenciall": Introduction ; Text
- The Isle of Ladies: Introduction ; Text
- Jack Upland: Introduction ; Text
- The Jeaste of Sir Gawain : Introduction ; Text
- "Jesu Cristes milde moder": Introduction ; Text
- "John Ball's Sermon Theme" (Walsingham): Introduction ; Text
- "The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield": Introduction ; Text
- Julian of Norwich, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich: Introduction ; Text
- Kempe, Margery, The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction ; Prologue and Book I, Chapters 1-21 ; Book I, Chapters 41-64 ; Book I, Chapters 65-89 ; Book II
- King Arthur and King Cornwall: Introduction ; Text
- King Horn: Introduction ; Text
- The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain : Introduction ; Part I ; Part II
- Lancelot of the Laik: Introduction ; Prologue and Book I ; Book II ; Book III
- The Lanterne of Light: Prologue and Chapters 3-5: Introduction ; Text
- The Laste Epistle of Creseyd to Troyalus: Introduction ; Text
- Lay le Freine: Introduction ; Text
- "Lefdy blisful, of muchel might": Introduction ; Text
- "Ler to loven as I love thee": Introduction ; Text
- "The Letter of John Ball" (Royal MS): Introduction ; Text
- "The Letter of John Ball" (Stow): Introduction ; Text
- "Levedie, ic thonke thee": Introduction ; Text
- "Levedy, for thare blisse": Introduction ; Text
- "Little John Goes a Begging": Introduction ; Text
- "Lo, He That Can Be Cristes Clerc": Introduction ; Text
- "London Lickpenny": Introduction ; Text
- "Lullay, lullay, la, lullay (Als I lay upon a nith)": Introduction ; Text
- "Lullay, my fader, lullay, my brother (Ye ben my fader)": Introduction ; Text
- "Lullay, myn lykyng (I saw a fayr maydyn syttyn and synge)": Introduction ; Text
- "Lulley, lulley (He bare hym up, he bare him down)": Introduction ; Text
- "Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes": Introduction ; Text
- Lydgate, John, Troy Book: Selections: Introduction ; Prologue ; Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Book 3 ; Book 4 ; Book 5 ; Envoy
- "M and A and R and I (It wern fowre letterys of purposy)": Introduction ; Text
- "Maiden and moder, cum and se": Introduction ; Text
- "Maiden in the mor lay": Introduction ; Text
- From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae (on Robin Hood): Introduction ; Text
- "Man Be Ware and Be No Fool": Introduction ; Text
- "Marie moder, wel thee be": Introduction ; Text
- "Marie, yow quen, yow moder, yow mayden briht": Introduction ; Text
- The Marriage of Sir Gawain: Introduction ; Text
- "Mary, for thine joys fyve": Introduction ; Text
- "Mary, modur of grace, we cry to thee": Introduction ; Text
- "Mary myelde made grete mone (When fals Judas her son had solde)": Introduction ; Text
- "Mary so myelde of hert and myende": Introduction ; Text
- "Mayden moder milde,/ Oiez cel oreysoun": Introduction ; Text
- "Marye, mayde mylde and fre": Introduction ; Text
- Metham, John, Amoryus and Cleopes: Introduction ; Text
- Selections from The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament: Introduction ; The Prologue ; The Story of Jephthah's Daughter ; The Story of Judith
- Minot, Laurence, The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352: Introduction ; Text
- "Modyr, whyt os lyly flowr (As I up ros in a mornyng)": Introduction ; Text
- Mum and the Sothsegger: Introduction ; Text
- Munday, Anthony, Excerpts from The Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington: Introduction ; Text
- Munday, Anthony, The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington: Introduction ; Text
- "My Fader above, beholdying thy mekenesse": Introduction ; Text
- "Nou goth sonne under wod": Introduction ; Text
- "Nou skrinketh rose ant lylie flour": Introduction ; Text
- "Nowel el el (Mary moder, meke and mylde)": Introduction ; Text
- "Nowel, nowel, nowel (Under a tre/ In sportyng me)": Introduction ; Text
- "Nu this fules singet and maket hure blisse": Introduction ; Text
- "O hie emperice and quene celestiall": Introduction ; Text
- "O litel whyle lesteneth to me": Introduction ; Text
- Octavian: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II
- "Of alle women that ever were borne": Introduction ; Text
- "Of on that is so fayr and bright": Introduction ; Text
- "Of Thes Frer Mynours": Introduction ; Text
- "On hire is al mi lif ilong": Introduction ; Text
- "On the Times": Introduction ; Text
- Parker, Martin, A True Tale of Robin Hood: Introduction ; Text
- The Parlement of the Thre Ages: Introduction ; Text
- "Pety Job": Introduction ; Text
- "Piers the Plowman's Crede": Introduction ; Text
- The Pistel of Swete Susan: Introduction ; Text
- "The Ploughman's Tale": Introduction ; Text
- "The Plowman's Tale": Introduction ; Text
- "Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun": Introduction ; Text
- "The Prophecy of Merlin (Bodley MS)": Introduction ; Text
- "The Prophecy of Merlin (Dublin MS)": Introduction ; Text
- "The Prophecy of Merlin (Magdalene Coll. MS)": Introduction ; Text
- Prose Merlin: Introduction ; Text
- "Quhat dollour persit our ladyis hert": Introduction ; Text
- Ralph the Collier: Introduction ; Text
- Richard the Redeless: Introduction ; Text
- Robert of Cisyle: Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Allin a Dale": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne": Introduction ; Text
- Robin Hood and His Crew of Soldiers: Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Little John": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Maid Marian": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Queen Catherin": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Bishop": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar": Introduction ; Text
- Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter: Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Monk": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Pedlars": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and the Potter": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood and Will Scarlet": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood Rescues Three Young Men": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valour, and Marriage": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood's Fishing": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood's Golden Prize": Introduction ; Text
- "Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham": Introduction ; Text
- "Robyn and Gandelyn": Introduction ; Text
- Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham: Introduction ; Text
- "Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginall": Introduction ; Text
- "Sainte Marie, virgine": Introduction ; Text
- "Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O moder mylde)": Introduction ; Text
- "Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (O tryclyn of the Trinité)": Introduction ; Text
- The Siege of Milan: Introduction ; Text
- The Siege of Thebes, Lydgate's Prologue to, See:Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes
- "The Simonie": Introduction ; Text
- "The Sinner's Lament": Introduction ; Text
- Sir Amadace: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Cleges: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Degaré: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Eglamour of Artois: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Gowther: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Isumbras: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Launfal: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Orfeo: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Perceval of Galles: Introduction ; Text
- Sir Tristrem: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II ; Part III
- Sir Tryamour: Introduction ; Text
- "Sodenly afraide, half waking, half slepyng (With favoure in hir face)": Introduction ; Text
- "A Son! tak hede to me whas sone thou was": Introduction ; Text
- "Song of the Husbandman": Introduction ; Text
- "Spurious [Canterbury Tales] Links": Introduction ; Text
- Stanzaic Morte Arthur: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II ; Part III
- "Stond wel, Moder, under rode": Introduction ; Text
- The Storie of Asneth: Introduction ; Text
- "Suete sone, reu on me, and brest out of thi bondis": Introduction ; Text
- The Sultan of Babylon: Introduction ; Part I ; Part II ; Part III
- "Swete and benygne moder and may": Introduction ; Text
- "Syng we, syng we (Holy maydyn, blyssid thu be)": Introduction ; Text
- The Tale of Gamelyn: Introduction ; Text
- "Tax Has Tenet Us Alle": Introduction ; Text
- "Ther is no rose of swych vertu": Introduction ; Text
- "There Is a Busch That Is Forgrowe": Introduction ; Text
- "Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy": Introduction ; Text
- Thomas of Hales, "Love Rune": Introduction ; Text
- "Thou synfull man of resoun that walkest here up and downe": Introduction ; Text
- "Thou That Sellest the Worde of God": Introduction ; Text
- "Thou wommon boute vere": Introduction ; Text
- "Truthe, Reste, and Pes (What Profits a Kingdom)": Introduction ; Text
- The Turke and Sir Gawain: Introduction ; Text
- "Unto Marie he that love hath (Thus seide Mary of grete honoure)": Introduction ; Text
- "Upland's Rejoinder": Introduction ; Text
- "Upon a lady my love ys lente": Introduction ; Text
- "Upon my ryght syde y me leye": Introduction ; Text
- Usk, Thomas, The Testament of Love: Introduction ; Prologue ; Book I ; Book II ; Book III ; Appendix 1: The Pearl ; Appendix 2: Usk's Appeal against John Northampton ; Appendix 3: From St. Anselm's De Concordia
- The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle: Introduction ; Text
- "When Rome Is Removed": Introduction ; Text
- "Why have ye no reuthe on my child?": Introduction ; Text
- "Why I Can't Be a Nun": Introduction ; Text
- "Womman, Jon I take to thee (Allas, wo sal myn herte slaken?)": Introduction ; Text
- "Worsshipful maiden to the world, Marie": Introduction ; Text
- The Wycliffite Bible: from the Prologue: Introduction ; Text
- Wynnere and Wastoure: Introduction ; Text
- Ywain and Gawain: Introduction ; Text
Treadwell, Harriette Taylor and Margaret Free. Reading-Literature First Reader. Illustrated by Frederik Richardson, Evanston: Row, Peterson, 1911. [See XVII. Group of Poems: Sarah Josepha Hale's "Mary had a Little Lamb," "The Moon" by Mother Goose, Phoebe Cary's "The Naughty Little Robin," "What does Little Birdie Say?" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jane Taylor's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."] The Baldwin Project=2E Ed. Lisa Ripperton. 2000-.
Thornton, R. K. R., and Marion Thain, eds Poetry of the 1890s. 2nd edn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. PR 1221 .P65 1997
Victorian poetry. 1+ (1963-). PR 500 V54 [Recent issues on-line.]
Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Indiana University, 1995-. Includes complete works by the following 19 poets:
- Belloc, Bessie Rayner (1829-1925): Ballads and Songs (1863); Poems (1852) by B.R. Parkes.
- Bevington, Louisa S. (Guggenberger) (1845-1895): Keynotes (1879); Liberty Lyrics (1895); Poems, Lyrics and Sonnets (1882)
- Blind, Mathilde (1841-1896): Ascent of Man (1889); Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident (1895); Dramas in Miniature (1891). With a Frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown; The Heather on Fire (1886).; Poems (by "Claude Lake") (1867); The Prophecy of Saint Oran (1881); Songs and Sonnets (1893).
- Cambridge, Ada (Cross) (1844-1926): The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems (1913).; The Manor House and Other Poems (1875).
- Clive, Caroline ("V.") (1801-1873): I Watched the Heavens (1842); The Morlas: a Poem (1853); IX Poems (2nd edition; 1841); Poems (1872); The Queen's Ball (1847)
- Craik, Dinah Maria (Mulock) (1826-1887): Poems (1866)
- Ellis, Sarah Stickney (1812-1872): The Sons of the Soil (1840)
- Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920): A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses (1893)
- Keary, Eliza (): Little Seal-skin and Other Poems (1874)
- Keary, Maud: Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children (1914)
- Levy, Amy (1861-1889): A Ballad of Religion and Marriage (1915?); A London Plane-Tree (1889); A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1891); Xantippe and Other Verse (1881)
- Naden, Constance (1858-1889): The Complete Poetical Works of Constance Naden (1894)
- Nesbit, E. (Edith) (1858-1924): Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism (1908); Lays and Legends (1886); Many Voices (1922); A Pomander of Verse (1895); The Rainbow and the Rose (1905); Songs of Love and Empire (1898)
- Norton, Caroline (1808-1877): The Child of the Islands (1846); The Dream and Other Poems (1840); The Lady of La Garaye (1866); The Undying One and Other Poems (1830); A Voice from the Factories (1836)
- Radford, Dollie (1858-1920): A Ballad of Victory (1907); In Summer-Time (1905); A Light Load (1891); Poems (1910); Songs and Other Verses (1895); The Young Gardeners' Kalendar (1904)
- Webster, Augusta (1837-1894): Blanche Lisle and Other Poems (by "Cecil Home") (1860); A Book of Rhyme (1881); Dramatic Studies (1866); Lilian Gray: a Poem (by "Cecil Home") (1864); Mother and Daughter: an Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (1895); Portraits (1870); A Woman Sold (1867)
- The W. H. Auden Society=2E Ed. Edward Mendelson.
- Wilde, Lady Jane (1826-1896): Poems (by "Speranza") (1871?)
Woof, Robert, Stephen Hebron, and Pamela Woof English poetry 850-1850: the first thousand years with some romantic perspectives. The Wordsworth Trust, 2000. PR 501 W66 2000