Table of Contents

By Heart. 101 Poems to Remember (1997)

Introduction: Memorising Poems

1. William Shakespeare: ›The Witches' Song‹ from Macbeth
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle
3. A. E. Housman: ›On Wenlock Edge‹
4. Rudyard Kipling: James I
5. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
6. W. H. Auden: The Fall Of Rome
7. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
8. W. B. Yeats: He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge
9. T. S. Eliot: Lines For An Old Man
10. Anonymous: Donal Og
11. William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
12. Alexander Pope: From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot
13. Keith Douglas: How To Kill
14. Wilfred Owen: Anthem For Doomed Youth
15. Edward Thomas: The Combe
16. John Milton: On The Late Massacre In Piedmont
17. R. S. Thomas: Here
18. John Betjeman: Meditation On The A30
19. William Blake: The Tyger
20. John Keats: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
21. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
22. Emily Dickinson: ›Like Rain It Sounded‹
23. Anonymous: Mad Tom's Song
24. Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky
25. Andrew Young: Field Glasses
26. Walter De La Mare: An Epitaph
27. William Shakespeare: My Mistress' Eyes
28. T. S. Eliot: La Figla Che Piange
29. Robert Frost: Provide, Provide
30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
31. D. H. Lawrence: Piano
32. William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper
33. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
34. T. S. Eliot: Marina
35. W. B. Yeats: ›A Woman's Beauty‹
36. F. R. Higgins: Song For The Clatter-Bones
37. John Betjeman: A Subaltern's Love-Song
38. William Shakespeare: ›Other Slow Arts‹
39. William Blake: Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
40. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring And Fall
41. Thomas Wyatt: ›They Flee From Me‹
42. William Shakespeare: ›Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun‹
43. W. H. Auden: ›Stop All The Clocks‹
44. William Blake: The Smile
45. John Crowe Ransom: Blue Girls
46. John Donne: The Relique
47. Dylan Thomas: A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
48. Ezra Pound: The Return
49. Seamus Heaney: The Skunk
50. William Shakespeare: ›That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold‹
51. W. B. Yeats: Easter 1916
52. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
53. Rudyard Kipling: The Way Through The Woods
54. Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff
55. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
56. Emily Dickinson: ›There's A Certain Slant Of Light‹
57. William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence
58. W. E. Henley: Invictus
59. William Shakespeare: ›The Heavens Themselves, The Planets‹
60. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
61. Robert Frost: The Runaway
62. Dylan Thomas: Poem In October
63. William Empson: The Small Bird To The Big
64. Sylvia Plath: Crossing The Water
65. W H. Auden: Musee Des Beaux Arts
66. Stevie Smith: Not Waving But Drowning
67. Philip Larkin: Livings (Part 2)
68. W. H. Auden: ›Carry Her Over The Water‹
69. John Crowe Ransom: Winter Remembered
70. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
71. William Shakespeare: ›Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds‹
72. John Crowe Ransom: Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter
73. T. S. Eliot: The Journey Of The Magi
74. Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
75. William Shakespeare: ›Tir'd With All These, For Restful Death I Cry‹
76. W. B. Yeats: Leda And The Swan
77. Emily Dickinson: ›This World Is Not Conclusion‹
78. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Binsey Poplars
79. W. B. Yeats: ›Come Let Us Mock At The Great‹
80. William Wordsworth: The Simplon Pass
81. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
82. William Shakespeare: ›My Love Is As A Fever‹
83. W. B. Yeats: Roger Casement
84. William Wordsworth: ›A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal‹
85. William Shakespeare: ›Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul‹
86. John Donne: Song
87. Emily Dickinson: ›A Wind That Rose‹
88. John Keats: To Autumn
89. William Blake: The Sick Rose
90. Robert Frost: Spring Pools
91. William Shakespeare: ›To Be, Or Not To Be‹ from Hamlet
92. T. S. Eliot: Mr Apollinax
93. William Shakespeare: ›To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow‹
94. W. B. Yeats: Death
95. T. S. Eliot: Death By Water
96. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming
97. Emily Dickinson: ›There Came A Wind‹
98. William Shakespeare: ›Our Revels Now Are Ended‹
99. Robert Frost: Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
100. W. H. Auden: This Lunar Beauty
101. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument