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Herbert Kaufman

The Hell-Gate of Soissons (BB)

(1795 - 1821) English Romantic Poet

from Poems [1817]:
   To Hope
   To Solitude
   Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp'ring Here and There
   On the Grasshopper and Cricket
   On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer (BB)
   Happy is England (BB)
   To one who has been long in city pent (BB)
   To My Brothers (BB)
from Endymion: A Poetic Romance [1818]
A Thing of Beauty Book I, lines 1-24
from Lamia, Isabella, &c. [1820]
   Ode to a Nightingale
   Ode on a Grecian Urn
   To Autumn (BB)
   Ode on Melancholy (BB)
   Ode (BB)
   Ode to Psyche (BB)
   The Eve of St. Agnes (BB)
   Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
   Fancy
   Robin Hood
from Life, Letters, and Literary Remains [1848]:
   La Belle Dame sans Merci
   To Sleep
   When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
   On Fame
   Hymn to Apollo
   Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare's Poems, facing "A Lover's Complaint" (BB)
   On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (BB)
   Where's the Poet? (JFB)
   To Byron (BB)
   Sonnet: On the Sonnet (BB)
from The Poetical Works of John Keats: Oxford Standard Authors Edition [1908]:
   The Human Seasons
   Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl (BB)
   In Drear-nighted December
Give me women, wine, and snuff [1816] (BTH)
Ode to Fanny (BB)

H. G. Keene

(1825 - 1915) English Indian Historian

from Peepul Leaves [1879]:
The Taj by H.G. Keene (BB)

Henry Kendall

(1839 - 1882) Australian Poet

Bellbirds(BB)

Francis Scott Key

(1779 - 1843) American Lawyer and poet

The Star Spangled Banner

Joyce Kilmer

Trees [1913] (BB)

(1592-1669) English Poet, Bishop of Chichester

(1857 - 1894) American poet and parodist

Charles Kingsley

(1819 - 1875) English Poet, Clergyman, and Novelist

Coates Kinney

(1826 - 1904) American Lawyer

Rain on the Roof [1849] (BB)

[Joseph] Rudyard Kipling

(1865 - 1936) English Author, Poet, born in India, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature

from Barrack-Room Ballads [1892]:
   Danny Dever (BB)
   Tommy (BB)
   Gunga Din (CS)
   The Ballad of East and West (BB)
   The Ballad of the King's Jest (BB)
   The Conundrum of the Workshops "...It's pretty, but is it Art?..." (BB)
   In the Neolithic Age (BB)
   The English Flag (BB)
   Tomlinson (BB)
   The Widow at Windsor (BB)
   The Young British Soldier (BB)
   Mandalay (BB)
   Gentlemen-Rankers "...We're poor little lambs who have lost our way..." (BB)
   L'Envoi (BB)
from Many Inventions [1893]:
Song of the Galley-Slaves "...Will you never let us go?..."
from The Seven Seas [1896]:
M'Andrew's Hymn (BB)
from The Vampire [1897]:
The Vampire (BB)
from The Five Nations [1903]:
Recessional (BB) --(originally published in The Times, 17 July 1897)
from Puck of Pook Hill [1906]:
Cities and Thrones and Powers
from Actions and Reactions [1909]:
The Power of the Dog (BB)
from Rewards and Fairies [1910]:
If
The Sons of Martha (BB)
Songs Written for C.R.L. Fletcher's "A History of England" [1911] - 22 poems (BB)
Edgehill Fight (BB)
from For All We Have and Are [1914]:
For All we Have and Are (BB)
from Collected Verse [1915, 1919]:
   A Pilgrim's Way [1890] (BB)
   The Female of the Species [1911] (BB)
   Gods of the Copybook Heading [1919] (JB)
The Choice (BB)
from The Years Between [1919]:
The Mine-Sweepers (BB)
The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House (BB)
My New-Cut Ashlar (SUB)
The Gypsy Trail (BB)
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal (BB)

James H. Knight-Adkin

"On Les Aura!"(BB)
No Man's Land(BB)

Kent Knowlton

The Tomb and the Rose [1893] (Jon)

William Knox

(1789- 1825) Scots Farmer and Alcoholic

Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? (JL)

Alfred Kreymborg

(1883 - 1966) American poet, playwright, editor and anthologist

from Mushrooms [1916]:
Whitman (BB)
Overheard In An Asylum (BB)
from The Blood of Things [1920]:
Geometry(BB)
Introducing Dorothy (BB)
from Less Lonely [1923]:
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Charles Lamb

(1775 - 1834) English Essayist

The Old Familiar Faces (BB)
On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden (NM)
Harmony in Unlikeness (NM)
'O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind' (NM)
Queen Oriana's Dream (NM)

Archibald Lampman

(1861-1899) Canadian Romantic Poet

L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

(1802 - 1838) English Poet

from Fragments [1837]:
   The Poor
   Secrets
   The Power of Words

Walter Savage Landor

(1775 - 1864) English Poet and Author

To Age
The Evening Star (BB)
Mild is the Parting Year (BB)
Rose Aylmer (BB)
Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel... (BB)
To Zoë (BB)
Very True, The Linnets Sing (NM)
Why, Why Repine (NM)
The Chrysolites and Rubies Bacchus Brings (NM)
Death Stands Above Me (NM)
God Scatters Beauty (NM)
I Entreat You, Alfred Tennyson (NM)
One Lovely Name (NM)
To Robert Browning (BB)
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday (BB)
On His Eightieth Birthday (BB)

Andrew Lang

(March 31st,1844 - 1912) Scottish Historian, Mythologist, and Translator

Sidney Lanier

(1842-1881) American Poet

Evening Song
The Waving of the Corn
The Mocking Bird
Hymns of the Marshes (BB)
"Song of the Chattahoochee" (NM)
From the Flats (NM)
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson [1865] (BB)
Life and Song (NM)
Owl and Robin (BB)

George T. Lanigan

(1846-1886) Canadian poet

A Threnody (BB)

D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

(1885 - 1930) English Author, Poet

Piano [1917]
Giorno dei Morti [1918] (BB)
Gloire de Dijon
The Snapdragon (BB)
Service of all the Dead (BB)
Meeting among the Mountains (BB)
from Love Poems and Others:
Cruelty and Love (BB)

Daniel Luther Lawrence

On Rome [1893] (JL)

Emma Lazarus

(1849 - 1887) American Poet, Essayist

The New Colossus (this sonnet is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty)
Long Island Sound
Success

Mary Leapor

(1722 - 1746) English Poet

Strephon to Celia, a Modern Love Letter (BB)

Edward Lear

(1812 - 1888) English Artist, Nonsense Poet

from Nonsense Songs and Stories [1871]:
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
from The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses [1900]:
The Jumblies
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear (JH)
The Akond of Swat (BB)

Walter Learned

(1847 - 1915) American Poet, Translator, Editor, and Banker

Louis V. Ledoux

(1880 - 1948) American Collector of Japanese Art Prints

Hymn to Demeter [1913] (BB)
A Threnody [1913] (BB)

Francis Ledwidge

(1887 - 1917) Irish poet

from Songs of the Fields:
A Wife for Llew
A Rainy Day in April (BB)
The Lost Ones (BB)
In France (BB)
Thomas MacDonagh (BB)

(? - 1939) American Poet

A Roman Doll [1913] (BB)

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

(1845 - 1907) English Poet

from Apollo and Marsyas [1884]:
Sunken Gold (NM)
from Forest Notes [1899]:
Noon's Dream-Song (NM)
Among the Firs (NM)

German Prisoners (BB)

Richard Le Gallienne

May is Building Her House [1913] (BB)
Desiderium [1913] (BB)

Henry Sambrooke Leigh

(1837 - 1883) English Translator, Writer of Light Verse

Rhymes (?) (BB)
Twins (BB)

Sir Roger L'Estrange

(1616-1704) English journalist and propagandist

The Liberty and Requiem of an Imprisoned Royalist (BB)

Winifred Mary Letts

(1882 - 1936) Irish poet

(1861 - 1889) English Poet

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865) American Storekeeper, Postmaster, Surveyor, Lawyer, Legislator, and 16th US President

Memory (JL)

[Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay

(1879 - 1931) American Poet and Vagabond

from Nightingales [1913]:
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Love and Law
from General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems [1913]:
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (BB)
from Verses of an Especially Inscriptional Character [1914]:
An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
from Moon-Poems [1914]:
   To Gloriana
   Euclid
   Drying Their Wings
   A Sense of Humor
   On the Garden Wall
   Written for a Musician
   The Rose of Midnight
   What Semiramis Said
   What the Ghost of the Gambler Said
from Incense, and Praise, and Whim, and Glory [1916]:
Factory Windows are Always Broken
This section is a Christmas Tree (Introduction)
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes [1916]
from Runes of the Road [1917]:
Prologue to "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread"
Dandelion
from Home Town [1917]:
The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith's Son
A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign
The Kallyope Yell [1913] (BB)

Frederick Locker-Lampson

(1821 - 1895) English Gentleman

To My Grandmother (BB)
To an Old Muff (BB)
My Mistress's Boots by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Bob)
Piccadilly by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Bob)
Loulou and her Cat by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Bob)
A Word That Makes Us Linger by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Bob)
A Terrible Infant by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Bob)

Thomas Lodge

(1558 - 1625) English Dramatist, Translator and Pirate

Rosalind's Madrigal (BB)
Description of Rosaline (BB)
The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers (NM)
To Phyllis (NM)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 - 1882) American Poet, professor of Language at Harvard

The Song of Hiawatha (complete) [1855]
Hiawatha's Departure, from The Song of Hiawatha (there is an excellent song version of this on the album Incantations by Michael Oldfield)
From Voices of the Night [1839]
   A Psalm of Life "...Lives of great men all remind us..."
   Hymn to the Night
   The Reaper and the Flowers (BB)
From Ballads and Other Poems [1841]
   The Skeleton in Armor "...There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warriors's soul..."
   Excelsior (BB)
   The Wreck of the Hesperus (BB)
   The Village Blacksmith "Under a spreading chestnet-tree the village smithy stands..."
   Endymion
   The Rainy Day "...Into each life some rain must fall..."
From The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems [1845]
   The Belfrey of Bruges "..Visions of the days departed, shadowy phantoms filled my brain..."
   The Day is Done "...and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night..."
   The Arrow and the Song "I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I know not where..."
   The Bridge
   Curfew
   The Arsenal at Springfield (BB)
   Drinking Song (BB)
From The Seaside and the Fireside [1846]
The Builders "All are architects of fate..." (FB)
Evangeline "This is the forest primeval..." [1847]
From Birds of Passage, Flight the First [1858]
Birds of Passage
Daybreak
From Birds of Passage, Flight the Second [1863]
   The Children's Hour (BB)
   Snow-Flakes "...Silent, and soft, and slow, Descends the snow..."
   Something Left Undone
From Tales of a Wayside Inn [1863]
Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale)
From Birds of Passage, Flight the Third [1873]
   Fata Morgana
   Changed
   Aftermath
   The Meeting "...The tree of life has been shaken, And but a few of us linger now..."
From A Book of Sonnets [1875]
The Sound of the Sea
Nature (BB)
From Ultima Thule [1880]
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
From In the Harbor: Ultima Thule Part II [1882]
   Moonlight
   Sundown
   Autumn Within
   Memories
   Loss and Gain
   A Fragment
O Ship of State (JL)
My Lost Youth (JH)
Holidays (NM)
The Galaxy (NM)
The Cumberland [1862] (BB)
The Poet's Calendar (NM)
The Emperor's Bird's Nest (BB)
Retribution

Richard Lovelace

(1618 - 1657) English Poet, Soldier

from Lucasta: [1649]
modernized versions:
   To Althea, from Prison
   To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (CK)
   To Lucasta, From Prison (BB)
   The Scrutiny (NM)
   To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (NM)
in traditional spelling:
   Dedication
   To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Seas
   To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Warres
   To Aramantha; That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
   Sonnet: Depose your finger of that ring
   To Lucasta. The Rose
   Sonnet: When I by thy faire shape did sweare
   Lucasta Weeping
   To Lucasta, From Prison
   To Lucasta
   Upon the Curtain of Lucasta's Picture, It was Thus Wrought
   Lucasta's World
   To Ellinda, That Lately I Have Not Written
   To Chloe, Courting Her for His Friend
   Gratiana Dancing and Singing
   The Scrutinie
   The Vintage to the Dungeon
   To Althea, from Prison
   To His Fairest Valentine, Mrs. A.L.
   The Faire Begger
   To Lucasta. Her Reserved Looks
   Lucasta Laughing
   Love Inthron'd
   To Lucasta. I laugh and sing
   To Lucasta. Like the Sentinel Stars
   The Ant
   Song: Strive not, vain lover
   Courante Monsieur
   Song: In mine one monument I lye
   Another
   The Snayl

(1874 - 1925) American Poet, Editor, and Critic, winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912) - a complete book of 69 poems
Venus Transiens [1915] (BTH)

James Russell Lowell

(1819 - 1891) American Poet, Essayist, and Diplomat

Edward Verrall Lucas

(1868 - 1938) English Essayist

The Debt (BB)

(1554 - 1606) English Dramatist

Henry F.Lyte

(1793 - 1847) Scottish Hymnist

Abide With Me (BB)

William Haines Lytle

(1826 - 1863) American Lawyer, Legislator, Union General, killed at the Battle of Chickamauga

Anthony and Cleopatra (BB)

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