Poets' Corner - Index of Poets

from Music and Moonlight [1874]:
   Ode - introduction from 'The Music Makers' (BB)
   Song: I Made Another Garden (NM)
   Song: Has Summer Come Without the Rose (NM)
from Songs of a Worker [1881]:
A Love Symphony (NM)
from Music and Moonlight [1874]:
Barcarolle (BB)

Seamus O Sheel

(1886 - 1954) American Poet

Thanksgiving for Our Task [1913] (BB)

Sydney Oswald

English Classicist

The Battlefield (BB)

Seamus O'Sullivan (James Starkey)

(1879 - 1958) Irish Writer

A Piper

Eberhard Owen

Three Hills (BB)

Wilfred Owen

(1893 - 1918) English Poet, Soldier

Poems [1920]- the complete book of 24 poems originally compiled and edited by Siegfried Sassoon; maintained by Bob Blair as part of the War poets collection
Dulce Et Decorum Est or, "It is Sweet and Proper (to Die for your Country)" - written during WW I after the first use of Chlorine gas (TI)
Futility
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting (CS)
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
Greater Love
The Send-Off (BB)
Spring Offensive (BB)

Poets 'P' | Poets 'O'

Barry Pain

(1867 - 1928) English Journalist

The Kaiser and God (BB)

Albert Bigelow Paine

(1861 - 1937) American Editor and Author; friend of Twain

The Hills of Rest [1904]

Thomas Paine

American Essayist, Revolutionary

Liberty Tree [1775] (JL)

Robert Treat Paine

(1773 - 1811)

Adams and Liberty [1798] (BTH)

Francis Turner Palgrave

(1824 - 1897) English Poet and Editor ("Palgrave's Golden Treasury")

Herbert E. Palmer

Ishmael

Martin Parker

17th-Century English Balladeer

Sailors for my Money (BB)

Thomas Parnell

(1679-1718) English poet, scholar, and minister

Song: 'When thy beauty appears' (NM)
Song: 'My days have been so wondrous free' (NM)
A Hymn to Contentment (NM)
A Hymn for Morning (NM)
A Hymn for Noon (NM)
A Hymn for Evening (NM)
A Night-Piece on Death (NM)
An Elegy, To an Old Beauty (BB)

A.B. (Alan Barton) "Banjo" Paterson

(1864 - 1941) Australian Editor, Journalist and poet; Australian National Poet

from The Man from Snowy River [1895]:
   The Man From Snowy River (BH)
   Clancy of the Overflow (BH)
   Mulga Bill's Bicycle (BH)
   Waltzing Matilda (BB)

Coventry (Kersey Dighton) Patmore

(1823-1896) English Poet, Librarian

from The Betrothal [1854]
A Revelation
from The Unknown Eros [1877]
   Magna est Veritas ['great is the truth']
   A Farewell (BB)
   The Toys (JL)
from The Angel in the House [1898]:
   Love at Large (BB)
   The Lover (BB)
   The Wedding Sermon (BB)
   The Married Lover (BB)
   Love's Reality
   Unthrift
   Compensation
   The Foreign land

Fred Lewis Pattee

The Garden [1893] (JL)
The Picket's Song [1893] (JL)

John Howard Payne

(1791 - 1852) American Actor and Playwright

Home Sweet Home (BB)

John Payne

(1842 - 1916) English poet and translator, best known for his translations of Boccaccio's Decameron and The Arabian Nights, the latter in 9 volumes

from Vigil and Vision [1903]:
   False February (NM)
   The Foredawn Hour (NM)
   January (NM)
   February (NM)
   March (NM)
   April (NM)
   May (NM)
   June (NM)
   July (NM)
   August (NM)
   September (NM)
   October (NM)
   November (NM)
   December (NM)

Josephine Preston Peabody

(1874 - 1922) American Poet and Dramatist

Harvest Moon (BB)
Harvest Moon: 1916 (BB)

Thomas Love Peacock

(1785 - 1866) English Novelist and Poet

from Nightmare Abbey [1818]
Three Wisemen of Gotham (BB)
from Gryll Grange [1861]
Love and Age (BB)
from Works [1875]
Margaret Love Peacock, for Her Tombstone, 1826 (BB)

Harlan Colby Pearson

Faint Heart [1893] (JL)

George Peele

(1558 - 1597) English Dramatist and Poet

A Farewell to Arms, from Polyhymnia "His golden locks time hath to silver turned..."(NM,BB)
Not iris in her pride (NM)
Bathsheba's Song (BTH)

H. D. C. Pepler

English Printer

The Law the Lawyers Know About

James Gates Percival

(1795 - 1856) American poet, physician, and geologist

The Deserted Wife [1821] (NM)
The Coral Grove[1821] (NM)
To Seneca Lake[1821] (NM)
Spring [1821] (NM)
May

Margaret Peterson

A Mother's Dedication (BB)

Emily Pfeiffer

(1827 - 1890) Welsh Poet

Any Husband to Many a Wife

Ambrose Philips

(1675 - 1749) English poet, editor, and civil servant

Katherine Philips

(1631 - 1664) English Poet

Against Love

John Philips

(1676 - 1709) English Poet

The Splendid Shilling [1704] (NM)

Stephen Phillips

(1868 - 1915) English Poet and Dramatist

The Kaiser and Belgium (BB)

Eden Phillpotts

(1862 - 1960) English Novelist and Poet

John James Piatt

(1835 - 1917) American Poet, Newspaper Editor; librarian to House of Representatives, U. S. Consul in Ireland

from Poems of Sunshine and Firelight [1866]:
Fires in Illinois (NM)
from Poems [1868]:
My Shadow's Stature (NM)
from American Poetry and Art [1880]:
Taking the night Train (NM)

Marjorie Lowrey Christie Pickthall

(1883 - 1922) Canadian Children's Writer

Canada to England (BB)

John Pierpoint

(1785- 1856) American clergyman, abolitionist, and poet

Edward Coote Pinkney

(1802 - 1828) American Poet, Sailor, Lawyer, and Editor

from Poems [1825]:
Serenade (NM)
The Widow's Song (NM)
To . . . . (NM)
On Parting (NM)

Henry Hildreth Piper

In Unlikeliest Places [1893] (JL)

Max Plowman

English Writer

Her Beauty

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 1849) American Poet, Author

John Pomfret

(1667 - 1702) English poet and clergyman

The Choice (NM)

Alexander Pope

(1688 - 1744) English Poet

Solitude
Sound and Sense (from An Essay on Criticism)
The Dying Christian to His Soul (BB)
An Essay on Criticism (BB)
Essay on Man (BB)
The Rape of the Lock (BB)
Argus (BB)

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)

(1862 - 1910) Prolific American Short Story Author, known for his 'suprise' endings; Most noted for "The Gift of the Magi"

The Crucible (BB)

Alexander Lawrence Posey

(1873 - 1908) Native American Poet, Educator, Editor, and Native American Rights Activist

from The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey [1910]:
   Song of the Oktahutchee (NM)
   July (NM)
   Midsummer (NM)
   Autumn (NM)
   Nightfall (NM)

Ezra Pound

(1885 - 1972) American Poet, Editor, Secretary to Yeats, WW II Fascist Sympathizer

An Immorality
from A Lume Spento (With Tapers Quenched) [1908]:
   Villonaud for This Yule (NM)
   La Regina Avrillouse (NM)
   Grace Before Song (NM)
from A Quinzaine for This Yule [1908]
Histrion (NM)
from Exultations [1909]:
Ballad of the Goodly Fere (NM)
Sestina: Altaforte (NM)
from Canzoni [1911]:
Song in the Manner of Housman (NM)
from Ripostes [1912]:
   Portrait D'une Femme (NM)
   A Virginal (NM)
   The Return
   Salutation
   The Needle (NM)
from Cathay [1915]:
   Song of the Bowmen of Shu (NM)
   The Jewel Stairs' Grievance (NM)
   The River-Merchant's Wife
from Lustra [1916 edition]:
   The Garden (NM)
   A Pact (NM)
   Itè (NM)
   The Bath Tub (NM)
   Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord (NM)
   Ts'ai Chi'h (NM)
   In a Station of the Metro (NM)
   Alba
   Ione, Dead the Long Year (NM)
   L'Art, 1910 (NM)
   Epilogue (NM)
   The Garrett
   Further Instructions
from Lustra [1917 edition]:
The Lake Isle (NM)
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [1920]:
Envoi

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

(1802- 1839) English Barrister and Poet

A Song of Impossibilities [1830] (BB)
The Belle of the Ball-Room [1830] (BB)
The Talented Man [1831] (BB)
The Vicar [1829] (BB)

Matthew Prior

(1664 - 1721) English Poet

from Poetical Miscellanies [1704]:
To a Child of Quality of Five Years Old (BB)
from Poems on Several Occasions [1718]:
   An Epitaph
   Cupid Mistaken (BB)
   Jinny the Just (BB)
   An Ode (BB)
   A True Maid (BB)
   A Reasonable Affliction (BB)
   Phyllis's Age (BB)
   A Better Answer (BB)

Adelaide Anne Procter

(1825-1864) English Poet

A Lost Chord
Envy (BB)

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