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- Victoria Sackville-West
. {1}
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- Francis S. Saltus
. {5}
- (1846 - 1889) American poet; educated in the U. S. and Paris; traveled
extensively and knew many languages.
- Robert Alden Sanborn
. {1}
- (188? - 1962) American Writer
- Carl Sandburg
. {88}
- (1878 - 1967) American Poet and Biographer, winner of the Poetry Society Prize in 1919, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1951
(There are many works by Sandburg in the collection - so they are indexed in a separate file, listed by the book in which they were published)
- Selections from Chicago Poems
- (38 works) [1916]
- Selections from Cornhuskers
- (21 works) [1918]
- Selections from Smoke and Steel
- (24 works) [1920]
- Selections from Slabs of the
Sunburnt West [1922]
- (5 works)
- George Santayana
. {10}
- (1863 - 1952) Spanish-born American Philosopher and Poet
- Edmund Beale Sargant
. {1}
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- Epes Sargent
. {5}
- (1813 - 1880) American Poet, Playwright, and Journalist
- Siegfried [Lorraine] Sassoon
. {5}
- (1886 - 1967) English Poet and Novelist
- John Godfrey Saxe
. {4}
- (1816 - 1887) American poet, lawyer, editor, and politician
- Robert Haven Schauffler
. {1}
- (1879 - 1964) American Poet, Editor, Biographer, Cellist, Athlete and Soldier
- Clinton Scollard
. {2}
- (1860 - 1932) American Author and Educator
- Frederick George Scott
. {3}
- (1861 - 1944) Canadian Clergyman
- John Scott of Amwell
. {4}
- (1730 - 1783) Scottish Poet
- Sir Walter Scott
. {8}
- (1771 - 1832) Scottish Poet, Novelist, Historian, and Biographer
- Sir Owen Seaman
. {3}
- (1861 - 1936) English Poet and Editor (Punch)
- Edmund Hamilton Sears
. {1}
- American Poet
- Sir Charles Sedley
. {5}
- (1639 - 1701) English Playwright and Profligate
- Alan Seeger
. {80}
- (1888-1916) American Poet; lived in France; Joined the French Foreign Legion before the U.S. entered WWI
- George Charles Selden
. {3}
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- Robert W.[William] Service
. {106}
- (1874 - 1958) Canadian Poet, Journalist; born in England, "The Canadian Kipling"
- William Shakespeare
. {166}
- (1564 - 1616) English Playwright, Poet
- Complete Sonnets:
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Winter, from Love's Labours Lost
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Spring from Love's Labours Lost (BTH)
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Sigh no More, from Much Ado About Nothing
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Under the Greenwood Tree, from As You Like It
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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, from As You Like It
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Carpe Diem
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Fear No More from Cymbeline (A favorite poem of Abraham Lincoln)
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Hark! Hark! the Lark, from Cymbeline
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Full Fathom Five, from The Tempest
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Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I, from The Tempest
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Our revels are now ended from The Tempest
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A Madrigal (SUB)
- John Shaw
. {2}
- (1778 - 1809) American poet and physician; died on a voyage to the Bahamas; poetry published posthumously by his friends
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
. {25}
- (1792 - 1822) English Romantic Poet
- William Shenstone
. {4}
- (1714 - 1763) English country gentleman
- Sir Edward Sherburne
. {2}
- (1618 - 1702) English poet, translator of Seneca, Royalist, and Clerk of His Majesty's Ordinance; lost his Clerk's position during the Interregnum, but regained it with the Restoration and was knighted by Charles II in 1682 for services to the Crown.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
. {1}
- (1751 - 1816) English playwright, state manager and politician
- Frank Dempster Sherman
. {1}
- (1860 - 1916) American Architect
- James Shirley
. {4}
- (1596 - 1666) English playwright, schoolmaster, and poet; wrote over 30 plays; royalist who fought against Parliamentary forces during Civil War; died as a consequence of the Great Fire of London in 1666.
- Dora Sigerson Shorter
. {3}
- (1866 - 1918) Irish Poet
- Sir Philip Sidney
. {112}
- (1554 - 1586) English Gentleman, Poet, and Soldier
- Lydia H. Sigourney
. {9}
- (1791 - 1865) American Poet and Educator
- Edward Rowland Sill
. {12}
- (1841 - 1887) American Poet
- William Gilmore Simms
. {4}
- (1806 - 1870) American novelist, editor, and poet; authored many non-fiction works on history, geography, politics, and literature
- George R. Sims ('Dragonet')
. {2}
- (1847 - 1922) English Journalist
- Dame Edith Sitwell
. {7}
- (1887 - 1964) English Poet
- Osbert Sitwell
. {1}
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- Sacheverell Sitwell
. {1}
- (1897 - 1989) English Poet; brother of Edith
- John Skelton
. {4}
- (1460 - 1529) English Poet
- John Skinner
. {1}
- (1721 - 1807) Scottish Minister, Historian, and Songwriter, friend of Robert Burns
- Bertrand A. Smalley
. {3}
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- Christopher Smart
. {14}
- [April 11, 1722--May 21, 1771] English Poet
- Menella Bute Smedley
. {1}
- (1820 - 1877) English Poet
- Alexander Smith
. {1}
- (1830 - 1867) Scots poet and essayist
- C. (Cicely) Fox Smith
. {5}
- (1882 - 1954) English Poet and Author, known for songs on nautical themes
- Charlotte Smith
. {5}
- (1749 - 1806) English Poet
- Horace Smith
. {1}
- (1779 - 1849) Friend of Shelley
- Langdon Smith
. {1}
- (1858 - 1908)
- W. Snow
. {1}
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- William Somerville
. {3}
- (1675 - 1742)
- Charles Hamilton Sorley
. {6}
- (1895 - 1915) Scottish Poet, killed in WWI
- Robert Southey
. {6}
- (1774 - 1843) English Poet; Poet Laureate from 1813-1843
- Robert Southwell
. {4}
- (1561 - 1595) English Jesuit; imprisoned and executed for treason against Elizabeth I
- Edmund Spenser
. {123}
- (1552 - 1599) English Poet, friend of Sir Philip Sidney; known for The Faerie Queen and for the Spenserian Stanza
- Harriet Prescott Spofford
. {6}
- (Apr 3, 1835 - Aug 14, 1921) American poet and fiction writer; encouraged to publish by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and introduced into literary society by him; after her marriage, her homes in Washington and Long Island became centers for literary society.
- Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (Lady John Scott)
. {1}
- (1810 - 1900) Scottish songwriter
- J.C. Squire
. {1}
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- Edmund Clarence Stedman
. {8}
- (Oct 8, 1833 - Jan 18, 1908) American poet, literary critic, and anthologist; Civil War correspondent for New York World; formed his own brokerage company and gained a seat on the New York Stock Exchange; edited the works of Poe and two major collections of American poetry; President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [1904,1907]; encouraged
many young writers including Hamlin Garland, Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Harriet Monroe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Richard Hovey, and William Vaughn
Moody.
- Gertrude Stein
. {1}
- (1874 - 1946) American literary figure
- from Tender Buttons [1914]:
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Milk (BB)
- J. K. Stephen
. {3}
- (1859-1892) English Poetic Parodist, Royal Tutor, and International Law Scholar
- James Stephens
. {9}
- (1882 - 1950) Irish Poet
- George Sterling
. {19}
. [Portrait]
. [Wikipedia]
- (1869 - 1926) American Poet, Pupil of Ambrose Bierce
- Ruth Sterry
. {1}
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- Wallace Stevens
. {5}
- (1879 - 1955) American Lawyer and Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
. {111}
- (1850 - 1894) Scottish Author, Essayist, Poet
- J.E. (James Ebenezer) Stewart
. {1}
- (1889 - 1918) Scottish poet
- Trumbull Stickney
. {12}
- (1874-1904) Swiss-born American poet and classics scholar
- Richard Henry Stoddard
. {15}
- (1853 - 1903) American Poet
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
. {1}
- (1811 - 1896) American Novelist
- Archibald T.[Thomas] Strong
. {1}
- (1876 - 1930) Australian Poet
- James Charles Stuart, King James I
. {1}
- (1566 - 1625) King of Scotland, King of Great Britain, son of Mary Queen of Scots; the King James version of the Bible was compiled under his auspices
- Muriel Stuart [Muriel Stuart Irwin]
. {67}
- (1885 - 1967) English Poet, Gardner
- Sir John Suckling
. {4}
- (1609 - 1641) English Poet
- Walter Seager Sullivan
. {1}
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- Jonathan Swift
. {6}
- (1667 - 1745) English Author, Poet, Satirist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
. {12}
- (1837 - 1909) English Poet
- Arthur Symons
. {15}
- (1865 - 1945) English Poet and Literary Critic; first to use "decadent" and
"symbolist" descriptions in literary discussion
- John Addington Symonds
. {1}
- (1840 - 1893) English Poet and Essayist
- John Bannister Tabb
. {4}
- American Poet
- Rabindranath Tagore
. {2}
- (1861 - 1941) Indian (Bengali) Poet and Novelist, Paintr and Composer; winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature; knighted; resigned his knighthood in 1919 in protest of British repression in Punjab
- Allen Tate
. {1}
- (1899-1979) American Poet and Educator
- Nahum Tate
. {1}
- (1652 - 1715) Irish Poet and Dramatist; succeeded Shadwell as England's Poet Laureate in 1692
- Bayard Taylor
. {6}
- (1825 - 1878) American Travel-writer and Diplomat
- Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.")
. {2}
- (1866 - 1921) American Poet and Humorist
- Sara Teasdale
. {210}
- (1884 - 1933) American Poet, won Poetry Society Prize 1918
- E. Wyndham Tennant
. {1}
- (1897 - 1916) English Poet
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
. {179}
- (1809 - 1892), England's Poet Laureate from 1850-1892
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Crossing the Bar [1889]
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The Eagle [1851]
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Break, Break, Break
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The War [1859]
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The Oak
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The Palace of Art
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Mariana in the South
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The Flower
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A Farewell
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Of Old Sat Freedom
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The Progress of Spring
- from Maud:
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XXII: Come Into the Garden, Maud
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Amphion
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Flower in the Crannied Wall [1869]
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The Talking Oak
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Fatima
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Move Eastward, Happy Earth
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The Death of the Old Year
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Come not, when I am dead [1842] (BB)
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Far--Far--Away [1889] (BB)
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The Merman (BB)
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The Mermaid (BB)
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The Higher Pantheism (NM)
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Sonnet, "How thought you that this thing could captivate?" (BB)
- from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical [1830]:
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The Kraken (BB)
- from Poems [1833]:
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The Lady of Shallot (Lorena McKennit has a lovely song version of this)
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The Lotos-Eaters
- from Poems [1842]:
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Locksley Hall
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Ulysses
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The Princess, A Medley (complete) [1847]
songs from The Princess:
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The Splendor Falls
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Tears, Idle Tears
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Sweet and Low
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Ask Me No More
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- In Memoriam,
the complete cycle of 133 verses [1849]
selections from In Memoriam:
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V (BTH)
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VII
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XXVII (BTH)
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CVI: Ring Out, Wild Bells (JL)
- from Maud and Other Poems [1855]:
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Charge of the Light Brigade
- from Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Etc. [1886]:
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Locksley Hall - Sixty Years After
- Frederick Tennyson
. {2}
- (1807 - 1898) English Poet; older brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- William Makepeace Thackeray
. {9}
- (1811 - 1863) English Novelist, Satirist, Lecturer, and Poet
- Ernest L. Thayer
. {1}
- (1863 - 1940) American Poet
- Rowland Thirlmere
. {1}
- (1861 - 1932) English Poet
- Edith Matilda Thomas
. {6}
- (Aug 12, 1854 - Sep 13, 1925) American poet, novelist, children's writer, and nature essayist; in 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson procured publication of her first poems; became a reader for Harper's in 1908; strongly influenced by Greek classicism and John Keats.
- [Philip] Edward Thomas
. {14}
- (1878 - 1917) English Poet and Biographer, Killed in WWI. friend of Robert Frost
- Stanley Thomas
. {1}
- (1625 - 1678) English Poet, Scholar
- Flora Thompson
. {5}
- (1876 - 1947) English village postmistress, poet, and nature writer; best known for her autobiography Lark Rise to Candleford
- Francis Thompson
. {4}
- (1859-1907) English Poet, Tramp,and Opium Addict
- James Thomson
. {2}
- (1700 - 1748) English Poet and Dramatist
- James Thomson ("B.V.")
. {9}
- (1834 - 1882) English Poet, Journalist, and Essayist; wrote under the name of "B. V." ("Bysshe Vanolis") to distinguish his work from an earlier James Thomson
- Marshall Putnam Thompson
. {3}
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- Henry David Thoreau
. {9}
- (1817 - 1862) American Philosopher, Author, Essayist, Poet
- George Walter Thornbury
. {1}
- (1892 - ?) English Poet
- Chidiock Tichborne
. {1}
- (1567 - 1586) English
- Henry Timrod
. {3}
- (1828 - 1867) American Poet
- Charles A. Tindley
. {1}
- (1851 - 1933) American Methodist Preacher and Gospel Songwriter
- Jean Toomer
. {3}
- (1894 - 1967) African-American poet and fiction writer; his most important work Cane was one of the most significant of the Harlem Renaissance
- Augustus Montague Toplady
. {1}
- (1740 - 1788)
- Charles Hanson Towne
. {1}
- (1877 - 1949) American Writer and Editor
- Mary Ashley Townsend
. {5}
- (1832 - 1901) American poet; chosen official poet of the 1884 New Orleans Exposition
- Thomas Traherne
. {3}
- (1636 - 1674) English Clergyman
- Herbert Trench
. {2}
- (1865 - 1923) Irish Poet
- Richard Chenevix Trench
. {2}
- (1807 - 1886) Archbishop of Dublin
- Robert Calverley Trevelyan
. {1}
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- John Townsend Trowbridge
. {2}
- (1827 - 1916)
- John Trumbull
. {1}
- (1750-1831) American poet
- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
. {6}
- (1821-1873) American Poet and Naturalist; close friend of Tennyson
- Elizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I
. {1}
- (1533-1603) Queen of England, daughter of Anne Boelyn and King Henry VIII; Queen during Shakespeare's time
- Henry Tudor, King Henry VIII
. {1}
- (1491-1547) King of England, famously wed six times; beheaded two of them; father of Elizabeth I
- Charles [Tennyson] Turner
. {24}
- (1808 - 1879) English Poet and Clergyman; older brother of Tennyson; changed his
name to receive an inheritance
- Thomas Tusser
. {6}
- (1524? - 1580) English poet, musician, and farmer; possessed an encyclopedic
knowledge of agriculture which was embodied in the many editions of his
Husbandry, one of the best-selling books in Elizabethan and Jacobean
England
- Royall Tyler
. {4}
- (1757 - 1825) American Revolutionary War soldier, lawyer, chief justice of Vermont,
occasional poet, and first significant American playwright
- Katharine Tynan [Hinkson]
. {5}
- (1861-1931) Irish Poet and Novelist, friend of W.B. Yeats
- Ada Tyrrell .
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