Era · 1780 – 1837

Romantic Poetry

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Keats: nature, imagination, feeling and the rebel individual.

37 poems
A Dream within a DreamTake this kiss upon the brow! Edgar Allan Poe Lyric A Red, Red RoseO my Luve is like a red, red rose Robert Burns Ballad A Visit from St. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas)’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Clement Clarke Moore Narrative Adonais (Selected Excerpts)I weep for Adonais—he is dead! Percy Bysshe Shelley Elegy Auld Lang SyneShould auld acquaintance be forgot, Robert Burns Song Bright StarBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— John Keats Sonnet Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto III — Selected Excerpts) Lord Byron Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth Lyric Darkness Lord Byron Don Juan (Canto I — Selected Excerpts) Lord Byron EndymionA thing of beauty is a joy for ever: John Keats Narrative Fare Thee Well Lord Byron La Belle Dame sans MerciO what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, John Keats Ballad Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth London, 1802 William Wordsworth Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley Lyric Manfred (Selected Excerpts) Lord Byron Mont Blanc (Selected Excerpts) Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode on a Grecian UrnThou still unravish’d bride of quietness, John Keats Ode Ode to the West Wind (Selected Excerpts) Percy Bysshe Shelley On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerMuch have I travell'd in the realms of gold, John Keats Sonnet OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land, Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet PrometheusTitan! to whose immortal eyes Lord Byron Ode She Walks in BeautyShe walks in beauty, like the night Lord Byron Lyric So, We’ll Go No More a Roving Lord Byron Lyric Stanzas to Augusta (Selected Excerpts) Lord Byron The Ballad of the OystermanIt was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, Alfred Noyes Ballad The Eve of St. Agnes (Selected Excerpts) John Keats The LambLittle Lamb who made thee William Blake Lyric The Prisoner of Chillon (Selected Excerpts) Lord Byron The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth Lyric The TygerTyger Tyger, burning bright, William Blake Lyric The World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth Sonnet To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode To AutumnSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness, John Keats Ode When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeWhen I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats Sonnet When We Two PartedWhen we two parted Lord Byron Lyric