William Allingham -- Cuckoo song -- In praise of Mary -- The Irish dancer -- The maid of the Moor -- The virgin's song -- Quia amore langueo -- I sing of a maiden -- Adam lay y-bounden -- I have a gentle cock -- Jankin -- Corpus Christi carol -- The jolly shepherd -- The bridal morn -- Western wind -- Hierusalem, my happy home -- The herdmen -- Philon the shepherd -- A pedlar -- Tears -- My lady's tears -- Sister, awake! -- No other choice -- Passing by -- The awakening -- A madrigal -- Aubade -- Preparations -- Thomas the rhymer -- Tam Lin -- Sir Patrick Spence -- Edward, Edward -- The wife of Usher's well -- A lyke-wake dirge -- Loving mad Tom -- The vicar of Bray -- Matthew Arnold -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- William Barnes -- Richard Barnfield -- Francis Beaumont -- Sir John Beaumont -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Aphra Behn -- Hilaire Belloc -- Sir John Betjeman -- Laurence Binyon -- William Blake -- Edmund Blunden -- Mark Alexander Boyd -- Nicholas Breton -- Robert Bridges -- Emily Bronte -- Lord Brooke, see Fulke Greville -- Rupert Brooke -- William Browne of Tavistock -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Robert Browning -- John Bunyan -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- Lord (George Gordon Noel) Byron -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Carew -- Henry Carey -- Lewis Carroll see Charles Dodgson Lutwidge -- George Chapman -- Thomas Chatterton -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Henry Chettle -- John Clare -- John Cleveland -- Arthur Hugh Clough -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Collins -- William Congreve -- Richard Corbet -- William Cornish -- William Cory -- Abraham Cowley -- William Cowper -- George Crabbe -- Richard Crashaw -- Samuel Daniel -- George Darley -- Sir William Davenant -- John Davidson -- Sir John Davies -- William Henry Davies -- Cecil Day-Lewis -- Walter de la Mare -- Richard Watson Dixon -- Charles Lutwidge (Loewis Carroll) Dodgson -- John Donne -- Earl Dorset see Charles Sackville and Thomas Sackville -- Keith Douglas -- Ernest Dowson.

Michael Drayton -- William Drummond of Hawthornden -- John Dryden -- William Dunbar -- Sir Edward Dyer -- Thomas Steans Eliot -- William Empson -- Sir Richard Fanshawe -- Edward FitzGerald -- James Elroy Flecker -- Giles Fletcher -- John Fletcher -- Phineas Fletcher -- John Ford -- Roy Suller -- George Gascoigne -- John Gay -- Sidney Godolphin -- Oliver Goldsmith -- James (Marquis of Montrose) Graham -- Robert Graves -- Thomas Gray -- Robert Greene -- Fulke (Lord Brooke) Greville -- William Habington -- Thomas Hardy -- William Ernest Henley -- George Herbert -- Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Robert Herrick -- Ralph Hodgson -- Thomas Hood -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Alfred Edward Housman -- Henry (Earl of Surrey) Howard -- Jmes Leigh Hunt -- Lionel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Ben Jonson -- Thomas Jordan -- James Joyce -- John Keats -- Henry King -- Rudyard Kipling -- Sir Francis Kynaston -- Charles Lamb -- Walter Savage Landor -- William Langland -- David Herbert Lawrence -- Edward Lear -- Thomas Lodge -- Richard Lovelace -- John Lyly -- Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay) Macaulay -- Louis MacNeice -- Christopher Marlowe -- Andrew Marvell -- John Masefield -- George Meredith -- Alice Meynell -- John Milton -- Marquis of Montrose see James Graham -- Thomas Moore -- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt -- William Morris -- Edwin Muir -- Anthony Munday -- Thomas Nashe -- Charles of Orleans -- Wilfred Owen -- Coventry Patmore -- Thomas Love Peacock -- George Peele -- Alexander Pope -- Ezra Pound -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Francis Quarles -- Kathleen Raine -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Thomas Randolph -- Henry Reed -- Anne Ridler -- Earl of Rochester see John Wilmot -- Samuel Rogers -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Charles Sackville -- Thomas Sackville -- Siegfried Sassoon -- John Scott of Amwell -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Charles Sedley -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- William Shenstone -- James Shirley -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Edith Sitwell.

John Skelton -- Christopher Smart -- Stevie Smith -- Robert Southwell -- Stephen Spender -- Edmund Spenser -- Thomas Stanley -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- William Strode -- Sir John Suckling -- Earl of Surrey see Henry Howard -- Jonathan Swift -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Lord (Alfred) Tennyson -- Chidiock Tichborne -- Dylan Thomas -- Edward Thomas -- Francis Thompson -- James Thompson -- James Thomson -- James Thomson -- Aurelian Townshend -- Thomas Traherne -- Walter James Turner -- Henry Vaughan -- Edmund Waller -- Isaac Watts -- John Webster -- Charles Wesley -- Robert Wever -- Oscar Wilde -- John (Earl of Rochester) Wilmot -- George Wither -- Charles Wolfe -- William Wordsworth -- Sir Henry Wotton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats.

"Begins in 1250 and represents the full range of English non-dramatic verse over the next seven centuries"