These are the titles I have gathered together so far, and some of what I am still seeking. I would greatly appreciate suggestions for additional poets or additional items by listed poets, given that I am currently working only on poets who died in or before 1950, as their works are in the public domain. Copyright works will come in stage 2 of the development -- they will involve negotiations on royalties and the rights of users to reproduce what is there.

The problem is that traditional publishers think it is easy to copy stuff in machine-readable form, and so they are wary of any appearance of their precious properties on the Internet. This means very slow negotiations.

Verse by Lascelles Abercrombie
Hymn to Love

Verse by Mark Akenside
The Nightingale

Verse by Louisa May Alcott
The Lay of the Golden Goose

Verse by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memory
Heredity

Verse by Cecil Frances Alexander
All things bright and beauteous

Verse by William Allingham
The Fairies

Verse by Sir Edwin Arnold
Sonnet to America

Verse by Matthew Arnold
The Scholar-Gipsy
The Forsaken Merman
Thyrsis
Dover Beach

Verse by Alfred Austin
Love's Trinity

Verse by Sir Robert Ayton
To His Forsaken Mistress
To an Inconstant One

Verse by John Barbour
Freedom

Verse by Richard Harris Barham
The Jackdaw of Rheims
Wanted: Misadventures at Margate

Verse by Sir John Beaumont
Of his Dear Son, Gervase

Verse by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dream-Pedlary

Verse by Ethelinda Beers
All Quiet Along the Potomac

Verse by Stephen Vincent Benét
American Names

Verse by Arthur Christopher Benson
Land of Hope and Glory

Verse by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Clerihews

Verse by Laurence Binyon
For the Fallen
Commercial

Verse by William Blake
Jerusalem
Auguries of Innocence
Hear the Voice
The Tiger
The Lamb
The Chimney-Sweeper
London

Verse by Wilfrid Blunt
St. Valentine's Day
The Two Highwaymen

Verse by Harold Boulton
Skye Boat Song
Wanted: Devon

Verse by Anne Bradstreet
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659
To Her Father with Some Verses
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
A Letter to Her Husband
To My Dear and Loving Husband

Verse by William Lisle Bowles
On a Distant View of England

Verse by Christopher Brennan
The Wanderer

Verse by Robert Bridges
My Delight and Thy Delight
Nightingales
Winter Nightfall

Verse by Emily Bronte
My Lady's Grave
Remembrance
The Prisoner
Last Lines

Verse by Rupert Brooke
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
The Soldier

Verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet XLIII, From the Portuguese
A Musical Instrument

Verse by Robert Browning
The Lost Leader
Pippa's Song
Home-thoughts, from Abroad
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix
Incident of the French camp
The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Verse by William Cullen Bryant
The Crowded Street
Thanatopsis

Verse by Gelett Burgess
The Purple Cow

Verse by Dean Burgon
Petra

Verse by Robert Burns
Jean
Auld Lang Syne
Address to a Haggis
To a Mouse
For A' That
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
John Anderson, my Jo
The Banks o' Doon
A Red, Red Rose

Verse by Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
When we two parted
The Isles of Greece
When Newton saw an apple fall

Verse by Charles S. Calverley
Beer
Forever
Wanted: Ballad
any other suggestions?

Verse by Thomas Campbell
Lord Ullin's Daughter
The Battle of the Baltic
Ye Mariners of England
Wanted: Beech-trees petition
Lochiel's Warning

Verse by Thomas Campion
Cherry-Ripe (Thomas Campion)
Winter Nights

Verse by Thomas Carew
Song
Persuasions to Joy: a Song
To His Inconstant Mistress
The Unfading Beauty
Ingrateful Beauty threatened
Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers

Verse by Henry Carey
Sally in our Alley
Wanted: God Save the King

Verse by Lewis Carroll
The Gardener's Song
Jabberwocky
Father William
The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Knight's Ballad
How doth the little crocodile
Speak roughly to your little boy
The Lobster Quadrille
Tis the Voice of the Lobster
Mock Turtle's Song
The White Rabbit's Verses

Verse by Charles Edward Carryl
A Nautical Ballad
Robinson Crusoe

William Cary's Eton Boating Song

Verse by George Chapman
A Coronet For His Mistress, Philosophy

Verse by Thomas Chatterton
Song from Aella

Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Love Unfeigned
Balade

Verse by G. K. Chesterton
The Rolling English Road
The Song against Grocers
A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
The Englishman
Wine and Water
A Cider Song
The Donkey
Wanted: Ballad of the White Horse
The English Graves

Verse by Colley Cibber
The Blind Boy

Verse by John Clare
I Am
Wanted: Badgers

Verse by John Cleveland
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford
Mark Antony
Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising

Verse by Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not The Struggle Nought Availeth
There is no god, the wicked sayeth
The Last Decalogue
In a Lecture Room
Wanted: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich

Verse by Robert Barry Coffin
Ships at Sea

Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frost at Midnight
Kubla Khan
To a Young Ass, its mother being tethered near it

Verse by William Collins
Ode to Simplicity
How sleep the Brave
Ode to Evening
Fidele

Verse by William Congreve
False though She Be

Verse by Eliza Cook
Where There's a Will There's a Way

Verse by Rose Cooke
The Two Villages

Verse by Charles Cotton
To Coelia
Evening

Verse by Abraham Cowley
Anacreontics: 1. Drinking
Anacreontics: 2. The Epicure
Anacreontics: 3. The Swallow
The Wish

Verse by William Cowper
To Mary Unwin
God Moves in a Mysterious Way
I am the monarch of all I survey

Verse by George Crabbe
Meeting (George Crabbe)
Late Wisdom
A Marriage Ring

Verse by Christopher Pearse Cranch
The Locomotive

Verse by Hart Crane
The Great Western Plains

Verse by Stephen Crane
Voices
Little Birds of the Night

Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
November Night
Moon Shadows
The Guarded Wound
Amaze
The Warning

Verse by Richard Crashaw
Wishes to His Supposed Mistress
The Weeper
Verses from the Shepherds' Hymn

Verse by Allan Cunningham
The Spring of the Year
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Wanted: It's hame, and it's hame
(This is not the botanist, but the brother of an early Hunter Valley settler.)

Verse by Sir William Davenant
Aubade
To a Mistress Dying

Verse by Sir John Davies
Man (Sir John Davies)

Verse by W. H. Davies
A Greeting
Leisure
The Heap of Rags
Money
The Rain
Wanted: Sweet stay-at-home

Verse by Daniel Defoe
From 'The True Born Englishman'

Verse by C. J. Dennis
A Song Of Rain
The Triantiwontigongolope
Australaise

Charles Dibdin's Jack in his Element, Tom Bowling.

Verse by Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
The Duel
Success
Deed
A Book
Hope

Verse by John Donne
The Bait
Love's Alchemy
The Ecstasy
The Dream (John Donne)
The Funeral
A Hymn to God the Father
Death (John Donne)
Daybreak
Song (John Donne)

Verse by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guards Came Through

Verse by Michael Drayton
Agincourt (Drayton poem)
The Parting

Verse by John Drinkwater
A Town Window
The Carver in Stone

Verse by William Drummond of Hawthornden
Inexorable

Verse by William Dunbar
To a Lady

Verse byJohn Dryden
Hidden Flame

Verse by Edward Dyson and others
The Fact of the Matter
The Overflow of Clancy
Banjo, of the Overflow
(These are part of the 'Bush Controversy' that Lawson and Patterson started.)

Verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
Give All to Love

Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
From Omar Khayyám

Verse by James Elroy Flecker
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
The Dying Patriot
Rioupéroux
Wanted: Hassan
A Ship, an isle and a sickle moon
The Old Ships

Verse by John Gould Fletcher
Irradiations

Verse by Mary Hannay Foott
Where the Pelican Builds

Verse by Stephen Foster
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Verse by Philip Freneau
To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut in America
On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin

David Garrick's Impromptu Epitaph on Oliver Goldsmith, Heart of Oak

Verse by John Gay
Song

Verse by W. S. Gilbert
Ballad: Captain Reece
Ballad: Babette's Love
Ballad: The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell"

A. D. Godby's Motorbus

Verse by Oliver Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
Memory (Oliver Goldsmith)
The Deserted Village
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Verse by W. T. Goodge
The Great Australian Adjective
The Guile Of Dad M'Ginnis
Daley's Dorg Wattle

Verse by Adam Lindsay Gordon
The Sick Stock-rider
Wanted: Ye Wearie Wayfarer

Harry Graham's Ruthless Rhymes: any I can track

Verse by Thomas Gray
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Verse by J. B. S. Haldane
Rectal Carcinoma

Verse by Thomas Hardy
When I set out for Lyonesse
The Roman Road
The Pity of It
Channel Firing
Midnight on the Great Western
A Thunderstorm in Town

Verse by Bret Harte
What the Bullet Sang
Dow's Flat
The Society upon the Stanislaus

Verse by P. J. Hartigan
Said Hanrahan

Verse by Stephen Hawes
The True Knight

Verse by Robert Stephen Hawker
Song of the Western Men

Verse by J Milton Hayes
The Green Eye of the Yellow God

Verse by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Casabianca
The Homes of England

Verse by Robert Herrick
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Discontents in Devon
To Daffodils
Cherry-Ripe (Herrick)
Delight in Disorder
To daffadills

Verse by Thomas Heywood
Matin Song
The Message

Verse by James Hogg
A Boy's Song

Verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Crooked Footpath
To an Insect
The Chambered Nautilus
The Deacon's Masterpiece

Verse by Thomas Hood
Time of Roses
The Song of the Shirt
Song: the stars are with the voyager
Our village: by a villager
I remember, I remember

Verse by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Spring
Spring and Fall

Verse by A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXI
A Shropshire Lad LXII

Verse by Julia Ward Howe
The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Verse by Mary Howitt
The Spider and the Fly
The Fossil Elephant
Wanted: Buttercups and Daisies

Verse by Leigh Hunt
Jenny kiss'd Me
Abou Ben Adhem
Fairies' Song

Verse by Samuel Johnson
On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic
One-and-Twenty
Excerpt from 'London'

Verse by Ben Jonson
On my first son
To Celia

Verse by James Joyce
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
Wanted: Pomes Pennyeach

Verse by John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
La Belle Dame sans Merci
On first looking into Chapman's Homer

Verse by Henry Kendall
Bell-Birds
September in Australia
The Warrigal
On the Paroo
The Wild Kangaroo
The Barcoo
Bill the bullock driver
Billy Vickers
Jim the Splitter
Leichhardt
The Australian Emigrant
Camped by the Creek
How the Melbourne Cup Was Won
On a Street
Sydney Harbour

Verse by Francis Scott Key
The Star-Spangled Banner

Verse by Joyce Kilmer
Ballade of my Lady's Beauty
Poets (Joyce Kilmer)
Trees

Verse by Charles Kingsley
Young and Old
The Sands of Dee
Wanted: Airly Beacon
Songs from The Water Babies

Verse by Rudyard Kipling
If
The Last of the Light Brigade
Recessional
Danny Deever
Tommy
Gunga Din
Mandalay
The Ballad of East and West
The Coastwise Lights
The Merchantmen
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre

Verse by Walter Savage Landor
Twenty Years hence
I Entreat You, Alfred Tennyson
Rose Aylmer
Dying speech of an old philosopher
On Thomas Hood: confession of jealousy

Verse by Andrew Lang
Ballade of the Girton Girl
Ballade of Cricket--To T. W. Lang
Ballade of the Book-Man's Paradise
Ballade of Neglected Merit
Ballade of Railway Novels
Man and the Ascidian - A Morality
Advance, Australia

Verse by D. H. Lawrence
Snake
When I read Shakespeare
Bavarian Gentians
Piano
Gloire de Dijon
Wanted: How Beastly the Bourgeois Is

Verse by Henry Lawson
Freedom on the Wallaby
Waratah and Wattle
Faces in the Street
Up the Country
The City Bushman
The Poets of the Tomb
The Roaring Days
The Teams
The Flour Bin
The Old Bark School
The Blue Mountains
Andy's Gone With Cattle
The Fight at Eureka Stockade
The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase
Saint Peter
Out Back
Reedy River
The Never-Never Land
The Shearers
The Wattle
Waratah and Wattle
Wide Spaces
The Free-Selector's Daughter
Jack Dunn of Nevertire
Past Carin'
The Glass on the Bar
Middleton's Rouseabout
The Ballad of the Drover
Ben Duggan
Eurunderee
The Fire at Ross's Farm
Cameron's Heart
Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers
The Lights of Cobb and Co
When Your Pants Begin To Go

Verse by Stephen Leacock
Oh! Mr. Malthus!

Verse by Edward Lear
The Akond of Swat
The Pobble Who Has No Toes
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

Verse by Charles G. Leland
Hans Breitmann's Barty.
Schnitzerl's Philosopede.

Verse by Thomas Lodge
Rosalind's Madrigal
The Earth, Late Chok'd with Showers

Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day
Paul Revere's Ride
Haroun Al Raschid
Robert Burns
Excelsior
The Arrow and the Song
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Hiawatha's Departure
The Village Blacksmith
My Lost Youth
A Psalm Of Life
Wanted: There was a little girl

Verse by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, going to the Wars
To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas
Gratiana Dancing
To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair
The Grasshopper

Verse by Amy Lowell
To an Early Daffodil
A Winter Ride
To John Keats
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
The Coal Picker
Obligation
The Taxi
The Giver of Stars

Verse by James Russell Lowell
What Mr. Robinson Thinks
Telepathy

Verse by John Lyly
Spring's Welcome

Verse by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
A Lay Made About the Year Of The City CCCLX
A Radical War Song

Verse by Dorothea Mackellar
My Country

Verse by Christopher Marlowe
The face that launch'd a thousand ships
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Verse by Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
An Epitaph
Selections from the 'Spoon River Anthology'
The Hill
Chase Henry
Harry Carey Goodhue
Judge Somers
Lucinda Matlock
Benjamin Painter
Mrs Benjamin Painter

Verse by John McCrae
In Flanders Fields

Verse by William McGonagall
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
The Tay Bridge Disaster
An Address to the New Tay Bridge
Saving a Train
The Newport Railway
An Ode To The Queen On Her Jubilee Year

Verse by George Meredith
Youth In Age
The Lark Ascending
Love in the Valley
Phoebus with Admetus
Tardy Spring
Love's Grave
Lucifer in Starlight

Verse by Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
Figs
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs
Travel (Millay)
Wild Swans (Millay)

Verse by John Milton
On Time
On His Blindness

Verse by Clement Clarke Moore
A Visit from St. Nicholas

Verse by Thomas Moore
The Young May Moon
The Irish Peasant to His Mistress
The Light of Other Days
At the Mid Hour of Night
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
'Tis The Last Rose of Summer
The Minstrel Boy
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

Verse by Breaker Morant
Since the Country Carried Sheep
Beyond His Jurisdiction

Verse by William Morris
The Earthly Paradise: Apology
The March of the Workers

Verse by John Neilson
Another Fall of Rain

Verse by John Shaw Neilson
Old Granny Sullivan
The Sundowner
The Orange Tree

Verse by Henry Newbolt
Vitaï Lampada
Drake's Drum
Wanted: Admirals All
The Fighting Téméraire

Verse by Will Ogilvie
From The Gulf
The Stockyard Liar

Verse by Wilfred Owen
Arms and the Boy
Dulce et Decorum est
Spring Offensive
Greater Love

Verse by Banjo Patterson
Clancy of the Overflow
The Man from Snowy River
Been There Before
In Defence of the Bush
An Answer to Various Bards
The Geebung Polo Club

Verse by John Howard Payne
Home, Sweet Home

Verse by Thomas Love Peacock
Love and Age
The Grave of Love
Three Men of Gotham

Verse by Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells
To Helen
Annabel Lee
The Raven

Verse by Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
The Dying Christian to his Soul

Verse by Matthew Prior
For my own Monument
A True Mind

Verse by Adelaide Anne Procter
A Lost Chord

Verse by Sir Walter Raleigh
His Pilgrimage

Verse by Sir Walter Scott
Lochinvar
Proud Maisie
Brignall Banks
Lucy Ashton's Song
Answer
The Rover's Adieu
Patriotism: 1. Innominatus

Verse by William Shakespeare
Silvia
Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind
It was a Lover and his Lass
Sonnet XVIII
Sonnet XXIX
Sonnet LXXXVII
Sonnet CXVI
Sonnet CXXX

Verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
To a Skylark
Lines
Ozymandias

Verse by Sir Philip Sidney
Sleep

Verse by Horace Smith
On a Stupendous Leg of Granite

Verse by Robert Southey
The Battle of Blenheim
His Books
The Old Man's Comforts and how He Gained Them

Verse by Robert Southwell
Times go by Turns
The Burning Babe

Verse by Thomas E. Spencer
How McDougal Topped The Score

Verse by Edmund Spenser
Whilst it is prime

Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem

Verse by William Stevenson
Jolly Good Ale and Old

Verse by Jonathan Swift
From Stella's Birthday, 1726-1727

Verse by Algernon Swinburne
Itylus
Chorus from 'Atalanta'

Verse by Nahum Tate
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Lady of Shalott
Blow, Bugle, blow
The Eagle
Maud

Verse by William Makepeace Thackeray
Little Billee

Verse by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey At The Bat

Verse by Henry David Thoreau
What's the Railroad to Me?
Winter Memories
Mist (Thoreau poem)
Smoke (Thoreau poem)

Verse by Paul Valéry
Le cimetière marin
The Graveyard By The Sea

Verse by William Ross Wallace
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Verse by Edmund Waller
Old Age

Verse by Thomas Warton
Ode to Sleep

Verse by Isaac Watts
Against Idleness and Mischief
Against Quarreling and Fighting
The Sluggard
Man Frail and God Eternal

Verse by William Whitehead
The Je Ne Scai Quoi

Verse by Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!

Verse by John Greenleaf Whittier
Vesta

Verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude

Verse by Oscar Wilde
Sonnet (Oscar Wilde)
The Grave of Shelley

Verse by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Return (John Wilmot)
Epitaph on Charles II

Verse by Charles Wolfe
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna

Verse by William Wordsworth
Upon Westminster Bridge
Evening on Calais Beach
England, 1802
Daffodils
The Rainbow

Verse by W. B. Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
Faery Song

Amended June 11, 2000