All poems are linked to audio recordings on Librivox or Norton. Page & poem numbers reference "The Oxford Book of English Verse" edited by Christopher Ricks, Oxford University Press, 1999. This is not the same online "Oxford English Book of Verse" edited by Quiller-Couch, recommended by AO; but there is some overlap.
Week 2
Chaucer (1343?-1400)
Prelude to the Canterbury Tales/General Prologue (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 6, #7)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 7, #8)
Sir ThomasWyatt (1503-1542)
Whoso List to Hunt... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 28, #27)
They Flee From Me... and here (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 29, #30)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547)
The Soote Season... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 33, #37)
Week 3
Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)
The Faerie Queene (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 38, #44)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
Sonnet XCIX (from Caelica) (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 47, #49)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
My True Love (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 49, #51)
from Astrophil & Stella (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 51, #54-57)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?-1618)
The Lie (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 55, #60)
Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-1586)
My Prime of Youth... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 58, #65)
Samuel Daniel (1563-1619)
Care-Charmer Sleep... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 70, #80)
Ulisses and the Syren (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 71, #81)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 73, #83)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet 73 (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 83, #94)
Sonnet 116 (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 84, #97)
Sonnet 130 Oxford Book of English Verse, p 85, #99)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Now Winter Nights Enlarge... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 102, #128)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Song (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 111, #141)
AValediction: Forbidding Mourning (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 113, #143)
Death Be Not Proud... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 117, #147)
Ben Jonson (1572?-1637)
Song - To Celia (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 121, #154)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Redemption (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 149, #185)
Love (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 154, #193)
James Shirley (1596-1666)
The Glories of Our Blood and State... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 155, #196)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Go Lovely Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 158, #200)
Of the Last Verses in the Book (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 159, #201)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1641)
Why So Pale and Wan... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 174, #217)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 177, #222)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657/8)
To Althea, From Prison (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 183, #230)
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
The World (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 195, #242)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
To Be a Pilgrim (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 200, #246)
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)
The Apostasy (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 213, #260)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
A Song of a Young Lady (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 224, #271)
William Congreve (1670-1729)
False Though She Be ... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 246, #300)
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
The Day of Judgment (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 247, #303)
Crucifixion to the World (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 248, #304)
Man Frail and God Eternal (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 249, #305)
William Oldys (1696-1761)
The Fly (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 268, #332)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 269, #333-338)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat... (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 277, #342)
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Jubilate Agno (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 286, #348)
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Light Shining Out of Darkness (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 301, #361)
William Blake (1757-1827)
A Poison Tree / The Tyger (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 323-324, #402/398)
The Garden of Love (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 323, #399)
London (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 324, #400)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Address To The Unco Guid (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 330, #413)
To A Mouse (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 332, #414)
My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 336, #419)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Old Man Travelling / Animal Tranquility & Decay (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 342, #426/427)
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 349, #431)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 349, #432)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (complete) (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 357, #438)
Kubla Khan (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 373, #439)
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
The Old Familiar Faces (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 376, #447)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 380, #452)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 389, #460)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Ode to a Nightingale (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 403, #478)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
The Best Thing in the World (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 420, #497)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Charge of the Light Brigade (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 429, #509)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 435, #513)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Dong With the Luminous Nose (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 441, #521)
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Remembrance (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 441, #521)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
The Latest Decalogue (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 448, #532)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Goblin Market (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 460, #551)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 476, #560)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Darkling Thrush (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 494, #571)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Requiem (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 512, #592)
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
When You Are Old (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 525, #614)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Thaw (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 542, #644)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Snake (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 546, #653)
The Ship of Death (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 549, #657)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 558, #669)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 572, #688)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 578, #698)
Dulce et Decorum Est (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 578, #699)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 608, #746)
The Shield of Achilles (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 609, #749)
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Pike (Oxford Book of English Verse, p 650, #809)
