Poetry Repertoire
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME Archilochus Eclipse Sappho Translated by Mary Barnard: Don’t ask me what to wear He is more than a hero I hear that Andromeda People do gossip Translated by William Carlos Williams: He is more than a hero Peer of the Gods is that man Boethius from The Consolation of Philosophy (Book 2 no. 5) translations by: Chaucer Henry Vaughan V.E. Watts MEDIEVAL Anonymous Sumer is icumen in Japanese tanka, from Hyaku-nin-isshiu. ELIZABETHAN Anonymous The lowest trees have tops Ben Jonson The Noble Nature John Lyly Daphne (from Midas) Pan’s Syrinx Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to his Love William Shakespeare Sonnets: No. 18 – Shall I compare thee? No. 33 – Full many a glorious morning No. 34 – Why didst thou promise? No. 59 – If there be nothing new No. 116 – Let me not to the marriage Where the bee sucks 17th CENTURY Richard Lovelace The Grasshopper To Althea, from Prison To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 18th / 19th CENTURIES William Blake To see a world Thomas Edward Brown A garden is a lovesome thing Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument Sonnets from the Portuguese: No. 8 – What can I give thee back? No. 10 – Yet, love, mere love No. 43 – How do I love thee? No. 44 – Beloved, thou has brought me |
18th / 19th CENTURIES (cont.)
Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky The Walrus and the Carpenter Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Emily Dickinson There came a Day – at Summer’s Full Felicia Dorothea Hemans Casabianca James Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem John Keats Bright Star La Belle Dame Sans Merci To Autumn Edward Lear The Jumblies The Owl and the Pussycat Clement C. Moore The Night Before Christmas Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade The Lady of Shalott William Wordsworth Daffodils Ode on Intimations of Immortality (extract) Upon Westminster Bridge 19th / 20th CENTURIES W.H. Auden Night Mail Mary Barnard Static Nancy Maude Campbell The Apple-Tree Marie Nettleton Carrol Garden Magic E.E. Cummings Who knows if the moon’s a balloon? W.H. Davies Leisure Howard Dolf The Gardner’s Morning John Drinkwater Deer Holiness Moonlit Apples Sunrise on Rydal Water T.S. Eliot Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Growltiger’s Last Stand Gus, the Theatre Cat Macavity: The Mystery Cat Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer Old Deuteronomy Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat The Naming of Cats The Old Gumbie Cat The Rum Tum Tugger The Song of the Jellicles Mildred L Elliott Dew-Drops Alma B. Eymann Weeder’s Thoughts |
19th / 20th CENTURIES (cont.)
Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening The Road Not Taken The Tuft of Flowers Rumer Godden The Goat People cycle (9 poems) Sudie Stuart Hagar He Knows No Winter Thomas Hardy An August Midnight The Oxen T.E. Hulme Above the dock Autumn Christopher Isherwood The Common Cormorant Rudyard Kipling A Smuggler’s Song The Glory of the Garden The Way Through the Woods D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo Snake Walter de la Mare Silver The Listeners John Masefield Sea-Fever Edna St Vincent Millay Afternoon on a Hill Alfred Noyes The Highwayman Ezra Pound From Cathay (re-imaginings of poems by the 8th century Chinese poet Li Bai, aka Rihaku) Lament of the Frontier Guard Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The River Song Charles Spear Homecoming Portrait James Still Apple Poems I John Millington Synge Prelude Edward Thomas Adlestrop J.R.R. Tolkien The Adventures of Tom Bombadil The Man in the Moon Came Down too Soon The Mewlips William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say W.B. Yeats Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Song of Wandering Aengus |
