Poems to read before you die...
The Aeneid (19BC) (Paperback 2001) - Virgil ??/10
The Odyssey (8BC) (Paperback 2001) - Homer ??/10
Satyricon (1st Century) - Gaius Petronius ??/10
The Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatory, Paradiso (Temple Classic Hardback of Paradiso 1901) (13th Century) - Dante Alighieri ??/10
Venus and Adonis (1593) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare ??/10
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare ??/10
The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare ??/10
A Lover's Complaint (1609) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare ??/10
Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare ??/10
Song of the Witches (1609) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 08/10
Witches Gather (1609) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Ben Johnson 06/10
Death be not Proud (1609) - John Donne 07/10
Paradise Lost (1667) - John Milton ??/10
To His Coy Mistress (1650) - Andrew Marvell 07/10
The Gay Lady that went to Church (1783) - R Christopher 04/10
Auld Lang Syne (1788) - Robert Burns 02/10
The Tyger (1794) - William Blake 07/10
Jerusalem (1804) - William Blake 04/10
Milton (1810) - William Blake ??/10
Daffodils (1802) (Hardback 1996 Purchased at Dove Cottage 2011) - William Wordsworth 05/10
The Time I've Lost in Wooing (1805) - Thomas Moore 07/10
The Last Rose of Summer (1805) - Thomas Moore 06/10
She Walks in Beauty (1814) - Lord Byron 07/10
So, We'll No More Go A Roving (1817) - Lord Byron 05/10
Don Juan (1824) - Lord Byron ??/10
Ozymandias (1818) - Percy Shelley 09/10
Ode to a Nightingale (1819) - John Keats 06/10
Ode to Autumn (1820) - John Keats 06/10
A Visit from Saint Nicholas (1823) (Illustrated Hardback 2007) - Clement C Moore 10/10
Porphyria’s Lover (1842) - Robert Browning 09/10
The Raven (1845) - Edgar Allan Poe 08/10
The Arrow and the Song (1845) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 06/10
Solomon Grundy (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Sing a Song of Sixpence (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell ??/10
Little Boy Blue (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Jack and Jill went up the hill (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
The House That Jack Built (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Cock a Doodle Doo (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Humpty Dumpty (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
Polly put the kettle on (1849) (Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England Hardback 1970) - James Orchard Halliwell 02/10
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849) - Alfred Tennyson ??/10
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) - Alfred Tennyson 07/10
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning ??/10
Goblin Market (1859) - Christina Rossetti 07/10
Remember (1862) - Christina Rossetti 08/10
Paul Revere's Ride (1860) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 06/10
O Captain! My Captain! (1865) - Walt Whitman 08/10
Jaberwocky (1871) (Paperback 2001) - Lewis Carroll 10/10
The Walrus and the Carpenter (1871) (Paperback 2001) - Lewis Carroll 07/10
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) - Edward Lear 07/10
Invictus(1875) - William Henley 08/10
Windy Nights (1885) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Robert Louis Stevenson 04/10
If- (1895) - Rudyard Kipling 10/10
The Way Through The Woods (1895) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Rudyard Kipling 05/10
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907) (Hardback 1907) - Hilaire Belloc ??/10
The Soldier (1914) - Rupert Brooke 04/10
The Road Not Taken (1915) - Robert Frost 08/10
In Flanders Fields (1915) (Poems of the Great War 1914-1918 Paperback 1998 Purchased at Flanders Field Museum in Ypres, Belgium 2025) - Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae 07/10
Dulce et Decorum Est (1917) - Wilfred Owen 09/10
Snake (1920) (Collected Poems of D H Lawrence Paperback 2002) - D. H. Lawrence 09/10
Green Candles (1925) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Humbert Wolfe 06/10
Sailing to Byzantium (1928) - William Butler Yeats 06/10
Funeral Blues (1938) - W. H. Auden 09/10
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (1915) (Collected Poems 1909-1962 Paperback 2002) - T. S. Elliot 07/10
Macavity the Mystery Cat (1939) - T. S. Elliot 08/10
Hist Whist (1947) (Hardback) - E E Cummings 03/10
Warning (1961) - Jenny Joseph 08/10
Daddy (1965) - Sylvia Plath 04/10
Ariel (1965) - Sylvia Plath 06/10
Lady Lazarous (1965) - Sylvia Plath 07/10
Poppies in October (1965) - Sylvia Plath ??/10
Innocent's Song (1961) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Charles Causley 07/10
Not Waving But Drowning (1972) - Stevie Smith 08/10
Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth (1976) (CD 2005) - Pam Ayres 08/10
Revolting Rhymes(1982) - Roald Dahl 08/10
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (1997) (Paperback 2005) - Tim Burton 07/10
What? (1983) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Brian Lee 06/10
The Queer Moment (1983) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Brian Lee 06/10
A Long Time Ago (1983) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Michael Rosen 04/10
Mixed Brews (1983) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Clive Sansom 04/10
Queen Nefertiti (Early) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Anon 05/10
Woman in a Churchyard Sat (1959) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Robert Godfrey developed from the Gay Lady that went to Church 04/10
A Ghastly Cough (19th-century comic epitaph pun) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Anon 03/10
The Hairy Toe (Adapted from American Folktale Date Unknown) (Spine Tinglers Ladybird Hardback 1983) - Unknown 07/10
In A Dark Dark Room (1984) (Hardback 2009) - retold by Alvin Schwartz 05/10