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Poems to read before you die...

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The Aeneid (19BC) (Paperback 2001) - Virgil ??/10

The Odyssey (8BC) (Paperback 2001) - Homer ??/10

The Iliad (8BC) - 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