AP Poetry Section
Renaissance
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil and Stellawith translations
Sonnet 1: (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)
Sonnet 7: (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”)
Sonnet 15: (“You that do search for every purling spring”)
“The Nightingale”
Edmund Spenser
Amoretti
Sonnet 1: (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)
Sonnet 3: (“The sovereign beauty which I do admire”)
Sonnet 30: (“My love is like to ice, and I to fire”)
Sonnet 75:(“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
William Shakespeare
Sonnets (explanation)
XV (15) – “When I consider every thing that grows”
XVII (18) – “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
XXIX (29) – “When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes”
CXXVI (126) – “O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”
CXXX (130) – “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
CXXXVIII (138) – “When my love swears that she is made of truth”
CXLVII (147) – “My love is as a fever, longing still”
Early 17th Century
John Donne
“The Flea”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“Love’s Alchemy”
“The Ecstacy”
“The Relic”
“Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed”
Holy Sonnets
I – “Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”
V – I am little world made cunningly”
X – “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”
XIV – “Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you”
Robert Herrick
“Upon the Loss of his Mistresses”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
“Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast”
“The Night Piece, to Julia”
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”
“The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn”
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Sonnet 19 – “When I consider how my light is spent”
Sonnet 23 – “Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Lady Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Sonnet 1 – “When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”
Sonnet 16 – “Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers”
Sonnet 68 – “My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast”
Sonnet 74 – “Love a child is ever crying”
Thomas Gray
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Restoration / “Long” 18th Century
AphraBehn
“Love Armed”
“Song”
“The Willing Mistriss”
“The Disappointment”
John Wilmot (Rochester)
“To His Mistress”
“The Disabled Debauchee”
“The Imperfect Enjoyment”
“A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”
Alexander Pope
“An Essay on Man”
“Rape of the Lock”
Romantic Era
Charlotte Turner Smith
Elegiac Sonnets
Sonnet I (1) – “THE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours”
Sonnet III (3) – “To a Nightingale”
Sonnet VI (6) – “To Hope”
Sonnet VII (7) – “On the Departure of the Nightingale”
Sonnet XXXII (32) – “To Melancholy”
Sonnet XXXVI (36) – “”Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way”
Sonnet LV (55) – “Return of the Nightingale”
Sonnet LXX (70) – “On being cautioned against walking over a headland…”
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
“A Mouse’s Petition”
Analysis (and this one)
NPR Article
“A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
“Washing-Day”
“To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778”
“Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade”
“The Rights of Woman”
Robert Burns
“A Red, Red Rose”
“To a Mouse”
“To a Louse”
“Auld Lang Syne”
“Scots,WhaHae”
“The Twa Dogs”
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience
“The Shepherd”
“The Lamb”
“The Chimney-Sweeper” (SoI)
“A Cradle Song” (SoI)
“Night”
“Infant Joy”
“The Chimney-Sweeper” (SoE)
“The Angel”
“The Tyger”
“Infant Sorrow”
“A Poison Tree”
“A Cradle Song” (SoE)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Wordsworth
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
“London, 1802”
“She Was a Phantom of Delight”
“The World Is Too Much With Us”
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“Kubla Khan”
“Youth and Age”
Lord Byron
“She Walks in Beauty”
“Prometheus”
“Epitaph for a Dog”
“Darkness”
Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”
“Ozymandias”
“Ode to the West Wind”
“To Night”
“To a Skylark”
“To Wordsworth”
“Prometheus Unbound”
John Keats
“To Autumn”
Analysis of “Autumn”
“When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Analysis of “Grecian Urn”
“Ode on Melancholy”
“Ode to Psyche”
“On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”
Victorian Era
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The Lady of Shallot”
“The Lotos-Easters”
“Ulysses”
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
In Memoriam A.H.H.(elegy)
Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover”
“My Last Duchess”
“The Laboratory”
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church”
“Love Among the Ruins”
“Women and Roses”
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
21
22
32
43
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
“The Scholar Gypsy”
“Growing Old”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“The Orchard-Pit”
Christina Rossetti
“Goblin Market”
Gerald Manley Hopkins
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
“Pied Beauty”
Lewis Carroll
“Jabberwocky”
“The Walrus and the Carpenter”
“The Hunting of the Snark”
Modern Era
Thomas Hardy
“The Darkling Trush”
“Channel Firing”
“The Convergence of the Twain”
“Ah, Are You Digging My Grave?”
A.E. Houseman
“When I was One-and Twenty”
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
“Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”
WWI Poets
Rupert Brooke
“The Soldier”
Edward Thomas
“The Owl”
Isaac Rosenberg
“Louse Hunting”
“Dead Man’s Dump”
Wilfred Owen
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”
“Strange Meeting”
William Butler Yeats
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
“The Secret Rose”
“Adam’s Curse”
“Easter 1916”
“The Second Coming”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Leda and the Swan”
“Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop”
T.S. Eliot
“Sweeney Among the Nightingales”
“The Hippopotamus”
“Journey of the Magi”
“Ash Wednesday”
Four Quartets
“Burnt Norton”
“East Coker”
“The Dry Salvages”
“Little Gidding”
Dylan Thomas
“After the Funeral”
“Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night”
Robert Frost
“The Road Not Taken”
“The Mending Wall”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“Fire and Ice”
“Acquainted with the Night”
Carl Sandburg
“Chicago”
“Wilderness”
“Under the Harvest Moon”
“I Am the People, the Mob”
Wallace Stevens
“The Emperor of Ice Cream”
“Anecdote of the Jar”
“Peter Quince at the Clavier”
“Sunday Morning”
“The Idea of Order at Key West”
William Carlos Williams
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“This is Just to Say”
“The Great Figure”
“Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”
“Spring and All”
E.E. Cummings
“Buffalo Bill’s”
“old age sticks”
“l(a”
“may i feel said he”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“since feeling is first”
Sylvia Plath
“Ariel”
“Daddy”
“Lady Lazarus”
“Morning Song”
Contemporary
Mark Jarman
“Ground Swell”
“Questions for Ecclesiastes”
“Unholy Sonnet 11”
“Dressing My Daughters”
Mary Oliver
“Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does it End?”
“The Lover of Earth Cannot Help Herself”
“Bone”
“The Lily”
“Look and See”
“Song of the Builders”
Terrance Hayes
“How to Draw a Perfect Circle”
“Cocktails with Orpheus”
“At Pegasus”
Deborah Landau
“I Don’t Have a Pill for That”
“Solitaire”
from Uses of the Body
Tracy K Smith
“My God, It's Full of Stars”
“Interrogative”
“The Good Life”
Patricia Lockwood
“The Arch”
“Rape Joke”
“Government Spending”
“when we move away from here…”
Gregory Pardlo
“ZoSo”
“Written by Himself”
“Double Dutch”
“Chalk Dust on the Air”
Adelia Prado
“Two Ways”
“Seduction”
“Easter”
“Lovesong”