This section of our site is devoted to classic English poetry. Many of the poems featured on our site also include audio soundfiles, so you can listen to a native speaker of English read the lines, as you read. New poems are added on a regular basis.

Anonymous - Ode to Joy

William Barnes - The Wife-A-Lost

Beowulf

William Blake - The New Jerusalem

Charlotte Bronte - Parting

Rupert Brooke - The Soldier

Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky

A. E. Housman - Loveliest of Trees

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Autumn Song

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade