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Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924-93)

• El Vi

English

Timothy Adès

• A Poem of Brexit – July 2016
• Apparatus Criticus to ‘The Excellent Wessex Event’
• Bethany W Pope at the gym: double acrostic
• Climate Crisis Eleven-Line Poem
• See all 10 poems by Timothy Adès...

A.E. Stallings (1968)

• Another Lullaby for Insomniacs

W.H. Auden (1907-73)

• ‘What spot do you aim at?’ by Wystan Hugh
• ‘What spot do you aim at?’ by Wystan Hugh

John Masefield (1878-1967)

• Big Pond Quinsy

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

• Adistrop

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

• Tarantella – Lipogram

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

• Oak Ash and Thorn

A E Housman (1859-1936)

• Uricon

Paul Verlaine (1844-96)

• There is the sky

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• The Caged Goldfinch

Robert Browning (1812-89)

• The Lost Leader

John Keats (1795-1821)

• Ode to a Nightingale
• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
• Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
• To Sleep

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

• Let Erin Remember

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• On a Major London Crossing
• The World Is Too Much With Us – Lipogram

Other Poems

• Horace, The Odes, translated by Colin Sydenham
• The Man Who Was John Bull by Bill Newton Dunn (Allendale Publishing)
• ‘1948, A Novel in Verse’ by Andy Croft (Five Leaves, 2012)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas

Estonian

Marie Under (1883-1980)

• The Orphan

German

Timothy Adès

• Timothy Ades: Jack mit Jill

Raoul Schrott (1964)

• Mitad del Mundo

Anita Menger (1959)

• With love I weave

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001)

• Six months you’ve been away from me

Ruedi Berger (1941)

• Stars falling

Angelika Schramm (1940)

• Heatwave 2022, Heatwave 2025

Reiner Kunze (1933)

• Cheering Thought After 200 Years
• Granny
• Why are dandelions gold?

Eva Strittmatter (1930-2011)

• Blue Day
• Moonlit Snow
• Nearing Winter
• Only once, just so

Günter Kunert (1929 –-2019)

• AWKWARDNESS

Inge Müller (1925-66)

• Ordeal By Fire

Josef Guggenmos (1922-2003)

• Yes she did!

Otto Reinhards (1911-?)

• A Year Later

Mascha Kaléko (1907-75)

• One Swallow Doesn’t Make a… What’s that?
• The Man in the Moon

Adolf Unger (1904-42)

• Gurs

Rose Ausländer (1901-88)

• Utopia

Erich Kästner (1899-1974)

• Fantasy of the Day After Tomorrow
• Frau Pichler Arrives in Heaven
• Like a Railway
• May
• See all 8 poems by Erich Kästner...

Maria Luise Weissmann (1899-1929)

• I’m Very Weary

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

• Lovers
• Murder Ballad Of The Reichstag Fire
• The Drowned Girl

Erich Korngold (1897-1957)

• Pierrot’s Dance

Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977)

• RAINSONG

Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976)

• If I could wish for something

Eugen Roth (1895-1976)

• A Load Not Needed
• A Simple Matter
• Evil
• The Postcard

Francisca Stoecklin (1894-1931)

• Die singende Muschel

Edlef Köppen (1893-1939)

• Peace
• Peace and War!

Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964)

• Darkness and Light
• February by Night
• Question and Answer
• The Last Epiphany

Richard Hülsenbeck (1892-1974)

• DADA REED-PIPE

Georg Britting (1891-1964)

• Riever

Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918)

• After a Bad Dream
• An die Soldaten des Großen Krieges
• To Death

Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940)

• Rest your head

Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)

• Breakfast
• Poor Wife!

Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (1890-1914)

• In Your Room

Erich Weinert (1890-1953)

• Paragraph 218

Georg von der Vring (1889-1968)

• ‘Och, for aye is sae lang’ – words on a cemetery in Oldenburg
• Most happily
• October Rose

Alfred Lichtenstein (1889- 1914)

• Farewell

Emmy Ball-Hennings (1888-1948)

• Faiths and Creeds, what Good to me?
• for Hugo Ball
• I live in “Perhaps”
• Morphine
• See all 5 poems by Emmy Ball-Hennings...

Friedrich Schnack (1888-1977)

• Father And Child

Emmy Hennings (1888-1948)

• Dancer
• In hospital

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

• Song Of Schmidt (The Broadcaster)
• Sonnet

Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

• St.-Peters-Friedhof, Salzburg

Jakob van Hoddis (1887-1942)

• End of the World

Hugo Ball (1886-1927)

• Ich Liebte Nicht
• Intermezzo
• Lovely Moon-Lass
• Two Poems From “Cabaret Voltaire”

Hans Arp (1886-1966)

• Black on Wise – a Dada poem

Max Herrmann-Neiße (1886-1941)

• Having no country
• Your hair has songs, I love them

Gottfried Benn (1886-1956)

• Travels

Carl Wolff (1884 –-1938)

• Put a sea-shell to your ear

Karl Borromäus Heinrich (1884-1938)

• The Dance School

Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934)

• Evening on the Shore
• Gold
• I love you I love
• Joy
• See all 10 poems by Joachim Ringelnatz...

Erich Mühsam (1878-1934)

• I am afraid
• I will go high up
• Kind und Pfau
• So many nights have hung star-laden, full

Camill Hoffmann (1878-1944)

• Evening

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

• All the World’s Books
• All Things Pass
• All things pass
• Butterfly in the Wine
• See all 27 poems by Hermann Hesse...

Else Lasker-Schüler (1876-1945)

• Abraham and Isaac
• An Old Tibetan Carpet
• Chocolate profiterole
• Come to me in the Night
• See all 12 poems by Else Lasker-Schüler...

Albert Sergel (1876-1946)

• Come Give Me Your Hand

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

• Advent
• Christmas Poem
• Dreaming I Knew
• Dreams
• See all 34 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke...

Richard von Schaukal (1874-1942)

• Over your closed eyes

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)

• Early Spring
• He and She

Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)

• An Unknown Land
• Der Droschkengaul
• Evening
• Foggy weaving
• See all 18 poems by Christian Morgenstern...

Peter Baum (1869-1916)

• Roaming

Stefan George (1868-1933)

• Entrückung
• My white macaws

Ludwig Jacobowsky (1868-1900)

• Night Solace

Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910)

• Leaves and Tomcats

Anna Ritter (1865-1921)

• I saw the Christ-child! Imagine it, though

Hedwig Lachmann (1865-1918)

• Erwartung

Ricarda Huch (1864-1947)

• All our Work
• In heaven’s depth
• Kaiserstadt Wien
• Lonely Sprite
• See all 13 poems by Ricarda Huch...

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)

• Spring

Arno Holz (1863-1929)

• I just saw the wind

Otto Ernst (1862-1928)

• Nis Randers

Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)

• Loveless

Peter Altenberg (1859-1919)

• Ljuba

Johanna Wolff (1858-1943)

• Give me Roses!

Peter Rosegger (1843-1918)

• Our heart is a harp

Ada Christen (1839-1901)

• Prague: At the old Jewish Cemetery

Friederike Kempner (1836-1904)

• My Hound
• Spring is sprung!

Christian Wagner (1835-1918)

• Can You Know?

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

• Leave Him
• Measured Tread
• Once Again
• Romance of the Three Knights and the Fair Noble Maid
• See all 6 poems by Wilhelm Busch...

Richard Leander (Richard von Volkmann) (1830-89)

• Happiness

Julie Hausmann (1826-1901)

• So take my hands and guide me

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-98)

• The Sun Alone
• With Two Words

Hermann Allmers (1821-1902)

• Moorland Night

Theodor Fontane (1819-98)

• AnotherNew Year
• Ending
• In the garden
• Let Time right it
• See all 7 poems by Theodor Fontane...

Hermann Kappen (1818-1901)

• New Year Prayer of the Rector of St Lambert’s, Münster

Theodor Storm (1817 –-88)

• April
• Ein grünes Blatt
• Elisabeth
• Old joy rises new
• See all 5 poems by Theodor Storm...

Mathilde Raven (1817-1902)

• The flowers at my window

Jakob Vogel von Glarus (1816-99)

• Fading of day

Emanuel Geibel (1815-84)

• On Marriage

Carl Spitzweg (1808-85)

• Excavations at Olympia

Eduard Mörike (1804-75)

• September Morning

Albert Graf von Schlippenbach (1800-86)

• Farewell

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874)

• The Heron

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

• Angels
• Butterfly and Rose
• By the Sea
• Das Fräulein Stand am Meere
• See all 21 poems by Heinrich Heine...

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848)

• The Boy on the Moor

Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

• Dowsing-Rod
• I dreamed…
• Lost
• Moonlit Night
• See all 7 poems by Joseph von Eichendorff...

Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

• Shepherd’s Sunday Song

Justinus Kerner (1786-1862)

• Love

Adalbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)

• The Women of Weinsberg

Karolina von Günderrode (1780-1806)

• Bright Red

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)

• Half of Life
• To the Fates

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

• The Gods of Greece

Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826)

• The Spinner Girl

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

• In Court
• The King in Thule
• The Stars

Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)

• Fox and Bear
• I care not why
• Love
• The Old Gardener

Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709)

• Untitled

Kaspar Stieler (1632-1707)

• Poetic Symbols

Angelus Silesius (1624-77)

• Immediacy and Beauty

Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau (1617 –-79)

• Chiding

Andreas Gryphius (1616-64)

• Meditation on Time

Friedrich von Logau (1605-55)

• By toil, not by flattery

Anon

• Pearls of the dew

Other Poems

• The World’s End
• My Heart, my Lion
• At Christmastide
• Lost
• I dreamed…
• Totentanz

Greek

Panayiotis Kanellopoulos (1902-86)

• Recognising the Hero

Ángelos Sikelianós (1884-1951)

• Anadyomenê (Aphrodite Rising)
• Because Deep Down I Glorified…
• Calypso’s Song
• John Keats
• See all 6 poems by Ángelos Sikelianós...

Lambros Porphyras (1879-1932)

• Sea Voices (Stand Death a Drink)
• The Last Fairy Tale
• The Voyage

Constantine Hatzopoulos (1871-1920)

• Dance of the Shades

John Polémis (1862-1925)

• The Old Violin

Lórentsos Mavílis (1860-1912)

• Kallipáteira – Greek Olympic Poem
• LETHE
• LULLABY

George Drosinis (1859-1951)

• Evensong
• In The Heart Of Night

Kostis Palamas (1859-1943)

• Love

George Vizyenos (1848-94)

• The Dream

Achilleas Paraschos (1838-95)

• The Laurel

Palladas of Alexandria (4th Century AD)

• The Latin Tutor’s Lovelorn Daughter

Inglish

Charles Causley (1917-2003)

• I saw a Jolly Huntsman

Old Possum (T S Eliot) (1888-1965)

• Courtship Song of J. Arthur Prufrock

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

• Dust of Snow
• That Road, I Trod It Not

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

• Who was that? By Wally d l M.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• If you have Tears

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Poplars not far from Oxford

Italian

Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)

• Wisdom

Pietro Burratti (1772-1832)

• Venice -The Little Boat

Pernette du Guillet (1520?-45)

• Poem LXII – Love, Blame Yourself

Bernardo Bellincioni

• On Leonardo’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’

Giambattista Marino

• Batto, Qui Pianse Ergasto

Ladino

Anon

• The Nightingales

Latin

Bethany W Pope (1995)

• IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI

Sylvia Plath (1932-63)

• verba

Bob Merrill (1921-98)

• How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?

Ed McCurdy (1919-2000)

• Hac nocte

Charles Causley (1917-2003)

• venatorem hilarem vidi

Hubert Gregg (1914-?)

• urbs mea Londini

W.H. Auden (1907-73)

• From: Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
• Oh where are you going

Sir John Betjeman (1906-84)

• A Subaltern’s Love Song

Ogden Nash (1902-71)

• A selection from ‘Ogden Nash’s Zoo’.

Xu Zhimo (1897-1931)

• I Don’t Know Which Direction the Wind is Blowing

John Masefield (1878-1967)

• Sea Fever

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

• My Latin version of Adlestrop

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

• (By a New York poet – hint: Sir Quondam)

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

• The Donkey

Fred W. Leigh (1871-1924) and Charles Collins (1874-1923)

• My Old Man Said ‘Follow the Van…’

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

• Bons Mots

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

• Leda and the Swan

Sir Harold Boulton, Bt. (1859-1935)

• Skye Boat Song

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• from The Importance of Being Earnest

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

• (My Latin)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• Perdita Virgo

Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

• When the hounds of spring…

Emily Dickinson (1830-86)

• spes res plumigera est

Matthew Arnold (1822-88)

• The Scholar Gypsy (end)

Edward Lear (1812-88)

• Lyra Limerica

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)

• The Oak

Alfred Bunn (1796-1860)

• Somno videbar: I dreamt that I dwelt

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Quot praesunt lacrimae

Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)

• Tagus, Farewell

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-74)

• The Closed Valley (La Vaucluse in Provence)

Decimus Magnus Ausonius (4th century AD)

• Burdigala – from Ordo Urbium Nobilium

J M Neale

• Good King Wenceslas

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Binsey Poplars
• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

Laurence Binyon

• For the Fallen

Horace – Q. Horatius Flaccus (65BC- 8BC)

• Doom Song
• Odes III. xxv
• Party Poem
• Q. Horatius Flaccus non omnis moriturus
• See all 5 poems by Horace – Q. Horatius Flaccus...

Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) (70BC-19BC)

• Eclogue 4 ‘The Messianic’

Other Poems

• Seventy-Six Trombones
• DO RE MI

Lithuanian

Nijolė Miliauskaitė (1950-2002)

• Untitled

Portuguese

“Alberto Caeiro” Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

• XLIV

Romanian

Deniz Otay (1993)

• Loredana Lipogram

Russian

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

• Sing them no more, my beauty
• Worldly Power

Spanish

Gabriela Olmos (1982)

• At a Loss in Alaska

Itzel Yarger Zagal (1979)

• Forbidden Fruit

Victor Manuel Mendiola (1954)

• The hard-boiled egg

Francisco Serrano (1949)

• Circus Images

José Javier Aleixandre (1924-2017)

• Carol of the five vowels

Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-92)

• Tiempo del hombre

Salvador Novo (1904-74)

• LITERACY CAMPAIGN of the minister [and poet] J. Torres Bodet

Silvina Ocampo (1903-93)

• PALINURUS SLEEPLESS

Ricardo López Méndez (1903-89)

• Rebozo de mi Madrecita

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

• Epitaph for Isaac Albéniz
• Offering Him Flowers
• Qasida of the Rose
• Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
• See all 7 poems by Federico García Lorca...

Pedro Salinas (1891-1951)

• Last night

Genaro Prieto (1889-1946)

• Apure in One Journey

Jorge Luis Borges (1889-1986)

• Sonnet to Wine
• To Wine

Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)

• A Metaphor
• AUGUST GARDEN (a flower basket)
• Complex
• Complex
• See all 12 poems by Alfonso Reyes...

Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921)

• Hormigas
• MEMORIES OF THE CIRCUS
• Tenías un Rebozo de Seda
• The Accursed Homecoming

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958)

• El Viaje Definitivo

Carlos Pezoa Véliz (1879-1908)

• The Bohemian Raises his Glass

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

• Deep Song : Cante Hondo
• Epitaph

Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910)

• Returning Home From The Fields
• The Theatre of the Humble

Manuel Machado (1874-1947)

• Three songs for Children

Amado Nervo (1870-1919)

• Androgyne
• In Peace ~ Craftsman of Life, Craftsman of the Self
• Making the Life, Making the Self
• Nochebuena

Rubén Darío (1867-1916)

• The Thrush and the Peacock

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)

• Epiphany

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859-95)

• For a menu
• For a Menu
• My Little Duchess

Manuel José Othón (1858-1906)

• Mexican Landscape: from ‘Savage Idyll’

Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853-1928)

• Setting a Jewel

Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

• Linnet In A Gilded Cage

Sor Juana de la Cruz (1648-95)

• Birth of Christ, with comment on the Bee.

Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina (1603-76)

• Las Clavellinas de Indias

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581?-1639)

• Friendship

Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)

• A una Nariz
• He Drinks Superb Wine With Midges In It
• The Midge and the Frog

Lope de Vega (1562-1635)

• Shepherd of Pearls
• Violet Calls on me to Compose a Sonnet

Luis de Góngora (1561-1627)

• Sonnet 166

Anon

• Ballad of the Moor who Lost Alhama
• La casita que hizo Conchita
• Sunny Sun, Moony Moon

Other Poems

• Del Corrido del Hombre Mosca