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Catalán

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

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