The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1909-1892)

O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

William Blake–The Tiger

William Blake (1757-1827) an English poet and painter who had a major impact on the romantic era.

The Builders–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet who wrote many classics including "Paul Revere's Ride." He is one of the most important poets in American history.

Jabberwocky–Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carrol [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) was an English author and mathematician best know for his work Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Throw the Looking Glass.

Dulce Et Decorum Est–Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893 A month before his death he wrote to his mother: "My nerves are in perfect order. I came out again in order to help these boys; directly, by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can." Let his own words be his epitaph:— "Courage was mine, and I had mystery; Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery." ~Siegfried Sassoon

When I was a Bird–Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was born in 1888 and died in 1923. Prominent in the modernist movement as a short fiction writing, her poetry is lesser know.

Piano–D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence was born in 1885 and died in 1930. He was an English poet, author and playwright.

The Sleeper in the Valley–Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 and died in 1891. He was for the most part a boy poet. His work was part of the decadent movement.

Alone–Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. He was an American writer and poet. He was one of the cornerstone writers of the Romantic Movement.

To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence–James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker was a British poet who was born in 1884 and died in 1915. He was the most famous poet of the Parnassian Poets.

GOOD-BYE–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 and died in 1882. He was a American poet who lead the Transcendentalist movement.

XXVII–Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830. Less than a dozen of her 1800 poems were published while she was alive.

Walt Whitman–One Hour to Madness and Joy

The American poet Walt Whitman was is consider the first modern poet. 20th century writers build the modern movement on Whitman's works.