Famous English Poems

Famous English Poems

Y soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring

And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;

For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,

Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

           

                             - Anne Bronte

Escape me?

Never—

Beloved!

While I am I, and you are you,

So long as the world contains us both,

Me the loving and you the loth,

While the one eludes, must the other pursue.

My life is a fault at last, I fear:

It seems too much like a fate, indeed!

Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.

                           - Robert Browning

When a bar of pure silver or ingot of gold 

Is sent to be flatted or wrought into length, 

It is pass'd between cylinders often, and roll'd 

In an engine of utmost mechanical strength. 

                         - William Cowper

A Childs Hymn

Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father,

Ere I lay me down to sleep;

Bid Thy angels, pure and holy,

Round my bed their vigil keep.

                      - Charles Dickens

Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight,

Alone and palely loitering;

The sedge is wither'd from the lake,

And no birds sing.

                       - John Keats

O Nightingale that on yon bloomy Spray,
Warbl'st at eve, when all the Woods are still
Thou with fresh hope the Lover's heart dost fill,
While the jolly hours lead on propitious May,
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day, 
   
                                       - John Milton

How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns;
Contented breathes his native air,
In his own grounds. 
                                     - Alexander Pope
Full fathom five thy Father lies,
Of his bones are Corrall made:
Those are pearles that were his eies,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a Seachange
Into something rich & strange
SeaNymphs hourly ring his knell.
Harke now I heare them, dingdong, bell.


                                 - William Shakespeare


Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
          
                                   - Percy Bysshe Shelley
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.


                                    - William Wordsworth

Anne Bronte Nationality - English Lifespan - 1820 - 1849 Family - Parents Patrick and Maria Bronte Education - Tutored at home and Haworth parsonage Career - Poet and novelist Famous Works by Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Robert Browning Nationality - English Lifespan - 1812 - 1889 Family - Father was Robert Browning ran a sugar plantation and then a Clerk at the Bank of England Married Elizabeth Barratt in 1846 Education - Peckham School and University of London Career - Poet First Published in 1833 William Cowper Nationality - English Lifespan - 1731 - 1800 Family - Father was Reverand John Cowper Education - Boarding school then Middle Temple to study Law Career - Poet and Solicitor  Charles Dickens Nationality - English - Lifespan 1832 - 1888 Family - Father was Charles Dickens a naval clerk Education - Wellington House Academy, London Career - Poet, novelist, and journalist Famous works by Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities & A Christmas Carol John Keats Nationality - English Lifespan - 1795 - 1821 Father - Thomas Keats died in accident in 1804 Education - School in Enfield and St Guys Hospital, London Career - Poet and apothecary John Milton Nationality - English Lifespan - 1608-1674 Father - John Milton, scrivener, notary and composer Educated - Christs College Cambridge Career - Poet, Playwright, Diplomat and Historian Alexander Pope Nationality - English Lifespan - 1688-1744 Father - Linen merchant Educated - Tutored at home Career - Poet critic, satisrist and author First Published - 1712 William Shakespeare  Nationality - English Lifespan - 1564 - 1616 Father - John Shakespeare, Merchant and Bailiff and Justice of the Peace Stratford-upon-Avon Educated - Grammar School (Kings New School) Career - Poet, playwright, dramatist and actor - First Published - 1593 Percy Bysshe Shelley Nationality - English Lifespan - 1792 - 1822 Father - Timothy Shelley, Member of Parliament Educated - Eton College and Oxford Career - Poet and novelist First Published - 1810 William Wordsworth Nationality - English Lifespan - 1770 - 1850 Father - John Wordsworth, lawyer Educated - Hawkeshead Grammar School and St Johns College Cambridge Career - Poet and author First Published - 1798 courtesy

Famous English Poems