Poetry in English

Here are poems and versified texts in English, both rhymed and unrhymed. Here you’ll find specimens of elaborate baroque poetry alongside modernist blank verse. Contemporary poetry cohabits with masterpieces of the Romantic movement.

• V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander by William Alexander
• To Prince Charles by William Alexander by William Alexander
• To his Majestie by William Alexander by William Alexander
• The Sonnet, The Lady, And The Prince by William Alexander by William Alexander
• The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 58 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 57 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 56 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 55 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 54 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 53 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 52 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 51 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 50 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 5 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 49 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 48 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 47 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 44 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 43 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 42 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 41 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 4 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 39 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 38 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 36 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 35 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 34 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 33 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Sonet 32 by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander by William Alexander
• IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander by William Alexander
• IV: Some Verses: To The Author by William Alexander by William Alexander
• III: Some Verses: To M. Michaell Drayton by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Twelfth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Third Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Sixth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Ninth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Fourth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The First Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Eighth Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Doomes-Day: The Second Houre by William Alexander by William Alexander
• An Eccho by William Alexander by William Alexander
• A Short View Of: The State Of Man by William Alexander by William Alexander
• A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander by William Alexander
• Written In A Quarrel by William Cowper by William Cowper