Poetry in English – The Poetry Monster

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.

Written In A Fit Of Illness. R. S. S. by William Cowper by William Cowper
Written After Leaving Her At New Burns by William Cowper by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season by William Cowper by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper by William Cowper
Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe by William Cowper by William Cowper
Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper by William Cowper
To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper by William Cowper
To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country by William Cowper by William Cowper
To Mary by William Cowper by William Cowper
To Delia by William Cowper by William Cowper
To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Silkworm by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Rose by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Perfect Sacrifice by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Parrot by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Lily And The Rose by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Ice Palace by William Cowper by William Cowper
The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper by William Cowper
Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper by William Cowper
Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper by William Cowper
Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper by William Cowper
Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper by William Cowper
Repose In God by William Cowper by William Cowper
Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper by William Cowper
On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Death Of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bullfinch by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Author Of Letters On Literature by William Cowper by William Cowper
On The Astrologers (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Pedigree. From Epicharmus by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper by William Cowper
On One Ignorant And Arrogant (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Niobe (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Mrs. Montague’s Feather Hangings by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Miltiades by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper