We had a text book in high school English called “Panorama: A Selection of Poems”. The book comprised a nice cross-section of poetry by the great masters, as well as a number of poems by Indian poets.
Despite their best efforts, neither the book, nor the tireless efforts of my teachers were successful in inspiring a love of poetry back then.
More recently, my copy of the text book surfaced when we were dusting some old cupboards. I thumbed through the tome and found that, perhaps at some subconscious level, some finer sentiments were imbued.
Here are most of the poems from the book, the ones that could be found on the net. I’ve also added a few poems that aren’t quite in the book, but I’ve come across and really liked.
| Poet | Work |
|---|
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
Break, break, break |
| Burns, Robert |
My Heart's In The Highlands |
| Wordsworth, William |
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [Daffodils] |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
Kubla Khan |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Barrington, Patrick |
I had a Hippopotamus |
| Frost, Robert |
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening |
| Ezekiel, Nissim |
The Professor |
| Auden, W.H. |
Funeral Blues |
| Herrick, Robert |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| Blake, William |
The Echoing Green |
| Wordsworth, William |
To a Skylark |
| Yeats, William Butler |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
To a Skylark |
| Keats, John |
Ode to a Nightingale |
| Masefield, John |
The West Wind |
| Ramanujan, A.K. |
A River |
| Shakespeare, William |
The Bees |
| Wotton, Sir Henry |
Character of a Happy Life |
| Herbert, George |
The Pulley |
| Cowper, William |
Light Shining out of Darkness |
| Blake, William |
The Tiger |
| Wordsworth, William |
Sleep |
| Hardy, Thomas |
The Darkling Thrush |
| Rossetti, Christina |
Uphill |
| Milton, John |
On his Blindness |
| Ezekiel, Nissim |
Night of the Scorpion |
| Shakespeare, William |
Seven ages of man |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
The Village Blacksmith |
| Auden, W.H. |
Miss Gee |
| Eliot, T.S. |
Macavity: the Mystery Cat |
| Frost, Robert |
Nothing Gold Can Stay |
| Carroll, Lewis |
The Walrus and The Carpenter |
| Lawrence, David Herbert |
Mosquito |
| Blake, William |
Jerusalem [And did those feet in ancient time] |
| Southey, Robert |
The Battle of Blenheim |
| Wolfe, Charles |
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
Paul Revere's Ride |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace |
King Canute |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
Ulysses |
| Wordsworth, William |
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel |
Sonnet on Chillon |
| Shirley, James |
Death the Leveller |
| Johnson, Samuel |
On the death of Mr. Robert Levet A Practiser in Physic |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel |
The Dying Gladiator |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
The Passing of Arthur |
| Yeats, William Butler |
An Irish Airman foresees his Death |
| Whitman, Walt |
O Captain! My Captain! |
| Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian |
To India -- My Native Land |
| Tagore, Rabindranath |
Where the Mind is Without Fear |
| Nissim Ezekiel |
The Patriot |
| Scott, Sir Walter |
Patriotism |
| Browning, Robert |
The Patriot |
| Newbolt, Sir Henry |
Ireland, Ireland |
| Yeats, William Butler |
Easter, 1916 |
| Naidu, Sarojini |
The Bangle Sellers |
| Brooke, Rupert |
The Soldier |
| Southey, Robert |
The Inchcape Rock |
| Scott, Sir Walter |
Lochinvar |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
The Slave's Dream |
| Browning, Robert |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
The Ballad of East and West |
| Noyes, Alfred |
The Highwayman |
| Goldsmith, Oliver |
The Village Schoolmaster |
| Wordsworth, William |
The Solitary Reaper |
| Campbell, Sir Thomas |
Lord Ullin's Daughter |
| Southey, Robert |
The Scholar |
| Hunt, James Leigh |
Abou Ben Adhem |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
The Vagabond |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babbington |
Horatius |
| Donne, John |
The Sun Rising |
| Herrick, Robert |
The Night Piece: To Julia |
| Burns, Robert |
John Anderson My Jo |
| Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel |
She Walks in Beauty |
| Moore, Thomas |
Believe Me, if all those Endearing Young Charms |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
Lines to an Indian Air |
| Arnold, Matthew |
Sohrab and Rustum - An Episode |
| Coleridge, Hartley |
She is not Fair to Outward View |
| Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Furtado, Joseph |
The Cornfield |
| Fernando, Patrick |
Ballad of a River |
| Wordsworth, William |
Written in London. September, 1802 |
| Keats, John |
When I have Fears |
| Owen, Wilfred |
Futility |
| Fernando, Patrick |
A Fisherman Mourned by His Wife |
| Dutt, Toru |
Sîta |
| Das, Kamala |
My Grandmother's House |
| Menezes, Armando |
The Train |
| Dutt, Shoshee Chunder |
The Warrior's Return |
| Dutt, Hur Chunder |
Aurangzeb at his Father's Bier |
| Patel, Gieve |
On Killing A Tree |
| Dutt, Michael Madhusudan |
King Porus - Legend of Old |
| Cowper, William |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin |
| Yeats, William Butler |
The Second Coming |
| Blake, William |
Auguries of Innocence |
