English Verse is a site dedicated to classic English poetry and poets. The site contains a growing archive of over a thousand poems, as well as biographical information on the poets who wrote them.
Audio recordings are available for over 100 of the poems, including most of the poems listed on this page. To listen to a poem, simply use the audio player located on the page for that poem.
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The Miller’s Daughter by Alfred Tennyson
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Against Indifference by Charles Webbe
Clancy of the Overflow by A. B. (“Banjo”) Paterson
The Ruined Chapel by William Allingham
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
I Have a Rendezvous with Death... by Alan Seeger
The Burning of the Leaves by Laurence Binyon
Home From Abroad by Laurie Lee
The Garden Party by Hilaire Belloc
The Armada by Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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