Approved Poems for English 206

The poem you memorize for Brit Lit II must, without exception, be on this list.

• Barbauld, "A Summer Evening's Meditation"
• ---., "Washing Day"
• Robinson, "London's Summer Morning"
• ---., "January, 1795"
• ---., "The Poor Singing Dame"
• ---., "The Haunted Beach"
• ---., "To the Poet Coleridge"
• Burns, "Holy Willie's Prayer"
• ---., "To a Mouse"
• ---., "To a Louse"
• ---., "Tam o'Shanter: A Tale"
• ---., "Song: For a' that and a' that"
• Blake, From The French Revolution: A Poem in Seven Books
• Southey, From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem
• Wordsworth, From The Excursion
• Coleridge, From Religious Musings
• Shelley, From Queen Mab
• Baillie, "A Winter's Day"
• ---., "Song: Woo'd and married and a'"
• Wordsworth, William "Simon Lee"
• ---., "We Are Seven"
• ---., "The Thorn"
• ---., "Lines" ["Tintern Abbey"]
• ---., "Three years she grew"
• ---., "Lucy Gray"
• ---., "The Two April Mornings"
• ---., "Nutting"
• ---., "The Ruined Cottage"
• ---., "Michael"
• ---., "Resolution and Independence"
• ---., "Ode" ["Intimations of Immortality"]
• ---., "Ode to Duty"
• ---., "Elegaic Stanzas"
• ---., "Prospectus to The Recluse"
• ---., The Prelude
• Wordsworth, Dorothy, "Grasmere--A Fragment"
• ---., "Thoughts on My Sick-Bed"
• Scott, "Lochinvar"
• Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp"
• ---., "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
• ---., "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• ---., "Kubla Khan"
• ---., "Christabel"
• ---., "Frost at Midnight"
• ---., "Dejection: An Ode"
• ---., "The Pains of Sleep"
• ---., "To William Wordsworth"
• Byron, "Darkness"
• ---., "January 22nd. Missolonghi"
• ---., Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• ---., Manfred
• ---., Don Juan
• Shelley, Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
• ---., "Mont Blanc"
• ---., "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
• ---., "Stanzas Written in Dejection--December 1818, near Naples"
• ---., "Ode to the West Wind"
• ---., From Prometheus Unbound
• ---., "The Cloud"
• ---., "To a Sky-Lark"
• ---., "Choruses from Hellas"
• ---., Adonais
• ---., "Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici"
• Clare, "The Nightingale's Nest"
• ---., "Pastoral Poesy"
• Hemans, "England's Dead"
• ---., "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England"
• ---., "Casabianca"
• ---., "The Homes of England"
• ---., "A Spirit's Return"
• Keats, From Sleep and Poetry
• ---., From Endymion
• ---., "The Eve of St. Agnes"
• ---., "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"
• ---., "Ode to Psyche"
• ---., "Ode to a Nightingale"
• ---., "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• ---., "Ode on Indolence"
• ---., Lamia
• ---., The Fall of Hyperion
• Landon, "The Proud Ladye"
• ---., "Love's Last Lesson"
• Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children"
• ---., From Aurora Leigh
• ---., "Mother and Poet"
• Tennyson, "Mariana"
• ---., "The Lady of Shalott"
• ---., "The Lotos-Eaters"
• ---., "Ulysses"
• ---., "Tithonus"
• ---., "The Epic"
• ---., "Locksley Hall"
• ---., "[The Woman's Cause Is Man's]"
• ---., From In Memoriam, stanzas Prologue, 6, 84, 87, 89, 95, 103
• ---., "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
• ---., From Idylls of the King
• Fitzgerald, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
• Browning, "Porphyria's Lover"
• ---., "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
• ---., "My Last Duchess"
• ---., "The Laboratory"
• ---., "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
• ---., "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church"
• ---., "A Toccata of Galuppi's"
• ---., "Love among the Ruins"
• ---., "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'"
• ---., "Fra Lippo Lippi"
• ---., "The Last Ride Together"
• ---., "Andrea del Sarto"
• ---., "Two in the Campagna"
• ---., "A Grammarian's Funeral"
• ---., "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician"
• ---., "Caliban upon Setebos"
• ---., "Abt Vogler"
• ---., "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
• Bronte, Emily "Stars"
• ---., "The Prisoner, A Fragment"
• Arnold, "The Forsaken Merman"
• ---., "Isolation. To Marguerite"
• ---., "The Buried Life"
• ---., "Memorial Verses"
• ---., "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"
• ---., "The Scholar Gypsy"
• ---., "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse"
• ---., "Thyrsis"
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, "The Blessed Damozel"
• ---., "My Sister's Sleep"
• Rossetti, Christina, "Goblin Market"
• Morris, "The Defense of Guenevere"
• ---., "The Haystack in the Floods"
• Swinburne, "Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon"
• ---., "Hymn to Proserpine"
• ---., "The Garden of Proserpine"
• ---., "Ave Atque Vale"
• Lears, "The Jumblies"
• Carroll, "The White Knight's Song"
• ---., "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
• ---., From The Hunting of the Snark
• Gilbert, "When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar" (must do the full choruses"
• ---., "If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line"
• Patmore, From The Angel in the House
• Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven"
• Kipling, "The Widow at Windsor"
• ---., "The Ladies"
• Hardy, "A Tramp-Woman's Tragedy"
• ---., "Under the Waterfall"
• ---., "The Workbox"
• Housman, "Terence, This is Stupid Stuff"
• Rosenberg, "Dead Man's Dump"
• Owen, "Strange Meeting"
• ---., "Disabled"
• Cannan, "Rouen"
• Yeats, "The Madness of King Goll"
• ---., "The Stolen Child"
• ---., "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland"
• ---., "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
• ---., "Easter 1916"
• ---., "A Prayer for My Daughter"
• ---., "Among School Children"
• ---., "A Dialogue of Self and Soul"
• ---., "Byzantium"
• ---., "Lapis Lazuli"
• ---., "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
• ---., "Under Ben Bulben"
• Lawrence, "Love on the Farm"
• ---., "Tortoise Shell"
• ---., "Tortoise Shout"
• ---., "Snake"
• ---., "Cypresses"
• ---., "The Ship of Death"
• Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
• ---., "Sweeney among the Nightingales"
• ---., The Waste Land
• ---., "The Hollow Men"
• ---., "Journey of the Magi"
• ---., "Little Gidding"
• MacDiarmid, From In Memoriam James Joyce
• Graves, "To Juan at the Winter Solstice"
• Smith, "Thoughts About the Person from Porlock"
• Auden, "Spain 1937"
• ---., "Lullaby"
• ---., "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
• ---., "In Praise of Limestone"
• ---., "The Shield of Achilles"
• Thomas, "After the Funeral"
• ---., "There Was a Saviour"
• ---., "The Hunchback in the Park"
• ---., "Poem in October"
• ---., "Fern Hill"
• Reed, From Lessons of the War
• Larkin, "Church Going"
• ---., "Aubade"
• Walcott, "The Glory Trumpeter"
• ---., From The Schooner "Flight"
• ---., From Omeros
• Hughes, "Pike"
• ---., "The Seven Sorrows"
• ---., "Daffodils"
• ---., "The Soho Hospital for Women"
• Murray, "Noonday Axeman"
• Heaney, "Punishment"
• ---., "Casualty"
• ---., From Station Island
• ---., "The Sharping Stone"
• Boland, "The Dolls Museum in Dublin"
• Raine, "The Onion, Memory"
• Fenton, "A German Requiem"
• Muldoon, "Gathering Mushrooms"