The Romantic Poets

The generation that remade poetry around feeling, nature, and the imagination — Keats, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Blake.

Beauty, rebellion, and the sublime

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• The Bride of Abydos
• I Would I were a Careless Child
• Reform Bill Crisis
• Song for the Luddites
• Lines to Fanny
• To John Hamilton Reynolds
• Farewell to the Muse
• Ministers and the Reform Bill
• Three Years she Grew in Sun and Shower
• The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci
• Epitaph on an Infant
• Sonnet: Happy is England!
• Translation from Catullus
• On -- -- -
• Origin of Acts and Love
• On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses from the same Ladies
• The Devon Maid
• To the Honble Mrs George Lamb
• On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
• To an Oak at Newstead
• Fancy in Nubibus or the Poet in the Clouds
• Moral Polarity
• The Pang more Sharp than All
• Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown
• The Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown!
• Reason and Understanding
• Stanzas: Could Love for Ever
• Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
• Spenserian Stanza
• Coleridge's System and Dissenters
• Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country
• Granta: a Medley
• A Poet's Epitaph
• Wicliffe and Luther
• The Brothers
• Stanzas to a Hindoo Air
• A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill
• Love's First Hope
• Phantom
• Saul
• Tragic Fragment
• Ah, Woe is me, my Mother Dear
• The Ronalds of the Bennals
• Bonie Peggy Alison
• Winter: a Dirge
• John Barleycorn: a Ballad
• My Nanie, O
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Remorse: a Fragment
• O Leave Novels
• The Belles of Mauchline
• Man was Made to Mourn: a Dirge
• Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
• Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
• The Holy Fair
• Second Epistle to Davie
• To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough
• Merry Hae I been Teethin a Heckle
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• Address to the Deil
• Epistle to James Smith
• The Vision
• Suppressed Stanza's of "the Vision"
• My Highland Lassie, O
• Address of Beelzebub
• On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies
• A Bard's Epitaph
• The Lass o' Ballochmyle
• Lines Written on a Banknote
• Willie Chalmers
• Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr
• Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
• Epistle to Major Logan
• Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• Address to Edinburgh
• Bonie Dundee
• Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope-House
• Verses Intended to be Written below a Noble Earl's Picture
• My Lord a-Hunting
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
• Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth my Care
• The Chevalier's Lament
• Epistle to Hugh Parker
• Anna, Thy Charms
• Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
• A Mother's Lament
• To Miss Cruickshank
• The Banks of Nith
• My Eppie Adair
• Extemporaneous Effusion on being Appointed to an Excise Division
• A Waukrife Minnie
• My Heart's in the Highlands
• The Whistle-A Ballad
• To Mary in Heaven
• Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
• Scots' Prologue for Mr. Sutherland
• Gudewife, Count the Lawin
• Verses on Captain Grose
• Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
• The Banks o' Doon (Third Version)
• Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
• Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude
• The Revolt of Islam
• Rosalind and Helen
• Julian and Maddalo
• The Mask of Anarchy
• Letter to Maria Gisborne
• Epipsychidion
• Adonais
• Hellas
• The Triumph of Life
• Stanzas-April, 1814
• We are as Clouds that Veil the Midnight Moon
• Oh! there are Spirits of the Air
• To Wordsworth
• Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
• Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
• Mont Blanc
• Fragment: Home
• Fragment of a Ghost Story

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