The Chimney Sweeper II (Songs of Experience) A little black thing among the snow,Crying “weep! ‘weep!” in notes of woe!“Where are thy father [...]

The Chimney Sweepers I (Songs of Innocence) When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould [...]

My Mistress’ Eyes My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun:Coral is far more red than her lips’ red:If snow be white, why [...]

Stopping by Woods in a snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know.   His house is in the village though;   He will not [...]

Mending Wall Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes [...]

Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we [...]

The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me:That there’s some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England. There [...]

Ode on a Grecian Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,       Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express       A [...]

Slave’s Dream Beside the ungathered rice he lay,His sickle in his hand;His breast was bare, his matted hairWas buried in the sand.Again, in [...]