(You should know a significant body of the poetry of these poets, but these especially)
William Shakespeare, Sonnets 29, 30, 55, 65, 73, 94, 116, 129, 146
John Donne, "The Canonization," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy,"
"The Good-Morrow," "The Sun Rising," "Air and Angels," "The Relique," "A Nocturnal
upon St. Lucy's Day," Holy Sonnets 10 and 14.
George Herbert, "The Altar," "Affliction," "Prayer (I)," "Jordan (I)," "Virtue," "The
Pulley," "The Collar," "Easter Wings," "Love (III)"
John Milton, "Lycidas," "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "How Soon Hath Time,"
"When I Consider How My Light is Spent," "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"
William Blake, "Introduction" to Songs of Innocence, "Introduction" to Songs of Experience,"The
Lamb," "The Tyger," "The Sick Rose," "The Garden of Love," "London," "Mock On, Mock
On, Voltaire, Rousseau," "O Did Those Feet in Ancient Times"
William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "She Dwelt among
the Untrodden Ways," "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,"
"Micheal," "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," "Ode: On Intimations of Immortality
from Recollections of Early Childhood," "The Solitary Reaper"
John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "La Belle Dame Sancs Merci,"
"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on Melancholy," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," "Two in
the Campagna," "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," "Caliban upon Setebos"
Emily Dickinson, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," "The Soul Selects Her Own Society,"
"After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes," "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," "Because
I Could not Stop for Death," "Further in Summer than the Birds," "Tell All the Truth
but Tell it Slant," "As Imperceptible as Grief"
William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "The Second Coming,"
"Leda and the Swan," "Dialogue of Soul and Self," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Byzantium,"
"Among School Children," "Lapis Lazuli"
T.S. Eliot, "Preludes," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," The Waste
Land, "The Journey of the Magi," "Ash Wednesday"
Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold can Stay," "Mending Wall," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking,"
"The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "For Once, Then Something,"
"Desert Places," "Design," "Never Again Would Birds' Songs Be the Same," "Directive"
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Anecdote
of a Jar," "The Snow Man," The Idea of Order at Key West," "A Postcard from the Volcano,"
"Of Modern Poetry," "The World as Meditation," "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"