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CLASSIC ENGLISH POETRY

One of the best ways of improving your English is to read the language. This part of our site includes complete poems by some of the very best classic poets. Most of the links for each poet take you to a Word document with two or three of the best poems by that particular poet. All the poems are complete and unabridged. Read them online or print them off and read them in bed! All of these poems are copyright free or used with permission. You can also listen online to some of the poems read by various native speakers of English. Also see our short stories section.

 

Beowulf William Blake Anne Bradstreet Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Burns Emily Dickinson   Thomas Hardy   First World War Poetry Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg Christina Rossetti Siegfried Sassoon William Shakespeare Edward Thomas William Butler Yeats