British poems

right|thumb|The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.

1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

ruler of Avalon in the Arthurian legend

1832 Victorian ballad by Alfred Tennyson

1819 poem by John Keats

closet drama by Lord Byron

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1819 poem by John Keats

1814 tale in verse by George Gordon Byron

poem by Lord Byron

collection of sonnets by E. B. Browning

poem written by Lord Byron in 1814

literary work

1842 poem written by Robert Browning

poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the death of Arthur Henry Hallam

thumb|1821 title page, Pisa, Italy: Ollier. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. () is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats's death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's Lycidas. Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the poe

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poem by Alexander Pope

poem of Lord Byron

John Keats poem

poem by Lord Byron

British poem

poem by John Dryden

poem by Alexander Pope

1842 poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

traditional ballad

1816 poem written by Lord Byron

poem written by John Keats

1936 poem written by T. S. Eliot

1819 poem written by John Keats

1868 poem written by Robert Browning

1864 poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

poem by Marlowe

English poem by Felicia Hemans

epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

thumb|1821 title page, Charles and James Ollier, London thumb|1820–21 draft of Epipsychidion, Bodleian Library, Oxford

Anactoria (or Anaktoria; ) is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16. Another of her poems, fragment 31, is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", although no name appears in it. As portrayed by Sappho, Anactoria is likely to have been an aristocratic follower of hers, of marriageable age. It is possible that fragment 16 was written in connection with her wedding to an unknown man. The name "Anactoria" has also be

1817 poem written by Lord Byron

1941 poem written by T. S. Eliot

poem by Percy Shelley

poem by T. S. Eliot

1819 poem by John Keats

book by Lord Byron