I. The Medieval Era
Anonymous Ballads
Thomas the Rhymer
Binnorie
King Henry
The Wife of Usher’s Well
The Twa Corbies
The Gypsy Countess
Tam Lin
Anonymous Lyrics
Corpus Christi Carol
The Maid of the Moor
Dunbar, William (1460?-?)
Lament for the Makers
II. Renaissance and Restoration
George Peele (1556-1596)
Bethsabe’s Song
The Voice from the Well
Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-1586)
On the Eve of his Execution
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Fairy Songs
Ophelia’s Song
Ariel’s Song
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun”
Thomas Campion (1567–1619)
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
Hymn to Diana
John Fletcher (1579–1625)
Aspatia’s Song
Hymn to Pan
Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
The Fairies’ Farewell
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
The Hag
III. The Augustan Age
Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Fatal Sisters
William Collins (1721-1759)
Ode to Fear
IV. The Romantic Era
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Sick Rose
A Poison Tree
The Tyger
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie
The Faëry Chasm
“The world is too much with us; late and soon”
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
Proud Maisie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
Dirce
Caroline Southey (1787–1854)
To Death
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
Hymn of Pan
Ozymandias of Egypt
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
The Rock of Cader Idris
The Last Song of Sappho
John Keats (1795–1821)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
Dream-Pedlary
The Phantom-Wooer
Old Adam, The Carrion Crow
V. The Victorian Era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
A Musical Instrument
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
The Brown Dwarf of Rügen
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Eldorado
The Haunted Palace
To Helen
Ulalume
Alone
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Mariana
The Mermaid
The Merman
The Lady of Shalott
Blow, Bugle, Blow
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Broomstick Train, or The Return of the Witches
Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)
The Fairy Thorn
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
The Sands of Dee
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Aladdin
Isabel
The Sirens
Midnight
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
The Forsaken Merman
Sydney Dobell (1824–1874)
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston
William Allingham (1824-1889)
The Fairies
The Ruined Chapel
The Witch-Bride
The Maids of Elfin-Mere
Twilight Voices
George Meredith (1828–1909)
Lucifer in Starlight
Dora Sigerson Shorter (1829-1862)
The Watcher in the Woods
Alexander Smith (1829–1867)
Barbara
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
“Witchcraft has not a pedigree”
“The bat is dun with wrinkled wings”
“I heard a fly buzz when I died”
“Because I could not stop for Death”
“The only ghost I ever saw”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Goblin Market
Song
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
Dreamland
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834–1894)
The Water-Nymph and the Boy
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
The Desolate City
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)
Ode
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
A Vision of the Mermaids
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
Little Orphan Annie
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Heather Ale
Death
Ticonderoga
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Dole of the King’s Daughter
Santa Decca
Chanson
Endymion
In the Forest
The Sphinx
Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855-1905)
The Hills of Ruel
Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
The Singer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A Tragedy
The Inner Room
The Old Huntsman
The Passing
Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
Unwelcome
The Other Side of a Mirror
The Witch
The White Women
Wilderspin
Master and Guest
VI. The Modern Era
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
All Souls
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Stolen Child
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
The Song of Wandering Aengus
A Faery Song
Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) (1866-1902)
The Curse of Mora
The Well o’ the World’s End
The Love-Talker
Niamh
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
The Three Witches
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
The Farmer’s Bride
The Changeling
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Song of the Mad Prince
Bewitched
All That’s Past
Silver
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Ghost House
Harold Monro (1879-1932)
Overheard on a Salt Marsh
Alfred Noyes (1880-1959)
Alzuna
A Song of Sherwood
Shadow-of-a-Leaf
The Young Friar
The Island Hawk
The Bell
The Elfin Artist
The Loom of Years
The Highwayman
James Joyce (1882-1941)
“I hear an army charging upon the land”
She Weeps Over Rahoon
F.J. Patmore (1883-1892)
The White Owl
Viola Meynell (1885–1956)
The Frozen Ocean
Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
The Wife of Llew
The Shadow People
Fairies
Walter J. Turner (1889–1946)
Ecstasy
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
The Vampire
Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986)
Wise Sarah and the Elf
On a Night of Snow
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Outlaws
A Frosty Night
The Troll’s Nosegay
Welsh Incident
The Sirens’ Welcome to Cronos
The White Goddess
Ruth Mather Skidmore (1913-2002)
Fantasy
Leah Bodine Drake (1914-1964)
Changeling
They Run Again