The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, first published in 1798 as part of the seminal Lyrical Ballads …
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey – William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, often referred to simply as Tintern Abbey, is one of …
La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci (translated as The Beautiful Lady without Mercy) is one of John Keats’s most famous and …
To a Skylark – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a Skylark” is one of the crowning achievements of Romantic poetry—a luminous ode in which the …
The Tyger – by William Blake
William Blake’s “The Tyger”, published in 1794 as part of his collection Songs of Experience, stands as one of the …
Bright Star – John Keats
John Keats’s sonnet “Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art” stands as one of the most exquisite expressions …
The World is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World is Too Much with Us” stands as one of the most poignant critiques of materialism …
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of the most enduring and frequently recited sonnets in English literature. First published in …
She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
Among the most admired of Romantic lyrics, “She Walks in Beauty”, composed by George Gordon, Lord Byron in 1814, stands …
10 Best Romantic English Poems for Recitation
The Romantic era in English literature—spanning the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century—gave rise to some of the most enduring and …