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Western Poetry

Sonnet 30 of William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 of William Shakespeare
Sweet Warrior by Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name by Edmund Spenser
The Sun Rising by John Donne
Death be not Proud by John Donne
The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
Crow Testament by Alexie Sherman
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
The Lamb by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
The Tyger by William Blake
Introduction to The Songs of Innocence
A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns
Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
A thing of Beauty by John Keats
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Tonight I can write by Pablo Neruda
The way Spain was by Pablo Neruda
A Far cry from Africa by Derek Walcott
Names by Derek Walcott
Revolving Days by David Malouf
Wild Lemons by David Malouf
The Hollow Men by TS Eliot
I cannot live with You by Emily Dickinson
'I'm "wife" — I've finished that' by Emily Dickinson
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Advice to Women by Eunice de Souza
Bequest by Eunice de Souza
Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats
The Second Coming by W B Yeats
No Second Troy by W B Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium by WB Yeats
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
Sweeney among the Nightingales by TS Eliot
Eve's Apology in Defense of Women by Aemilia Lanyer
To my Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
A Poem on the Inhumanity of Slave Trade by Ann Yearsley
Sweetest love returne again by Mary Wroth
In this strange Labyrinth by Mary Wroth
The Windows by George Herbert
Man by George Herbert
Apostle Town by Anne Carson

Indian Poetry

Freedom to the Slave by HLV Derozio
An Introduction by Kamala Das
My Grandmother's House by Kamala Das
An Orphan Girl by HLV Derozio
Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel
The Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom by Robin S. Ngangom
A poem for Mother by Robin S Ngangom
My mother at Sixty six by Kamala Das
When my play was with Thee by Rabindranath Tagore
Light, oh where is the light? by Rabindranath Tagore
The Void by G.M. Muktibodh
The Land of Half Humans by Thangjam Ibopishak Singh
‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind by Thangjam Ibopishak Singh
I Say unto Waris Shah by Amrita Pritam
For Your Lanes, My Country by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
I Shall Return to this Bengal by Jibananda Das
'Small Towns and the River' by Mamang Dai
The Voice of the Mountain by Mamang Dai
She must be from another country by Imtiaz Dharker
WOLF by Keki Daruwalla
Hawk by Keki Daruwalla
WOMAN by Arun Kolatkar
Soul Bird by Temsula Ao
Between Jejuri and the Railway Station by Arun Kolatkar
Biograph by Arun Kolatkar
Love Poem for a Wife - A. K. Ramanujan
The Indian Summer by Jayanta Mahapatra
Hunger by Jayanta Mahapatra
Irani Restaurant Bombay by Arun Kolatkar
The Potato Peelers by Arun Kolatkar
O naive heart by Mirza Ghalib
White Asparagus by Sujata Bhatt
My wails need a lifetime to reach the heart by Mirza Ghalib