Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| Daniel, Samuel. 1562–1619 | Love is a Sickness |
| Ulysses and the Siren |
| Beauty, Time, and Love |
| Darley, George. 1795–1846 | Song |
| To Helene |
| The Fallen Star |
| Davenant, Sir William. 1606–1668 | Aubade |
| To a Mistress Dying |
| Praise and Prayer |
| Davidson, John. 1857–1909 | Song |
| The Last Rose |
| Davies, Sir John. 1569–1626 | Man |
| De Vere, Aubrey. 1814–1902 | Serenade |
| Sorrow |
| De Vere, Sir Aubrey. 1788–1846 | The Children Band |
| Dekker, Thomas. 1575–1641 | Sweet Content |
| Dobell, Sydney. 1824–1874 | The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston |
| Return! |
| A Chanted Calendar |
| Laus Deo |
| Dobson, Henry Austin. b. 1840 | A Garden Song |
| Urceus Exit |
| In After Days |
| Donne, John. 1573–1631 | Daybreak |
| Song |
| That Time and Absence proves |
| The Ecstasy |
| The Dream |
| The Funeral |
| A Hymn to God the Father |
| Death |
Dorset, Earl of,
Charles Sackville. 1638–1706 | Song |
| Drayton, Michael. 1563–1631 | To His Coy Love |
| The Parting |
| Sirena |
| Agincourt |
| To the Virginian Voyage |
Drummond, William,
of Hawthornden. 1585–1649 | Invocation |
| Madrigal |
| Spring Bereaved 1 |
| Spring Bereaved 2 |
| Spring Bereaved 3 |
| Her Passing |
| Inexorable |
| Change should breed Change |
| Saint John Baptist |
| Dryden, John. 1631–1700 | Ode |
| A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 |
| Ah, how sweet it is to love! |
| Hidden Flame |
| Song to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Spring |
| Lament of the Irish Emigrant |
| Dunbar, William. 1465–1520? | To a Lady |
| In Honour of the City of London |
| On the Nativity of Christ |
| Lament for the Makers |
| D’Urfeyd, Thomas. 1653–1723 | Chloe Divine |
| Edwardes, Richard. 1523–66 | Amantium Irae |
| Elliot, Jane. 1727–1805 | A Lament for Flodden |
| Elliott, Ebenezer. 1781–1849 | Battle Song |
| Plaint |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803–1882 | Give All to Love |
| Uriel |
| Bacchus |
| Brahma |
| Etherege, Sir George. 1635–1691 | Song |
| To a Lady asking him how long he would love her |
| Fanshawe, Sir Richard. 1608–1666 | A Rose |
| Ferguson, Sir Samuel. 1810–1886 | Cean Dubh Deelish |
| Cashel of Munster |
| The Fair Hills of Ireland |
| Fitzgerald, Edward. 1809–1883 | Old Song |
| Omar Khayyám (excerpt) |
| Flatman, Thomas. 1637–1688 | The Sad Day |
| Fletcher, Giles. 158?–1623 | Wooing Song |
| Fletcher, John. 1579–1625 | Sleep |
| Bridal Song |
| Aspatia’s Song |
| Hymn to Pan |
| Away, Delights |
| Love’s Emblems |
| Hear, ye Ladies |
| God Lyaeus |
| Beauty Clear and Fair |
| Melancholy |
| Weep no more |
| Fletcher, Phineas. 1580–1650 | A Litany |
| Ford, John. 1586–1639 | Dawn |
| Fox, George. 1815–? | The County of Mayo |
| Gascoigne, George. 1525?–77 | A Lover’s Lullaby |
| Gay, John. 1688–1732 | Song |
| Goldsmith, Oliver. 1728–1774 | Woman |
| Memory |
| Gosse, Edmund. b. 1849 | Revelation |
| Gray, Thomas. 1716–1771 | Elegy written in a Country Churchyard |
| The Curse upon Edward |
| The Progress of Poesy |
| On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes |
| Greene, Robert. 1560–92 | Samela |
| Fawnia |
| Sephestia’s Lullaby |
| Greville, Fanny. 18th Cent. | Prayer for Indifference |
| Griffin, Gerald. 1803–1840 | Eileen Aroon |
| Grimald, Nicholas. 1519–62 | A True Love |
| Habington, William. 1605–1654 | To Roses in the Bosom of Castara |
| Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam |
| Harte, Bret. 1839–1902 | What the Bullet sang |
| Hawes, Stephen. d. 1523 | The True Knight |
| An Epitaph |
| Hawker, Robert Stephen. 1804–1875 | King Arthur’s Waes-hael |
| Are they not all Ministering Spirits? |
| Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. 1793–1835 | Dirge |
| Henley, William Ernest. 1849–1903 | Invictus |
| Margaritæ Sorori |
| England, My England |
| Henryson, Robert. 1425–1500 | Robin and Makyne |
| The Bludy Serk |
| Herbert, George. 1593–1632 | Virtue |
| Easter |
| Discipline |
| A Dialogue |
| The Pulley |
| Love |
| Herrick, Robert. 1591–1674 | Corinna’s going a-Maying |
| To the Virgins, to make much of Time |
| To the Western Wind |
| To Electra |
| To Violets |
| To Daffodils |
| To Blossoms |
| The Primrose |
| The Funeral Rites of the Rose |
| Cherry-Ripe |
| A Meditation for his Mistress |
| Delight in Disorder |
| Upon Julia’s Clothes |
| The Bracelet: To Julia |
| To Daisies, not to shut so soon |
| The Night-piece: To Julia |
| To Music, to becalm his Fever |
| To Dianeme |
| To Oenone |
| To Anthea, who may command him Anything |
| To the Willow-tree |
| The Mad Maid’s Song |
| Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love |
| To Meadows |
| A Child’s Grace |
| Epitaph, upon a Child that died |
| Another |
| His Winding-sheet |
| Litany to the Holy Spirit |
| Heywood, Thomas. 157?–1650 | Matin Song |
| The Message |
| Hinkson, Katharine Tynan. b. 1861 | Sheep and Lambs |
| Hoccleve, Thomas. 1368–9?–1450? | Lament for Chaucer |
| Hogg, James. 1770–1835 | A Boy’s Song |
| Kilmeny |
| Hood, Thomas. 1798–1845 | Autumn |
| Silence |
| Death |
| Fair Ines |
| Time of Roses |
| Ruth |
| The Death-bed |
| The Bridge of Sighs |
| Horne, Richard Henry. 1803–1884 | The Plough |
| Houghton, Lord. 1809–1885 | Shadows |
| Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey). 1516–47 | Description of Spring |
| Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea |
| The Means to attain Happy Life |
| Howells, William Dean. b. 1837 | Earliest Spring |
| Hume, Alexander. 1560–1609 | A Summer Day |
| Hunt, Leigh. 1784–1859 | Jenny kiss’d Me |
| Hyde, Douglas. b. 1861 | My Grief on the Sea |
