Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| Jago, Richard. 1715–1781 | Absence |
| James I (King of Scotland). 1394–1437 | Spring Song of the Birds |
| Johnson, Samuel. 1709–1784 | One-and-Twenty |
| On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic |
| Jones, Ebenezer. 1820–1860 | When the World is burning |
| Jones, Sir William. 1746–1794 | Epigram |
| Jonson, Ben. 1573–1637 | Hymn to Diana |
| To Celia |
| Simplex Munditiis |
| The Shadow |
| The Triumph |
| An Elegy |
| A Farewell to the World |
| The Noble Balm |
| On Elizabeth L. H. |
| On Salathiel Pavy |
| A Part of an Ode |
| Jordan, Thomas. 1612?–1685 | Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant |
| Keats, John. 1795–1821 | Song of the Indian Maid |
| Ode to a Nightingale |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Ode to Psyche |
| To Autumn |
| Ode on Melancholy |
| Fragment of an Ode to Maia |
| Bards of Passion and of Mirth |
| Fancy |
| Stanzas |
| Las Belle Dame sans Merci |
| On first looking into Chapman’s Homer |
| When I have Fears that I may cease to be |
| To Sleep |
| Last Sonnet |
| Keble, John. 1792–1866 | Burial of the Dead |
| Kendall, Henry Clarence. 1841–1882 | Mooni |
| King, Henry (Bishop of Chichester). 1592–1669 | A Contemplation upon Flowers |
| A Renunciation |
| Exequy on his Wife |
| Kingsley, Charles. 1819–1875 | Airly Beacon |
| The Sands of Dee |
| Kipling, Rudyard. b. 1865 | A Dedication |
| L’Envoi |
| Recessional |
| Lamb, Charles. 1775–1834 | The Old Familiar Faces |
| Hester |
| On an Infant dying as soon as born |
| Lamb, Mary. 1765–1847 | A Child |
| Landor, Walter Savage. 1775–1864 | The Maid’s Lament |
| Rose Aylmer |
| Ianthe |
| Twenty Years hence |
| Verse |
| Proud Word you never spoke |
| Resignation |
| Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel |
| Autumn |
| Remain! |
| Absence |
| Of Clementina |
| Ianthe’s Question |
| On Catullus |
| Dirce |
| Alciphron and Leucippe |
| Years |
| Separation |
| Late Leaves |
| Finis |
| Lang, Andrew. 1844–1912 | The Odyssey |
| Le Gallienne, Richard. b. 1866 | Song |
| The Second Crucifixion |
| Lindsay, Lady Anne. 1750–1825 | Auld Robin Gray |
| Locker-Lampson, Frederick. 1821–1895 | At Her Window |
| Lodge, Thomas. 1556?–1625 | Rosaline |
| Rosalind’s Madrigal |
| Phillis 1 |
| Phillis 2 |
| Logan, John. 1748–1788 | To the Cuckoo |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 1807–1882 | My Lost Youth |
| Lovelace, Richard. 1618–1658 | To Lucasta, going to the Wars |
| To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas |
| Gratiana Dancing |
| To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair |
| The Grasshopper |
| To Althea, from Prison |
| Lydgate, John. 1370?–1450? | Vox ultima Crucis |
| Lyly, John. 1553–1606 | Cards and Kisses |
| Spring’s Welcome |
| Lyttelton, Lord. 1709–1773 | Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love |
| Lytton, Earl of. 1831–1892 | A Night in Italy |
| The Last Wish |
| Macaulay, Lord. 1800–1859 | A Jacobite’s Epitaph |
| MacDonald, George. 1824–1905 | That Holy Thing |
| Mahony, Francis. 1805–1866 | The Bells of Shandon |
| Mangan, James Clarence. 1803–1849 | Dark Rosaleen |
| The Nameless One |
| Mannyng of Brunne, Robert. 1269–1340 | Praise of Women |
| Marlowe, Christopher. 1564–93 | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| Marvell, Andrew. 1621–1678 | An Horatian Ode |
| A Garden |
| To His Coy Mistress |
| The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers |
| Thoughts in a Garden |
| Bermudas |
| An Epitaph |
| Mayne, Jasper. 1604–1672 | Time |
| Melcombe, Lord. 1691?–1762 | Shorten Sail |
| Meredith, George. 1828–1909 | Love in the Valley |
| Phoebus with Admetus |
| Tardy Spring |
| Love’s Grave |
| Lucifer in Starlight |
| Meynell, Alice. b. 1850 | Renouncement |
| The Lady of the Lambs |
| Milton, John. 1608–1674 | Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity |
| On Time |
| At a Solemn Musick |
| L’Allegro |
| Il Penseroso |
| Arcades (excerpt) |
| Comus i (excerpt) |
| Comus ii (excerpt) |
| Comus iii (excerpt) |
| Comus iv (excerpt) |
| Lycidas |
| On His Blindness |
| To Mr. Lawrence |
| To Cyriack Skinner |
| On His Deceased Wife |
| Light |
| Samson Agonistes i (excerpt) |
| Samson Agonistes ii (excerpt) |
