Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792–1822 | Hymn of Pan |
| The Invitation |
| Hellas |
| To a Skylark |
| The Moon |
| Ode to the West Wind |
| The Indian Serenade |
| Night |
| From the Arabic |
| Lines |
| To —— |
| The Question |
| Remorse |
| Music, when Soft Voices die |
| Shirley, James. 1596–1666 | A Hymn |
| Death the Leveller |
| Sidney, Sir Philip. 1554–86 | The Bargain |
| Song |
| Voices at the Window |
| Philomela |
| The Highway |
| This Lady’s Cruelty |
| Sleep |
| Splendidis longum valedico Nugis |
| Sigerson, Dora. d. 1918 | Ireland |
| Skelton, John. 1460?–1529 | To Mistress Margery Wentworth |
| To Mistress Margaret Hussey |
| Smart, Christopher. 1722–1770 | Song to David |
| Smith, Alexander. 1829–1867 | Love |
| Barbara |
| Smollett, Tobias George. 1721–1771 | To Leven Water |
| Southey, Caroline. 1787–1854 | To Death |
| Southey, Robert. 1774–1843 | His Books |
| Southwell, Robert. 1561–95 | Times go by Turns |
| The Burning Babe |
| Spenser, Edmund. 1552–1599 | Whilst it is prime |
| A Ditty |
| Prothalamion |
| Epithalamion |
| Daphnaïda (excerpt) |
| Easter |
| Stanley, Thomas. 1625–1678 | The Relapse |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1850–1894 | Romance |
| In the Highlands |
| Requiem |
| Stevenson, William. 1530?–1575 | Jolly Good Ale and Old |
Stirling, Earl of
(William Alexander). 1580?–1640 | Aurora |
| Strode, William. 1602–1645 | Chloris in the Snow |
| Suckling, Sir John. 1609–1642 | A Doubt of Martyrdom |
| The Constant Lover |
| Why so Pale and Wan? |
| When, Dearest, I but think of Thee |
| Swinburne, Algernon Charles. 1837–1909 | Chorus from ‘Atalanta’ |
| Hertha |
| Ave atque Vale |
| Itylus |
| Sylvester, Joshua. 1563–1618 | Ubique |
| Taylor, Sir Henry. 1800–1866 | Elena’s Song |
| Tennyson, Frederick. 1807–1898 | The Holy Tide |
| Tennyson, Lord. 1809–1892 | Mariana |
| The Lady of Shalott |
| The Miller’s Daughter |
| Song of the Lotos-Eaters |
| St. Agnes’ Eve |
| Blow, Bugle, blow |
| Summer Night |
| Come down, O Maid |
| In Memoriam (excerpt) |
| Maud |
| O that ’twere possible |
| Thom, William. 1798–1848 | The Blind Boy’s Pranks |
| Thompson, Francis. 1859–1907 | The Poppy |
| Thomson, James. 1700–1748 | On the Death of a particular Friend |
| Thomson, James. 1834–1882 | In the Train |
| Sunday up the River |
| Gifts |
| The Vine |
| Thurlow, Lord. 1781–1829 | May |
| Todhunter, John. 1839–1916 | Maureen |
| Aghadoe |
| Traherne, Thomas. 1637?–1674 | News |
| Turner, Charles Tennyson. 1808–1879 | Letty’s Globe |
| Vaughan, Henry. 1621–1695 | The Retreat |
| Peace |
| The Timber |
| Friends Departed |
| Wade, Thomas. 1805–1875 | The Half-asleep |
| Walker, William Sidney. 1795–1846 | Too solemn for day, too sweet for night |
| Waller, Edmund. 1606–1687 | On a Girdle |
| Go, lovely Rose |
| Old Age |
| Walsh, William. 1663–1708 | Rivals |
| Watson, William. b. 1858 | Song |
| Ode in May |
| The Great Misgiving |
| Watts, Isaac. 1674–1748 | The Day of Judgement |
| A Cradle Hymn |
| Watts-Dunton, Theodore. 1836–1914 | Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern |
| Webbe, Charles. c. 1678 | Against Indifference |
| Webster, John. ?–1630? | A Dirge |
| The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi |
| Vanitas Vanitatum |
| Wever, Robert. c. 1550 | In Youth is Pleasure |
| Whitman, Walt. 1819–1892 | The Imprisoned Soul |
| O Captain! My Captain! |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf. 1807–1892 | Vesta |
| Wither, George. 1588–1667 | I loved a Lass |
| The Lover’s Resolution |
| The Choice |
| A Widow’s Hymn |
| Wolfe, Charles. 1791–1823 | The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna |
| To Mary |
| Woods, Margaret L. b. 1856 | Genius Loci |
| Wordsworth, William. 1770–1850 | Lucy i |
| Lucy ii |
| Lucy iii |
| Lucy iv |
| Lucy v |
| Upon Westminster Bridge |
| Evening on Calais Beach |
| On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 |
| England, 1802 i |
| England, 1802 ii |
| England, 1802 iii |
| England, 1802 iv |
| England, 1802 v |
| The Solitary Reaper |
| Perfect Woman |
| Daffodils |
| Ode to Duty |
| The Rainbow |
| The Sonnet i |
| The Sonnet ii |
| The World |
| Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
| Desideria |
| Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon |
| Mutability |
| The Trosachs |
| Speak! |
| Wotton, Sir Henry. 1568–1639 | Elizabeth of Bohemia |
| The Character of a Happy Life |
| Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife |
| Wyatt, Sir Thomas. 1503–1542 | Forget not yet |
| The Appeal |
| A Revocation |
| Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus… |
| To His Lute |
| Yeats, William Butler. b. 1865 | Where My Books go |
| When You are Old |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
