Pre-20th Century Poems

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ONLY poems listed here or in the current printed anthology are eligible for the 2012-2013 Poetry Out Loud competition. More information here.

Confessions

By Robert Browning

Constancy to an Ideal Object

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Country Boy in Winter

By Sarah Orne Jewett

The Cross of Snow

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Crossing the Bar

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Days Gone By

By James Whitcomb Riley

The Destruction of Sennacherib

By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dirge in Woods

By George Meredith

The Doubt of Future Foes

By Queen Elizabeth I

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold