Poetry Marathon Index
Dean’s list of poems
Author
Short title
No
Type
of
lines
Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens
76
Anonymous
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
44
Anonymous
If all the World
28
Arnold, Mathew From Sohrab and Rustum
56
Arnold, Matthew Dover Beach
41
Auden W. H.
The Shield of Achilles
68
Auden, W.H
Refugee Blues
47
Auden, W.H
Old People’s Home
31
Auden, W.H.
Oxford
50
Auden, W.H.
Musee des Beaux Arts
21
Auden, W.H.
If I could tell you
19
Auden, W.H.
On the Circuit
64
Auden, W.H.
The Night Mail
54
Auden, W.H.
Roman Wall Blues
14
Barham, R.M
The Jackdaw of Rheims
161
Belloc, Hilaire
Jim who ran away from his nurse 54
Betjeman, John Christmas
50
Betjeman, John In Westminster Abbey
44
Betjeman, John Cornish Cliffs
30
Betjeman, John Diary of a Church Mouse
62
Betjeman, John Percival Mandeville – the Perfect 45
Boy
Betjeman, John False Security
34
Betjeman, John An Edwardian Sunday
50
Betjeman, John Pershore Station
20
Binyon,
For the Fallen
28
Laurence
Blake, William
Jerusalem
16
Blake, William
The Tyger
24
Bridges, Robert London Snow
37
Brock, Edwin
Five ways to kill a man
31
Bronte, Anne
Last Lines
52
Bronte, Emily
No Coward Soul
28
Brooke, Rupert Fishes’ Heaven
34
Brooke, Rupert The Soldier
15
Browning,
Elizabeth
Browning, R
Browning, R
Browning, R
Browning, R
Browning, R
Browning,
Robert
Bunyan, John
Bunyan, John
Byron, Lord
Byron, Lord
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis
Causely,
Charles
Chaucer,
Geoffrey
Chaucer,
Geoffrey
Chesterton,
G.K.
A Musical Instrument
40
The Bishop orders his Tomb…
Love Among the Ruins
Fra Lippo Lippi
Andrea del Sarto
A Grammarian’s Funeral
Pied Piper of Hamelin
125
84
392
267
140
320
Upon the snail
Who would true valour see
The Eve of Waterloo
The Destruction of Sennacharib
The Walrus and the Carpenter
You are old, Father William
Jabberwocky
The Mad Gardener’s Song
Timothy Winters
12
24
72
24
100
32
28
54
32
Chanticleer and Pertalot
35?
The Miller
24?
The Donkey
16?
Clare, John
Clare, John
Clare, John
Clough, A.H
‘I am but what I am who cares?’
Sudden Shower
I am
Say not the struggle naught
availeth
The Latest Decalogue
Kublai Khan
18
14
18
16
Leisure
If I were lord of Tartary
14
32
The Listeners
36
Cape Horn
Holy Sonnets 18 x 14 lines
La Corona: 7 Sonnets x 14 lines
21
252
98
Clough, A.H.
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor
Davies, W.H.
De La Mare,
Walter
De La Mare,
Walter
Dixey, Giles
Donne , John
Donne, John
20
54
Donne, John
Donne, John
Good Friday, Riding Westward
A Hymn to God my God, in my
Sicknesse
Duffy, Carol Ann Mrs Aesop
Duffy, Carol Ann Mrs Midas
Duffy, Carol Ann Queen Herod
Eliot T.S
Chorus 9 from The Rock
Eliot T.S.
Chorus from The Rock, 10
Eliot, T.S
Chorus from The Rock, 1
Eliot, T.S.
Chorus from The Rock 6
Eliot, T.S.
The Journey of the Magi
Eliot, T.S.
Murder in the Cathedral –
opening chorus
Eliot, T.S.
Little Gidding
Eliot, T.S.
A Song for Simeon
Eliot, T.S.
Chorus from The Rock, V
Eliot, T.S.
The Cultivation of Christmas
Trees
Eliot, T.S.
MacAvity the Mystery Cat
Fitzgerald,
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
I: 1-3, V: 12-15, 19-24, 71-72
Edward
42
30
Frost, Robert
Goldsmith,
Oliver
Gray, Thomas
Hardy Thomas
Hardy Thomas,
Hardy, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Hawker, Robert
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Acquainted with the Night
The Village Schoolmaster
14
24
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Wagtail and baby
Channel Firing
The Choirmaster’s Burial
At Day-close in November
And Shall Trelawney Die
Mossbawn: Two Poems in
Dedication
Digging
128
16
36
46
12
36
42
Blackberry-Picking
26
65
98
56
50
36
34
42
51
265
36
32
42
60
29
24
The Otter
28
The Harvest Bow
36
Twice Shy
30
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Heaney,
Seamus
Herbert, A.P.
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Herbert, George
Hood, Thomas
Hopkins, G.M
From the Frontier of Writing
24
A Personal Helicon
20
Beaucourt Revisted
A Dialogue
Easter Wings
The Pulley
Love
Praise
The 23rd Psalme
The Collar
The Flower
I remember, I remember
Ribblesdale
28
32
21
23
20
48
29
36
55
32
14
Hopkins, G.M
Hopkins, G.M
Hopkins, G.M
Housman, A.E
Housman, A.E
Hurrahing in Harvest
Binsey Poplars
The Windhover
‘In Summer-time on Bredon’
‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in
trouble’
Housman, A.E
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry
Now’
Hughes, Ted
Wind
Hughes, Ted
The Horses
Keats, John
There was a naughty boy
Kipling, Rudyard The Way through the Woods
Kipling, Rudyard If
Larkin, Philip
Churchgoing
Larkin, Philip
Going, going
Lawrence, D.H. Piano
Lawrence, D.H. Trees in the Garden
Lawrence, D.H. Last Lesson in the afternoon
Le Grice, Edwin Not far from Bethlehem
Lear, Edward
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
Lear, Edward
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
14
24
14
35
20
Macaulay, Lord
Macdonald,
George
565?
24
Horatius defends the Bridge
The Woman of Samaria
12
24
38
50
25
32
64
54
12
16
28
30?
30
100
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
MacNeice, Louis
Masefield, John
McGough,
Roger
Milton, John
The Sunlight on the Garden
Spring Sunshine
Another Cold May
London Rain
Snow
The Cromlech
Evening in Connecticut
Sea-Fever
A Good Poem
From Paradise Lost : Of man’s
first disobedience
Noyes, Alfred
The Highwayman
Owen, Wilfred
The Send-off
Owen, Wilfred
Dulce et decorum Est
Patten, Brian
A Small Dragon
Pope, Alexander ‘A little learning is a dangerous
thing’
Quoist, Abbe
Lord, why did you tell me to love
Michel
Quoist, Abbe
I like youngsters
Michel
Quoist, Abbe
Prayer before a Five Pound Note
Michel
Reeves, James The Sea
Rossetti,
Uphill
Christina
Sassoon,
Base Details
Siegfried
Sassoon,
The General
Siegfried
Scannell,
Hide and Seek
Vernon
Scott, Sir Walter Lochinvar
Shakespeare, W ‘This royal throne of kings, this
sceptr’d isle’
Shakespeare, W ‘O that we had but ten thousand
of those men in England’
Shakespeare, W ‘Once more into the Breach..’
Shakespeare, W ‘All the world’s a stage’
Shakespeare, W ‘To be or not to be’
Shakespeare, W ‘So farewell to the little good you
24
21
37
57
12
44
28
12
16
26
101
20
28
16
18
54
20
16
10
7
27
48
29
52
34
28
33
23
bare me’
Shakespeare, W ‘Fear no more the heat of the
sun…’
Shakespeare,
The Sonnets 1, 85, 113, 133
William
Shakespeare,
‘I know a bank whereon the wild
William
thyme blows’ MSD IIi
Shakespeare,
‘The Quality of Mercy…’ MoV
William
IV1
Shakespeare,
‘All the World’s a stage..’ ASYLI
William
IIvii
Shelley, P.B
Oxymandias
Smith, Stevie
Mrs Simpkins
Smith, Stevie
To the tune of the Coventry
Carol
Smith, Stevie
Conviction
Smith, Stevie
Breugel
Smith, Stevie
The Bishops of the CofE
Smith, Stevie
Tenuous and Precious
Smith, Stevie
The Weak Monk
Smith, Stevie
The Airy Christ
Southey, Robert The Inchcape Rock
Southey, Robert Bishop Hatto
Stallworthy, Jon Burning the Stubble
Stallworthy, Jon No ordinary Sunday
Stallworthy, Jon From The Life
Tennyson,
The Lady of Shallott
Alfred
Tennyson,
Blow, Bugle, Blow
Alfred
Tennyson,
Ulysses
Alfred
Tennyson,
St Agnes’ Eve
Alfred
Tennyson,
Crossing the Bar
Alfred
Tennyson,
The Flower
Alfred
Tennyson,
To the Rev FD Maurice
Alfred
Tennyson,
A Farewell
Alfred
18
19
14
28
14
22
18
30
26
18
17
15
18
68
80
18?
36
72
170
18
70
36
16
24
12
16
Tennyson,
Alfred
Tennyson,
Alfred
Tennyson,
Alfred
Tennyson,
Alfred
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, R.H.
Thomas, R.S.
Thomas, R.S.
Thomas, R.S.
Wolfe, Charles
Wordsworth, W
Wordsworth, W
Yeats, W.B.
Yeats, W.B.
Young, Andrew
The Revenge
119
Break, Break on thy cold grey
stones, O sea!
The Charge of the Light Brigade
16
‘An answer made King Arthur
breathing hard’
Do not go gentle…
Fern Hill
Light Breaks where no sun
shines
This Bread I break was once the
oat
A Grief Ago
And Death shall have No
Dominion
Poem in October
The Welsh Hill Country
The Chapel
In Church
The Country Clergy
The Burial of Sir John Moore
after Corunna
Lines composed a few miles
above Tintern Abbey
Composed upon Westminster
Bridge
46
In Memory of Major Robert
Gregory
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Shepherd’s Hut
94
55
19
54
30
15
40
45
70
18
18
20
15
32
162
14
12
10
Biblical References
2 Samuel I: 19-27
Job 38: 1-41
Psalm 1
Psalm 2
Psalm 8
Psalm 19
Psalm 23
Psalm 24
Psalm 40
Psalm 42
Psalm 84
Psalm 91
Psalm 98
Psalm 104
Psalm 115
Psalm 119
Psalm 121
Psalm 122
Psalm 137
Psalm 139
Psalm 148
Psalm 150
Ecclesiastes 1: 1-11
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
Song of Solomon 2:1-12
Isaiah 5:1-7
Isaiah 11:1-9
Isaiah 40 1:31
Isaiah 52-12 - 53:12
Isaiah 55: 1-13
Micah 4 1 – 5:4
Luke 1:46-55
David’s Lament for Saul &
Jonathan
The Lord’s Answer to job
Blessed is the man…
Why do the heathen rage?
O Lord, our Lord…
The Heavens declare
The Lord is my shepherd
The Earth is the Lord’s
I waited Patiently
As the hart panteth…
How amiable are thy
tabernacles
He that dwelleth…
O Sing unto the Lord..
Blessed the Lord…
Not unto us O Lord
Blessed are the Undefiled
I will lift up mine eyes…
I was glad when they said..
By the Rivers of Babylon
O Lord Thou has searched me
Praise ye the Lord
Praise ye the Lord, praise God
Vanity of Vanities, saith the Lord
To Everything there is a Season
I am the rose of Sharon
The Song of the Vineyard
And there shall come forth a
rod…
Comfort ye…
The Suffering Servant
Ho everyone that thirsteth
In the Last Days
The Magnificat
Luke 1: 68-79
Luke 2: 29-32
Hymns
Addison, Joseph
Bonar, Horatio?
Brooks, Phillips
Bunyan, John
Cowper, William
Crossman,
Samuel
Faber, F.W
Faber, F.W.
Herbert, George
Ingemann, B.S
Ken, Thomas
Lyte, H.F.
Newman, J.H.
Newman, J.H
Newton, John
Newton, John
Sears, E.H.
Da Siena,
Bianco
Tate and Brady
Toplady, A.M
Vaughan, Henry
Watts, Isaac
Wesley, Charles
White, H. Kirtle
Whittier, J.G.
Whittier, J.G,
The Benedictus
The Nunc Dimittis
When all thy mercies, O My God…
I heard the voice of Jesus say…
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Who would true valour see?
O for a closer walk with God
My Song is love unknown…
My God how wonderful thou art…
Souls of men, will ye scatter…
Teach me my God and King….
Through the night of doubt and
sorrow..
Awake my soul and with the sun…
Abide with me…
Lead kindly light…
Praise to the Holiest in the Height
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
Glorious things of thee are spoken
It came upon the midnight clear
Come down, O love divine
Through all the changing scenes of life
Rock of Ages…
My Soul, there is a country…
O God, our help…
Love Divine, All loves excelling
Oft in danger, oft in woe
Immortal love for ever full…
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind