Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
| Addison, Joseph. 1672–1719 | Hymn |
| Ainslie, Hew. 1792–1878 | Willie and Helen |
| Akenside, Mark. 1721–1770 | Amoret |
| The Complaint |
| The Nightingale |
| Alford, Henry. 1810–1871 | The Bride |
| Allingham, William. 1824–1889 | The Fairies |
| Anonymous. 13th Cent. | Cuckoo Song |
| Anonymous. 14th Cent. | Alison |
| Spring-tide |
| Blow, Northern Wind |
| This World’s Joy |
| A Hymn to the Virgin |
| Of a rose, a lovely rose |
| Anonymous. 15th Cent. | Quia Amore Langueo |
| May in the Green-Wood |
| Carol |
| The Nut-Brown Maid |
| Anonymous. 16th Cent. | The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring |
| The Old Cloak |
| When Flora had O’erfret the Firth |
| Lusty May |
| My Heart is High Above |
| As ye came from the Holy Land |
| Balow |
| Hey nonny no! |
| A Praise of His Lady |
| To Her Sea-faring Lover |
| The Faithless Shepherdess |
| Crabbed Age and Youth |
| Preparations |
| Anonymous. 17th Cent. | Thomas the Rhymer |
| Sir Patrick Spens |
| The Lass of Lochroyan |
| The Dowie Houms of Yarrow |
| Clerk Saunders |
| Fair Annie |
| Edward, Edward |
| Edom o’ Gordon |
| The Queen’s Marie |
| Binnorie |
| The Bonnie House o’ Airlie |
| The Wife of Usher’s Well |
| The Three Ravens |
| The Twa Corbies |
| A Lyke-Wake Dirge |
| The Seven Virgins |
| Two Rivers |
| Cradle Song |
| The Call |
| The Bonny Earl of Murray |
| Helen of Kirconnell |
| Waly, Waly |
| Barbara Allen’s Cruelty |
| Pipe and Can |
| Love will find out the Way |
| Phillada flouts Me |
| Phyllida’s Love-Call |
| A Pedlar |
| The New Jerusalem |
| Icarus |
| Madrigal |
| How can the Heart forget her? |
| Tears |
| My Lady’s Tears |
| Sister, Awake! |
| Devotion |
| Since First I saw your Face |
| There is a Lady sweet and kind |
| Love not me for comely grace |
| The Wakening |
| Arnold, Matthew. 1822–1888 | The Forsaken Merman |
| The Song of Callicles |
| To Marguerite |
| Requiescat |
| The Scholar-Gipsy |
| Philomela |
| Shakespeare |
| From the Hymn of Empedocles |
| Ashe, Thomas. 1836–1889 | Meet We no Angels, Pansie? |
| To Two Bereaved |
| Ayton, Sir Robert. 1570–1638 | To His Forsaken Mistress |
| To an Inconstant One |
| Baillie, Joanna. 1762–1851 | The Outlaw’s Song |
| Baillie, Lady Grisel. 1665–1746 | Werena my Heart’s licht I wad dee |
| Bannerman, Frances. | An Upper Chamber |
| Barbauld, Anna Lætitia. 1743–1825 | Life |
| Barbour, John. d. 1395 | Freedom |
| Barnefield, Richard. 1574–1627 | Philomel |
| Barnes, William. 1801–1886 | Mater Dolorosa |
| The Wife a-lost |
| Beattie, James. 1735–1803 | An Epitaph |
| Beaumont, Francis. 1586–1616 | On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey |
| Beaumont, Sir John. 1583–1627 | Of his Dear Son, Gervase |
| Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. 1803–1849 | Wolfram’s Dirge |
| Dream-Pedlary |
| Song |
| Beeching, Henry Charles. 1859–1919 | Prayers |
| Going down Hill on a Bicycle |
| Behn, Aphra. 1640–1689 | Song |
| The Libertine |
| Benson, Arthur Christopher. b. 1862 | The Phoenix |
| Binyon, Laurence. b. 1869 | Invocation to Youth |
| O World, be Nobler |
| Blackmore, R. D. 1825–1900 | Dominus Illuminatio Mea |
| Blake, William. 1757–1827 | To the Muses |
| To Spring |
| Song |
| Reeds of Innocence |
| The Little Black Boy |
| Hear the Voice |
| The Tiger |
| Cradle Song |
| Night |
| Love’s Secret |
| Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. b. 1840 | Song |
| The Desolate City |
| With Esther |
| To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her |
| St. Valentine’s Day |
| Gibraltar |
| Written at Florence |
| The Two Highwaymen |
| Bowles, William Lisle. 1762–1850 | Time and Grief |
| Boyd, Mark Alexander. 1563–1601 | Sonet |
| Breton, Nicholas. 1542–1626 | Phillida and Coridon |
| A Cradle Song |
| Bridges, Robert. b. 1844 | My Delight and Thy Delight |
| Spirits |
| Nightingales |
| A Passer-by |
| Absence |
| On a Dead Child |
| Pater Filio |
| Winter Nightfall |
| When Death to Either shall come |
| Brome, Alexander. 1620–1666 | The Resolve |
