My buddy, the polymath Charles Martin, has pointed out that I really should

have given links for all those poems. He went to the trouble of googling

them all, and I am duly shamed. Here are Charles’s links:

1. Tennyson, “The Eagle” (6)

2. Housman, “Into my heart an air that kills…” (8)

3. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (12)

4. Milton, “On His Blindness” (14)

5. Hopkins, “Felix Randal” (14)

6. Masefield, “Cargoes” (15)

7. Emerson, “Concord Hymn” (16)

8. Clough, “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth” (16)

9. Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (18)

10. Blake, “The Tiger” (24)

(Spelled “Tyger”, by the way)

11. Newbolt, “Vitai Lampada” (24)

12. Shakespeare, “Fear No More the Heat of the Sun” (24)

13. Wordsworth, “Daffodils” (24)

14. Kipling, “Recessional” (30)

15. Wolfe, “The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna” (32)

16. Arnold, “Dover Beach” (37)

17. Poe, “Annabel Lee” (41)

18. Burns, “To a Mouse” (48)

19. Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (128)

20. Chesterton, “Lepanto” (145)