This eBook contains the text of “The Hundred Best English Poems” published in 1904 and compiled by Adam Gowans. Gowans included what he considered work of the best British poets from the 16th to 19th centuries. The list of poets and their work included in this eBook is as follows:

Anonymous
Madrigal

ARNOLD
The Forsaken Merman

BARBAULD
Life

BROWNING
Song from "Pippa Passes"
Song from "Pippa Passes"
The Lost Mistress
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
Epilogue

BURNS
The Silver Tassie
Of a' the Airts
John Anderson my Jo
Ae Fond Kiss
Ye Flowery Banks
A Red, Red Rose
Mary Morison

BYRON
She Walks in Beauty
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
Song from "The Corsair"
Song from "Don Juan"

CAMPBELL
Hohenlinden

CLOUGH
Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth

COLERIDGE
Youth and Age

COLLINS
Written in the Year 1746

COWPER
To a Young Lady

CUNNINGHAM
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

DAVENANT
Song

DRYDEN
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

GOLDSMITH
Song

GRAY
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard

HENLEY
To R. T. H. B.
I. M. Margaritae Sorori

HERBERT
Virtue

HERRICK
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
To Anthea, who may command him anything

HOOD
The Death Bed
The Bridge of Sighs
I Remember, I Remember

JONSON
To Celia

KEATS
On first looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Sonnet

LAMB
The Old Familiar Faces

LANDOR
The Maid's Lament

LOVELACE
To Lucasta. Going to the Wars

MILTON
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
On his Blindness

NAIRINE
The Land o' the Leal

POPE
Ode on Solitude

RALEIGH
The Night before his Death

ROGERS
A Wish

SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets. XVII. Who will believe my verse?
XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
XXX. When to the sessions
XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning
LX. Like as the waves
LXVI. Tired with all these
LXXI. No longer mourn
LXXIII. That time of year
LXXIV. But be contented
CVI. When in the chronicle
CXVI. Let me not to the marriage
Song from "The Tempest"
Song from "Measure for Measure"
Song from "Much Ado about Nothing"
Song from "Cymbeline”

SHELLEY
Song from "Prometheus Unbound"
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Chorus from "Hellas"
Stanzas. Written in Dejection, near Naples
The Indian Serenade
To ----
To Night

SHIRLEY
Song from "Ajax and Ulysses"

SOUTHEY
Stanzas

STEVENSON
Requiem

TENNYSON
Song from "The Miller's Daughter"
St. Agnes' Eve
Break, break, break
Song from "The Princess"
Song from "The Princess"
Crossing the Bar

WALLER
On a Girdle
Song

WORDSWORTH
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
She was a Phantom of delight
Sonnets. Part I.--XXXIII. The world is too much with us
Part II.--XXXVI. Earth has not anything
To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond
The Solitary Reaper
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

WOTTON
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia


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