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Timothy Adès

• A Poem of Brexit – July 2016
• Apparatus Criticus to ‘The Excellent Wessex Event’
• Lipograms from Stratford–on–Avon by Timothy Adès
• London Olympic Lipograms (LOL) and Paralypograms – 2012
• See all 8 poems by Timothy Adès...

Françoise Guichard (Facebook poet)

• Acrostic
• Following a discussion
• Margaret Eloise Knight
• Odysseus
• See all 9 poems by Françoise Guichard...

Guillaume Cingal

• Guillaume Cingal: Lenten Light

Bethany W Pope (1995)

• IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI

Deniz Otay (1993)

• Loredana Lipogram

Gabriela Olmos (1982)

• At a Loss in Alaska

Itzel Yarger Zagal (1979)

• Forbidden Fruit

Mme Delaleu (1966)

• Mme Delaleu (1966): Najac

Raoul Schrott (1964)

• Mitad del Mundo

Anita Menger (1959)

• With love I weave

Ariane Dreyfus (1958)

• Nothing Prevents Other Birds

Francis Combes (1953)

• If you feel cold…
• On My House Wall…
• Saint-Etienne-les-Orgues
• The Good Life
• See all 6 poems by Francis Combes...

Nijolė Miliauskaitė (1950-2002)

• Untitled

Francisco Serrano (1949)

• Circus Images

Guy Goffette (1947)

• Fantasia on a Known Air for Charles-Albert Cingria

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001)

• Six months you’ve been away from me

Ruedi Berger (1941)

• Stars falling

Angelika Schramm (1940)

• Heatwave 2022

Jean-Jacques Celly (1934)

• XL From ‘The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay’

Reiner Kunze (1933)

• Granny
• Why are dandelions gold?

Eva Strittmatter (1930-2011)

• Blue Day
• Moonlit Snow
• Nearing Winter
• Only once, just so

Günter Kunert (1929 –-2019)

• AWKWARDNESS

Inge Müller (1925-66)

• Ordeal By Fire

Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924-93)

• El Vi

Jacques Para (1923-2012)

• Memories

Josef Guggenmos (1922-2003)

• Yes she did!

Gisèle Prassinos (1920-2015)

• no-one’s going anywhere

Claude Roy (1915-97)

• C’EST TOUT UN ART D’ETRE UN CANARD

Jean Cayrol (1911-2005)

• Tomorrow

W.H. Auden (1907-73)

• ‘What spot do you aim at?’ by Wystan Hugh
• From: Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
• Oh where are you going

Mascha Kaléko (1907-75)

• One Swallow Doesn’t Make a… What’s that?
• The Man in the Moon

Sir John Betjeman (1906-84)

• A Subaltern’s Love Song

Salvador Novo (1904-74)

• LITERACY CAMPAIGN of the minister [and poet] J. Torres Bodet

Adolf Unger (1904-42)

• Gurs

Silvina Ocampo (1903-93)

• PALINURUS SLEEPLESS

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR (1903-87)

• Poem for a Doll bought in a Russian Bazaar

Ricardo López Méndez (1903-89)

• Rebozo de mi Madrecita

Panayiotis Kanellopoulos (1902-86)

• Recognising the Hero

Rose Ausländer (1901-88)

• Utopia

Robert Desnos (1900-45)

• Bagatelles
• Ballad of Fantomas
• Conte de Fée
• Daniel’s Geometry: four poems translated by Timothy Adès
• See all 14 poems by Robert Desnos...

Jacques Prévert (1900-77)

• Fiesta
• Quicksands
• Said the Angel, ‘Strange, I’ll say, an angel.’
• The Message

Erich Kästner (1899-1974)

• Fantasy of the Day After Tomorrow
• Frau Pichler Arrives in Heaven
• Necessary Answer to Superfluous Questions
• Up from the Country
• See all 5 poems by Erich Kästner...

Maurice Carême (1899-1978)

• Cat & Sun
• Homonyms
• In the pink dawn, it snowed
• My little bunny
• See all 8 poems by Maurice Carême...

Roger Vitrac (1899-1952)

• HUMORAGE TO PICASSO

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

• Offering Him Flowers
• Sonnet Of The Sweet Complaint
• Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
• Telephone
• See all 5 poems by Federico García Lorca...

F. García Lorca (1898-1936)

• Epitaph for Isaac Albéniz

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

• Murder Ballad Of The Reichstag Fire

Louis Aragon (1897-1982)

• "C"
• LES YEUX D'ELSA
• Robert The Devil – I think of you Robert

Jean Cassou (1897-1986)

• He and She
• Mars Awestruck
• Sonnet 4
• Sonnet 5
• See all 5 poems by Jean Cassou...

Erich Korngold (1897-1957)

• Pierrot’s Dance

Xu Zhimo (1897-1931)

• I Don’t Know Which Direction the Wind is Blowing

‘Nino’ – Michel Veber – (1896-1965)

• The Mouse from England

Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977)

• RAINSONG

Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976)

• If I could wish for something

Eugen Roth (1895-1976)

• A Load Not Needed
• A Simple Matter
• Evil
• The Postcard

Paul Eluard (1895-1952)

• Curfew

Edlef Köppen (1893-1939)

• Peace
• Peace and War!

Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964)

• Darkness and Light
• February by Night
• Question and Answer

Richard Hülsenbeck (1892-1974)

• DADA REED-PIPE

Pedro Salinas (1891-1951)

• Last night

Georg Britting (1891-1964)

• Riever

Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918)

• After a Bad Dream
• An die Soldaten des Großen Krieges

Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940)

• Rest your head

Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)

• Breakfast

Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (1890-1914)

• In Your Room

Erich Weinert (1890-1953)

• Paragraph 218

Genaro Prieto (1889-1946)

• Apure in One Journey

Jorge Luis Borges (1889-1986)

• Sonnet to Wine
• To Wine

Georg von der Vring (1889-1968)

• ‘Och, for aye is sae lang’ – words on a cemetery in Oldenburg
• Most happily
• October Rose

Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)

• Figura de México / Outline of Mexico
• Grandfather
• Ode on the Death of Tolstoy
• Silencio / Silence

Alfred Lichtenstein (1889- 1914)

• Farewell

Emmy Ball-Hennings (1888-1948)

• Morphine
• My Childhood Heaven

“Alberto Caeiro” Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

• XLIV

Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921)

• MEMORIES OF THE CIRCUS
• Tenías un Rebozo de Seda
• The Accursed Homecoming

Friedrich Schnack (1888-1977)

• Father And Child

Emmy Hennings (1888-1948)

• Dancer
• In hospital

Old Possum (1888-1965)

• Courtship Song of J. Arthur Prufrock

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

• Song Of Schmidt (The Broadcaster)
• Sonnet

Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

• St.-Peters-Friedhof, Salzburg

Hugo Ball (1886-1927)

• Ich Liebte Nicht
• Intermezzo
• Two Poems From “Cabaret Voltaire”

Hans Arp (1886-1966)

• Black on Wise – a Dada poem

Max Herrmann-Neiße (1886-1941)

• Having no country
• Your hair has songs, I love them

Carl Wolff (1884 –-1938)

• Put a sea-shell to your ear

Ángelos Sikelianós (1884-1951)

• Anadyomenê (Aphrodite Rising)
• Because Deep Down I Glorified…
• Calypso’s Song
• John Keats
• See all 6 poems by Ángelos Sikelianós...

Karl Borromäus Heinrich (1884-1938)

• A crocodile, a female

Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934)

• Evening on the Shore
• I love you I love
• Joy
• Legs
• See all 6 poems by Joachim Ringelnatz...

Marie Under (1883-1980)

• The Orphan

Marie Gevers (1883-1975)

• Chanson pour une nuit de Noël

Charles Oulmont (1883-1984)

• It’s Snowing

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958)

• El Viaje Definitivo

Raymond Genty (1881-1950)

• Fairies’ Moonlight

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

• Carnival
• Clotilde
• Exercice / Drill
• Hunting-Horns
• See all 8 poems by Guillaume Apollinaire...

Carlos Pezoa Véliz (1879-1908)

• The Bohemian Raises his Glass

Lambros Porphyras (1879-1932)

• Sea Voices (Stand Death a Drink)
• The Last Fairy Tale
• The Voyage

Erich Mühsam (1878-1934)

• I am afraid
• I will go high up
• Kind und Pfau
• So many nights have hung star-laden, full

John Masefield (1878-1967)

• Big Pond Quinsy
• Sea Fever

Camill Hoffmann (1878-1944)

• Evening

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

• Adistrop
• My Latin version of Adlestrop

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

• All things pass
• Butterfly in the Wine
• Childhood
• Fog
• See all 20 poems by Hermann Hesse...

Else Lasker-Schüler (1876-1945)

• Abraham and Isaac
• An Old Tibetan Carpet
• Chocolate profiterole
• Come to me in the Night
• See all 12 poems by Else Lasker-Schüler...

Albert Sergel (1876-1946)

• Come Give Me Your Hand

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

• Advent
• Christmas Poem
• Dreams
• Evening
• See all 19 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke...

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

• Deep Song : Cante Hondo

Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910)

• Returning Home From The Fields
• The Theatre of the Humble

Richard von Schaukal (1874-1942)

• Over your closed eyes

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)

• Early Spring
• He and She

Manuel Machado (1874-1947)

• Three songs for Children

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

• The Donkey

Henry Levet (1874-1906)

• British India
• Outward Bound

Paul Fort (1872-1960)

• If all the world’s lasses

Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)

• Evening
• Foggy weaving
• Little house beside the rails
• Meadows of buttercup yellow
• See all 12 poems by Christian Morgenstern...

Fred W. Leigh (1871-1924) and Charles Collins (1874-1923)

• My Old Man Said ‘Follow the Van…’

Amado Nervo (1870-1919)

• Androgyne
• Nochebuena

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

• Bons Mots
• Tarantella – Lipogram

Peter Baum (1869-1916)

• Roaming

Stefan George (1868-1933)

• Entrückung
• My white macaws

Paul Claudel (1868-1955)

• (From) Christmas Marching Song

Rubén Darío (1867-1916)

• The Thrush and the Peacock

GEORGES FOUREST (1867-1945)

• Le Cid

Paul-Jean Toulet (1867-1920)

• Contrerimes

André Bellessort (1866-1942)

• Fantasio

Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910)

• Leaves and Tomcats

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

• Oak Ash and Thorn

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

• Leda and the Swan

Anna Ritter (1865-1921)

• I saw the Christ-child! Imagine it, though

Ricarda Huch (1864-1947)

• All our Work
• In heaven’s depth
• Kaiserstadt Wien
• Lonely Sprite
• See all 9 poems by Ricarda Huch...

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)

• Epiphany

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)

• Spring

John Polémis (1862-1925)

• The Old Violin

Lórentsos Mavílis (1860-1912)

• Kallipáteira – Greek Olympic Poem
• LETHE
• LULLABY

Jules Laforgue (1860-87)

• Poem

Sir Harold Boulton, Bt. (1859-1935)

• Skye Boat Song

Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936)

• Loveless

Peter Altenberg (1859-1919)

• Ljuba

George Drosinis (1859-1951)

• Evensong
• In The Heart Of Night

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859-95)

• For a menu
• My Little Duchess

A E Housman (1859-1936)

• Uricon

Kostis Palamas (1859-1943)

• Love

Manuel José Othón (1858-1906)

• Mexican Landscape: from ‘Savage Idyll’

Albert Samain (1858-1900)

• Cleopatra
• Resting In Egypt
• Versailles

Johanna Wolff (1858-1943)

• Give me Roses!

Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916)

• How Grim!
• Les Rois
• Premieres Aéroplanes
• Un Deuil / Mourning (1916)

Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)

• Wisdom

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• from The Importance of Being Earnest

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91)

• ‘Vowels’
• Crows
• Vocalisations

Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853-1928)

• Setting a Jewel

George Vizyenos (1848-94)

• The Dream

Paul Verlaine (1844-96)

• Moonlight
• My Familiar Dream
• On the Grass
• Parisian Sketch
• See all 10 poems by Paul Verlaine...

Peter Rosegger (1843-1918)

• Our heart is a harp

José-Maria de Hérédia (1842-1905)

• ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
• Épiphanie
• The Coral Reef
• The Slave

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98)

• Sailor's Wind

Lipograms – Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• Perdita Virgo
• The Caged Goldfinch

René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907)

• The Stranger

Ada Christen (1839-1901)

• Prague: At the old Jewish Cemetery

Achillies Paraschos (1838-95)

• The Laurel

Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

• When the hounds of spring…

Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)

• Le Secret / The Secret
• Let’s watch, as on the silver lake
• Poème d’amour
• Testament

Friederike Kempner (1836-1904)

• Spring is sprung!

Christian Wagner (1835-1918)

• Can You Know?

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

• Leave Him
• Measured Tread
• Once Again
• Romance of the Three Knights and the Fair Noble Maid
• See all 6 poems by Wilhelm Busch...

Christina Rossetti (1830-94)

• Linnet In A Gilded Cage

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-98)

• With Two Words

Matthew Arnold (1822-88)

• The Scholar Gypsy (end)

Charles Baudelaire (1821-67)

• Accords
• Cats
• Chill Out, My Sorrow

Theodor Fontane (1819-98)

• In the garden
• The hoard of honour in the world

Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818-94)

• Emmanuel: A Dream of Christmas
• The Roses of Ispahan

Hermann Kappen (1818-1901)

• New Year Prayer of the Rector of St Lambert’s, Münster

Theodor Storm (1817 –-88)

• Old joy rises new
• Sleepless

Mathilde Raven (1817-1902)

• The flowers at my window

Jakob Vogel von Glarus (1816-99)

• Fading of day

Joséphin Soulary (1815 –-91)

• Ambitious Dreams

Robert Browning (1812-89)

• The Lost Leader

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER (1811-72)

• Art
• Chinoiserie
• Preface
• Symphony in White Major
• See all 5 poems by THÉOPHILE GAUTIER...

ALFRED DE MUSSET (1810-57)

• On His Grave
• Proposition to George Sand

Carl Spitzweg (1808-85)

• Excavations at Olympia

Gérard de Nerval (1808-55)

• Butterflies
• De Ramsgate à Anvers
• Horus
• In the Luxembourg Gardens
• See all 8 poems by Gérard de Nerval...

Aloysius Bertrand (1807-41)

• ONDINE

Auguste Barbier (1805-82)

• Dante
• Michael Angelo

Eduard Mörike (1804-75)

• September Morning

Victor Hugo (1802-85)

• A night the sea was heard, and not seen
• As Boaz Was Dozing
• Borgia
• Come! Flute invisible
• See all 19 poems by Victor Hugo...

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

• Worldly Power

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874)

• The Heron

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

• Angels
• By the Sea
• Das Fräulein Stand am Meere
• Dream of the fir-tree
• See all 15 poems by Heinrich Heine...

John Keats (1795-1821)

• Ode to a Nightingale
• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
• Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
• To Sleep

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)

• Lines Written on a Young Lady’s Album
• The Lake

Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

• Dowsing-Rod
• I dreamed…
• Lost
• Moonlit Night
• See all 6 poems by Joseph von Eichendorff...

Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

• Shepherd’s Sunday Song

Justinus Kerner (1786-1862)

• Love

Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)

• The Women of Weinsberg

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• On a Major London Crossing
• The World Is Too Much With Us – Lipogram

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)

• Half of Life
• Half of Life
• To the Fates

ANDRÉ CHÉNIER (1762-94)

• Hercules
• I was an Infant

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

• The Gods of Greece

Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826)

• The Spinner Girl

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

• In Court
• The King in Thule
• The Stars

Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)

• Fox and Bear
• I care not why
• Love
• The Old Gardener

Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709)

• Untitled

Kaspar Stieler (1632-1707)

• Poetic Symbols

Angelus Silesius (1624-77)

• Immediacy and Beauty

Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau (1617 –-79)

• Chiding

Andreas Gryphius (1616-64)

• Meditation on Time

Paul Scarron (1610-60)

• Épitaphe

Friedrich von Logau (1605-55)

• By toil, not by flattery

Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina (1603-76)

• Las Clavellinas de Indias

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581?-1639)

• Friendship

Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)

• A una Nariz
• He Drinks Superb Wine With Midges In It
• The Midge and the Frog

Lope de Vega (1562-1635)

• Shepherd of Pearls
• Violet Calls on me to Compose a Sonnet

Luis de Góngora (1561-1627)

• Sonnet 166

Guillaume, Sieur du Bartas (1544-90)

• Les Pyrénées

Pierre de Ronsard (1524-85)

• Old Age
• Ronsard’s Choice of Epitaph
• Sonnet for Sinope
• To Cassandra

Louise Labé (1524-66)

• Sonnet XXIV

Joachim du Bellay (1522-60)

• Hymn of Hate
• Mother of Arts
• Seven Hills of Rome
• Sonnets of Virtuous Love – 10
• See all 6 poems by Joachim du Bellay...

Pernette du Guillet (1520?-45)

• Poem LXII – Love, Blame Yourself

Mellin de St–Gelais (1491-1558)

• Venice has not more barques

François VILLON (1431-63)

• Balestard La Tonnelle St-Emilion

Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-74)

• The Closed Valley (La Vaucluse in Provence)

Palladas of Alexandria (4th Century AD)

• The Latin Tutor’s Lovelorn Daughter

Decimus Magnus Ausonius (4th century AD)

• Burdigala – from Ordo Urbium Nobilium

Anon

• Au Clair de la Lune
• Ballad of the Loss of Alhama
• La casita que hizo Conchita
• Pearls of the dew
• See all 7 poems by Anon...

Margarethe

• Margarethe: To Men

Bernardo Bellincioni

• On Leonardo’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’

Thomas Wyatt

• Tagus, Farewell

Giambattista Marino

• Batto, Qui Pianse Ergasto

J M Neale

• Good King Wenceslas

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

Laurence Binyon

• For the Fallen

Horace – Q. Horatius Flaccus (65BC- 8BC)

• Doom Song
• Odes III. xxv
• Party Poem
• The Extreme Honour of Regulus

Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) (70BC-19BC)

• Eclogue 4 ‘The Messianic’

Other Poems

• Lyra Limerica
• Let Erin Remember
• DO RE MI
• Birth of Christ, with comment on the Bee.
• Horace, The Odes, translated by Colin Sydenham
• The Man Who Was John Bull by Bill Newton Dunn (Allendale Publishing)
• '1948, A Novel in Verse' by Andy Croft (Five Leaves, 2012)
• Del Corrido del Hombre Mosca
• I dreamed…
• Lost
• Words in the Wood
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Sonnets of Virtuous Love – 2
• You’ve Come to Rome
• France, mother of arts
• Totentanz