1. 'It was many and many a year ago ...' Rudyard Kipling Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier

2. 'He did not wear his scarlet coat, for blood and wine are red ...' Ezra Pound Thomas Gray John Dryden Oscar Wilde

3. 'Much have I travelled in realms of gold ...' Percy Shelley John Keats Lord Byron William Wordsworth

4. 'I must go down to the sea again ... ' John Masefield William Blake Robert Browning Hart Crane

5. 'Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed ...' Elizabeth Browning Sylvia Plath Emily Dickinson Marianne Moore

6. 'Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards ...' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Andrew Marvell Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred Lord Tennyson

7. 'Whose woods these are I think I know ...' Carl Sandburg Robert Frost John Clare A.E. Housman

8. 'Out of the Night that Covers Me ...' Richard Lovelace Robert Burns William Ernest Henley John Donne

9. 'Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine ...' Ernest Dowson W.H. Auden William Butler Yeats Matthew Arnold

10. 'My prime of youth is but a frost of cares ...' Charles Baudelaire Arthur Rimbaud Paul Verlaine Chidiock Tichborne