Index of dedications

Links to poems by Tom Sharp are followed by links to poems by the original poets.

Anderson, Alexander (30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909)

• Getting Up — Cuddle Doon

Babcock, Maltbie Davenport (3 August 1858 - 18 May 1901)

• Challenge — Be Strong!

Bennett, Henry Holcomb (5 December 1863 - 30 April 1924)

• Flags — The Flag Goes By

Bourdillon, Francis William (22 March 1852 - 13 January 1921)

• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes — The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Brooks, Phillips (13 December 1835 - 23 January 1893)

• Everywhere — A Christmas Carol (Christmas Everywhere)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (6 March 1806 - 30 June 1861)

• Tom Howard — My Kate

Browning, Robert (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889)

• Summum Bonum — Summum Bonum
• Epilogue to Your Ex — Epilogue (Asolando)

Bryant, William Cullen (3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878)

• Thanatopsis — Thanatopsis
• To a Duck — To a Waterfowl

Bunner, Henry Cuyler (3 August 1855 - 11 May 1896)

• The Heart of the Gardener — The Heart of the Tree

Burns, Robert (25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796)

• Letter to Myself — Epistle to a Young Friend
• For Honest Poverty — For A’ That and A’ That

Burroughs, John (3 April 1837 - 29 March 1921)

• Waiting — Waiting

Byron, George Gordon (22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824)

• Farewell to Childhood — Childe Harold’s Farewell to England
• Apostrophe to the Soil — Apostrophe to the Ocean

Cary, Alice (26 April 1820 - 12 February 1871)

• Nobility — Nobility

Carruth, William Herbert (5 April 1859 - 15 December 1924)

• Out of My Mind — Each in His Own Tongue

Cooke, Edmund Vance (5 June 1866 - 18 December 1932)

• How Did You — How Did You Die?

Dickinson, Emily (10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886)

• As Far as I Go — Not in Vain

Doane, William Croswell (27 May 1799 - 27 April 1859)

• Life Sculpture — Life-Sculpture

Dodge, Mary Mapes (26 Jaunary 1838 - 21 August 1905)

• The Minuet — The Minuet

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880)

• The Soloist — The Choir Invisible

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882)

• Each and All — Each and All
• The Drafts — The Rhodora
• The Rainstorm — The Snow-Storm
• Concord Hymn — Concord Hymn

Field, Eugene (3 September 1850 - 4 November 1895)

• The Match — The Duel
• Mindless — Jest ’fore Christmas
• Iron Bridge — Little Boy Blue

Fletcher, John (20 December 1579 - 28 August 1625)

• A Bum’s Speech — Wolsey’s Farewell to His Greatness (King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 2)

Foss, Sam Walter (19 June 1858 - 26 February 1911)

• A House by the Side of the Road — The House by the Side of the Road

Frost, Robert (26 March 1875 - 29 January 1963)

• Buying Deer — Mending Wall

Gray, Thomas (26 December 1716 - 30 July 1771)

• The Crowd — Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Guest, Edgar A. (20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959)

• Home — Home

Henley, William Ernest (23 August 1849 - 12 July 1903)

• A Theory of Identity — Invictus

Holland, Josiah Gilbert (24 July 1819 - 12 October 1881)

• Gradatim — Gradatim

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894)

• Automobile — The Chambered Nautilus
• 1960 Rambler American — The Deacon’s Masterpiece
• God Save our Country — God Save the Flag!

Howitt, Mary (12 March 1799 - 30 January 1888)

• The War and the Cage — The Spider and the Fly

Hunt, James Henry Leigh (19 October 1784 - 28 August 1859)

• The Repressed Psyche — Abou Ben Adhem

Ingalls, John James (29 December 1833 - 16 July 1900)

• Opportunity — Opportunity

Keats, John (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821)

• Ode to the Goddess Selket — Ode on a Grecian Urn

Kilmer, Joyce (6 December 1886 - 30 July 1918)

• A Mature Landscape — Trees

Kipling, Rudyard (30 December 1865 - 17 January 1936)

• Recessional — Recessional
• Gods of Place — The Gods of the Copybook Headings
• If — If
• L’Envoi — L’Envoi

Lanier, Sidney (3 February 1842 - 7 September 1881)

• Song of the Southern Pacific — Song of the Chattahoochee

Larcom, Lucy (5 March 1824 - 17 April 1893)

• Plant a tree — Plant a tree

Letts, Winifred Mary (10 February 1882 - June 1972)

• The Rails of Concord — The Spires of Oxford

Lincoln, Abraham (12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865)

• Gettysburg Address
• Bixby letter

Lindsay, Vachel (10 November 1879 - 5 December 1931)

• Junipero Serra Is Dead — Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
• On the Building of a City — On the Building of Springfield

Livingston, Henry Jr. (13 October 1748 - 29 February 1828)

• The Night — Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night before Christmas)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882)

• The Builders — The Builders
• My Childhood — Hiawatha’s Childhood
• Building a home — The Building of the Ship
• One if by land — Paul Revere’s Ride
• After Divorce — The Children’s Hour
• Overreacting — The Day Is Done
• A Psalm of Life — A Psalm of Life

Lowell, James Russell (22 February 1819 - 12 August 1891)

• Free Energy — June (The Vision of Sir Launfal)
• The Present Crisis — The Present Crisis

Markham, Edwin (23 April 1852 - 7 March 1940)

• Ishi — The Man with the Hoe
• The People — Lincoln, the Man of the People

Macaulay, Thomas Babington (25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859)

• Foolish Love — Horatio

Masters, Edgar Lee (23 August 1869 - 5 March 1950)

• Graves — Ann Rutledge

Masefield, John (1 June 1878 - 12 May 1967)

• Poet Fever — Sea-Fever

McCrae, John (30 November 1872 - 28 January 1918)

• In a Field — In Flanders Fields

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950)

• Zen Mind — Renascence

Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner (Joaquin Miller) (10 November 1841 - 17 February 1913)

• No Time — Columbus

Milton, John (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674)

• On His Blindness — Sonnet: On His Blindness

Noyes, Alfred (16 September 1880 - 29 June 1958)

• Love Knot — The Highwayman

Poe, Edgar Allan (19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849)

• Her Laughter — The Bells
• Nevermore/In the Rain — The Raven

Read, Thomas Buchanan (12 March 1822 - 11 May 1872)

• Sharp’s Commute — Sheridan’s Ride

Riley, James Whitcomb (7 October 1849- 22 July 1916)

• Aunt Hazel — Out to Old Aunt Mary’s
• Knee-deep — Knee-deep in June

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882)

• Deities of Rain — The Blessed Damozel

Sandburg, Carl (6 January 1878 – 22 July ß1967)

• Dirt — Grass

Scott, Walter (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832)

• Love of Country — Love of Country
• Vernon — Marmion and Douglas

Seeger, Alan (22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916)

• A Meeting — I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Shakespeare, William (baptised 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616)

• Seeing — Mercy (from The Merchant of Venice)
• In Sunlight — Moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)
• Advice — Polonius’s Advice to Laertes (Hamlet)
• This time of year — Sonnet 73: That time of year thou may’st in me behold
• Soliloquy — “To be or not to be, that is the question” (Hamlet)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822)

• The Creek — The Cloud
• West Wind — Ode to the West Wind
• To a Mockingbird — Ode to a Skylark

Sill, Edward Rowland (29 April 1841 - 27 February 1887)

• Opportunity — Opportunity
• Fool’s Prayer — The Fool’s Prayer

Stanton, Frank Lebby (22 February 1857 - 7 January 1927)

• Hay’s for Horses — Keep a-Goin’!

Stevenson, Robert Louis (13 November 1850 - 5 December 1894)

• Requiem — Requiem

Tennyson, Alfred (6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892)

• The Charge — The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Crashing on the Rocks — Crossing the Bar

van Dyke, Henry (10 November 1852 - 10 April 1933)

• America for Me — America for Me

Watson, William (2 August 1858 - 13 August 1935)

• More — “The Things That Are More Excellent”

Whitman, Walt (31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892)

• Youth — O Captain! My Captain!

Whittier, John Greenleaf (17 December 1807 - 7 September 1892)

• Crime — The Eternal Goodness
• Not Forgotten — The Barefoot Boy
• L. — Maud Muller

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (5 November 1855 - 30 October 1919)

• Solitude — Solitude

Wordsworth, William (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850)

• Red-winged Blackbirds — The Daffodils
• The Happy Hero — Character of the Happy Warrior
• Intimations — Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
• A Diversion — The World Is Too Much with Us
• If You Were to Meet Her — She Was a Phantom of Delight

York, Eva Rose (22 December 1859 - 6 February 1938)

• Were Any to Read This — I Shall not Pass This Way Again