There have been many poems written in London and many which recall London without mentioning it by name - November by Thomas Hood comes to mind. Here, however, are some poems that put London centre stage:
- Fleur Adcock - Londoner
- Fleur Adcock - The Soho Hospital for Woman
- Fleur Adcock - Immigrant
- John Betjeman - In Westminster Abbey
- John Betjeman - Middlesex
- John Betjeman - On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
- William Blake - London
- John Donne - Twickenham Garden
- William Dunbar - In Honour of the City of London
- TS Eliot - The Waste Land
- William Empson - Homage to the British Museum
- Thomas Hardy - A Wife In London
- Thomas Hardy - Beyond the Last Lamp
- John Hegley - Thankyou London Underground
- Robert Herrick - His Return to London
- DH Lawrence - Piccadilly Circus at Night StreetWalkers
- Amy Levy - A London PlaneTree
- Amy Levy - In the Mile End Road
- Richard Percival Lister - Buses in the Strand
- Christopher Logue - London Airport
- Hannah Lowe - Love
- Amy Lowell - A London Thoroughfare 2 AM
- Louis MacNeice - London Rain
- Louis MacNeice - The British Museum Reading Room
- AA Milne - Lines and Squares
- Adrian Mitchell - Celia Celia
- Alice Oswald - Another Westminster Bridge
- Michael Rosen - London Fields
- Stevie Smith - Edmonton, thy cemetery...
- Francis Thompson - At Lord's
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - A Ramble in St. James's Park
- William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge
