Poetry

• The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems [from The Camelot Project]
  • "The Chapel of Lyonesse"
  • "The Defence of Guenevere"
  • "The Haystack in the Floods"
  • "In Arthur's House"
  • "In Prison"
  • "King Arthur's Tomb"
  • "Near Avalon"
  • "Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery"
• The Earthly Paradise [extracts, from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• "Missing," poem in illuminated manuscript A Book of Verses [Victoria and Albert Museum]
• Songs from Love is Enough [from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• "Mine and Thine" [Anglo-Catholic socialism site]
• Sigurd the Volsung [extracts, from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
  Click here for a commentary by Jane Susanna Ennis on Sigurd and Richard Wagner
• "The Voice of Toil"
• "A Death Song" [from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• For the Bed at Kelmscott
• For the William Morris section from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto
• FROM THE VICTORIAN SONNET:
  • "Summer Dawn"
  • "Near but Far Away"
  • "The Doomed Ship"

Prose

• University of Adelaide Electronic Text Collection: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/morris_william.html.
  fourteen titles by Morris:
  • The House of the Wolfings (1889)
  • The Roots of the Mountains (1889)
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
  • The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
  • The Well At The World's End (1896)
  • A Dream of John Ball (1888)
  • News from Nowhere (1890)
  • Old French Romances (1896)
  • Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
  • Signs of Change (1888)
  • Poems by the Way (1891)
  • The Pilgrims of Hope
  • Chants for Socialists (1885)
  Although many of these works are already available on the Internet elsewhere, this collection is unencumbered by advertising and other banners, is specially formatted for reading on screen or for printing, will display in your own preferred type font and size, can be easily downloaded for off-line reading, and is free.
• The aim of the Marxist Internet Archive is to put everything that Morris wrote on politics, printing, and the arts on the World-Wide Web. This web site was founded in part by WMS member the late Nicholas Salmon, and his colleagues continue to post new Socialist writings from Morris: http://www.marxists.org.uk/archive/morris/
• "Art and Socialism" (1884) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "As to Bribing Excellence" [MS in International Institute for Social History]
• Child Christopher
• "The Claim of Socialism" (preface to Chants for Socialists) [ Anglo-Catholic socialism]
• "The Decorative Arts" (1877) [courtesy of J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson; the frontispiece for the book by Burne-Jones
• Texts of A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere[etexts project at University of Virginia]
• "Gossip about an Old House on the Upper Thames"[courtesy of J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• "How I Became a Socialist" (1894) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "How Shall We Live Then!" [MS in International Institute for Social History]
• "How We Live and How We Might Live" (1884) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "The Lesser Art of Life" (1882) [courtesy of J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• News from Nowhere illustrated e-text: http://www.uiowa.edu/~wmorris/news. At the University of Iowa under the direction of Professor Florence Boos.
• News from Nowhere [text] and frontispiece to the Kelmscott Press edition
• "A Note on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press"[Modern Fine Printing]
• "Socialism and Anarchism" (1889) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, translated by Morris and Eirikr Magnusson[Berkeley Digital Library]
• The Well at the World's End [very large text file, over 1 MB]
• "Why I am a Communist" ]MS in International Institute for Social History]
• "The Worker's Share of Art" (1885) [Anglo-Catholic socialism site]

Related items

• Front cover of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856), for which Morris provided funds and literary contributions and served as initial editor
• "The Morris Exhibit at the Foreign Fair" (1883-4), pamphlet written by Morris & Co. manager George Wardle for exhibition of the Firm's wares in Boston, MA[courtesy of J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• William Morris's Late Prose Romances, summaries of the stories and a who's who of characters [Michael DuBroy]
• Something of William Morris [Anglo-Catholic socialism site], extracts from Morris's writings and commentaries