100 Best-Loved Poems

by Smith, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780486285535
• ISBN10: 0486285537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-04
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.

Table of Contents

BALLADS
 Lord Randal
 Sir Patrick Spens
SIR THOMAS WYATT
 The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 "Sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")"
 "Sonnet LXXIII ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")"
 "Sonnet XCIV ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")"
 "Sonnet CXVI ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")"
THOMAS NASHE
 "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss"
JOHN DONNE
 The Good Morrow
 "Holy Sonnet X ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee")"
 "Holy Sonnet XIV ("Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you")"
BEN JONSON
 To Celia
 On My First Son
ROBERT HERRICK
 "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
 Upon Julia's Clothes
GEORGE HERBERT
 Love Bade Me Welcome
EDMUND WALLER
 "Song ("Go, lovely Rose -")"
JOHN MILTON
 On His Blindness
 On His Deceased Wife
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
 "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?"
RICHARD LOVELACE
 "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
ANDREW MARVELL
 To His Coy Mistress
HANRY VAUGHAN
 The Retreat
THOMAS GRAY
 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"
WILLIAM BLAKE
 The Lamb
 The Sick Rose
 The Tyger
 London
ROBERT BURNS
 To a Mouse
 "A Red, Red Rose"
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802"
 "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
 "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon"
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
 Kubla Khan
LEIGH HUNT
 Abou Ben Adhem
 Jenny Kiss'd Me
"GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON"
 "She Walks in Beauty"
 The Destruction of Sennacherib
 "So We'll Go No More a Roving"
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
 Ozymandias
 Ode to the West Wind
 To a Skylark
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
 Thanatopsis
JOHN KEATS
 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
 Ode to a Nightingale
 Ode on a Grecian Urn
 La Belle Dame sans Merci
 "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
 Hymn: sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
 "Sonnet XLIII ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")"
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
 The Village Blacksmith
 The Children's Hour
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
 Barbara Frietchie
EDGAR ALLAN POE
 To Helen
 The Raven
 Annabel Lee
"OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR."
 Old Ironsides
 The Chambered Nautilus
"ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON"
 The Charge of the Light Brigade
 Crossing the Bar
ROBERT BROWNING
 My Last Duchess
WALT WHITMAN
 I Hear America Singing
 O Captain! My Captain!
 A Noiseless Patient Spider
MATTHEW ARNOLD
 Dover Beach
GEORGE MEREDITH
 Lucifer in Starlight
EMILY DICKINSON
 "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
 "This Is My Letter to the World"
 "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"
 "Because I Could No Stop for Death"
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
 A Birthday
LEWIS CARROLL
 Jabberwocky
THOMAS HARDY
 The Darkling Thrush
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
 The Windhover
 Pied Beauty
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
 Requiem
A. E. HOUSMAN
 To an Athlete Dying Young
RUDYARD KIPLING
 Gunga Din
 Recessional
 If -
WILLIAM BUTLER YEARTS
 The Lake Isle of Innisfree
 When You Are Old
 The Second Coming
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
 Richard Cory
 Miniver Cheevy
ROBERT FROST
 The Road Not Taken
 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
CARL SANDBURG
 Chicago
 Fog
WALLACE STEVENS
 The Emperor of Ice-Cream
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
 The Red Wheelbarrow
EZRA POUND
 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
MARIANNE MOORE
 Poetry
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
 First Fig
WILFRED OWEN
 Anthem for Doomed youth
E. E. CUMMINGS
 "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
W. H. AUDEN
 Musée des Beaux Arts
DYLAN THOMAS
 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines