The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780451627919
• ISBN10: 0451627911
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1962-07-01
• Publisher: Signet

Summary

A compact anthology of 3 centuries of poetry by 20 great American poets.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(14)
EDWARD TAYLOR (1645-1729)
The Preface	27	(1)
Our Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably for His Mercy	28	(1)
Housewifery	29	(1)
Am I Thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for Thy Wealth	30	(1)
Thy Human Frame, My Glorious Lord, I Spy	30	(1)
I Kenning through Astronomy Divine	31	(1)
The Accusation of the Inward Man	32	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	33	(1)
The Outward Man Accused	34	(1)
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended	34	(1)
An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain	35	(1)
Stupendous Lovel All Saints' Astonishmentl	36	(1)
Oh! What a Thing Is Man? Lord, Who Am I?	37	(1)
Still I Complain; I Am Complaining Still	38	(2)
Should I with Silver Tools Delve through the Hill	40	(2)
The Reflection	42	(2)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
Concord Hymn	44	(1)
Brahma	44	(1)
The Rhodora	45	(1)
The Humblebee	45	(2)
Each and All	47	(1)
The Problem	48	(2)
Woodnotes	50	(1)
The Snowstorm	51	(1)
Fable	51	(1)
Days	52	(1)
Saadi	52	(4)
Hamatreya	56	(2)
Experience	58	(1)
Compensation	58	(1)
Forbearance	58	(1)
The Past	59	(1)
Ode	59	(2)
Give All to Love	61	(1)
Terminus	61	(1)
Good-bye	62	(2)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
Hymn to the Night	64	(1)
The Day Is Done	65	(1)
Curfew	66	(1)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	67	(1)
My Lost Youth	68	(3)
The Birds of Killingworth	71	(6)
Divina Commedia	77	(2)
The Fire of Driftwood	79	(1)
Chaucer	80	(1)
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls	81	(1)
The Cross of Snow	81	(1)
The Bells of San Blas	81	(2)
The Arrow and the Song	83	(1)
Possibilities	84	(1)
The Ropewalk	84	(2)
from Evangeline	86	(1)
from The Song of Hiawatha	87	(3)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
Dreams	90	(1)
A Dream within a Dream	91	(1)
``The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour''	91	(1)
Sonnet---'To Science	92	(1)
Romance	92	(1)
To Helen	93	(1)
Israfel	93	(2)
The City in the Sea	95	(1)
The Sleeper	96	(2)
To One in Paradise	98	(1)
The Haunted Palace	98	(2)
Sonnet---Silence	100	(1)
The Conqueror Worm	100	(1)
Dreamland	101	(1)
The Raven	102	(4)
The Bells	106	(3)
Ulalume---A Ballad	109	(2)
Eldorado	111	(1)
For Annie	112	(1)
Annabel Lee	113	(1)
The Lake: To---	114	(1)
Alone	115	(1)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
Song of Myself (Complete)	116	(48)
Native Moments	164	(1)
Earth, My Likeness	165	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	165	(5)
I Sit and Look Out	170	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	171	(1)
Reconciliation	172	(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed	172	(7)
O Captain! My Captain!	179	(1)
To Think of Time	180	(5)
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!	185	(1)
Good-bye My Fancy!	185	(1)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
Success Is Counted Sweetest	186	(1)
One Dignity Delays for All	186	(1)
New Feet within My Garden Go	187	(1)
Surgeons Must Be Very Careful	187	(1)
Faith Is a Fine Invention	187	(1)
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers	187	(1)
I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend	188	(1)
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed	188	(1)
There's a Certain Slant of Light	189	(1)
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain	189	(1)
I'm Nobody. Who Are You?	190	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society	190	(1)
I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See	190	(1)
Before I Got My Eye Put Out	191	(1)
A Bird Came Down the Walk	192	(1)
I Dreaded That First Robin So	192	(1)
No Rack Can Torture Me	193	(1)
There's Been a Death in the Opposite House	194	(1)
What Soft Cherubic Creatures	194	(1)
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense	195	(1)
The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man	195	(1)
This Is My Letter to the World	196	(1)
I Died for Beauty	196	(1)
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died	196	(1)
It Was Not Death, for I Stood Up	197	(1)
I Started Early, Took My Dog	197	(1)
The Heart Asks Pleasure First	198	(1)
I Had Been Hungry All the Years	198	(1)
I Laughed a Crumbling Laugh	199	(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	199	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	200	(1)
The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean	201	(1)
I Never Saw a Moor	201	(1)
The Last Night That She Lived	201	(1)
While We Were Fearing It, It Came	202	(1)
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle	203	(1)
Of God We Ask One Favor	203	(1)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close	203	(1)
The Distance That the Dead Have Gone	204	(1)
The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise	204	(1)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Flammonde	205	(2)
Luke Havergal	207	(1)
Charles Carville's Eyes	208	(1)
Reuben Bright	208	(1)
Richard Cory	209	(1)
John Evereldown	209	(1)
Aaron Stark	210	(1)
Fleming Helphenstine	211	(1)
Cliff Klingenhagen	211	(1)
George Crabbe	211	(1)
Credo	212	(1)
Bewick Finzer	212	(1)
Many Are Called	213	(1)
New England	214	(1)
The Miller's Wife	214	(1)
As It Looked Then	215	(1)
Another Dark Lady	215	(1)
``If the Lord Would Make Windows in Heaven''	215	(1)
Recalled	216	(1)
Haunted House	216	(1)
A Mighty Runner	217	(1)
The Story of the Ashes and the Flame	217	(1)
Hillcrest	217	(2)
Eros Turannos	219	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	220	(2)
Cassandra	222	(2)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
In the Desert	224	(1)
A God in Wrath	224	(1)
I Saw a Man Pursuing	224	(1)
Behold, the Grave	225	(1)
Many Workmen	225	(1)
A Learned Man Came to Me Once	225	(1)
There Was Set before Me a Mighty Hill	226	(1)
A Youth in Apparel That Glittered	226	(1)
There Was One I Met	226	(1)
A Man Saw a Ball of Gold	227	(1)
On the Horizon	227	(1)
I Walked in a Desert	227	(1)
Tradition, Thou Art for Suckling Children	228	(1)
Many Red Devils	228	(1)
You Say You Are Holy	228	(1)
``It Was Wrong to Do This''	228	(1)
A Man Feared	229	(1)
The Sage Lectured	229	(1)
God Lay Dead	229	(1)
War Is Kind	230	(1)
A Little Ink More or Less	230	(1)
Fast Rode the Knight	231	(1)
A Newspaper	231	(1)
The Wayfarer	232	(1)
A Slant of Sun	232	(1)
The Impact of a Dollar	233	(1)
Ay, Workman	233	(1)
There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood	233	(1)
I Stood upon a High Place	234	(1)
ROBERT FROST (b. 1874)
Mending Wall	235	(1)
After Apple Picking	236	(1)
The Oven Bird	237	(1)
Birches	237	(2)
The Subverted Flower	239	(1)
The Gift Outright	240	(1)
To Earthward	241	(1)
Tree at My Window	242	(1)
Two Tramps in Mud Time	242	(2)
The Witch of Coos	244	(4)
Once by the Pacific	248	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	248	(1)
On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations	249	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	249	(1)
The Road Not Taken	250	(1)
Neither Out Far nor in Deep	250	(1)
The Vantage Point	251	(1)
The Tuft of Flowers	251	(2)
Directive	253	(2)
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
The Leaden-Eyed	255	(1)
The Unpardonable Sin	255	(1)
Simon Legree---A Negro Sermon	256	(1)
The Eagle That Is Forgotten	257	(1)
The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken	258	(1)
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes	259	(2)
Factory Windows Are Always Broken	261	(1)
The Pontoon-Bridge Miracle	262	(1)
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan	263	(6)
General William Booth Enters into Heaven	269	(2)
The Congo	271	(4)
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	275	(2)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	277	(2)
Sunday Morning	279	(3)
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle	282	(4)
Flyer's Fall	286	(1)
Men Made Out of Words	286	(1)
The Glass of Water	286	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	287	(1)
The Emperor of Ice Cream	287	(1)
Dry Loaf	288	(1)
To the One of Fictive Music	288	(1)
Bantams in Pine Woods	289	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	290	(1)
A Postcard from the Volcano	291	(1)
Cuisine Bourgeoise	292	(1)
Poetry Is a Destructive Force	292	(1)
The Poems of Our Climate	293	(1)
Martial Cadenza	294	(1)
The Dwarf	295	(1)
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters	295	(1)
Esthetique du Mal	296	(9)
The Good Man Has No Shape	305	(1)
Credences of Summer	305	(5)
Two Things of Opposite Natures Seem to Depend	310	(1)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome	310	(3)
Not Ideas about the Thing But the Thing Itself	313	(1)
Crude Foyer	313	(2)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (b. 1883)
The Yachts	315	(1)
To a Poor Old Woman	316	(1)
The Sea Elephant	316	(1)
Lear	317	(1)
These	318	(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens	319	(3)
The Dance	322	(1)
On Gay Wallpaper	322	(1)
The Pure Products of America	323	(2)
By the Road to the Contagious Hospital	325	(1)
Queen-Ann's-Lace	326	(1)
Tract	326	(2)
Six Poems from Paterson	328	(6)
EZRA POUND (b. 1885)
Na Audiart	334	(1)
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	335	(2)
Portrait d'une Femme	337	(1)
A Virginal	338	(1)
The Return	338	(1)
Tenzone	339	(1)
Salutation	339	(1)
A Pact	339	(1)
The Rest	340	(1)
The Temperaments	340	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	341	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	341	(1)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	342	(12)
from Homage to Sextus Propertius	354	(5)
Canto I	359	(2)
Canto II	361	(3)
Canto III	364	(1)
Canto XVII	365	(3)
Canto XLV	368	(1)
Canto LXXXI	369	(3)
MARIANNE MOORE (b. 1887)
No Swan So Fine	372	(1)
The Fish	372	(1)
In This Age of Hard Trying, Non-chalance is Good and	373	(1)
Critics and Connoisseurs	374	(1)
The Monkeys	375	(1)
In the Days of Prismatic Colour	376	(1)
England	376	(2)
A Grave	378	(1)
The Labours of Hercules	379	(1)
To a Steam Roller	380	(1)
To a Snail	380	(1)
To the Peacock of France	380	(1)
The Past Is the Present	381	(1)
What Are Years?	381	(1)
Spenser's Ireland	382	(2)
Nevertheless	384	(1)
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	385	(1)
In Distrust of Merits	386	(2)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (b. 1888)
Winter Remembered	388	(1)
Necrological	388	(1)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	389	(1)
Dead Boy	390	(1)
Good Ships	391	(1)
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster	391	(1)
Here Lies a Lady	391	(1)
Conrad in Twilight	392	(1)
Armageddon	393	(2)
Judith of Bethulia	395	(1)
Blue Girls	396	(1)
Old Man Playing with Children	397	(1)
Captain Carpenter	397	(2)
Old Mansion	399	(1)
Piazza Piece	400	(1)
Vision by Sweetwater	401	(1)
Her Eyes	401	(1)
Parting, without a Sequel	402	(1)
Janet Waking	403	(1)
Two in August	403	(1)
Our Two Worthies	404	(2)
Man without Sense of Direction	406	(1)
Survey of Literature	407	(1)
The Equilibrists	408	(2)
Painted Head	410	(1)
Address to the Scholars of New England	411	(3)
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
Renascence	414	(5)
Dirge without Music	419	(1)
Spring	419	(1)
The Ballard of the Harp-Weaver	420	(2)
Moriturus	422	(2)
Recuerdo	424	(1)
The Cameo	424	(1)
Lament	425	(1)
Elegy before Death	426	(1)
The Return	426	(1)
Conscientious Objector	427	(1)
Oh, Think Not I Am Faithless to a Vow!	427	(1)
I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear	428	(1)
Not with Libations, But with Shouts and Laughter	428	(1)
And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust	429	(1)
Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day	429	(1)
I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore	430	(1)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	430	(1)
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare	430	(1)
To Jesus on His Birthday	431	(1)
On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven	431	(1)
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink	432	(1)
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (b. 1892)
The Silent Slain	433	(1)
Eleven	433	(1)
Ars Poetica	434	(1)
You, Andrew Marvell	435	(1)
The End of the World	436	(1)
Memorial Rain	436	(2)
``Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments''	438	(1)
Pony Rock	439	(1)
Pole Star for This Year	439	(1)
Poem in Prose	440	(1)
What Any Lover Learns	441	(1)
The Steamboat Whistle	442	(1)
Starved Lovers	442	(1)
What the Serpent Said to Adam	442	(1)
Vicissitudes of the Creator	443	(1)
My Naked Aunt	443	(1)
The Genius	444	(1)
Reasons for Music	444	(2)
E. E. CUMMINGS (b. 1894)
Spring is like a perhaps hand	446	(1)
darling! because my blood can sing	446	(1)
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm	447	(1)
i thank You God for most this amazing	448	(1)
all ignorance toboggans into know	448	(1)
maggie and milly and molly and may	449	(1)
so shy shy shy (and with a	449	(1)
in time of daffodils (who know	450	(1)
if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have	450	(1)
Mouse) Won	451	(1)
that melancholy	451	(2)
Thanksgiving (1956)	453	(1)
whatever's merely wilful	453	(1)
stand with your lover on the ending earth	454	(1)
i am a little church (no great cathedral)	455	(1)
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in	455	(1)
if up's the word; and a world grows greener	456	(1)
what if a much of a which of a wind	456	(1)
no man, if men are gods; but if gods must	457	(1)
i sing of Olaf glad and big	457	(2)
a man who had fallen among thieves	459	(1)
``next to of course god america i	459	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	460	(1)
pity this busy monster, manunkind	461	(1)
my father moved through dooms of love	461	(3)
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
The Bridge (Complete)	464	(34)
Black Tambourine	498	(1)
Emblems of Conduct	499	(1)
Praise for an Urn	499	(1)
Garden Abstract	500	(1)
Stark Major	500	(1)
Voyages, I to VI	501	(4)
The Broken Tower	505	(1)
Repose of Rivers	506	(1)
W. H. AUDEN (b. 1907)
Musee des Beaux Arts	507	(1)
The Unknown Citizen	507	(1)
Petition	508	(1)
The Composer	509	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	509	(2)
Herman Melville	511	(2)
Something Is Bound to Happen	513	(1)
The Diaspora	513	(1)
The Novelist	514	(1)
The Climbers	514	(1)
Another Time	515	(1)
Who's Who	515	(1)
Macao	516	(1)
O What Is That Sound	516	(1)
O Where Are You Going	517	(1)
Mundus et Infans	518	(1)
The Chimeras	519	(1)
Words	520	(1)
Epitaph on a Tyrant	520	(1)
Narrator	521	(2)
Notes on the Poets	523	(6)
Index	529