The Top 500 Poems

by Harmon, William

• ISBN13: 9780231080286
• ISBN10: 023108028X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

Here, for the first time, is our generations' definitive view of the greatest poetry in the English language. This is the story of poetry in English, a collection of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's choice, not on one poet's choice, but on the collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and poets.Here are the 500 poems that speak to us across the centuries, beginning with Chaucer's words, moving to Shakespeare's masterpieces, through Donne's wonderful witticisms and Pope's elegant satires, through the perennial favorites of Blake, Wordsworth, and Keats, on through Dickinson's jewels of profundity to the ironies of Eliot and to the passion of Plath and Ginsberg in out own time. These are the 500 poems we know or want to know, arranged as an unfolding story of great literature, with comments on each by William Harmon and with a general introduction on the entire collection.

Table of Contents

This Is It!	1	(1076)
Anonymous (c.1250-c.1350)
Cuckoo Song	7	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales	8	(2)
Anonymous (c.1400-c.1600)
Sir Patrick Spens	10	(4)
Western Wind	14	(1)
Edward, Edward	15	(3)
Thomas the Rhymer	18	(3)
The Wife of User's Well	21	(2)
As You Came from the Holy Land of Washington	23	(2)
Corpus Christ Carol	25	(1)
The Three Ravens	26	(2)
Tom o' Bedlam's Song	28	(3)
Adam Lay I-bounden	31	(1)
Lord Randal	32	(1)
The Cherry-Tree Carol	33	(2)
The Lord Is My Shepherd	35	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	36	(1)
A Lyke-Wake Dirge	37	(2)
My Love in Her Attire	39	(1)
The Demon Lover	40	(3)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains	43	(1)
The Unquiet Grave	44	(2)
Waly, Waly	46	(2)
John Skelton (1460?-1529)
To Mistress Margaret Hussey	48	(2)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek	50	(2)
The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love	52	(2)
Whoso List to Hunt	54	(1)
Sir Water Ralegh (1554?-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	55	(2)
The Lie	57	(3)
Even Such Is Time	60	(1)
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage	61	(3)
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand	64	(1)
Prothalamion	65	(6)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Skies	71	(1)
Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But to Dust	72	(1)
My True Love Hath My Heart	73	(1)
Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show	74	(1)
Come Sleep! O Sleep, the Certain Knot of Peace	75	(1)
George Peele (c.1588-1597)
His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned	76	(2)
Whenas the Rye Reach the Chin	78	(1)
Robert Southwell (c.1561-1595)
The Burning Babe	79	(1)
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
Care-Charmer Sleep, Son of the Sable Night	80	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part	81	(1)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	82	(2)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold	84	(2)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?	86	(1)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds	87	(1)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	88	(1)
When Icicles Hang by the Wall	89	(1)
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies	90	(1)
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought	91	(1)
O Mistress Mine	92	(1)
The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame	93	(1)
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes	94	(1)
When Daisies Pied	95	(1)
It Was a Lover and His Lass	96	(1)
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun	97	(1)
Poor Soul, the Center of My Sinful Earth	98	(1)
Hark! Hark! the Lark	99	(1)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away	100	(1)
Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing	101	(1)
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I	102	(1)
When That I was and a Little Tiny Boy	103	(1)
Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen	104	(1)
No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead	105	(1)
Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry	106	(1)
Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore	107	(1)
When Daffodils Begin to Peer	108	(1)
How like a Winter Hath My Absence Been	109	(1)
Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea	110	(1)
Come Away, Come Away, Death	111	(1)
Come unto These Yellow Sands	112	(1)
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred	113	(1)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
My Sweetest Lesbia	114	(1)
Rose-cheeked Laura	115	(1)
There Is a Garden in Her Face	116	(1)
Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes in the Air	117	(1)
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Adieu, Farwell, Earth's Bliss	118	(2)
Spring, the Sweet Spring	120	(1)
Chidiock Tichborne (c.1568-1586)
Tichborne's Elegy	121	(2)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia	123	(2)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Death, Be Not Proud	125	(1)
Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God	126	(1)
The Good Morrow	127	(1)
At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners	128	(1)
Go and Catch a Falling Star	129	(2)
The Sun Rising	131	(2)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	133	(2)
A Hymn to God the Father	135	(1)
The Ecstasy	136	(3)
The Canonization	139	(2)
The Flea	141	(2)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	143	(2)
Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go	145	(2)
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	147	(2)
The Funeral	149	(1)
The Apparition	150	(1)
The Relic	151	(2)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	153	(2)
The Anniversary	155	(2)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes	157	(1)
On My First Son	158	(1)
Hymn to Diana	159	(1)
Still to Be Neat	160	(1)
The Triumph of Charis	161	(2)
Epitaph on S. P.	163	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time with My Salt Tears	164	(1)
Come, My Celia, Let Us Prove	165	(1)
To Penshurst	166	(4)
John Webster (c.1578-c.1632)
Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren	170	(1)
William Browne (c.1590-1645)
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke	171	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	172	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	173	(1)
Delight in Disorder	174	(1)
To Daffodils	175	(1)
The Argument of His Book	176	(1)
Corinna's Going a-Maying	177	(3)
The Night-Piece to Julia	180	(1)
Grace for a Child	181	(1)
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
Exequy on His Wife	182	(4)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Love Bade Me Welcome	186	(2)
The Collar	188	(2)
Virtue	190	(1)
The Pulley	191	(1)
Redemption	192	(1)
Easter Wings	193	(1)
Jordan	194	(1)
Prayer the Church's Banquet	195	(1)
Thomas Carew (1595-1639)
Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows	196	(2)
To My Inconstant Mistress	198	(1)
Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)
The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest	199	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Go, Lovely Rose	200	(2)
On a Girdle	202	(1)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Lycidas	203	(6)
On His Deceased Wife	209	(1)
On His Blindness	210	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	211	(1)
L'Allegro	212	(5)
Il Penseroso	217	(5)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?	222	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	223	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	224	(1)
To Althea, from Prison	225	(2)
The Grasshopper	227	(2)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress	229	(2)
The Garden	231	(3)
The Definition of Love	234	(2)
Bermudas	236	(2)
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	238	(4)
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	242	(2)
The Mower to the Glow-Worms	244	(1)
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	245	(2)
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
The Retreat	247	(2)
The World	249	(2)
They Are All Gone into the World of Light	251	(2)
Peace	253	(1)
The Night	254	(2)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	256	(2)
Mac Flecknoe	258	(7)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687	265	(3)
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music	268	(7)
Edward Taylor (c.1645-1729)
Huswifery	275	(1)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Description of the Morning	276	(1)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Know Then Thyself	277	(2)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	279	(12)
An Essay on Criticism	291	(21)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
A Short Song of Congratulation	312	(2)
On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic	314	(2)
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated	316	(11)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	327	(6)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	333	(2)
William Collins (1721-1759)
Ode to Evening	335	(2)
How Sleep the Brave	337	(1)
Oliver Goldsmith (c.1730-1774)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly	338	(1)
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog	339	(2)
The Deserted Village	341	(13)
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Light Shinning out of Darkness	354	(2)
The Poplar Field	356	(1)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Indian Burying Ground	357	(2)
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Tyger	359	(2)
London	361	(1)
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time	362	(1)
Pipping down the Valleys Wild	363	(1)
The Sick Rose	364	(1)
The Lamb	365	(1)
Ah! Sun-Flower	366	(1)
Hear the Voice of the Bard	367	(1)
Auguries of Innocence	368	(4)
How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field	372	(1)
The Little Black Boy	373	(2)
A Poison Tree	375	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	376	(2)
To the Evening Star	378	(1)
The Garden of Love	379	(1)
The Clod and the Pebble	380	(1)
Holy Thursday	381	(1)
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau	382	(1)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose	383	(1)
To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785	384	(2)
John Anderson, My Jo	386	(1)
The Banks o' Doon	387	(1)
For A' That and A' That	388	(2)
Holy Willie's Prayer	390	(4)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The World Is Too Much with Us	394	(2)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	396	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	397	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	398	(2)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	400	(7)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	407	(9)
Lucy (comprising:)
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	412	(1)
I Traveled among Unknown Men	412	(1)
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known	413	(1)
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower	414	(1)
A Slumber Did My Sprit Seal	415	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	416	(1)
London, 1802	417	(1)
My Heart Leaps Up	418	(1)
Surprised by Joy	419	(1)
She Was a Phantom of Delight	420	(1)
Resolution and Independence	421	(5)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Proud Maisie	426	(1)
Breathes There the Man with Soul So Dead	427	(1)
Lochinvar	428	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan	430	(3)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	433	(25)
Dejection: An Ode	458	(5)
Frost at Midnight	463	(3)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
The Battle of Blenheim	466	(3)
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Rose Aylmer	469	(1)
Dirce	470	(1)
I Strove with None, for None Was Worth My Strife	471	(1)
Past Ruined Ilion Helen Lives	472	(1)
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Hobenlinden	473	(2)
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
A Visit from St. Nicholas	475	(2)
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Jenny Kissed Me	477	(1)
Abou Ben Adhem	478	(1)
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)
So We'll Go No More a-Roving	479	(2)
She Walks in Beauty	481	(1)
The Destruction of Sennacherib	482	(2)
When We Two Parted	484	(2)
The Ocean	486	(3)
There Was a Sound of Revelry by Night	489	(4)
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna	493	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias	495	(2)
Ode to the West Wind	497	(3)
To a Skylark	500	(4)
Music, When Soft Voices Die	504	(1)
To Night	505	(2)
England in 1819	507	(1)
To-----	508	(1)
Adonais	509	(19)
John Clare (1793-1864)
I Am	528	(2)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To a Waterfowl	530	(2)
Thanatopsis	532	(3)
John Keats (1795-1821)
To Autumn	535	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	537	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci (Revised Version)	539	(2)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	541	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	542	(4)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	546	(2)
When I Have Fears	548	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	549	(2)
The Eve of St. Agnes	551	(14)
Bright Star	565	(1)
Ode to Psyche	566	(3)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
I Remember, I Remember	569	(2)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
Old Adam, the Carrion Crow	571	(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Concord Hymn	573	(1)
The Snow-Storm	574	(1)
The Rhodora	575	(1)
Brahma	576	(1)
Fable	577	(1)
Days	578	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	579	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
My Lost Youth	580	(4)
Paul Revere's Ride	584	(5)
Chaucer	589	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Barbara Frietchie	590	(3)
Snow-Bound; A Winter Idyl	593	(22)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful ``One-Hoss Shay''	615	(5)
The Chambered Nautilus	620	(2)
Old Ironsides	622	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
To Helen	623	(2)
The Raven	625	(6)
Annabel Lee	631	(2)
The City in the Sea	633	(2)
The Bells	635	(4)
The Haunted Palace	639	(2)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Splendor Falls	641	(2)
Break, Break, Break	643	(1)
Crossing the Bar	644	(1)
Ulysses	645	(3)
The Eagle	648	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	649	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	650	(1)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	651	(3)
Mariana	654	(3)
The Lady of Shalott	657	(7)
Flower in the Crannied Wall	664	(1)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess	665	(3)
Home Thoughts from Abroad	668	(1)
Meeting at Night	669	(1)
The Year's at the Spring	670	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church	671	(4)
Parting at Morning	675	(1)
Two in the Campagna	676	(3)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	679	(2)
The Jumblies	681	(3)
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Remembrance	684	(2)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth	686	(1)
The Latest Decalogue	687	(1)
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	688	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	690	(2)
O Captain! My Captain!	692	(2)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	694	(10)
I Hear America Singing	704	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	705	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach	706	(2)
The Scholar-Gipsy	708	(9)
William Allingham (1824-1889)
The Fairies	717	(2)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Lucifer in Starlight	719	(1)
Thus Piteously Love Closed What He Begat	720	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Blessed Damozel	721	(6)
The Woodspurge	727	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Because I could not stop for Death"	728	(2)
"I heard a Fly buzz-when I died"	730	(1)
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"	731	(1)
"There's a certain Slant of light"	732	(1)
"A Bird came down the Walk"	733	(1)
"The Soul selects her own Society"	734	(1)
"I like to see it lap the Miles"	735	(1)
"My life closed twice before its close"	736	(1)
"Success is counted sweetest"	737	(1)
"I taste a liquor never brewed"	738	(1)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"	739	(1)
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"	740	(1)
"I never saw a Moor"	741	(1)
"Much Madness is divinest Sense"	742	(1)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
When I am Dead	743	(1)
Up-Hill	744	(1)
A Birthday	745	(1)
Remember	746	(1)
"Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky	747	(2)
The Walrus and the Carpenter	749	(4)
Father William	753	(2)
I'll Tell Thee Everything I Can	755	(3)
How Doth the Little Crocodile	758	(1)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell	759	(4)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces	763	(3)
The Garden of Proserpine	766	(4)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Darkling Thrush	770	(2)
The Oxen	772	(1)
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"	773	(1)
Channel Firing	774	(2)
Afterwards	776	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	777	(2)
The Man He Killed	779	(1)
Neutral Tones	780	(1)
The Ruined Maid	781	(2)
The Voice	783	(1)
During Wind and Rain	784	(2)
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
London Snow	786	(2)
Nightingales	788	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Pied Beauty	789	(1)
The Windhover	790	(2)
God's Grandeur	792	(1)
Spring and Fall	793	(1)
Felix Randal	794	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	795	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	796	(1)
Spring	797	(1)
Heaven-Haven	798	(1)
Inversnaid	799	(1)
The Habit of Perfection	800	(2)
Carrion Comfort	802	(1)
Eugene Field (1850-1895)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	803	(2)
The Duel	805	(2)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Requiem	807	(1)
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
The Man with the Hoe	808	(2)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	810	(23)
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
Loveliest of Trees	833	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	834	(2)
With Rue My Heart Is Laden	836	(1)
When I Was One-and-Twenty	837	(1)
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff	838	(3)
Into My Heart an Air That Kills	841	(1)
On Wenlock Edge	842	(1)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
The Hound of Heaven	843	(6)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Recessional	849	(2)
Danny Deever	851	(2)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Second Coming	853	(2)
Sailing to Byzantium	855	(2)
Leda and the Swan	857	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	858	(1)
When You Are Old	859	(1)
Among School Children	860	(3)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	863	(1)
Easter, 1916	864	(3)
The Wild Swans at Coole	867	(2)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	869	(2)
A Prayer for My Daughter	871	(3)
Lapis Lazuli	874	(2)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	876	(1)
No Second Troy	877	(1)
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
The Purple Cow	878	(1)
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae	879	(1)
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam	880	(1)
Edger Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Anne Rutledge	881	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Mr. Flood's Party	882	(3)
Miniver Cheevy	885	(2)
Richard Cory	887	(1)
Eros Turannos	888	(2)
For a Dead Lady	890	(1)
Luke Havergal	891	(2)
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Leisure	893	(1)
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)
The Listeners	894	(2)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	896	(1)
Mending Wall	897	(2)
Fire and Ice	899	(1)
The Road Not Taken	900	(1)
Birches	901	(2)
After Apple-Picking	903	(2)
Acquainted with the Night	905	(1)
Provide, Provide	906	(1)
The Gift Outright	907	(1)
Directive	908	(2)
Design	910	(1)
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Cargoes	911	(1)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Chicago	912	(2)
Fog	914	(1)
Cool Tombs	915	(1)
Grass	916	(1)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The Owl	917	(1)
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1955)
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	918	(2)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Sunday Morning	920	(5)
Anecdote of the Jar	925	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	926	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	927	(2)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	929	(3)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	932	(3)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow	935	(1)
The Dance	936	(1)
Spring and All	937	(2)
The Yachts	939	(2)
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
Piano	941	(1)
Snake	942	(4)
Bavarian Gentians	946	(2)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	948	(2)
In a Station of the Metro	950	(1)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
The Soldier	951	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Hurt Hawks	952	(2)
Shine, Perishing Republic	954	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Poetry	955	(2)
A Grave	957	(2)
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
Still Falls the Rain	959	(2)
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	961	(5)
Journey of the Magi	966	(2)
The Waste Land	968	(14)
Sweeney among the Nightingales	982	(2)
Gerontion	984	(3)
Little Gidding	987	(8)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	995	(2)
Piazza Piece	997	(1)
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
If We Must Die	998	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches	999	(2)
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
You, Andrew Marvell	1001	(2)
Ars Poetica	1003	(2)
The End of the World	1005	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	1006	(1)
Dulce et Decorum Est	1007	(1)
Strange Meeting	1008	(2)
Greater Love	1010	(1)
Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	1011	(2)
"next to of course god america i"	1013	(1)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
To Brooklyn Bridge	1014	(3)
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	1017	(4)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	1021	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
Not Waving But Drowning	1022	(1)
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	1023	(1)
The Groundhog	1024	(2)
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts	1026	(2)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	1028	(3)
Lullaby	1031	(2)
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Bagpipe Music	1033	(2)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
My Papa's Waltz	1035	(1)
I Knew a Woman	1036	(2)
The Waking	1038	(1)
Elegy for Jane	1039	(1)
In a Dark Time	1040	(1)
Sir Stephen Spender (b. 1909)
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great	1041	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish	1043	(3)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays	1046	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	1047	(1)
Henry Reed (1914-1986)
Naming of Parts	1048	(2)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	1050	(2)
Fern Hill	1052	(2)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	1054	(2)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	1056	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
We Real Cool	1057	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Skunk Hour	1058	(3)
For the Union Dead	1061	(3)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider	1064	(2)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	1066	(2)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Church Going	1068	(3)
Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
A Supermarket in California	1071	(2)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Daddy	1073	(4)
The Poems in Order of Popularity	1077	(16)
Acknowledgments	1093	(6)
Index of Poets	1099	(6)
Index of Titles and First Lines	1105