101 Best-Loved Poems

by Smith, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780486417790
• ISBN10: 0486417794
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Large print anthology contains some of the most popular poems in the English language, including Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?," Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," Frost's "The Road Not Taken," as well as works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, and many others.

Table of Contents

Ballads
Lord Randal	1	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	2	(4)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed	6	(1)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	7	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet XVIII (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')	8	(1)
Sonnet LXXIII (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')	9	(1)
Sonnet XCIV (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')	9	(1)
Sonnet CXVI (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')	10	(1)
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
``Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss''	11	(1)
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Good Morrow	12	(1)
Holy Sonnet X (``Death be not proud, though some have called thee'')	13	(1)
Holy Sonnet XIV (``Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you'')	14	(1)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
To Celia	14	(1)
On My First Son	15	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	16	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	16	(1)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Love Bade Me Welcome	17	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Song (``Go, lovely Rose---'')	18	(1)
John Milton (1608-1674)
On His Blindness	19	(1)
On His Deceased Wife	20	(1)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
``Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?''	20	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	21	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress	22	(2)
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
The Retreat	24	(1)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	25	(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	30	(2)
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Lamb	32	(1)
The Sick Rose	33	(1)
The Tyger	33	(1)
London	34	(1)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
To a Mouse	35	(2)
A Red, Red Rose	37	(1)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802	38	(1)
``I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''	39	(1)
``The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon''	40	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan	40	(3)
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Abou Ben Adhem	43	(1)
Jenny Kiss'd Me	43	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
``She Walks in Beauty''	44	(1)
The Destruction of Sennacherib	45	(1)
``So We'll Go No More a Roving''	46	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias	46	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	47	(3)
To a Skylark	50	(4)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis	54	(3)
John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	57	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	58	(3)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	61	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	63	(2)
``When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be''	65	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument	66	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnet XLIII (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')	67	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Village Blacksmith	67	(2)
The Children's Hour	69	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Barbara Frietchie	71	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
To Helen	74	(1)
The Raven	74	(7)
Annabel Lee	81	(2)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
Old Ironsides	83	(1)
The Chambered Nautilus	84	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	85	(2)
Crossing the Bar	87	(1)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess	88	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
I Hear America Singing	90	(1)
O Captain! My Captain!	91	(2)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	93	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach	93	(2)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Lucifer in Starlight	95	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
``I'm Nobody! Who Are You?''	96	(1)
``This Is My Letter to the World''	96	(1)
``I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died''	97	(1)
``Because I Could Not Stop for Death''	97	(1)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A Birthday	98	(1)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky	99	(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Darkling Thrush	100	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
The Windhover	102	(1)
Pied Beauty	103	(1)
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
The New Colossus	103	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Requiem	104	(1)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
To an Athlete Dying Young	105	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Gunga Din	106	(4)
Recessional	110	(1)
If---	111	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	112	(1)
When You Are Old	113	(1)
The Second Coming	113	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory	115	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	115	(2)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Road Not Taken	117	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	118	(1)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Chicago	119	(1)
Fog	120	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	121	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow	122	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	123	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Poetry	124	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
First Fig	126	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	126	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
``anyone lived in a pretty how town''	127	(2)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts	129	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	130	(2)
Alphabetical List of Titles	132	(5)
Alphabetical List of First Lines	137