Chapters into Verse A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation

by Atwan, Robert; Wieder, Laurance

• ISBN13: 9780195136760
• ISBN10: 0195136764
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection also assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Laura (Riding) Jackson, A.D. Hope, Denise Levertov, and Philip Levine. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old and New Testament. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture profoundly and imaginatively.

Author Biography

Robert Atwan is founder and series editor of The Best American Essays and co-editor of Divine Inspiration (OUP 1998) Laurance Wieder is a poet and the editor of The Poets' Book of Psalms (OUP 1999).

Table of Contents

Part I: Genesis through Malachi
Extracts
The Bible is an antique Volume	3	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The H. Scriptures I	3	(1)
George Herbert
The Book of Books	4	(1)
Sir Walter Scott
Taste	4	(1)
Christopher Smart
On the Bible	5	(1)
Thomas Traherne
Genesis
from Paradise Lost, Bk VII	5	(1)
John Milton
Let There Be Light!	6	(1)
D.H. Lawrence
There is No Land Yet	7	(1)
Laura
Jackson
Ode	8	(1)
Joseph Addison
The Animals	9	(1)
Edwin Muir
Fill and Illumined	10	(1)
Joseph Ceravolo
A Divine Image	10	(1)
William Blake
The Image o' God	11	(1)
Joe Corrie
The Pulley	11	(1)
George Herbert
Genesis	12	(2)
Geoffrey Hill
When Adam Walked in Eden Young	14	(1)
A.E. Housman
Eden	15	(1)
Thomas Traherne
Sonnet IV	16	(1)
E.E. Cummings
Naming the Animals	17	(1)
Anthony Hecht
The Recognition of Eve	17	(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Follies of Adam	18	(2)
Theodore Roethke
The Fall	20	(1)
John Wilmot
As Adam Early in the Morning	20	(1)
Walt Whitman
Eve	21	(2)
Ralph Hodgson
Sharing Eve's Apple	23	(1)
John Keats
Songs of Experience: Introduction	23	(1)
William Blake
Earth's Answer	24	(1)
William Blake
Original Sequence	25	(2)
Philip Booth
The Cloud	27	(1)
Derek Walcott
Adam Posed	28	(1)
Anne Finch
Eden is that old-fashioned House	28	(1)
Emily Dickinson
To the Garden the World	29	(1)
Walt Whitman
They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden	29	(1)
W.H. Auden
Imperial Adam	30	(1)
A.D. Hope
Eve	31	(2)
Christina Rossetti
Ancient History	33	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon
The Woman and the Angel	34	(1)
Robert Service
Author's Prologue	35	(3)
Dylan Thomas
Parley of Beasts	38	(1)
Hugh Macdiarmid
Noah's Raven	38	(1)
W. S. Merwin
Holy Sonnet V	39	(1)
John Donne
The Rainbow: or Curious Covenant	39	(1)
Robert Herrick
Wine and Water	40	(1)
G. K. Chesterton
The Tower of Babel	41	(2)
Laurance Wieder
Retirement	43	(1)
Henry Vaughan
Sarah	44	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
Oaks and Squirrels	44	(1)
Anne Porter
The Destruction of Sodom	45	(2)
Daryl Hine
On the two Great Floods	47	(1)
Francis Quarles
Lot and his Daughters I	48	(1)
A. D. Hope
Lot and his Daughters II	48	(3)
A. D. Hope
Abraham to Kill him	51	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	51	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Isaac's Marriage	52	(2)
Henry Vaughan
The Jacob's Ladder	54	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Patriarch	54	(2)
Robert Burns
A little East of Jordan	56	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Joseph's Coat	57	(1)
George Herbert
Jacob	57	(3)
Delmore Schwartz
Asenath	60	(1)
Diana Hume George
Israel II	61	(3)
Charles Reznikoff
Muse in Late November	64	(1)
Jonathan Henderson Brooks
Exodus
The Midwives	65	(1)
Celia Gilbert
Pharao's Daughter	66	(1)
Michael Moran---`Zozimus'
Epitaph	66	(1)
Eleanor Wilner
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Daylight	67	(1)
Robert Frost
The Coming of the Plague	68	(1)
Weldon Kees
The Pillar of the Cloud	69	(1)
John Henry
Exodus	70	(1)
George Oppen
Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau	71	(1)
William Blake
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	71	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Law Given at Sinai	74	(4)
Isaac Watts
The Jew	78	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg
The Book of the World	79	(1)
William Drummond
The Latest Decalogue	80	(1)
Arthur Hugh Clough
Leviticus
The Chewing the Cud	81	(1)
Robert Herrick
A Paraphrase on...Leviticus...after...Chaucer	81	(2)
Thomas Warton The Elder
Day of Atonement	83	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
Numbers
The Bunch of Grapes	84	(1)
George Herbert
Golden Calf	85	(2)
Norman Maccaig
Deuteronomy
To his Conscience	87	(1)
Robert Herrick
from A Song for Occupations	88	(1)
Walt Whitman
Pisgah-Sights. I & II	89	(2)
Robert Browning
The Death of Moses	91	(4)
George Eliot
Joshua
The Story of Joshua	95	(1)
Alicia Ostriker
Women of Jericho	96	(1)
Phyllis Mcginley
Joshua	97	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
Joshua at Schechem	98	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
The Stone	99	(2)
Henry Vaughan
Judges
Jephtha's Daughter	101	(2)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
Angry Samson	103	(1)
Robert Graves
Samson to his Delilah	103	(1)
Richard Crashaw
from Samson Agonistes	104	(1)
John Milton
The Warning	105	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
First Samuel
Hope	106	(2)
Christopher Smart
I took my Power in my Hand	108	(1)
Emily Dickinson
David and Goliath	108	(1)
P. Hately Waddell
I do not believe that David Killed Goliath	109	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
Song of Saul Before his Last Battle	110	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
The Death of Saul	110	(2)
Philip Levine
Second Samuel
David	112	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
King David Dances	113	(1)
John Berryman
from Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe	113	(1)
George Peele
from Penitential Psalms	114	(3)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
David's Peccavi	117	(1)
Robert Southwell
The Rabbi's Song	118	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
David in the Cave of Adullam	119	(1)
Charles Lamb
First Kings combined with First and Second Chronicles
Provide, Provide	120	(1)
Robert Frost
In Salem Dwelt a Glorious King	121	(3)
Thomas Traherne
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept	124	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
O to be a Dragon	125	(1)
Marianne Moore
Sion	126	(1)
George Herbert
King Solomon and the Ants	127	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier
A Successful Summer	129	(1)
David Schubert
Second Kings combined with First and Second Chronicles
And did those feet	130	(1)
William Blake
Elijah's Wagon knew no thill	130	(1)
Emily Disckinson
Naaman's Song	131	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Song for the Clatter-bones	132	(2)
F. R. Higgins
The Destruction of Sennacherib	134	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
Sion Lies Waste	135	(2)
Fulke Greville
Nehemiah
Services	137	(2)
Carl Rakosi
Esther
From Life to Love	139	(1)
Countee Cullen
Job
To Brooklyn Bridge	140	(2)
Hart Crane
Job I	142	(1)
John Hall
Job	143	(1)
Elizabeth Sewell
Cæsura	144	(1)
John Ashbery
A Spirit Passed Before Me	145	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
Death	146	(1)
Henry Vaughan
The Enthusiast	147	(1)
Herman Melville
Grace	148	(1)
George Herbert
Hath the Rain a Father?	149	(1)
Jones very
The Beauty of Job's Daughters	150	(1)
Jay Macpherson
Psalms
Stanzas on the Psalms	151	(1)
Thomas Warton The Elder
Rochester Extempore	152	(1)
John Wilmot
Psalm 23	152	(2)
Richard Crashaw
Psalm III	154	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
O Taste and See	155	(1)
Denise Levertov
Complaining	155	(1)
George Herbert
Awake, awake, thou heavy sprite	156	(1)
Thomas Campion
When Israel, of the Lord Beloved	157	(1)
Sir Walter Scott
Meditation Seven	158	(2)
Edward Taylor
On Jordan's Banks	160	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
Te Deum	160	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
Lord, Hear My Prayer	161	(1)
John Clare
The Hills	162	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
The Sleep	163	(2)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Introduction to..., with Gascoigne's De profundis	165	(3)
George Gascoigne
A Paraphrase upon Part of the CXXXIX Psalm	168	(3)
Thomas Stanley
In Tenebris	171	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Proverbs
Proverbs 6:6	171	(1)
David Curzon
Paraphrase	172	(1)
Samuel Johnson
For a Mouthy Woman	173	(1)
Countee Cullen
Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?	173	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
`A Servant when He Reigneth'	174	(2)
Rudyard Kipling
Scotch Drink	176	(4)
Robert Burns
On Woman	180	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Ecclesiastes
The Vanity of All Worldly Things	181	(2)
Anne Bradstreet
Ecclesiastes	183	(1)
Derek Mahon
A Spirit Appeared to Me	184	(1)
Herman Melville
Times go by Turns	184	(1)
Robert Southwell
In Ecclesiastes I Read	185	(1)
J. P. White
Race and Battle	186	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Past Thinking of Solomon	187	(1)
Francis Thompson
`All is Vanity, Saith the Preacher'	187	(1)
George Noel Gordon
Lord Byron
The Conclusion of the Matter	188	(1)
Christopher Smart
Song of Solomon
Let Him with Kisses of His Mouth	189	(1)
Anonymous
Sandalwood comes to my mind	189	(2)
Carl Rakosi
Regeneration	191	(2)
Henry Vaughan
My dove, my beautiful one	193	(1)
James Joyce
The Book of Wisdom	194	(1)
Robert Lowell
Isaiah
Beyond Knowledge	195	(1)
Alice Meynell
Lucifer in Starlight	196	(1)
George Meredith
Isaiah by Kerosene Lantern Light	196	(1)
Robert Harris
The Steed Bit his Master	197	(1)
Anonymous
Babylon	198	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Invitation	199	(1)
George Herbert
Ho, everyone that thirsteth	200	(1)
A. E. Housman
Hymn 10	201	(1)
William Cowper
What is he, this lordling	202	(1)
Friar William Herbert
On Falling Asleep by Firelight	203	(1)
William Meredith
Lightworks: Chapter 66	204	(2)
David Rosenberg
Isaiah 66:11	206	(1)
Francis Quarles
Jeremiah
Israel	207	(1)
Carl Rakosi
Thou art Indeed Just, Lord	208	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'	209	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Lamentations
Wednesday of Holy Week, 1940	209	(2)
Kenneth Rexroth
Ezekiel
Live, Evil Veil	211	(2)
John Wheelwright
Aholibah	213	(5)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The End	218	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar	219	(1)
Elinor Wylie
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream	219	(1)
John Keats
Belshazzar had a Letter	220	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Nebuchadnezzar's Kingdom-Come	221	(1)
David Rowbotham
Minor Prophets
My People are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge	222	(1)
Jones Very
The Ribs and Terrors...	223	(1)
Herman Melville
Jonah	224	(1)
Randall Jarrell
In a Blind Garden	225	(3)
David Shapiro
A Dream Question	228	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Day of Judgement	229	(1)
Jonathan Swift
In a Myrtle Shade	230	(1)
William Blake
from Jubilate Agno	231	(2)
Christopher Smart
Mediatation Seventy-Seven, Second series	233	(1)
Edward Taylor
Easter Wings	234	(5)
George Herbert
Part II: Gospels through Revelation
Extracts
To the Christians	239	(1)
Francis Lauderdale Adams
The Carpenter's Son	239	(1)
John Berryman
from Milton, a Poem in 2 Books: Preface	240	(1)
William Blake
The Respectable Burgher	240	(1)
Thomas Hardy
H. Scriptures	241	(1)
Henry Vaughan
To Him that was Crucified	242	(1)
Walt Whitman
A Christmas Hymn	243	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Harmonized
Prologue
In the Beginning	244	(1)
Dylan Thomas
A Word made Flesh is seldom	245	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Body of God	245	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
from The Everlasting Gospel	246	(1)
William Blake
The Birth
The Virgin	247	(1)
Laura
Jackson
Ave Maria Gratia Plena	247	(1)
Oscar Wilde
The Annunciation	248	(1)
Edwin Muir
Annunciation	249	(1)
John Donne
Mary and Gabriel	249	(2)
Rupert Brooke
I Sing of a Maiden	251	(1)
Anonymous
Joseph	252	(1)
G. K. Chesterton
A Stick of Incense	252	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Christmas Day. The Family Sitting	253	(2)
John Meade Falkner
Nativity	255	(1)
John Donne
Upon Christ his Birth	255	(1)
Sir John Suckling
Salus Mundi	255	(1)
Mary Coleridge
The Nativity	256	(1)
C. S. Lewis
The Shepherds	256	(2)
Henry Vaughan
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	258	(1)
Ben Jonson
Christus Natus Est	259	(1)
Countee Cullen
The Mother of God	260	(1)
William Butler Yeats
To his Savior. The New Years Gift	261	(1)
Robert Herrick
Upon the Circumcision	261	(1)
John Milton
A Song for Simeon	262	(2)
T. S. Eliot
The Magi	264	(1)
William Butler Yeats
To his Savior, a Child; a Present, by a Child	264	(1)
Robert Herrick
The Gift	265	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Three Kings	266	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Flight in the Desert	269	(1)
William Everson
Lulla, my Sweet Little Baby	270	(1)
William Byrd
To the Infant Martyrs	271	(1)
Richard Crashaw
A Curse on Herod	272	(1)
Amy Witting
Temple	273	(1)
John Donne
from The Everlasting Gospel	273	(3)
William Blake
The Call
For the Baptist	276	(1)
William Drummond
Midnight	277	(1)
Henry Vaughan
In the Wilderness	278	(1)
Robert Graves
from Paradise Regained, Bk IV	279	(4)
John Milton
The Lamb	283	(1)
William Blake
The Wedding Feast	284	(2)
Edgar Lee Masters
The Signs
The Night	286	(2)
Henry Vaughan
The Wind	288	(1)
Christina Georgina Rossetti
But Men Loved Darkness Rather than Light	289	(1)
Richard Crashaw
The Master
Nocturne at Bethesda	289	(2)
Arna Bontemps
from Jubilate Agno	291	(2)
Christopher Smart
Starlight Like Intuition Pierced the Twelve	293	(2)
Delmore Schwartz
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage	295	(2)
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Candle Indoors	297	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Progress	298	(1)
Matthew Arnold
The Habit of Perfection	299	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
For Daughters of Magdalen	300	(1)
Countee Cullen
Judge Not	301	(1)
Theodore Roethke
H. Baptism (II)	301	(1)
George Herbert
John	302	(1)
Jones Very
Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper	303	(4)
Richard Crashaw
For the Magdalene	307	(1)
William Drummond
The Unpardonable Sin	308	(1)
Vachel Lindsay
On the Holy Scriptures	309	(1)
Francis Quarles
The Pearl	309	(1)
George Herbert
The Daughter of Herodias	310	(1)
Henry Vaughan
Portrait (II)	311	(1)
E.E. Cummings
On S. John the Baptist	312	(1)
Thomas Stanley
Business Reverses	313	(2)
Edgar Lee Masters
In the Twentieth Century	315	(1)
James Mcauley
Walking on Water	316	(1)
James Dickey
Galilee Shore	317	(2)
Allen Ginsberg
E Tenebris	319	(1)
Oscar Wilde
The Beloved
Meditation Eight	319	(2)
Edward Taylor
The Given Flesh Returns Nothing but Bread	321	(1)
Aileen Kelly
`Retro Me, Sathana'	322	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Do People moulder equally	322	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Innocence	323	(2)
Thomas Traherne
Poem 45 of A Shropshire Lad	325	(1)
A. E. Housman
from The Everlasting Gospel	326	(3)
William Blake
a man who had fallen among thieves	329	(1)
E.E. Cummings
Blessed Be the Paps	330	(1)
Richard Crashaw
Love (III)	330	(1)
George Herbert
His Metrical Prayer	331	(1)
James Graham
The Prodigal Son	331	(1)
Robert Bly
To Dives	332	(2)
Hilaire Belloc
On Lazarus Raised from Death	334	(1)
Henry Colman
An Epistle Containing...	335	(8)
Robert Browning
Two Went Up into the Temple to Pray	343	(1)
Richard Crashaw
To Heaven	344	(1)
Robert Herrick
Blind Bartimæus	344	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Crucified
A Gloze upon this Text	345	(3)
George Gascoigne
The Donkey	348	(1)
G. K. Chesterton
A Small Fig Tree	349	(1)
Donald Hall
Love thy Neighbour	349	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
The Place of the Damned	350	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Take Ye Heed, Watch and Pray	351	(1)
Jones Very
The Lamp	352	(1)
Henry Vaughan
Sonnet IX	353	(1)
John Milton
Sonnet XIX	354	(1)
John Milton
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	355	(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Tribunal	356	(1)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
This Bread I Break	357	(1)
Dylan Thomas
The Foot-Washing	357	(2)
A. R. Ammons
The Bottle	359	(1)
Ralph Knevet
At a Calvary Near the Ancre	359	(1)
Wilfred Owen
I Heard Christ Sing	360	(3)
Hugh Macdiarmid
A Ballad of Trees and the Master	363	(1)
Sidney Lanier
The Hound of Heaven	364	(5)
Francis Thompson
Judas	369	(1)
Vassar Miller
And He Answered them Nothing	369	(1)
Richard Crashaw
One crown that no one seeks	370	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks	370	(1)
Countee Cullen
Canticle for Good Friday	371	(1)
Geoffrey Hill
Crucifying	372	(1)
John Donne
On the Cards, and Dice	372	(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Carpenter's Son	373	(1)
A. E. Housman
``Remember me'' implored the Thief	374	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Christ's Passion	375	(2)
Abraham Cowley
The Crucifixion of Our Blessed Lord	377	(3)
Christopher Smart
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	380	(1)
John Donne
`O, My Heart is Woe'	381	(1)
Anonymous
Upon our Savior's Tomb Wherein Never Man was Laid	382	(1)
Richard Crashaw
Observation	383	(1)
Robert Herrick
Epilogue	383	(3)
Robert Browning
Easter Hymn	386	(1)
A. D. Hope
Resurrection, Imperfect	387	(1)
John Donne
Mary's Song	388	(1)
Sylvia Plath
To Jesus on His Birthday	389	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Resurrection	389	(1)
John Donne
April Fool's Day, or, St Mary of Egypt	390	(1)
John Berryman
Composed...on Easter Sunday	391	(1)
William Wordsworth
Easter 1984	391	(2)
Les Murray
Appearances
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	393	(3)
Ezra Pound
Ascention	396	(1)
John Donne
Ascension	396	(1)
Denis Devlin
To St Mary Magdalen	397	(1)
Henry Constable
Split the Lark-and you'll find the Music	397	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Crown	398	(1)
John Donne
Acts and Epistles
The Ballad of Joking Jesus	399	(1)
James Joyce
Faith Healing	399	(1)
Philip Larkin
There was a Saviour	400	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Stephen to Lazarus	402	(1)
C. S. Lewis
Near Damascus	403	(1)
W. S. Dipiero
St. Paul	404	(1)
Thomas Merton
The Search	405	(2)
Henry Vaughan
Eutychus	407	(2)
Rosemary Dobson
Dies Iræ	409	(2)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Meditation Three, second series	411	(1)
Edward Taylor
And death shall have no dominion	412	(1)
Dylan Thomas
AIDS, Among Other Things	413	(1)
Peter Kocan
To Heaven	414	(1)
Ben Jonson
On a Feast	415	(1)
Francis Quarles
Forbearance	416	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Revelation	417	(1)
Robert Frost
The Choice	417	(2)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ode: The Dying Christian to his Soul	419	(1)
Alexander Pope
Sonnet XIV	420	(1)
John Milton
Adam Lay I-bounden	420	(1)
Anonymous
Amoretti. Sonnet LXVIII	421	(1)
Edmund Spenser
The Litany of the Dark People	421	(1)
Countee Cullen
Contentment	422	(2)
William Cowper
Pilate Remembers	424	(1)
William E. Brooks
Crossing the Bar	424	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
For a Poet	425	(2)
George Wither
Hope	427	(1)
George Herbert
The Hands of God	428	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
from Jubilate Agno	429	(1)
Christopher Smart
A Dream	430	(1)
Sir John Suckling
The World	431	(2)
Henry Vaughan
Revelation
To God	433	(1)
Robert Herrick
Sardis	434	(1)
William Cowper
The Trees are Down	435	(1)
Charlotte Mew
Holy Sonnet VII	436	(1)
John Donne
The Mental Traveller	437	(3)
William Blake
Sonnet XII	440	(1)
Edmund Spenser
Armageddon	441	(3)
John Crowe Ransom
Sonnet XIII	444	(1)
Edmund Spenser
Let go the Whore of Babylon	445	(3)
Miles Coverdale
Sonnet XIV	448	(1)
Edmund Spenser
`Woefully Arrayed'	448	(2)
John Skelton
The Resurrection	450	(2)
Abraham Cowley
A Vision of Sunday in Heaven	452	(3)
Victor Daley
Sonnet XV	455	(1)
Edmund Spenser
A Commination	456	(2)
A. D. Hope
Paradise Re-entered	458	(2)
D. H. Lawrence
The Second Coming	460	(3)
William Butler Yeats
Index of Titles	463	(6)
Index of First Lines	469	(8)
Index of Poets	477	(4)
Credits	481