The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry Volume II: Blake to Heaney

by Wain, John

• ISBN13: 9780192804228
• ISBN10: 0192804227
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. From Blake's Songs of Innocence to Heaney's Punishment, this, the second of the two volumes, encompasses the work of many of the great poets of the last two centuries, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; Tennyson, Hopkins, and Rosetti; and the modern poetry of Yeats, MacNeice, Auden, and Larkin. A volume to be treasured. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Wain, 1925-94, was an English novelist and critic. He served as professor of poetry at Oxford (1973-8) and wrote or edited more than seventy books. His works include the novels A Winter in the Hills (1970) and The Pardoner's Tale (1978); Letters to Five Artists (1969), poems; and critical studies of Arnold Bennett (1967) and Samuel Johnson (1975).

Table of Contents

William Blake (1757--1827)
from Songs of Innocence:
Introduction	1	(1)
The Lamb	2	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	2	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	3	(1)
Infant Joy	4	(1)
On Another's Sorrow	4	(1)
The School Boy	5	(1)
from Songs of Experience:
The Clod & the Pebble	6	(1)
The Sick Rose	6	(1)
The Fly	7	(1)
The Tyger	7	(1)
The Garden of Love	8	(1)
London	8	(1)
The Human Abstract	9	(1)
Infant Sorrow	10	(1)
A Poison Tree	10	(1)
Auguries of Innocence	10	(4)
from Milton:
Jerusalem	14	(1)
`But turning toward Ololon in terrible majesty Milton'	14	(1)
To Morning	15	(1)
from Visions of the Daughters of Albion	15	(2)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
Auld Lang Syne	17	(1)
Green Grow the Rashes	18	(1)
Coming Through the Rye	18	(1)
For A' That	18	(1)
Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad	19	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	20	(1)
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest with the Plough	21	(1)
O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast	21	(2)
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Hay Making	23	(1)
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
Dover Cliffs	24	(1)
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
The Sleeping Beauty	25	(1)
Ginevra	26	(2)
A Wish	28	(1)
James Hogg (1770-1835)
Kilmeny	29	(8)
A Boy's Song	37	(1)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey	38	(4)
Lucy Gray	42	(2)
The Fountain	44	(2)
Michael	46	(11)
Lucy	57	(1)
Resolution and Independence	58	(4)
Sonnets:
London, 1802	62	(1)
`It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'	62	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	63	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	63	(1)
from The Prelude	64	(26)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
from The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
The Minstrel	90	(2)
Melrose Abbey	92	(1)
Love	93	(1)
Nature's Sympathy with the Poet	93	(1)
Patriotism	94	(1)
Lochinvar	95	(2)
from The Lady of the Lake:
Flowers and Trees	97	(1)
Boat Song	97	(1)
Coronach	98	(1)
Ballad: Alice Brand	99	(3)
Harp of the North, Farewell!	102	(1)
from Rokeby
Song: Brignall Banks	103	(1)
Songs from the Novels:
Hie Away, Hie Away	104	(1)
Lucy Ashton's Song	105	(1)
Sound, Sound the Clarion	105	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	106	(17)
Dejection: An Ode	123	(4)
Work Without Hope	127	(1)
Kubla Khan	128	(1)
To a Young Ass	129	(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	130	(2)
The Homeric Hexameter	132	(1)
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
After Blenheim	132	(2)
Among His Books	134	(1)
The Inchcape Rock	135	(2)
Bishop Hatto and the Rats	137	(2)
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
The Old Familiar Faces	139	(1)
The Triumph of the Whale	140	(1)
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841)
To Night	141	(1)
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Rose Aylmer	142	(1)
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday	142	(1)
Dirce	142	(1)
James Smith (1775-1839)
Playhouse Musings	142	(3)
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Ye Mariners of England	145	(1)
The Soldier's Dream	146	(1)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
The Minstrel Boy	147	(1)
She is Far from the Land	147	(1)
Pro Patria Mori	148	(1)
Echoes	148	(1)
The Journey Onwards	149	(1)
Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849)
Battle Song	150	(1)
When Wilt Thou Save the People?	151	(1)
Spring	151	(1)
Song	152	(1)
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
`A wet sheet and a flowing sea'	153	(1)
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Abou Ben Adhem	154	(1)
Jenny Kissed Me	154	(1)
The Grasshopper and the Cricket	155	(1)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
The Grave of Love	155	(1)
from Nightmare Abbey:
Three Men of Gotham	156	(1)
from Maid Marian:
Robin Hood and the Grey Friars	156	(1)
Over, Over	157	(2)
from Crotchet Castle:
The Priest and the Mulberry Tree	159	(1)
The War Song of Dinas Vawr	160	(1)
Bryan Waller Proctor ('Barry Cornwall') (1787-1874)
The Leveller	161	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty	162	(1)
The Destruction of Sennacherib	162	(1)
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	163	(4)
Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill	167	(1)
from Stanzas:
`When a man hath no freedom'	168	(1)
Prometheus	168	(2)
from Don Juan	170	(14)
Vision of Judgment	184	(24)
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna	208	(1)
Song: `Oh say not that my heart is cold'	209	(1)
Song: To Mary	209	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The Mask of Anarchy	210	(13)
England in 1819	223	(1)
Ozymandias	224	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	224	(3)
To a Skylark	227	(2)
To the Moon	229	(1)
Summer and Winter	230	(1)
Love's Philosophy	230	(1)
Adonais	231	(14)
One Word is Too Often Profaned	245	(1)
Music, When Soft Voices Die	245	(1)
John Clare (1793-1864)
Written in Northampton County Asylum	246	(1)
Noon	246	(2)
After Reading in a Letter Proposals for Building a Cottage	248	(1)
Sudden Shower	249	(1)
from The Flitting	249	(1)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Sonnets:	250	(40)
To ******	251	(1)
`How many bards gild the lapses of time!'	251	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	252	(1)
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	252	(1)
`Happy is England! I could be content'
from Endymion	252	(3)
The Eve of St. Agnes	255	(10)
Ode to a Nightingale	265	(3)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	268	(1)
Ode to Psyche	269	(2)
Ode: `Bards of Passion and of Mirth'	271	(1)
To Autumn	272	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	273	(1)
from Hyperion	274	(13)
On Oxford. A Parody	287	(1)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	288	(2)
George Darley (1795-1846)
The Loveliness of Love	290	(1)
Song: `Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers'	291	(1)
Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
She was a Queen	291	(2)
Song: `She is not fair to outward view'	293	(1)
To a Lofty Beauty, from her Poor Kinsman	293	(1)
William Motherwell (1797-1835)
I've Plucked the Berry	294	(1)
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
A Novel of High Life	294	(1)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Autumn	295	(2)
The Bridge of Sighs	297	(3)
I remember, I remember	300	(1)
Ballad: Time of Roses	301	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859)
Horatius	301	(17)
The Battle of Naseby	318	(2)
Epitaph on a Jacobite	320	(1)
The Armada	320	(2)
William Barnes (1801-1886)
The Wife A-Lost	322	(1)
The Wind at the Door	323	(1)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
The Vicar	324	(3)
School and Schoolfellows	327	(2)
James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
The Nameless One	329	(2)
Dark Rosaleen	331	(2)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803--1849)
from Death's Jest Book:
Sailors' Song	333	(1)
Wolfram's Dirge	334	(1)
Dream-Pedlary
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875)
And Shall Trelawny Die?	335	(1)
Are They Not All Ministering Spirits?	336	(1)
Francis Sylvester Mahony (1804--1866)
The Shandon Bells	337	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
from Aurora Leigh:
The Sweetness of England	338	(2)
The Cry of the Children	340	(4)
Cowper's Grave	344	(2)
The Sleep	346	(2)
from Sonnets from the Portuguese:
`I thought once how Theocritus had sung'	348	(1)
`Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart'	348	(1)
`Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor'	349	(1)
`Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand'	349	(1)
`What can I give thee back, O liberal'	349	(1)
`Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed'	350	(1)
`If thou must love me, let it be for nought'	350	(1)
`My letters! all dead paper, . . . mute and white!'	350	(1)
`How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'	351	(1)
The Countess of Dufferin (1807-1867)
The Irish Emigrant	351	(2)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883)
Old Song	353	(2)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur	355	(11)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Mariana	366	(2)
The Lady of Shallot	368	(5)
The Lotos-Eaters	373	(1)
Ulysses	374	(2)
Morte D'Arthur	376	(6)
from The Princess:
`Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean'	382	(1)
`Home they brought her warrior dead'	382	(1)
`Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'	383	(1)
from In Memoriam	383	(1)
from Maud	384	(2)
The Brook	386	(6)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	392	(1)
Northern Farmer: New Style	393	(3)
`Come not, when I am dead'	396	(1)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Little Billee	396	(1)
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse	397	(3)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Dong with a Luminous Nose	400	(2)
Limericks:
`There was an Old Person of Basing'	402	(1)
`There was an Old Man of Whitehaven'	403	(1)
`There was an Old Man of Thermopylae'	403	(1)
`There was an Old Man who screamed out'	403	(1)
`There was an Old Person of Bow'	403	(1)
`How pleasant to know Mr Lear!'	403	(1)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
from The Pied Piper of Hamelin	404	(1)
Fra Lippo Lippi	405	(9)
Two in the Campagna	414	(2)
The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church	416	(3)
Caliban upon Setebos	419	(7)
Emily Jane Bronte (1818-1848)
Remembrance	426	(1)
The Old Stoic	427	(1)
My Lady's Grave	427	(1)
Last Lines	428	(1)
A Death Scene	429	(2)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
from Amours de Voyage	431	(7)
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Ode to the North-East Wind	438	(1)
The Sands of Dee	439	(1)
Young and Old	440	(1)
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire	441	(4)
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
The Old Oak Tree at Hatfield Broadoak	445	(3)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Shakespeare	448	(1)
The Scholar Gipsy	449	(6)
Dover Beach	455	(1)
William (Johnson) Cory (1823--1892)
Heraditus	456	(1)
Conventry Patmore (1823--1896)
from The Angel in the House	457	(2)
The Toys	459	(1)
William Allingham (1824-1889)
Four Ducks on a Pond	460	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Blessed Damozel	461	(4)
Sibylla Palmifera	465	(1)
On Refusal of Aid between Nations	465	(1)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
from Modern Love	466	(1)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Goblin Market	466	(14)
Remember	480	(1)
`A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break'	480	(1)
Song	481	(1)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
Ballad	482	(1)
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
`Will You Walk a Little Faster?'	483	(1)
from Through the Looking-Glass:
Jabberwocky	484	(1)
The Sun Was Shining On The Sea	485	(3)
from The Hunting of the Snark:
The Baker's Tale	488	(1)
The Vanishing	489	(2)
Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900)
To Peace	491	(1)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Summer Dawn	491	(1)
The Haystack in the Floods	492	(4)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Chorus from `Atalanta'	496	(1)
A Forsaken Garden	497	(3)
David Gray (1838-1861)
Sonnet	500	(1)
Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
The Ballad of `Beau Brocade'	500	(7)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
I Look into My Glass	507	(1)
Drummer Hodge	508	(1)
To Lizbie Browne	508	(2)
The Self-Unseeing	510	(1)
A Church Romance	510	(1)
Channel Firing	511	(1)
The Oxen	512	(1)
Midnight on the Great Western	512	(1)
In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'	513	(1)
Afterwards	514	(1)
The Going	514	(1)
Rain on a Grave	515	(1)
I Found Her Out There	516	(2)
The Voice	518	(1)
After a Journey	518	(1)
Beeny Cliff	519	(1)
At Castle Boterel	520	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Heaven-Haven	521	(1)
The Habit of Perfection	521	(1)
The Wreck of the `Deutschland'	522	(9)
God's Grandeur	531	(1)
The Windhover	531	(1)
Pied Beauty	532	(1)
In the Valley of the Elwy	532	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	533	(1)
Andromeda	533	(1)
The Candle Indoors	534	(1)
Felix Randal	534	(1)
Spring and Fall	535	(1)
`As kingfishers catch fire'	535	(1)
`No worst, there is none'	535	(1)
`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'	536	(1)
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez	536	(1)
`Thou art indeed just, Lord'	537	(1)
To R.B.	537	(1)
Robert Bridges (1844--1930)
London Snow	538	(1)
On a Dead Child	539	(1)
`I love all beauteous things'	540	(1)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Christ in the Universe	540	(1)
At Night	541	(1)
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves	542	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The Vagabond	543	(1)
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
Easter Day	544	(1)
E Tenebris	544	(1)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	545	(17)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Bredon Hill	562	(1)
`On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble'	563	(1)
`Into my heart an air that kills'	564	(1)
The Carpenter's Son	564	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Tommy	565	(1)
Recessional	566	(1)
The Way Through the Woods	567	(1)
Mandalay	568	(1)
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	569	(1)
The Fiddler of Dooney	570	(1)
No Second Troy	570	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	571	(1)
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing	571	(1)
Beggar to Beggar Cried	572	(1)
The Magi	572	(1)
A Coat	573	(1)
Men Improve With the Years	573	(1)
The Collar-Bone of a Hare	573	(1)
On Being Asked for a War Poem	574	(1)
Easter 1916	574	(2)
The Leaders of the Crowd	576	(1)
The Second Coming	576	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	577	(1)
A Prayer for My Son	578	(1)
Leda and the Swan	579	(1)
All Souls' Night	579	(3)
Death	582	(1)
For Anne Gregory	582	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop	583	(1)
The Spur	583	(1)
from Under Ben Bulben	584	(1)
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
Collins	585	(1)
The Dark Angel	585	(2)
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
Sea Love	587	(1)
The Cenotaph	587	(1)
In the Fields	588	(1)
I So Liked Spring	588	(1)
June, 1915	589	(1)
The Trees are Down	589	(1)
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
The South Country	590	(2)
The Evenlode	592	(1)
The Statue	592	(1)
Henry King	593	(1)
Jim	593	(2)
Lord Finchley	595	(1)
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956)
The Listeners	595	(1)
Snow	596	(1)
Song of the Mad Prince	597	(1)
G. K. Chesterton (1874--1936)
The Rolling English Road	597	(1)
Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: an Ode	598	(1)
Femina Contra Mundum	599	(1)
A Certain Evening	600	(1)
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Sea-Fever	601	(1)
A Fellow Mortal	601	(1)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The Owl	602	(1)
As the Team's Head-Brass	603	(1)
Thaw	604	(1)
Gone, Gone Again	604	(1)
Lights Out	605	(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
End of Another Home Holiday	606	(2)
The Ship of Death	608	(3)
Tortoise Shell	611	(2)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Counter-Attack	613	(1)
Glory of Women	614	(1)
Lamentations	614	(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	615	(3)
Gerontion	618	(2)
The Waste Land	620	(11)
Whispers of Immortality	631	(1)
from Four Quartets:
Little Gidding	632	(7)
Isaac-Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches	639	(1)
Louse Hunting	640	(1)
On Receiving News of the War	640	(1)
Hugh Macdiarmid (1892-1978)
The Innumerable Christ	641	(1)
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle	642	(2)
By Wauchopeside	644	(1)
Wheesht, Wheesht	645	(1)
Wilfrid Owen (1893--1918)
Insensibility	646	(2)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	648	(1)
Miners	648	(1)
Strange Meeting	649	(1)
Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
`All the Hills and Vales Along'	650	(1)
David Jones (1895-1974)
from In Parenthesis	651	(1)
from Mabinog's Liturgy	652	(2)
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Sick Love	654	(1)
Song: Lift-Boy	654	(1)
Parent to Children	655	(1)
Counting the Beats	655	(1)
Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
The Zulu Girl	656	(1)
On Some South African Novelists	657	(1)
Mass at Dawn	657	(1)
Luis de Camoes	657	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
The Commuted Sentence	658	(1)
Scorpion	658	(1)
Not Waving But Drowning	659	(1)
George Orwell (1903-1950)
`The Italian soldier shook my hand'	659	(1)
Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984)
Death in Leamington	660	(1)
A Subaltern's Love-Song	661	(2)
In Westminster Abbey	663	(1)
House of Rest	664	(1)
The Metropolitan Railway	665	(1)
Slough	666	(1)
William Empson (1906--1984)
Note on Local Flora	667	(1)
To an Old Lady	667	(1)
Aubade	668	(1)
The Beautiful Train	669	(1)
Louis Macneice (1907-1963)
Snow	670	(1)
Birmingham	670	(1)
The Sunlight on the Garden	671	(1)
Sunday Morning	672	(1)
Nostalgia	672	(1)
from Autumn Journal	673	(4)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
Questioner Who Sits So Sly	677	(2)
A Free One	679	(1)
1929	679	(5)
The Question	684	(1)
Consider	685	(1)
Oxford	686	(2)
A. E. Housman	688	(1)
Edward Lear	688	(1)
Our Bias	689	(1)
Lullaby	689	(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts	690	(1)
`As I walked out one evening'	691	(2)
`O lurcher-loving collier, black as night'	693	(1)
Refugee Blues	693	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	694	(2)
September I, 1939	696	(3)
The Shield of Achilles	699	(2)
The Cave of Making	701	(3)
Ode to the Diencephalon	704	(1)
Moon Landing	704	(1)
Atlantis	705	(3)
Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
`What I expected was'	708	(1)
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
Delos	709	(1)
Strip-tease	709	(1)
Acropolis	710	(1)
Vega	710	(1)
George Barker (1913-1991)
`Not in the poet is the poem or'	711	(1)
To My Mother	711	(1)
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)
Rhodri	712	(1)
Echoes	713	(1)
Nocturne	713	(1)
Ben Shahn
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower	714	(1)
Especially when the October wind	715	(1)
Light breaks where no sun shines	716	(1)
After the funeral	717	(1)
The Conversation of Prayer	718	(1)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	718	(1)
Poem in October	719	(2)
Do not go gentle into that good night	721	(1)
Charles Causley (1917-- )
On being asked to write a school hymn	722	(1)
W. S. Graham (1918-- )
The Beast in the Space	723	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)
Deceptions	724	(1)
No Road	724	(1)
Toads	725	(1)
The Whitsun Weddings	726	(2)
Days	728	(1)
MCMXIV	728	(1)
Toads Revisited	729	(1)
An Arundel Tomb	730	(2)
Going, Going	732	(1)
The Explosion	733	(1)
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-- )
One Flesh	734	(1)
A Letter to Peter Levi	735	(1)
Thom Gunn (1929- )
On The Move	735	(1)
The Last Man	736	(4)
The Hughes (1930-1998)
The Man Seeking Experience Enquiries His Way of a Drop of Water	740	(1)
View of a Pig	741	(1)
Heptonstall	742	(1)
Tractor	742	(2)
Roe-deer	744	(1)
The day he died	745	(1)
Peter Levi (1931-2000)
New Year's Eve Poem 1965	746	(1)
Anne Stevenson (1934-- )
Himalayan Balsam	747	(1)
Seamus Heaney (1939-- )
The Forge	748	(1)
Tinder	748	(1)
Wedding Day	749	(1)
Punishment	749	(4)
Acknowledgements	753	(4)
Index of Poets	757	(2)
Index of First Lines	759