Verses of the Poets Laureate

by Laurie, Hilary; Motion, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780752818597
• ISBN10: 0752818597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	4	(5)
Introduction	9	(8)
Andrew Motion
John Dryden 1631--1700	17	(12)
``Why should a foolish marriage vow''	19	(1)
from Astrea Redux	20	(1)
Death, the End of All	21	(2)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687	23	(3)
The nocturnal activities of Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius	26	(3)
Thomas Shadwell 1642--1692	29	(4)
from An Ode on the Queen's Birthday	30	(1)
Song	31	(2)
Nahum Tate 1652--1715	33	(6)
``As pants the hart for cooling streams''	34	(1)
The Round	35	(1)
``While shepherds watched their flocks by night''	36	(1)
Mr. Tate, the Poet-Laureat's Song	37	(2)
Nicholas Rowe 1674--1718	39	(4)
Song, on a fine woman who had a dull husband	40	(1)
from Ode for the New Year, 1716	40	(3)
Laurence Eusden 1688--1730	43	(4)
Ode for the New Year	44	(3)
Colley Cibber 1671--1757	47	(6)
Song	48	(1)
``What tho' they call me Country Lass''	49	(1)
Birthday Ode	50	(3)
William Whitehead 1715--1785	53	(4)
Song for Ranelagh	54	(1)
Birthday Ode	55	(2)
Thomas Warton 1728--1790	57	(6)
To the River Lodon	59	(1)
``As when the demon of the Summer storm''	60	(3)
Henry Pye 1745--1813	63	(4)
``Nurtur'd in storms the infant year''	64	(1)
from On the Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Caroline of Brunswick	65	(2)
Robert Southey 1774--1843	67	(10)
After Blenheim	68	(3)
The Immortality of Love	71	(1)
The Well of St. Keyne	72	(2)
from An Ode for St. George's Day	74	(3)
William Wordsworth 1770--1850	77	(20)
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	79	(6)
``A slumber did my spirit seal''	85	(1)
Song	85	(1)
London, 1802	86	(1)
``I wandered lonely as a Cloud''	87	(1)
``My heart leaps up when I behold''	88	(1)
Ode	88	(6)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803	94	(1)
``The world is too much with us''	95	(2)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809--1892	97	(28)
The Lady of Shalott	99	(7)
from The Lotos-Eaters	106	(2)
``Break, break, break''	108	(1)
``The splendour falls on castle walls''	109	(1)
from In Memoriam A. H. H.	110	(6)
from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington	116	(3)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	119	(2)
from On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria	121	(2)
Crossing the Bar	123	(2)
Alfred Austin 1835--1913	125	(8)
Love's Unity	127	(1)
As Dies the Year	127	(2)
Sonnet Written in Mid-Channel	129	(1)
from Victoria, May 24, 1819--January 22, 1901	130	(3)
Robert Bridges 1844--1930	133	(12)
Triolet	134	(1)
A Passer-By	135	(1)
London Snow	136	(2)
``So sweet love seemed''	138	(1)
Nightingales	139	(1)
``When Death to either shall come''	140	(1)
Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913	140	(2)
Fortunatus Nimium	142	(3)
John Masefield 1878--1967	145	(12)
Trade Winds	147	(1)
Sea-Fever	147	(1)
Cargoes	148	(1)
The Emigrant	149	(1)
The Seekers	150	(1)
The West Wind	151	(1)
``Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland''	152	(1)
The Rider at the Gate	153	(4)
Cecil Day Lewis 1904--1972	157	(12)
The Conflict	159	(1)
A Carol	160	(1)
Departure in the Dark	161	(2)
Hornpipe	163	(1)
``If love means exploration''	164	(1)
Circus Lion	165	(1)
Walking Away	166	(1)
from Battle of Britain	167	(1)
Where are the War Poets?	167	(2)
Sir John Betjeman 1906--1984	169	(14)
Slough	171	(2)
In Westminster Abbey	173	(2)
A Shropshire Lad	175	(2)
In a Bath Teashop	177	(1)
Sun and Fun	177	(2)
How to Get On in Society	179	(1)
Late-Flowering Lust	180	(3)
Ted Hughes 1930--1998	183	(14)
The Thought-Fox	184	(1)
Fern	185	(1)
Pibroch	186	(1)
Crow's Fall	187	(1)
Crow's Vanity	188	(1)
Conjuring in Heaven	189	(1)
A March Calf	190	(2)
Little Salmon Hymn	192	(1)
Daffodils	193	(4)
Andrew Motion 1952--	197	(9)
In the Attic	199	(1)
A Blow to the Head	200	(4)
On the Table	204	(1)
Hey nonny	205	(1)
Epithalamium, St. George's Chapel, Windsor	206