Ferguson, Margaret (Ed.) : University of Colorado--Boulder

Margaret Ferguson (Ph.D. Yale University) is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Colorado--Boulder. She is the author of Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry and the editor of two volumes on Renaissance writers.

Salter, Mary Jo (Ed.) : Mount Holyoke College

Mary Jo Salter (M.A. Cambridge University) shares with her husband, Brad Leithauser, the Emily Dickinson Chair in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, where she teaches poetry and poetry writing. She has published three books of poetry, most recently Sunday Skaters, and served as poetry editor for The New Republic.

Stallworthy, Jon (Ed.) : Oxford University

Jon Stallworthy (M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford University) is professor of English literature and director of graduate studies in English at Oxford. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats's poetry and biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice. He is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry.

Preface to the Shorter Fourth Edition

Note on the Modernizing of Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Versification

Acknowledgments

*Caedmon's Hymn (translated by John Pope)

*From Beowulf (translated by Edwin Morgan)

*Riddles (translated by Hamer)

Swan

Shield

Bookworm

*The Seafarer

Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Now Go'th Sun Under Wood

The Cuckoo Song

Alison

*Fowles in the Frith

*Ich am of Irelonde

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)

The Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

The Introduction

The Prologue

The Tale

The Epilogue

*From Troilus and Criseide

Lyrics and Occasional Verse

Complaint to His Purse

*Adam Scriveyn

*Pearl, 1-5 (1375-1400)

*WILLIAM LANGLAND (fl. 1375)

Piers Plowman 1-111

Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century

Adam Lay I-bounden

I Sing of a Maiden

I Have a Young Sister

ITimor Mortis

The Corpus Christi Carol

Western Wind

*The Sacrament of the Altar

* See! Here, my heart

WILLIAM DUNBAR (ca.1460-ca.1525)

Lament for the Makaris

*In Prais of Wemen

JOHN SKELTON (1460-1529)

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale

To Mistress Margaret Hussey

*Phillip Sparow

Early Modern Ballads

The Douglas Tragedy

Lord Randal

The Three Ravens

Sir Patrick Spens

The Unquiet Grave

Bonny Barbara Allan

Mary Hamilton, Version A

Mary Hamilton, Version B

The Bitter Withy

Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems

**Love Me Little, Love Me Long

Fine Knacks for Ladies

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind

*Tom o' Bedlam's Song

THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542)

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor

Whoso List to Hunt

My Galley

Madam, Withouten Many Words

They Flee from Me

*The Lover Showeth How He is Foresaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed

Patience, Though I Have Not

My Lute, Awake!

Is It Possible

Forget Not Yet

**Of Such as Had Forsaken Him

Stand Whoso List

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (ca. 1517-1547)

The Soote Season

Love, That Doth Reign and Live

Within My Thought

Wyatt Resteth Here

*ANNE ASKEW (1521-1546)

The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate

QUEEN ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)

When I Was Fair and Young

*[The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy]

*[Ah silly pugg wert thou so sore afraid]

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (ca. 1535-1577)

And If I Did What Then?

Gascoigne's Lullaby

*ISABELLA WHITNEY (fl. 1567-1573)

From A Sweet Nosegay

A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will

The Manner of her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those In It, at Her Departing

CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (d. 1586)

Tichborne's Elegy

SIR WALTER RALEGH (ca.1552-1618)

*A Vision upon the Fairy Queen

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage

The Lie

Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk

*[Fortune hath taken thee away, my love]

EDMUND SPENSER (ca. 1552-1599)

The Faerie Queene

*Book I, Canto 1

Amoretti

*Sonnet 15 ("Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle")

*Sonnet 23 ("Penelope for her Ulisses sake")

*Sonnet 39 ("Sweet smile, the daughter of the Queene of love")

Sonnet 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay")

Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace")

Sonnet 70 ("Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king")

*Sonnet 71 ("I Joy to see how in your drawen work")

Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")

Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it")

Epithalamion

JOHN LYLY (1554-1606)

Cupid and My Campaspe

Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)

Ye Goatherd Gods

*What Length of Verse?

Astrophil and Stella

1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")

*21 ("Your words, my friend [right healthful caustics] blame")

31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies")

48 ("Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me")

49 ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try")

52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love")

*63 ("O Grammar rules, ô now your virtues show")

71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know")

*Seventh Song ("Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays")

*90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame")

*MARY SIDNEY (1568-1621)

Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (ca. 1561-1595)

The Burning Babe

SAMUEL DANIEL (ca. 1562-1619)

Delia

*1 ("Unto the boundles Ocean of thy beautie")

*2 ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love")

6 ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair")

*31 ("Look, Delia, how we 'steem the half-blown rose")

49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night")

50 ("Let others sing of knights and paladins")

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)

Idea

To the Reader of these Sonnets

6 ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things")

*14 ("If he from heaven that filched that living fire")

61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part")

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

Sonnets

*1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase")

*2 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest")

12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time")

18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")

*20 ("A woman's face with nature's own hand painted")

29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")

30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments")

65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea")

71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")

73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")

94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")

106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")

107 ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul")

116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")

130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")

138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")

146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth")

**The Phoenix and the Turtle

Songs from the Plays

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

It Was a Lover and His Lass

Oh Mistress Mine

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

Full Fathom Five

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)

My Sweetest Lesbia

I Care Not for These Ladies

**Follow Thy Fair Sun

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings

Rose-cheeked Laura

Now Winter Nights Enlarge

THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)

From Summer's Last Will

Spring, the Sweet Spring

"Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss"

*AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645)

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)

The Good-Morrow

Song ("Go and catch a falling star")

Woman's Constancy

The Sun Rising

The Canonization

Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go")

The Anniversary

A Valediction: Of Weeping

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The Ecstasy

The Funeral

*The Flea

The Relic

Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Holy Sonnets

1 ("Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?")

5 ("I am a little world made cunningly")

7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow")

10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee")

14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You")

BEN JONSON (1573-1637)

To the Reader

**To Doctor Empirick

On My First Daughter

On My First Son

**On Spies

To John Donne

Inviting a Friend to Supper

On Gut

To Penshurst

Song: To Celia (I)

*Song: To Celia (II)

*A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme

Still to be Neat

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare

*A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

Queen and Huntress

*MARY WROTH (1586?-1640)

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

37 ("Night, welcome art thou to my mind destrest")

Song ("Love a child is ever crying")

From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

"In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn"

"Is to leave all and take the thread of love"

"He may our prophet, and our tutor prove"

From Urania

Song ("Love, what art thou? A vain thought")

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)

The Argument of His Book

The Vine

Delight in Disorder

Corinna's Going A-Maying

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Upon Julia's Breasts

Upon a Child That Died

To Daffodils

Upon Julia's Clothes

An Ode for Him

*The Pillar of Fame

*To Find God

White Island, or Place of the Blest

HENRY KING (1592-1669)

An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend

GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)

From THE TEMPLE: SACRED POEMS AND PRIVATE EJACULATIONS

*The Altar

Redemption

Easter Wings

Sin (1)

Affliction (I)

Prayer (I)

Jordan (1)

Virtue

Artillery

The Collar

The Pulley

The Flower

**Bitter-Sweet

Love (III)

THOMAS CAREW (1598?-1639?)

A Song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows")

Song. To My Inconstant Mistress

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne

EDMUND WALLER (1607-1687)

Song ("Go, lovely rose!")

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

Lycidas

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

L'Allegro

Il Penseroso

On Shakespeare

How Soon Hath Time

*From Comus

Song ("Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen")

Song ("Sabrina Fair")

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

Methought I Saw

Paradise Lost

*The Verse

Book I [The Invocation]

SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)

Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover")

**Sonnet II ("Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white")

Out upon It!

ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)

*The Prologue

*Before the Birth of One of her Children

*To My Dear and Loving Husband

The Author to Her Book

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666

RICHARD CRASHAW (1613-1649)

A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)

To Althea, from Prison

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

The Grasshopper

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)

Bermudas

To His Coy Mistress

The Definition of Love

**The Mower Against Gardens

The Garden

HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)

The Retreat

They Are All Gone into the World of Light!

**The Waterfall

*MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623-1673)

An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book

Of Many Worlds in this World

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

Mac Flecknoe

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

*KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664)

Epitaph

To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship

THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-1674)

Wonder

*The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book, 1640

Psalm 58

EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1642-1729)

Meditation 8 ("I kenning through astronomy divine")

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

*APHRA BEHN (1640?-1689)

Song ("Love Armd")

The Disappointment

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)

A Satire Against Reason and Mankind

*The Disabled Debauchee

*A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover

ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720)

*Adam Posed

*The Spleen

A Nocturnal Reverie

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

A Description of a City Shower

Stella's Birthday

The Lady's Dressing Room

ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)

Our God, Our Help

*JOHN GAY (1685-1732)

Songs from The Beggar's Opera

Air X "Thomas, I Cannot"

Air XI "A Soldier and a Sailor"

Air XVI "Over the Hills, and Far Away"

Air XIV "Cotillion"

Air XXII "The Lass of Patie's Mill"

Air XXVVII "Green Sleeves"

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

The Rape of the Lock

Epistle to Miss Blount

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)

The Lover: A Ballad

*A Receipt to Cure the Vapours

**JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)

The Seasons

Winter (lines 265-322)

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

**Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick

The Vanity of Human Wishes

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)

Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Ode on the Poetical Character

*MARY LEAPOR (1722-1746)

Mira's Will

The Epistle of Deborah Dough

*JEAN ELIOTT (1727-1805)

The Flowers of the Forest

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)

*Psalm 58

Jubilate Agno, lines 697-780 ("For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry")

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

The Deserted Village (lines 1-96)

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

Olney Hymns

Light Shining out of Darkness

The Castaway

**Lines Written During a Period of Insanity

*ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)

The Rights of Woman

Life

*CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)

From Beachy Head

Nepenthe

To the shade of Burns

*PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753-1784)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

To S. M., a Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

From Poetical Sketches

Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")

To the Evening Star

From Songs of Innocence

Introduction ("Piping down the valleys wild")

The Lamb

Holy Thursday [I]

The Divine Image

The Little Black Boy

From Songs of Experience

Introduction ("Hear the voice of the Bard!")

A Divine Image

Holy Thursday [II.]

The Clod & the Pebble

The Sick Rose

A Poison Tree

The Tyger

Ah Sun-flower

The Garden of Love

London

From Songs and Ballads

I Askéd a Thief

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

A Question Answered

From Milton

And Did Those Feet

From Jerusalem

England! Awake! Awake! Awake!

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)

To a Mouse

Holy Willie's Prayer

Green Grow the Rashes

John Anderson, My Jo

A Red, Red Rose

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

The Prelude

Book I, lines 301-647 ("Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up")

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

Three Years She Grew

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

Resolution and Independence

It Is a Beauteous Evening

London, 1802

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room

My Heart Leaps Up

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

Elegiac Stanzas

The World Is Too Much with Us

The Solitary Reaper

Surprised by Joy

Mutability

Scorn Not the Sonnet

*MARY TIGHE (1772-1810)

From Psyche

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan

Frost at Midnight

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Dejection: An Ode

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)

Rose Aylmer

Past Ruined Ilion Helen Lives

Dirce

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

So We'll Go No More A-Roving

From Don Juan

**Fragment on the back of the Ms. of Canto I

Canto the First. Stanzas 1,5-13, 22-29,32-33,37-34, 52-65, 69-72, 76-79, 86, 90-94, 103-107, 113-117

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Ozymandias

Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples

England in 1819

Ode to the West Wind

The Cloud

To a Skylark

Adonais

From Hellas: Two Choruses

Worlds on Worlds

The World's Great Age

JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)

Badger

Farewell

I Am

*FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835)

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

**On the Sea

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

When I Have Fears

To Homer

The Eve of St. Agnes

On the Sonnet

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Ode to Psyche

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on a Grecian Urn

To Autumn

Bright Star

This Living Hand

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)

Concord Hymn

The Rhodora

**The Snowstorm

Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)

*Intellect

Days

*Fate

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)

Sonnets from the Portuguese

1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung")

43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")

*Aurora Leigh

From Book V [Poets and the Present Age]

A Musical Instrument

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

*From Evangeline

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

*The Cross of Snow

EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr

Stanzas 1-24; 100-101

**OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)

The Chambered Nautilus

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)

Sonnet--To Science

To Helen

*The Raven

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)

Mariana

*The Lady of Shallot

The Lotos-Eaters

Break, Break, Break

Ulysses

Songs from The Princess

The Splendor Falls

Tears, Idle Tears

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

In Memoriam A. H. H.

1 ("I held it truth, with him who sings")

2 ("Old yew, which graspest at the stones")

7 ("Dark house, by which once more I stand")

11 ("Calm is the morn without a sound")

19 ("The Danube to the Severn gave")

50 ("Be near me when my light is low")

67 ("When on my bed the moonlight falls")

88 ("Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet")

95 ("By night we lingered on the lawn")

119 ("Doors, where my heart was used to beat")

121 ("Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun")

130 ("Thy voice is on the rolling air")

The Eagle

Tithonus

Crossing the Bar

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)

My Last Duchess

Home-Thoughts, From Abroad

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

Fra Lippo Lippi

A Toccata of Galuppi's

**"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

**Two in the Campagna

*JONES VERY (1813-1880)

The Dead

The Lost

EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888)

There Was an Old Man with a Beard

There Was an Old Man in a Tree

There Was an Old Man Who Supposed

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

**How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied

EMILY BRONTË (1818-1848)

Remembrance

The Prisoner

No Coward Soul Is Mine

*ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861)

[Say not the struggle nought availeth]

The Latest Decalogue

*JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)

Battle-Hymn of the Republic

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)

**The Portent

Shiloh

The Maldive Shark

**The Berg

*Monody

**Greek Architecture

*Spirituals

Go Down, Moses

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

Song of Myself

1 ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself")

6 ("A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands")

11 ("Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore")

24 ("Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son")

52 ("The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me")

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

Beat! Beat! Drums!

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

A Noiseless Patient Spider

To a Locomotive in Winter

**FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)

From Sonnets, First Series

10 ("An upper chamber in a darkened house")

28 ("Not the round natural world, not the deep mind")

*From Sonnets, Second Series

7 ("His heart was in his garden, but his brain")

MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)

Shakespeare

To Marguerite

The Scholar-Gypsy

Dover Beach

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)

The Blessed Damozel

The House of Life

A Sonnet

GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)

From Modern Love

1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes")

17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host")

30 ("What are we first? First, animals; and next")

48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in")

49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge")

50 ("Thus piteously Love closed what be begat")

Lucifer in Starlight

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

49 ("I never lost as much but twice")

*59 ("A little East of Jordan")

*67 ("Success is counted sweetest")

185 ("'Faith' is a fine invention")

216 ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers") (1859)

216 ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers") (1861)

**241 ("I like a look of Agony")

249 ("Wild Nights-Wild Nights!")

*254 ("'Hope' is the thing with feathers")

258 ("There's a certain Slant of light")

280 ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")

303 ("The Soul selects her own Society")

328 ("A Bird came down the Walk")

341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes")

**435 ("Much Madness is divinest Sense")

465 ("I heard a Fly buzz-when I died")

*505 ("I would not paint-a picture")

*569 ("I reckon-when I count at all")

*613 ("They shut me up in Prose")

**709 ("Publication-is the Auction")

712 ("Because I could not stop for Death")

*745 ("Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue")

**754 ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun")

*789 ("On a Columnar Self-")

*861 ("Split the Lark-and you'll find the Music")

986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")

**1078 ("The Bustle in a House")

1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant")

1463 ("A Route of Evanescence")

1540 ("As imperceptibly as Grief")

1545 ("The Bible is an antique Volume")

*1763 ("Fame is a bee")

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)

Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")

**Remember

**Echo

In an Artist's Studio

Up-Hill

Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away

LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) (1832-1898)

Jabberwocky

W. S. GILBERT (1836-1911)

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General

Titwillow

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)

Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon

When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces

A Forsaken Garden

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

Hap

Thoughts of Phena

I Look into My Glass

Drummer Hodge

A Broken Appointment

The Darkling Thrush

The Ruined Maid

The Convergence of the Twain

Channel Firing

The Voice

*During Wind and Rain

In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"

*SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)

The Marshes of Glynn

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)

God's Grandeur

The Windhover

Pied Beauty

Felix Randal

Spring and Fall

[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]

[Carrion Comfort]

[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]

[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On]

[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord...]

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

To an Athlete Dying Young

Is My Team Plowing

With Rue My Heart Is Laden

"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff. . ."

*Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry

Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose

*CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS (1860-1943)

Marsyas

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

Tommy

Recessional

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)

The Stolen Child

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

When You Are Old

Adam's Curse

The Wild Swans at Coole

Easter 1916

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

Leda and the Swan

Among School Children

Byzantium

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

Lapis Lazuli

Long-Legged Fly

The Circus Animals' Desertion

Under Ben Bulben

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

Richard Cory

Reuben Bright

Miniver Cheevy

Mr. Flood's Party

*CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928)

The Farmer's Bride

*STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

From The Black Riders and Other Lines

I. Black riders came from the sea

XXV. Behold, the grave of a wicked man

LVI. A man feared that he might find an assassin

From War is Kind

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)

Little Brown Baby

*Sympathy

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

Mending Wall

The Wood-Pile

The Road Not Taken

The Oven Bird

Birches

**The Hill Wife

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

*Acquainted with the Night

**Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

Design

Provide, Provide

*The Silken Tent

Come In

**Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

The Most of It

The Gift Outright

Directive

*AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)

Patterns

The Weather-Cock Points South

*GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)

From Stanzas in Meditation

Part I, Stanza XIII ("She may count three little daisies very well")

Part III, Stanza II ("I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name")

Part III, Stanza V ("It is not a range of a mountain")

Part V, Stanza XXXVIII ("What I wish to say is this")

Part V, Stanza LXIII ("I wish that I had spoken only of it all.")

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)

Chicago

Grass

EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)

*In Memorium [Easter 1915]

*As the team's head brass

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)

The Snow Man

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Sunday Morning

Anecdote of the Jar

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

*Peter Quince at the Clavier

The Idea of Order at Key West

*Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu

*Of Mere Being

E. J. PRATT (1883-1964)

From Stone to Steel

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)

Danse Russe

The Red Wheelbarrow

This Is Just to Say

Poem

The Yachts

**A Sort of a Song

The Dance

*From Asphodel, that Greeny Flower

Book 1

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)

*Love on the Farm

Piano

Snake

The English Are So Nice!

Bavarian Gentians

The Ship of Death

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

Portrait d'une Femme

The Seafarer

The Garden

Ts'ai Chi'h

In a Station of the Metro

The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts 1-5

The Cantos

I ("And then went down to the ship")

H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)

**Helen

*From The Walls Do Not Fall: I

*SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)

"They"

Everyone Sang

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)

Shine, Perishing Republic

Carmel Point

Birds and Fishes

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)

Poetry

**The Steeple-Jack

*The Fish

*What are Years?

*Nevertheless

*The Mind is an Enchanting Thing

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

The Waste Land

From Four Quartets

The Dry Salvages

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

Piazza Piece

**Dead Boy

ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)

Break of Day in the Trenches

HUGH MacDIARMID (CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE) 1892-1978)

*Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

*From In Memoriam James Joyce

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare

I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed

*The Buck in the Snow

*Armenonville

WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Strange Meeting

**Futility

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)

Résumé

One Perfect Rose

E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)

**All in green went my love riding

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

**Spring is like a perhaps hand

"next to of course god america i

since feeling is first

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

anyone lived in a pretty how town

my father moved through dooms of love

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)

From Cane

*Reapers

**Harvest Song

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)

*Love Without Hope

Warning to Children

*To Juan at the Winter Solstice

*The White Goddess

LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)

Medusa

*Juan's Song

*Man Alone

Song for the Last Act

*Night

HART CRANE (1899-1932)

Voyages

From The Bridge

Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge

To Emily Dickinson

ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)

Ode to the Confederate Dead

*STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989)

Slim in Atlanta

Bitter Fruit of the Tree

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)

The Weary Blues

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

*Dream Variations

*Cross

*Song for a Dark Girl

Harlem

Theme for English B

*ROY CAMPBELL (1902-1957)

The Sisters

OGDEN NASH (1902-1971)

Reflections on Ice-breaking

Columbus

STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)

No Categories!

**Mr. Over

Not Waving but Drowning

Pretty

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)

Heritage

*Incident

EARLE BIRNEY (1904-1991)

*Slug in Woods

Bushed

C. DAY LEWIS (1904-1972)

Two Songs

*("I've heard them lilting at loom and belting")

("Come, live with me and be my love")

*Where are the War Poets?

PATRICK KAVANAGH (1905-1967)

*From The Great Hunger

*Epic

*STANLEY KUNITZ (1905- )

Robin Redbreast

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)

*Bearded Oaks

*Masts at Dawn

*Evening Hawk

W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)

As I Walked Out One Evening

*From Twelve Songs

IX [Funeral Blues]

*Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head, my love]

Musée des Beaux Arts

*In Memory of W. B. Yeats

In Praise of Limestone

**The Shield of Achilles

A. D. HOPE (1907- )

Australia

Imperial Adam

*Inscription for a War

LOUIS MacNEICE (1907-1963)

The Sunlight on the Garden

Bagpipe Music

*From Autumn Journal

IV ("September has come and I wake")

London Rain

Star-gazer

*JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN (1908- )

Hourglass

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)

My Papa's Waltz

*The Lost Son

Elegy for Jane

The Waking

I Knew a Woman

*MALCOLM LOWRY (1909-1957)

Delirium in Vera Cruz

Eye-Opener

Strange Type

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)

**Merce of Egypt

Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)

The Fish

Sestina

*The Moose

*One Art

**IRVING LAYTON (1912- )

The Birth of Tragedy

Berry Picking

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)

Those Winter Sundays

*Night, Death, Mississippi

*MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)

Night-Feeding

Ballad of Orange and Grape

*MAY SWENSON (1913-1989)

Cardinal Ideograms

Goodbye, Goldeneye

*R. S. THOMAS (1913- )

Welsh Landscape

The View from the Window

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)

*From Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: 17-21

*A Sympathy, A Welcome

The Dream Songs

1 ("Huffy Henry hid the day")

*14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so")

29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart")

*145 ("Also I love him: me he's done no wrong")

324 An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man

382 ("At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:")

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

**Next Day

*A Man Meets a Woman in the Street

HENRY REED (1914-1986)

Lessons of the War

1. Naming of Parts

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

The Hand That Signed the Paper

After the Funeral

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

Fern Hill

In My Craft or Sullen Art

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

*JUDITH WRIGHT (1915- )

Woman to Man

Eve to her Daughters

*DAVID GASCOYNE (1916- )

Ecce Homo

P. K. PAGE (1916- )

*Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917- )

kitchenette building

*birth in a narrow room

*the rites for Cousin Vit

We Real Cool

Boy Breaking Glass

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow

For the Union Dead

Harriet

Epilogue

WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919- )

**Rhode Island

*AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994)

Beethoven, Opus 111

The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews

*BARBARA GUEST (1920- )

Twilight Polka Dots

*KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)

Vergissmeinnicht

Aristocrats

HOWARD NEMEROV (1920- )

The Goose Fish

*A Primer of the Daily Round

**The Blue Swallows

*Boy with Book of Knowledge

*MONA VAN DUYN (1921- )

Letters from a Father

RICHARD WILBUR (1921- )

*Love Calls Us to the Things of this World

*Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning

*Advice to a Prophet

Junk

*Seed Leaves

PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)

Church Going

*For Sidney Bechet

*An Arundel Tomb

*MCMXIV

Talking in Bed

*The Trees

Sad Steps

*The Explosion

*HOWARD MOSS (1922-1987)

The Persistence of Song

Tourists

JAMES DICKEY (1923- )

*Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony

*PETER KANE DUFAULT (1923- )

A First Night

ANTHONY HECHT (1923- )

"More Light! More Light!"

*The Ghost in the Martini

*The Book of Yolek

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923- )

Triple Feature

O Taste and See

Tenebrae

*Caedmon

*JOHN ORMOND (1923-1990)

Cathedral Builders

*DONALD JUSTICE (1925- )

Counting the Mad

Men at Forty

Mrs. Snow

KENNETH KOCH (1925- )

Variations on a Theme by William

Carlos Williams

*Energy in Sweden

A. R. AMMONS (1926- )

Silver

Corsons Inlet

Pet Panther

JAMES K. BAXTER (1926-1972)

New Zealand

ROBERT CREELEY (1926- )

Heroes

*Bresson's Movies

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926- )

**Howl

Part I

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)

*The Broken Home

The Victor Dog

*From The Book of Ephraim

C. ("Correct but cautious, that first night we asked")

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)

The Day Lady Died

*Why I Am Not A Painter

W. D. SNODGRASS (1926- )

*From Hearts Needle

2 ("Late April and you are three; today")

3 ("The child between them on the street")

7 ("Here in the scuffled dust")

10 ("The vicious winter finally yields")

*Mementos, 1

*ELIZABETH JENNINGS (1926- )

My Grandmother

One Flesh

JOHN ASHBERY (1927- )

The Painter

Melodic Trains

*Brute Image

GALWAY KINNELL (1927- )

The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students

*After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

W. S. MERWIN (1927- )

The Drunk in the Furnace

Odysseus

*Losing a Language

*CHARLES TOMLINSON (1927- )

Farewell to Van Gogh

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack

*Speak

*DONALD HALL (1928- )

From The One Day

Prophecy

*ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)

The Truth the Dead Know

*L. E. SISSMAN (1928-1976)

From Dying: An Introduction

IV. Path. Report

V. Outbound

A Deathplace

THOM GUNN (1929- )

*A Map of the City

On the Move

**From the Wave

*The Missing

JOHN HOLLANDER (1929- )

Swan and Shadow

*An Old-Fashioned Song

*RICHARD HOWARD (1929- )

Nicholas Mardruz to His Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565

*PETER PORTER (1929- )

A Consumer's Report

An Exequy

ADRIENNE RICH (1929- )

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Living in Sin

Orion

Diving into the Wreck

*From Eastern War Time

1 ("Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943")

8 ("A woman wired in memories")

*EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE (1930- )

From The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy

Ancestors

1 ("Every Friday morning my grandfather")

2 ("All I can remember of his wife")

3 ("Come-a-look")

GREGORY CORSO (1930- )

Marriage

TED HUGHES (1930- )

The Thought-Fox

*Pike

*Theology

*Examination at the Womb-Door

*HARRY MATHEWS (1930- )

Histoire

GARY SNYDER (1930- )

Above Pate Valley

Four Poems for Robin

DEREK WALCOTT (1930- )

*A Far Cry from Africa

*EAVAN BOLAND (1944- )

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

CRAIG RAINE (1944- )

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

*YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (1947- )

Banking Potatoes

Sunday Afternoons

*RICHARD KENNEY (1948- )

Aubade

Apples on Champlain

*JAMES FENTON (1949- )

Dead Soldiers

In Paris with You

*NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER (1951- )

The Palm Reader

*JORIE GRAHAM (1951- )

Opulence

*PAUL MULDOON (1951- )

Gathering Mushrooms

Milkweed and Monarch

*RITA DOVE (1952- )

Parsley

*DANIEL HALL (1952- )

Mangosteens

*GARY SOTO (1952- )

Not Knowing

*BRAD LEITHAUSER (1953- )

In Minako Wada's House

*GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG (1953- )

Darwin in 1881

*LOUISE ERDRICH (1954- )

I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move

Birth

*CAROL ANN DUFFY (1955- )

Warming Her Pearls

*LI-YOUNG LEE (1957- )

Persimmons

*CYNTHIA ZARIN (1959- )

The Ant Hill

Song

Versification

Rhythm

Meter

Rhyme

Forms

Basic Forms

Composite Forms

Irregular Forms

Open Forms or Free Verse

Further Reading

Index to Versification

*Biographical Sketches

Index Acknowledgments