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100 best-loved poems

Philip Smith (Editor)
Overview: Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Fog," "Chicago," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!" "The Road Not Taken," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "Ozymandias," "Sonnet 73," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."
Print Book, English, 1995
Dover Publications, Inc., New York, New York, 1995
Poetry
x, 101 pages ; 23 cm
9780486285535, 9781627651981, 0486285537, 1627651985
32589677
Ballads:
Lord Randal
Sir Patrick Spens
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542):
Lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593):
Passionate shepherd to his love
William Shakespeare(1564-1616):
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day!
Sonnet LXXIII: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Sonnet XCIV: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601):
Adieu, farewell Earth's bliss
John Donne (1572-1631):
Good morrow
Holy sonnet X: Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Holy sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you
Ben Jonson (1572-1637):
To Celia
On my first son
Robert Herrick (1591-1674):
To the virgins, to make much of time
Upon Julia's clothes
George Herbert (1593-1633):
Love bade me welcome
Edmund Waller (1606-1687):
Song: Go, lovely Rose
John Milton (1608-1674):
On his blindness
On his deceased wife
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642):
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658):
To Lucasta, going to the wars
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):
To his coy mistress
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695):
Retreat
Thomas Gray (1716-1771):
Elegy written in a country churchyard
Ode on the death of a favorite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes
William Blake (1757-1827):
Lamb
Sick rose
Tyger
London
Robert Burns (1759-1796):
To a mouse
Red, red rose
William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept 3, 1802
I wandered lonely as a cloud
World is too much with us; late and soon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834):
Kubla Khan
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859):
Abou Ben Adhem
Jenny kiss'd me
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824):
She walks in beauty
Destruction of Sennacherib
So we'll go no more a roving
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
Ozymandias
Ode to the west wind
To a skylark
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878):
Thanatopsis
John Keats (1795-1821):
On first looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a nightingale
Ode on a Grecian urn
La Belle Dame sans Merci
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):
Hymn: sung at the completion of the Concord monument
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861):
Sonnet XLIII: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882):
Village blacksmith
Children's hour
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892):
Barbara Frietchie
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849):
To Helen
Raven
Annabel Lee
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894):
Old Ironsides
Chambered nautilus
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892):
Charge of the light brigade
Crossing the bar
Robert Browning (1812-1889):
My last duchess
Walt Whitman (1819-1892):
I hear America singing
O captain! My captain!
Noiseless patient spider
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888):
Dover Beach
George Meredith (1828-1909):
Lucifer in starlight
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886):
I'm nobody! Who are you?
This is my letter to the world
I heard a fly buzz when I died
Because I could not stop for death
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894):
Birthday
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898):
Jabberwocky
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):
Darkling thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889):
Windhover
Pied beauty
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894):
Requiem
AE Housman (1859-1936):
To an athlete dying young
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936):
Gunga Din
Recessional
If
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):
Lake isle of Innisfree
When you are old
Second coming
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935):
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Robert Frost (1874-1963):
Road not taken
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967):
Chicago
Fog
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955):
Emperor of ice-cream
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963):
Red wheelbarrow
Ezra Pound (1885-1972):
River-merchant's wife: a letter
Marianne Moore (1887-1972):
Poetry
Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950):
First fig
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918):
Anthem for doomed youth
ee cummings (1894-1962):
Anyone lived in a pretty how town)
WH Auden (1907-1973):
Musee des Beaux Arts)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953):
Do not go gentle into that good night
Alphabetical list of titles
Alphabetical list of first lines
Includes index