A Treasury of Favorite Poems
- Authors
- Various
- Publisher
- Fall River Press
- Date
- 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.85 MB
- Lang
- en
A Treasury of Favorite Poems celebrates the rich poetic legacy of America and England with more than 400 poems that span more than four centuries. The poets represented are acknowledged as among the world's greatest: William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and more than fifty others. In addition to a generous selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, this volume includes the complete text of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and such familiar classics as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride," Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver," and Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." There are poems here to suit all moods an interests: love poems from...