Contents

 

INTRODUCTION

 

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

 

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

Sonnet I

Sonnet III

Sonnet XII

Sonnet XVIII

Sonnet XX

Sonnet XXIX

Sonnet XXX

Sonnet XXXIII

Sonnet XLV

Sonnet LXV

Sonnet LXXI

Sonnet LXXIII

Sonnet XCIV

Sonnet CVI

Sonnet CVII

Sonnet CXVI

Sonnet CXXIX

Sonnet CXXX

Sonnet CXXXVIII

Sonnet CXLVI

 

JOHN DONNE

 

Death

The Flea

The Sun Rising

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

 

BEN JONSON

 

Song to Celia

Clerimont ’s Song

 

ROBERT HERRICK

 

Corinna’s Going a-Maying

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

 

ANDREW MARVELL

 

To His Coy Mistress

 

JOHN MILTON

 

Lycidas

Sonnet XIX: On His Blindness

 

THOMAS GRAY

 

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

 

ROBERT BURNS

 

To a Mouse

To a Louse

A Red, Red Rose

Tam O’ Shanter

 

WILLIAM BLAKE

 

Songs of Innocence

 

Introduction

The Shepherd

The Echoing Green

The Lamb

The Little Black Boy

The Blossom

The Chimney-Sweeper

The Little Boy Lost

The Little Boy Found

A Cradle Song

The Divine Image

Holy Thursday

Night

Spring

Nurse’s Song

Infant Joy

A Dream

Laughing Song

The School-Boy

On Another’s Sorrow

The Voice of the Ancient Bard

 

Songs of Experience

 

Introduction

Earth’s Answer

Infant Sorrow

My Pretty Rose-Tree

Ah! Sun-Flower

The Lily

The Sick Rose

Nurse’s Song

The Clod and the Pebble

The Garden of Love

The Fly

The Tiger

A Little Boy Lost

Holy Thursday

The Angel

The Little Girl Lost

The Little Girl Found

London

To Tirzah

The Human Abstract

The Chimney-Sweeper

A Poison-Tree

A Little Girl Lost

A Divine Image

The Little Vagabond

 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

 

Resolution and Independence

Lines (Tintern Abbey)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

“Strange fits of passion I have known”

“She dwelt among untrodden ways”

“I travelled among unknown men”

“Three years she grew in sun and shower”

“A slumber did my spirit seal”

“I wandered lonely as a cloud”

“The world is too much with us”

To a Skylark

The Solitary Reaper

Mutability

Ode to Duty

 

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Frost at Midnight

Kubla Khan

Dejection: An Ode

 

LORD BYRON

 

“When we two parted”

“She walks in beauty”

The Destruction of Sennacherib

“So we ’ll go no more a roving”

The Prisoner of Chillon

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

 

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

 

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Mont Blanc

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

 

JOHN KEATS

 

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Psyche

To Autumn

Ode on Melancholy

Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Sonnet: To Sleep

Ode on Indolence

Sonnet: Bright Star

 

CLEMENT CLARK MOORE

 

A Visit from St. Nicholas

 

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

 

Thanatopsis

To a Waterfowl

 

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

 

The Barefoot Boy

Barbara Frietchie

What the Birds Said

Skipper Ireson’s Ride

Telling the Bees

The Sycamores

My Playmate

Maud Muller

My Triumph

 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

Uriel

Destiny

Ode: Inscribed to W. H. Channing

Concord Hymn

Fate

Days

 

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

 

Snow-Flakes

Paul Revere ’s Ride

The Children’s Hour

The Wreck of the Hesperus

 

EDGAR ALLAN POE

 

The Raven

Ulalume

The Bells

Annabel Lee

The Haunted Palace

The Conqueror Worm

The City in the Sea

A Dream Within a Dream

Eldorado

 

WALT WHITMAN

 

One’s-Self I Sing

Starting from Paumanok

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

O Captain! My Captain!

 

EMILY DICKINSON

 

“The heart asks pleasure first”

“Hope is the thing with feathers”

“When I hoped I feared”

“A route of evanescence”

“I started early, took my dog”

“As imperceptibly as grief ”

“There’s a certain slant of light”

“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—”

“Wild nights! Wild nights!”

“A light exists in spring”

“Mine by the right of white election!”

“I cannot live with you”

“Split the lark and you’ll find the music”

“Safe in their alabaster chambers”

“I like a look of agony”

“Because I could not stop for Death”

“Our journey had advanced”

“I never lost as much but twice”

“I felt a funeral in my brain”

“In winter, in my room”

“The Bible is an antique volume”

“I reckon, when I count at all”

“I dwell in Possibility”

“My life had stood a loaded gun”

“After great pain a formal feeling comes—”

“From blank to blank”

 

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

 

The Kraken

Mariana

The Lady of Shalott

Morte d ’Arthur

Locksley Hall

The Charge of the Light Brigade

“Frater Ave Atque Vale”

Crossing the Bar

 

EDWARD FITZGERALD

 

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

 

ROBERT BROWNING

 

Andrea del Sarto

Fra Lippo Lippi

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed ’s Church

My Last Duchess

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

 

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

From Sonnets  From  the  Portuguese

 

Sonnet VII

Sonnet XIV

Sonnet XXVII

Sonnet XLIII

 

MATTHEW ARNOLD

 

Dover Beach

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse

 

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

 

Old Ironsides

The Voiceless

The Promise

The Living Temple

The Chambered Nautilus

Contentment

The Deacon’s Masterpiece; Or, the Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”

Nearing the Snow-Line

 

EMILY BRONTË

 

Remembrance

Plead for Me

The Old Stoic

Stanzas

“No coward soul is mine”

 

JULIA WARD HOWE

 

My Last Dance

The Flag

Battle-Hymn of the Republic

 

HERMAN MELVILLE

 

America

The Portent

From the Conflict of Convictions

A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight

Malvern Hill

The House-Top

On the Slain at Chickamauga

A Meditation

Tom Deadlight

The Man-of-War Hawk

The Maldive Shark

Monody

 

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

 

God ’s Grandeur

The Windhover

Pied Beauty

Carrion Comfort

No Worst, There Is None

I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark

 

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

 

The Blessed Damozel

Sudden Light

The Woodspurge

The Honeysuckle

 

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

 

Goblin Market

 

EDWARD LEAR

 

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

The Jumblies

 

LEWIS CARROLL

 

The Hunting of the Snark

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Jabberwocky

 

FRANCIS THOMPSON

 

The Hound of Heaven

 

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

 

Invictus

Margaritæ Sorori

England, My England

 

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

 

The Old Swimmin’-Hole

The Days Gone By

When the Frost is on the Punkin

Little Orphant Annie

 

EUGENE FIELD

 

Our Two Opinions

Little Boy Blue

Seein’ Things

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

The Rock-a-By Lady

The Duel

 

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

 

Requiem

He Hears with Gladdened Heart the Thunder

Away with Funeral Music

Gather Ye Roses

 

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

 

Interlude

You Never Can Tell

You and Today

John Wesley’s Rule

Have Faith in God

Easy Enough to Be Pleasant

A Fragment

Life ’s Scars

I Love Your Lips

A Morning Prayer

Solitude

 

RUDYARD KIPLING

 

The Ballad of East and West

If

Gunga Din

 

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

Easter,  1916

The Second Coming

 

THOMAS HARDY

 

Afterwards

Neutral Tones

The Darkling Thrush

Hap

Channel Firing

The Convergence of the Twain

 

A. E. HOUSMAN

 

When I Was One-and-Twenty

To an Athlete Dying Young  526 “The night is freezing fast”

 

ERNEST THAYER

 

Casey at the Bat

 

STEPHEN CRANE

 

War Is Kind

 

WALTER DE LA MARE

 

The Listeners

 

JOHN MCCRAE

 

In Flanders Fields

 

RUPERT BROOKE

 

War Sonnet V: The Soldier

 

AMY LOWELL

 

Lilacs

Night Clouds

Wind and Silver

Granadilla

Old Snow

Meeting-House Hill

New Heavens for Old

Patterns

Venus Transiens

A Lady

Solitaire

A Gift

Apology

Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station

The Taxi

The Pike

Spring Longing

Vernal Equinox

Bright Sunlight

The Weather-Cock Points South

Shore Grass

 

EDWARD ARLINGTON ROBINSON

 

Luke Havergal

Richard Cory

Shadrach O’Leary

Miniver Cheevy

 

ROBERT  W. SERVICE

 

The Spell of the Yukon

The Call of the Wild

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Carry On!

 

EDGAR LEE MASTERS

From The  Spoon  River  Anthology

 

Serepta Mason

Amanda Barker

Constance Hately

Benjamin Pantier

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier

Reuben Pantier

Trainor, the Druggist

Minerva Jones

“Indignation” Jones

Doctor Meyers

Mrs. Meyers

“Butch” Weldy

A. D. Blood

Editor Whedon

Ralph Rhodes

Archibald Higbie

 

ROBERT FROST

 

Mending Wall

The Death of the Hired Man

After Apple-Picking

The Wood-Pile

The Road Not Taken

Birches

Design

 

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

 

Renascence

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

 

WALLACE STEVENS

 

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

The Snow Man

Sunday Morning

 

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

 

Complaint

Queen-Ann’s-Lace

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime

The Great Figure

 

CARL SANDBURG

 

Chicago

The Harbor

Mag

Mamie

Under a Hat Rim

Fog

Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard

Harrison Street Court

Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window

Adelaide Crapsey

Bilbea

Portrait of a Motor Car

Cool Tombs

Galoots

Manual System

Cahoots

 

JOHN MASEFIELD

 

Sea-Fever

Cargoes

A Wanderer’s Song

 

ALFRED NOYES

 

The Barrel-Organ

The Highwayman

A Song of Sherwood

 

EDGAR A. GUEST

 

See It Through

It Couldn’t Be Done

Defeat

The Junk Box

Father

Home

No Place to Go

People Liked Him

Just Folks

Reward

The Old, Old Story

Hard Luck

 

SARA TEASDALE

 

After Love

Jewels

The Look

At Night

Moods

Summer Night, Riverside

The Broken Field

“Let It Be Forgotten”

“A Little While”

“There Will Come Soft Rains”

The Unchanging

The Sanctuary

Night Song at Amalfi

Spring Night

I Shall Not Care

The Long Hill

Water Lilies

Tired

 

JOYCE KILMER

 

Trees

Martin

The Apartment House

Memorial Day

 

T.S. ELIOT

 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock