The Viking book of poetry of the English-speaking world

FROM Beowulf : "WHAT! WE OF SPEAR-DANES IN SPENT DAYS" / ANONYMOUS (A.D. 600-800)

"Sing Cuccu..." / ANONYMOUS (13TH CENTURY)

"Bytuene Mersh and Averil" / "Lenten Is Come..." / ANONYMOUS (14TH CENTURY)

FROM The Bruce : "A! FREDOME IS A NOBLE THING!" / JOHN BARBOUR (1320?-1395)

FROM The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales : 1. "WHAN THAT APRILLE... " ; 2. "THERE WAS ALSO A NONNE... " ; 3. "A MARCHANT WAS THER... " ; 4. "A CLERK THER WAS OF OXENFORD... " ; 5. "A FRANKELEYN WAS IN HIS COMPAIGNYE" ; 6. "A GOOD WIF WAS THER... " ; 7. "THE MILLERE WAS A STOUT CARL... " / FROM The Reeve's Tale : "AT TRUMPYNGTOUN NAT FER FROM CANTEBRIGGE" / FROM The Wife of Bath's Tale : "IN TH'OLDE DAYES OF THE KYNG ARTHOUR" / FROM The Parliament of Fowls : "THE LYF SO SHORT, THE CRAFT SO LONG TO LERNE" / FROM Troilus and Criseyde : "GO, LITEL BOK, GO, LITEL MYN TRAGEDYE" / FROM The Legend of Good Women : "AND AS FOR ME, THOUGH THAT MY WIT BE LITE" / Balade de Bon Conseil / The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse / GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)

"I Sing of a Maiden" / "Can 1 Not Sing..." / "I Am as Light as Any Roe" / "I Have a Gentil Cok" / "Bring Us in Good Ale" / "How, Butler, How!" / ANONYMOUS (15TH CENTURY)

FROM Philip Sparrow : "HOW SHALL I REPORT" / FROM Elinor Rumming : "AND THIS COMELY DAME" / FROM Against Garnesche : "WHAT, HAVE YE KITHED YOU A KNIGHT..." / FROM Speak, Parrot : "so MANY MORAL MATTERS..." / To Mistress Margery Wentworth / To Mistress Isabel Pennell / To Mistress Margaret Hussey / JOHN SKELTON (1460?-1529)

FROM The Lament for the Makaris : "I THAT IN HEILL WAS AND GLADNESS" / WILLIAM DUNBAR (1460-1520?)

FROM The Passetyme : "O MORTAL FOLK, YOU MAY BEHOLD AND SEE" / STEPHEN HAWES (1475?-1523?)

ANONYMOUS (PERIODS UNCERTAIN) : BALLADS : Sir Patrick Spens / The Falcon / FROM The Birth of Robin Hood ; "AND MONY ANE SINGS O' GRASS / FROM Robin Hood and the Monk ; "IN SOMER, WHEN THE SHAWES BE SHEYNE" / FROM The Death of Robin Hood ; "I NEVER HURT MAID IN ALL MY TIME" / The Three Ravens / The Unquiet Grave / Thomas the Rhymer / Chevy Chase / Waly, Waly / Fair Helen / Bonny George Campbell / Barbara Allen's Cruelty / Get Up and Bar the Door / CAROLS : "Joseph Was an Old Man" / "As Joseph Was A-Walking" / "As I Sat under a Sycamore Tree" / "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" / "The First Nowell..." / FROM "The Maidens Came" : "THE MAIDENS CAME" / "Back and Side Go Bare..." / ANONYMOUS (15TH-16TH CENTURY)

"Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow" / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)

"As the Holly Groweth Green" / KING HENRY VIII (1491-1547)

Harpalus' Complaint / A Praise of His Lady / Against Women either Good or Bad / As You Came from the Holy Land / "Fain Would I Have a Pretty Thing" / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)

The Lover Sheweth How He Is Forsaken... / The Lover Beseecheth His Mistress... / The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love / SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542)

A Vow to Love Faithfully... / The Means to Attain Happy Life / FROM The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid : "THEN MERCURY 'GAN BEND HIM TO OBEY" / HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1516-1547)

The Praise of Philip Sparrow / GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525?-1577)

A Sweet Lullaby / FROM The Passionate Shepherd : "WHO CAN LIVE IN HEART SO GLAD" / Phillida and Coridon / FROM An Invective against the Wicked of the World : "LET BUT A FELLOW IN A FOX-FURRED GOWN" / NICHOLAS BRETON (1542-1626)

Song / FROM A Joyful New Ballad : "O NOBLE ENGLAND" / THOMAS DELONEY (1543?-1607?)

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is / SIR EDWARD DYER (1545?-1607)

"Venus, with Young Adonis..." / FROM Sonnets : "FAIR IS MY LOVE..." / BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN (15-?-1602)

"Crabbed Age and Youth..." / ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)

The Shepherd's Description of Love / The Faery Queen / The Silent Lover / The Lie / FROM The Pilgrimage : "GIVE ME MY SCALLOP-SHELL OF QUIET" / Verses Written in His Bible / SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618)

FROM The Shepherd's Calender, April : "SEE WHERE SHE SITS UPON THE GRASSY GREEN" / FROM Sonnets : LXX. "FRESH SPRING, THE HERALD..." ; LXXV. "ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME... ; LXXVIII. "LACKING MY LOVE, I GO... / Prothalamion / Epithalamion / FROM The Faery Queen : 1. "THE NOBLE HEART THAT HARBOURS... ; 2. "MAMMON EMOVED WAS WITH INWARD WRATH" ; 3· "EFTSOONS THEY HEARD..." / EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)

To Colin Clout / ANTHONY MUNDAY (1553-1633)

"What Bird So Sings..." / "Cupid and My Campaspe Played" / "Pan's Syrinx Was a Girl..." / JOHN LYLY? (1553-1606)

Song to His Cynthia / To Myra / Chorus from Mustapha / FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554- 1628)

"My True Love Hath My Heart..." / FROM Astrophel and Stella : SONNET 1. "LOVING IN TRUTH..." ; SONNET XXXI. "WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON..." ; SONNET XXXIX. "COME, SLEEP; O SLEEP!..." ; ELEVENTH SONG / FROM Certain Sonnets : 1. "RING OUT YOUR BELLS!..." ; 2. "THOU BLIND MAN'S MARK..." ; 3· "LEAVE ME, O LOVE..." / SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)

Phoebe's Sonnet / Rosalind's Madrigal / "The Earth, Late Choked..." / To Phyllis, the Fair Shepherdess / To Phyllis / THOMAS LODGE (1556?-1625)

"Fair and Fair..." / "His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned" / "Whenas the Rye..." / "Not Iris in Her Pride" / FROM The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, 1599 : 1. "NOW FOR THE CROWN AND THRONE..." ; 2. "COME, GENTLE ZEPHYR..." ; 3· "NOW COMES MY LOVER..." / GEORGE PEELE (1558?-1597)

Written the Night before His Execution / CHIDIOCK TICHBOURNE (1558?-1586)

The Shepherd's Wife's Song / Samela / Weep Not, My Wanton / A Mind Content / "Ah, Were She Pitiful..." / FROM A Madrigal : "THE SWANS, WHOSE PENS AS WHITE AS IVORY" / "Sonnet": "Fair Is My Love..." / ROBERT GREENE (1560?-1592)

Song: "O Come, Soft Rest..." / FROM Bussy d'Ambois, 1607 : 1. "AS CEDARS BEATEN..." ; 2. "I LONG TO KNOW" / FROM Caesar and Pompey, 1631 : "POOR SLAVES, HOW TERRIBLE THIS DEATH..." / FROM The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, 1608 : I. "AS WHEN THE MOON..." ; 2. "GIVE ME A SPIRIT..." / FROM The Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads : "SHE, WITH HIS SIGHT..." / GEORGE CHAPMAN (1560-1634)

The Burning Babe / The Virgin Mary to Christ on the Cross / FROM The Image of Death : "THE GOWN WHICH I DO USE TO WEAR" / ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561 ?-1595)

Damelus' Song to His Diaphenia / HENRY CONSTABLE (1562?-1613?)

"Love Is a Sickness..." / Ulysses and the Siren / Sonnets : 1. "FAIR IS MY LOVE..." ; 2. "BEAUTY, SWEET LOVE..." ; 3. "LET OTHERS SING OF KNIGHTS..." ; 4. "CARE-CHARMER SLEEP..." / SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)

Sonnet : "Were I as Base..." / JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563-1618)

FROM The Shepherd's Garland : "GORBO, AS THOU CAM'ST THIS WAY" / To His Coy Love / To the Virginian Voyage / FROM Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie : "PIGWIGGEN WAS THIS FAIRY KNIGHT" / Sonnets : I. "IF CHASTE AND PURE DEVOTION..." ; 2. "SWEET SECRECY, WHAT TONGUE CAN TELL..." ; 3. "INTO THESE LOVES..." ; 4. "TO NOTHING FITTER CAN I THEE COMPARE" ; 5. "WIDLST THUS MY PEN STRIVES..." ; 6. "DEAR, WHY SHOULD YOU COMMAND..." ; 7. "SINCE THERE'S NO HELP..." / MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [Reply by SIR WALTER RALEIGH] / FROM Hero and Leander : "ON THIS FEAST DAY, O CURSED DAY AND HOUR" / FROM The First Part of Tamnburlaine the Great : 1. "DISDAINS ZENOCRATE TO LIVE WITH ME?" ; 2. "THE THIRST OF REIGN..." ; 3. "THOSE WALLED GARRISONS..." ; 4. "AH, FAIR ZENOCRATE..." / FROM The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great : 1. "BLACK IS THE BEAUTY..." ; 2. "FORWARD, THEN, YE JADES!" / FROM The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus : 1. "WAS THIS THE FACE..." ; 2. "AH, FAUSTUS" ; 3. EPILOGUE: "CUT IS THE BRANCH..." / FROM Edward the Second : "I MUST HAVE WANTON POETS..." / CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)

Songs from the Plays : "WHO IS SILVIA?" ; SONNET: "DID NOT THE HEAVENLY RHETORIC..." ; "ON A DAY-ALACK THE DAY!" ; SPRING ; WINTER ; "OVER HILL, OVER DALE" ; "YOU SPOTTED SNAKES..." ; "THE OUSEL COCK..." ; "NOW THE HUNGRY LION ROARS" ; "TELL ME WHERE IS FANCY BRED" ; "SIGH NO MORE, LADIES..." ; "PARDON, GODDESS OF THE NIGHT" ; "UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE" ; "IF IT DO COME TO PASS" ; "BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND" ; "WHAT SHALL HE HAVE..." ; "IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS" ; "WEDDING IS GREAT JUNO'S CROWN" ; "O MISTRESS MINE..." ; "COME AWAY, COME AWAY, DEATH" ; "WHEN THAT I WAS AND A LITTLE TINY BOY" ; "HOW SHOULD I YOUR TRUE LOVE KNOW" ; "TO-MORROW IS SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY" ; "AND WILL A' NOT COME AGAIN?" ; "FIE ON SINFUL FANTASY!" ; "FOR I THE BALLAD WILL REPEAT" ; "TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY" ; "THE COD-PIECE THAT WILL HOUSE" ; "HE THAT HAS AND A LITTLE TINY WIT" ; "WHEN PRIESTS ARE MORE IN WORD..." ; "COME, THOU MONARCH..." ; "HARK, HARK! THE LARK..." ; "FEAR NO MORE..." ; "WHEN DAFFODILS BEGIN TO PEER" ; "JOG ON, JOG ON..." ; "LAWN AS WHITE AS DRIVEN SNOW" ; "WILL YOU BUY ANY TAPE" ; "COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS" ; "FULL FATHOM FIVE..." ; "NO MORE DAMS I'LL MAKE..." ; "THE MASTER, THE SWABBER..." ; "YOU NYMPHS, CALL'D NAIADS..." ; "WHERE THE BEE SUCKS..." / Sonnets : VIII. "MUSIC TO HEAR, WHY HEAR'ST THOU MUSIC SADLY?" ; XII. "WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK THAT TELLS THE TIME" ; XVM. "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?" ; XXIX. "WHEN, IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES" ; XXX. "WHEN TO THE SESSIONS OF SWEET SILENT THOUGHT" ; XXXIII. "FULL MANY A GLORIOUS MORNING HAVE I SEEN" ; LIII. "WHAT IS YOUR SUBSTANCE, WHEREOF ARE YOU MADE" ; LIV. "O, HOW MUCH MORE DOTH BEAUTY BEAUTEOUS SEEM" ; LV. "NOT MARBLE, NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS" ; LVII. "BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND" ; LX. "LIKE AS THE WAVES MAKE TOWARD THE PEBBLED SHORE" ; LXIV. "WHEN I HAVE SEEN BY TIME'S FELL HAND DEFAC'D" ; LXVI. "TIRED WITH ALL THESE, FOR RESTFUL DEATH I CRY" ; LXXI. "NO LONGER MOURN FOR ME WHEN I AM DEAD" ; LXXIII. "THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD" ; LXXXVII. "FAREWELL! THOU ART TOO DEAR FOR MY POSSESSING" ; XCIV. "THEY THAT HAVE POWER TO HURT AND WILL DO NONE" ; XCVIII. "FROM YOU HAVE I BEEN ABSENT IN THE SPRING" ; CII. "MY LOVE IS STRENGTHENED, THOUGH MORE WEAK IN SEEMING" ; CIV. "TO ME, FAIR FRIEND, YOU NEVER CAN BE OLD" ; CVI. "WHEN IN THE CHRONICLE OF WASTED TIME" ; CX. "ALAS, 'TIS TRUE I HAVE GONE HERE AND THERE" ; CXVI. "LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS" ; CXXIX. "TH' EXPENSE OF SPIRIT IN A WASTE OF SHAME" ; CXXXVIIl. "WHEN MY LOVE SWEARS THAT SHE IS MADE OF TRUTH" ; CXLVI. "POOR SOUL, THE CENTRE OF MY SINFUL EARTH" / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

"Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits" / RICHARD ROWLANDS, alias VERSTEGAN (1565-1630)

"Spring, the Sweet Spring..." / "Adieu; Farewell Earth's Bliss" / THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)

Sonnet: "Then Whilst That Latmos / WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING (1567?-1640)

"Follow Your Saint..." / "Follow Thy Fair Sun..." / "Give Beauty All Her Right" / "Thou Art Not Fair..." / "Turn All Thy Thoughts..." / "Never Love..." / "Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes..." / "Love Me or Not..." / "Shall I Come, Sweet Love..." / "There Is a Garden in Her Face" / "When Thou Must Home..." / "Now Winter Nights..." / "The Man of Life Upright" / "I Care Not for These Ladies" / "Rose-Cheek'd Laura, Come" / THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1619)

The Character of a Happy Life / On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia / Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife / SIR HENRY WOOTTON (1568-1639)

FROM The Immortality of the Soul : "FOR WHY SHOULD WE THE BUSY SOUL BELIEVE" / SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)

"I Loved Thee Once..." / SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (1570-1638)

"O, the Month of May..." / "Cold's the Wind..." / "Art Thou Poor..." / "Golden Slumbers..." / "Haymakers, Rakers..." / FROM Old Fortunatus, 1600 : 1. "BEHOLD YOU NOT THIS GLOBE ; 2. "STAY, FORTUNATUS..." ; 3· "OH, WHITHER AM I RAPT..." / FROM The Honest Whore, Part I, 1604 : "PATIENCE, MY LORD!..." / THOMAS DEKKER (1570?-1641?)

"Love for Such a Cherry Lip" / "O for a Bowl of Fat Canary" / THOMAS MIDDLETON (1570?-1627)

An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / That Women Are but Men's Shadows / To Celia / Her Triumph / To the Memory of William Shakespeare / Song: "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount..." / Song: "O, That Joy so Soon Should Waste!" / Hymn: "Queen and Huntress, Chaste and Fair" / Song: "Still to Be Neat..." / FROM Volpone or The Fox, 1605 : "IF THOU HAST WISDOM..." / FROM The Alchemist, 1610 : "NO. I'LL HAVE NO BAWDS" / BEN JONSON (1573-1637)

FROM The Parliament of Bees, 1607? : 1. "I WILL HAVE ONE BUILT" ; 2. "THIS BASENESS FOLLOWS..." ; 3· "HIGH STEWARD OF THY VINES" / JOHN DAY (15-?-1640?)

The Good-Morrow / Song: "Go and Catch a Falling Star" / The Canonization / Song: "Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go" / Love's Alchemy / The Message / The Apparition / The Ecstasy / The Relique / Change / The Autumnal / On His Mistress / Love's Progress / Satire II / Holy Sonnets : VII. "AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS..." ; X. "DEATH, BE NOT PROUD..." / A Hymn to Christ / A Hymn to God the Father / JOHN DONNE (1573-1631)

"As It Fell upon a Day" / "If Music and Sweet Poetry..." / RICHARD BARNEFIELD (1574-1627)

FROM Vergidemiarum : 1. PROLOGUE ; 2. "A GENTLE SQUIRE WOULD GLADLY ENTERTAIN" / JOSEPH HALL (1574-1656)

FROM Antonio and Mellida, 1602 : "MY THOUGHTS ARE FIXED IN CONTEMPLATION" / FROM Antonio's Revenge, 1602 : "THE RAWISH DANK OF CLUMSY WINTER..." / FROM Satire V : "AMBITIOUS GORGONS..." / JOHN MARSTON (1575?-1634)

"Pack, Clouds, Away..." / THOMAS HEYWOOD (1575?-1650?)

Coridon's Song / JOHN CHALK HILL (15-?-16-?)

FROM The Atheist's Tragedy, 1611 : "WALKING NEXT DAY UPON THE FATAL SHORE" / FROM The Revenger's Tragedy, 1607 : 1. "MY STUDY'S ORNAMENT, THOU SHELL OF DEATH" ; 2. "AND NOW METHINKS I COULD E'EN CHIDE MYSELF" / CYRIL TOURNEUR (1575?-1626)

"To See a Quaint Outlandish Fowl" / HENRY FARLEY (15-?-16-?)

"Hold Back Thy Hours..." / "Lay a Garland on My Hearse" / "Sing His Praises..." / "Now the Lusty Spring..." / "Hear, Ye Ladies..." / "Care-Charming Sleep..." / "God Lyaeus, Ever Young" / "Cast Our Caps and Cares Away" / "Dearest, Do Not You Delay Me" / "'Tis Late and Cold..." / "Hence, All You Vain Delights" / "Beauty Clear and Fair" / "Drink To-day..." / "Hide, Oh, Hide Those Hills..." / "Tell Me, Dearest..." / "Away, Delights..." / "Weep No More..." / "Roses Their Sharp Spines..." / "Orpheus with His Lute..." / FROM The Faithful Shepherdess : 1. "HERE BE GRAPES..." ; 2. "HERE BE WOODS..." ; 3· "SHALL I STRAY" / JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625)

"Call for the Robin..." / "Hark, Now Everything Is Still" / "All the Flowers of the Spring" / JOHN WEBSTER (158o-1630?)

FROM The Fairies' Farewell : "FAREWELL, REWARDS AND FAIRIES" / RICHARD CORBET (1582 -1635)

FROM The Purple Island : "BUT AH! LET ME UNDER SOME KENTISH HILL" / FROM Elisa : "MY DEAREST BETTY, MY MORE LOVED HEART" / PHINEAS FLETCHER (1582-1650)

FROM Of My Dear Son, Gervase Beaumont : "CAN I, WHO HAVE FOR OTHERS OFT COMPILED" / SIR JOHN BEAUMONT (1583-1627)

Sonnet: "Thus Ends My Love..." / Madrigal: "How Should I Love My Best?" / Kissing / Elegy over a Tomb / FROM An Ode upon a Question Moved : "O NO, BELOVED, I AM MOST SURE" / LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583-1648)

On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare / WILLIAM BASSE (1583?-1653?)

Song: "The Blushing Rose" / Song: "Why Art Thou Slow" / PHILIP MASSINGER (1583-1640)

"Shake Off Your Heavy Trance!" / "Ye Should Stay Longer..." / On the Marriage of a Beauteous Young Gentlewoman with an Ancient Man / On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey / FROM Mr. Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson : "THE SUN, WHICH DOTH THE GREATEST COMFORT BRING" / FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616)

Madrigal: "Like the Idalian Queen" / Sonnet: "Dear Quirister..." / Song: "Phoebus, Arise" / Sonnet: "My Lute, Be as Thou Wast..." / Sonnet: "A Passing Glance..." / WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649)

Tom O' Bedlam's Song / GILES EARLE (15-?-16-?)

"Fly Hence, Shadows..." / "Can You Paint a Thought?..." / "Oh, No More, No More..." / "Glories, Pleasures..." / "Pleasures, Beauty..." / JOHN FORD (1586-1639)

To Cynthia / SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON (1587-1642)

The Author's Resolution / A Love Sonnet / A Christmas Carol / GEORGE WITHER (1588-1667)

FROM Christ's Victory in Heaven : "SHE WAS A VIRGIN OF AUSTERE REGARD" / FROM Christ's Victory on Earth : "LOVE IS THE BLOSSOM..." / GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER (1588?-1623)

FROM Britannia's Pastorals : 1. "GENTLE NYMPHS, BE NOT REFUSING" ; 2. "SO SHUTS THE MARIGOLD HER LEAVES" / FROM The Inner Temple Masque : 1. "STEER HITHER, STEER YOUR WINGED PINES" ; 2. "SON OF EREBUS AND NIGHT" / "Shall I Love Again..." / "Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing" / A Round / FROM Visions : "A ROSE, AS FAIR AS EVER SAW THE NORTH" / On the Dowager Countess of Pembroke / WILLIAM BROWNE OF TAVISTOCK (1591-l643?)

The Argument of His Book / Delight in Disorder / To His Mistress / To Dianeme / To Violets / The Primrose / Upon Julia's Clothes / To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time / FROM The Hock-Cart or Harvest Home : "COME SONS OF SUMMER, BY WHOSE TOIL" / To Primroses Fill'd with Morning-Dew / FROM Oberon's Feast : "A LITTLE MUSHROOM TABLE SPREAD" / To Virgins / To Daffodils / To the Most Fair and Lovely Mistress, Anne Soame / The Mad Maid's Song / Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast / To the Water Nymphs, Drinking at the Fountain / Upon Her Feet / To Anthea, Who May Command Him in Anything / To Meadows / Grace for a Child / A Thanksgiving to God, for His House / ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)

"Sonnet": "Tell Me No More How Fair..." / FROM The Exequy : "ACCEPT, THOU SHRINE OF MY DEAD SAINT" / HENRY KING (1592-1669)

Man's Medley / The Collar / Discipline / Virtue / Sin / Love / Mortification / The Pulley / GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)

"Dear, Do Not Your Fair Beauty Wrong" / THOMAS MAY? (1595-1650)

"You Virgins..." / "The Glories of Our Blood..." / JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666)

FROM Persuasions to Love : "FOR THAT LOVELY FACE WILL FAIL" / Song: "Give Me More Love or More Disdain" / FROM Disdain Returned : "HE THAT LOVES A ROSY CHEEK" / Song: "Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows" / Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers / FROM A Rapture : "I WILL ENJOY THEE NOW, MY CELIA, COME" / THOMAS CAREW (1598?-1639?)

"Art Thou That She..." / "Hey Nonny No!" / "Yet If His Majesty..." / "Daphnis Came on a Summer's Day" / "On a Fair Morning..." / "I Saw My Lady Weep" / "Fine Knacks for Ladies..." / "My Love in Her Attire..." / "Flow Not so Fast..." / "Weep You No More..." / "Fain Would I Change..." / "Ye Little Birds..." / "Ha Ha! Ha Ha! This World..." / "Love Not Me..." / "The Sea Hath Many Thousand Sands" / "Sweet, Let Me Go!" / "Sweet Cupid, Ripen Her Desire" / "On a Time the Amorous Silvy" / "Love in Thy Youth..." / Phillada Flouts Me / FROM The New Jerusalem : "HIERUSALEM, MY HAPPY HOME" / The Old and Young Courtier / Robin Goodfellow / The Queen of Fairies / In Praise of Ale / The Farewell / ANONYMOUS (17TH CENTURY)

To Roses in the Bosom of Castara / WILLIAM HABINGTON (1605-1654)

An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford / To One Admiring Herself in a Looking Glass / FROM A Pastoral Courtship : "BEING SET, LET'S SPORT A WHILE, MY FAIR" / THOMAS RANDOLPH (1605-1635)

"The Lark Now Leaves..." / FROM Song : "ROSES AND PINKS WILL BE STREWN WHERE YOU GO" / SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606-1668)

To a Very Young Lady / On a Girdle / Go, Lovely Rose! / On the Last Verses in the Book / EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687)

Sonnet: "O Nightingale, That on Yon Bloomy Spray" / An Epitaph on William Shakespeare / Sonnet: "How Soon Hath Time the Subtle Thief..." / FROM Arcades : SECOND SONG: "O'ER THE SMOOTH ENAMELLED GREEN" ; THIRD SONG: "NYMPHS AND SHEPHERDS DANCE NO MORE" / L'Allegro / Il Penseroso / FROM A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus) : 1. "THE STAR THAT BIDS THE SHEPHERD FOLD" ; 2. SONG: "SWEET ECHO, SWEETEST NYMPH..." ; 3. "O FOOLISHNESS OF MEN!..." ; 4. SONG: "SABRINA FAIR" ; 5. "TO THE OCEAN NOW I FLY" / Lycidas / To the Lord General Cromwell / On the Late Massacre in Piedmont / "When I Consider..." / FROM Paradise Lost : 1. "HAIL HOLY LIGHT, THOU OFFSPRING OF HEAV'N'S FIRST-BORN" ; 2. "SOUTHWARD THROUGH EDEN WENT A RIVER LARGE" / FROM Paradise Regained : "LOOK ONCE MORE ERE WE LEAVE..." / FROM Samson Agonistes : "A LITTLE ONWARD LEND THY GUIDING HAND" / JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

The Siege / A Ballad upon a Wedding / A Poem: "Out upon It! I Have Loved" / Song: "I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart" / Song: "Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" / SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)

To Chloe / WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT (1611-1643)

Montrose to His Mistress / His Metrical Vow / JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUESS OF MONTROSE (1612-1650)

FROM Hudibras : 1. "WHEN CIVIL DUDGEON FIRST GREW HIGH" ; 2. "FOR HIS RELIGION, IT WAS FIT" ; 8· "THIS STURDY SQUIRE, HE HAD, AS WELL" / SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)

FROM Epithalamium : "COME, VIRGIN TAPERS OF PURE WAX" / FROM Wishes. To His Supposed Mistress : 'WHOE'ER SHE BE" / A Song: "Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace" / For Hope / FROM A Hymn of the Nativity : "GLOOMY NIGHT EMBRACED THE PLACE" / FROM The Weeper : "HAIL SISTER SPRINGS!" / RICHARD CRASHAW (1613?-1649)

Mark Antony / FROM The Rebel Scot : "COME, KEEN IAMBICS, WITH YOUR BADGER'S FEET" / JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658)

FROM Cooper's Hill : "MY EYE DESCENDING FROM THE HILL, SURVEYS" / SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669)

The Rose / To Amarantha / To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas / To Althea from Prison / To Lucasta, Going to the Wars / RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)

FROM On the Death of Mr. William Hervey : "IT WAS A DISMAL AND A FEARFUL NIGHT" / On the Death of Mr. Crashaw / The Wish / FROM Essay on Solitude : "HAIL, OLD PATRICIAN TREES, SO GREAT AND GOODl" / The Chronicle / ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)

Bermudas / To His Coy Mistress / The Garden / FROM A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell : "so RESTLESS CROMWELL COULD NOT CEASE" / FROM A Poem upon the Death of Oliver Cromwell : "I SAW HIM DEAD, A LEADEN SLUMBER LIES" / FROM The Loyal Scot : "BUT WHO CONSIDERS WELL WILL FIND INDEED" / ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)

A Song to Amoret / FROM To His Retired Friend : "COME! LEAVE THIS SULLEN STATE, AND LET NOT WINE" / FROM The Waterfall : "WITH WHAT DEEP MURMURS..." / The Shower / The Morning-Watch / The Retreat / The World / "They Are All Gone..." / HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)

Song: "When I Lie Burning in Thine Eye" / Song: "I Prithee Let My Heart Alone" / THOMAS STANLEY (1625-1678)

The Call / JOHN HALL (1627-1656)

FROM To Mr. Izaak Walton : "FAREWELL, THOU BUSY WORLD, AND MAY" / FROM Old Tityrus to Eugenia : "EUGENIA, YOUNG AND FAIR AND SWEET" / Ode: "Good Night, My Love, May Gentle Rest" / Sonnet: "Chloris, Whilst Thou and I Were Free" / Song: "Join Once Again, My Celia, Join" / Laura Sleeping / FROM Ode : "WITHOUT THE EVENING DEW AND SHOWERS" / CHARLES COTTON (1630-1687)

Song: "Sylvia the Fair, in the Bloom of Fifteen" / Rondelay: "Chloe Found Amyntas Lying" / "Ah, Fading Joy..." / "After the Pangs of a Desperate Lover" / "Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love" / "Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow" / "Long betwixt Love and Fear..." / "Can Life Be a Blessing" / "Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor" / "Fair Iris and Her Swain" / "How Happy the Lover" / "No, No, Poor Suffering Heart..." / FROM Annus Mirabilis : "YET LONDON, EMPRESS OF THE NORTHERN CLIME" / FROM Absalom and Achitophel : 1. "OF THESE THE FALSE ACHITOPHEL WAS FIRST" ; 2. "IN THE FIRST RANK OF THESE DID ZIMRI STAND" / FROM MacFlecknoe : "ALL HUMAN THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO DECAY" / FROM Religio Laici : "DIM, AS THE BORROWED BEAMS OF MOON AND STARS" / To the Memory of Mr. Oldham / FROM Tyrannic Love, 1669 : PROLOGUE ; EPILOGUE / Chorus from The Secular Masque / CHARLES COTTON (1630-1687)

Friendship's Mystery / KATHERINE PHILIPS (1631-1664)

Song: "Ye Happy Swains, Whose Hearts Are Free" / Upon the Downs... / To a Lady / To a Very Young Lady / SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE (1635?-1691)

Song: "Not, Celia, That I Juster Am" / Song: "Love Still Has Something of the Sea" / Song: "Ah Chloris! That I Now Could Sit" / SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701)

The Coquet / The Willing Mistress / Song: "Love in Fantastic Triumph Sate" / APHRA BEHN (1640-1689)

Song: "The Fringed Vallance of Your Eyes Advance" / THOMAS SHADWELL (1642?-1692)

FROM The Mistress : "AN AGE IN HER EMBRACES PAST" / A Song: "Absent from Thee I Languish Still" / Love and Life / Upon His Leaving His Mistress / Upon Nothing / King Charles II / JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)

The Enchantment / THOMAS OTWAY (1652-1685)

FROM A Satire : "BUT, GRANT THY POETRY SHOULD FIND SUCCESS" / JOHN OLDHAM (1653-1683)

A Song: "If for a Woman I Would Die" / ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA (1661?-1720)

Verses / RICHARD BENTLEY (1662-1742)

Song: "Of All the Torments, All the Cares" / Sonnet on Death / WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1708)

An Ode / Cupid's Mistaken / The Lady Who Offers Her Looking Glass / To Cloe Jealous, a Better Answer / MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)

A Description of the Morning / FROM A Description of a City Shower : "AH! WHERE MUST NEEDY POET SEEK FOR AID" / FROM On the Death of Doctor Swift : 1. "THE TIME IS NOT REMOTE WHEN I" ; 2. "BEHOLD THE FATAL DAY ARRIVE!" ; 3· "FROM DUBLIN SOON TO LONDON SPREAD" ; 4· "MY FEMALE FRIENDS, WHOSE TENDER HEARTS" ; 5· "HE GAVE THE LITTLE WEALTH HE HAD" / JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

Song: "False Though She Be to Me and Love" / Amoret / FROM The Mourning Bride, 1697 : "MUSIC HAS CHARMS TO SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST" / WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729)

Song: "Why, Lovely Charmer, Tell Me Why" / SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672-1729)

Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh / ABEL EVANS (1679-1737)

Extempore to Voltaire Criticising Milton / EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)

Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America / GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753)

Ballad: "'Twas When the Seas Were Roaring" / Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing / O Ruddier Than the Cherry / Air XXXV: "How Happy Could I Be with Either" / Air XXIII: "Sleep, O Sleep" / FROM The Fan : "RISE, HAPPY YOUTH, THIS BRIGHT MACHINE SURVEY" / His Own Epitaph / JOHN GAY (1685-1732)

FROM "An Thou Were My Ain Thing" / Peggy / ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Sally in Our Alley / HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)

Ode on Solitude / FROM An Essay on Criticism : "'TIS WITH OUR JUDGMENTS AS OUR WATCHES, NONE" / FROM The Rape of the Lock : 1. "NOT WITH MORE GLORIES, IN TH'ETHERIAL PLAIN" ; 2. "YE SYLPHS AND SYLPHIDS, TO YOUR CHIEF GIVE EAR!" ; 3· "FOR LO! THE BOARD WITH CUPS AND SPOONS IS CROWNED" / FROM Eloisa to Abelard : "HOW OFT, WHEN PRESSED TO MARRIAGE, HAVE I SAID" / FROM Essay on Man : 1. "HEAV'N FROM ALL CREATURES HIDES THE BOOK OF FATE" ; 2. "KNOW THEN THYSELF, PRESUME NOT GOD TO SCAN" ; 3· "FOR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT LET FOOLS CONTEST" ; 4· "WHAT'S FAME? A FANCIED LIFE IN OTHERS' BREATH" ; 5· "SEARCH THEN THE RULING PASSION: THERE ALONE" / FROM Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot : 1. "WHY DID I WRITE? WHAT SIN TO ME UNKNOWN" ; 2. "PEACE TO ALL SUCH! BUT WERE THERE ONE WHOSE FIRES" ; 3· "LET SPORUS TREMBLE" / FROM The Dunciad : "IN VAIN, IN VAIN

THE ALL-COMPOSING HOUR" / Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton / ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

FROM Retirement, an Ode : "JOY, ROSE-LIPPED DRYAD, LOVES TO DWELL" / THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER (1688-1745)

A Toast / JOHN BYROM (1692-1763)

On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup / WILLIAM OLDYS (1696-1761)

FROM The Grave : "SEE YONDER HALLOWED FANE, THE PIOUS WORK" / ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746)

FROM Grongar Hill : "OLD CASTLES ON THE CLIFF ARISE" / JOHN DYER (1700?-1758)

FROM The Castle of Indolence : 1. "IN LOWLY DALE, FAST BY A RIVER'S SIDE" ; 2. "THE DOORS THAT KNEW NO SHRILL ALARMING BELL" / FROM Spring : "AT LENGTH THE FINISHED GARDEN TO THE VIEW" / FROM Winter : "THE KEENER TEMPESTS COME: AND, FUMING DUN" / JAMES THOMSON THE ELDER (1700-1748)

"A-Hunting We Will Go" / HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)

FROM The Vanity of Human Wishes : "ON WHAT FOUNDATIONS STANDS THE WARRIOR'S PRIDE" / FROM London : "BY NUMBERS HERE FROM SHAME OR CENSURE FREE" / FROM On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet : "IN MISERY'S DARKEST CAVERN KNOWN" / FROM On the Coming of Age of a Rich Extravagant Young Man : "WEALTH, MY LAD, WAS MADE TO WANDER" / "Hermit Hoar..." / SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

FROM The Happy Life : "A BOOK, A FRIEND, A SONG, A GLASS" / WILLIAM THOMPSON (1712?-1766?)

Admiral Hosier's Ghost / RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

Written at an Inn at Henley / WILLIAM SHENSTONE (1714-1763)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Stanzas Cancelled from the Elegy / Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College / The Progress of Poesy / Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West / THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)

The Brown Jug / FRANCIS FAWKES (1720-1777)

FROM Ode to Solitude : "O SOLITUDE, ROMANTIC MAID!" / JAMES GRAINGER (1721-1767)

Ode: "How Sleep the Brave, Who Sink to Rest" / Ode to Evening / Dirge in Cymbeline / WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

FROM Song to David : "O SERVANT OF GOD'S HOLIEST CHARGE" / CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)

Lament for Flodden / JANE ELLIOT (1727-1805)

Sonnet, to the River Loddon / THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER (1728-1790)

FROM The Traveller : "REMOTE, UNFRIENDED, MELANCHOLY, SLOW" / FROM The Deserted Village : "SWEET AUBURN! LOVELIEST VILLAGE OF THE PLAIN" / Song: "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" / Song: "O Memory! Thou Fond Deceiver" / Song: "Let Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains" / OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728?-1774)

The Drum / JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL (1730-1783)

John Gilpin / WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

To His Wife / SAMUEL BISHOP (1731-1795)

Sonnet on Life / SIR BROOKE BOOTHBY (1734-1824)

FROM The Minstrel : "BUT WHO THE MELODIES OF MORN CAN TELL?" / JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803)

FROM Love in a Village : "THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER ONCE" / ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE (1735?-1812?)

FROM Cumnor Hall : "THE DEWS OF SUMMER NIGHT DID FALL" / The Mariner's Wife / WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE (1735-1788)

To the Cuckoo / MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-1767)

The Gossamer / CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)

Auld Robin Gray / LADY ANNE LINDSAY (1750-1825)

The Deserter / JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN (1750-1817)

Song: "Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen!" / RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816)

Song of Thyrsis / PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)

FROM Aella : "THE BUDDING FLOWERET BLUSHES AT THE LIGHT" / THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)

The Vicar of Bray / Verses Copied from the Window of an Obscure LodgingHouse, in the Neighbourhood of London / ANONYMOUS (18TH CENTURY)

Song / To the Muses / Introduction to Songs of Innocence / A Cradle Song / The Divine Image / Infant Joy / On Another's Sorrow / The Clod and the Pebble / The Tiger / The Sick Rose / "Ah! Sun-Flower!..." / The Garden of Love / London / A Little Boy Lost / FROM Poems from MSS. : 1. "NEVER SEEK TO TELL THY LOVE" ; 2. "I LAID ME DOWN UPON A BANK" ; 3· "I ASKED A THIEF TO STEAL ME A PEACH" ; 4· "LOVE TO FAULTS IS ALWAYS BLIND" ; 5· "ABSTINENCE SOWS SAND ALL OVER" / The Question Answer'd / FROM Auguries of Innocence : "TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND" / FROM Visions of the Daughters of Albion : "FATHER OF JEALOUSY, BE THOU ACCURSED FROM THE EARTH!" / FROM Vala, or the Four Zoas : 1. "THE CITIES SEND TO ONE ANOTHER..." ; 2. "O LORD, WILT THOU NOT LOOK..." / FROM Milton : "AND DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME" / FROM Jerusalem : "THE RHINE WAS RED WITH HUMAN BLOOD" / To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World / WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

A Poet's Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter / Holy Willie's Prayer / To a Louse / Address to the Unco Guid / Address to a Haggis / Tam O' Shanter / The Rigs o' Barley / Green Grow the Rashes / The Birks of Aberfeldy / I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet / Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw / My Bonie Mary / John Anderson, My Jo / My Love, She's but a Lassie Yet / Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut / The Banks o' Doon / Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever / The Deil's Awa wi' the Exciseman / Highland Mary / Whistle an' I'll Come to Ye, My Lad / A Red, Red Rose / Charlie, He's My Darling / A Man's a Man for A' That / ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)

At Dover Cliffs / WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

"My Heart Leaps Up..." / "Strange Fits of Passion..." / "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" / "She Was a Phantom..." / "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" / "I Wandered Lonely..." / Sonnets : 1. "NUNS FRET NOT AT THEIR CONVENT'S NARROW ROOM" ; 2. TO SLEEP ; 3. "SURPRISED BY JOY-IMPATIENT AS THE WIND" ; 4. "IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING, CALM AND FREE" ; 5· "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US..." ; 6. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ; 7· ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ; 8. "ENGLAND! THE TIME IS COME..." / ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD / FROM Tintem Abbey : "AND NOW, WITH GLEAMS OF HALF-EXTINGUISHED THOUGHT" / FROM The Prelude : "ON A SUMMER EVENING (LED BY HER) I FOUND" / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

FROM The Lay of the Last Minstrel : "IN PEACE, LOVE TUNES THE SHEPHERD'S REED" / FROM Mannion: SONG: "WHERE SHALL THE LOVER REST" / FROM The Lady of the Lake : 1. "HARP OF THE NORTH!..." ; 2. "TIME ROLLS HIS CEASELESS COURSE..." ; 3. CORONACH ; 4. "THE ROSE IS FAIREST WHEN 'TIS BUDDING NEW" ; 5. SOLDIER'S SONG ; 6. "HARP OF THE NORTH, FAREWELL!..." / FROM Rokeby: SONG: "A WEARY LOT IS THINE, FAIR MAID" / "False Love..." / "Hie Away..." / "When Israel..." / "Anna-Marie, Love, Up Is the Sun" / "March, March..." / "Woman's Faith..." / SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / FROM Christabel : "A LITTLE CHILD, A LIMBER ELF" / Kubla Khan / "Hear, Sweet Spirit..." / SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

To Night / JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841)

The Old Familiar Faces / CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)

Proem to Hellenics / To Robert Browning / On Catullus / To Shelley / Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher / FROM "In Clementina's Artless Mien" / "Fate! I Have Asked..." / "Sweet Was the Song..." / "Years, Many Parti-Coloured Years" / "Ah, What Avails..." / "Past Ruined Ilion..." / Ianthe's Troubles / "Twenty Years Hence..." / "Proud Word You Never Spoke..." / "Do You Remember Me?..." / "Well I Remember..." / Dirce / A Foreign Ruler / FROM Regeneration : "WE ARE WHAT SUNS AND WINDS AND WATERS MAKE US" / FROM Corinna to Tanagra : "TANAGRA! THINK NOT I FORGET" / FROM Pericles and Aspasia : 1. "BEAUTY! THOU ART A WANDERER ON THE EARTH" ; 2. "ARTEMIDORA! GODS INVISIBLE" / To Poets / "Leaf after Leaf..." / WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)

"The Harp That Once..." / "At the Mid Hour of Night..." / Child's Song / THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852)

The Nile / The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit / Rondeau / JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)

Song: "In His Last Bin Sir Peter Lies" / A Catch: "Seamen Three! What Men Be Ye?" / Song: "It Was a Friar of Orders Free" / "Not Drunk Is He..." / FROM The War-Song of Dinas Vawr : "THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP ARE SWEETER" / Chorus: "If I Drink Water While This Doth Last" / Love and Age / Glee-The Ghosts / THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866)

FROM To Woman : "WOMAN! EXPERIENCE MIGHT HAVE TOLD ME" / "Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer" / "When We Two Parted" / "Remember Thee! Remember Thee!" / FROM Stanzas : "COULD LOVE FOR EVER" / "So We'll Go No More a Roving" / FROM Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : 1. "THERE WAS A SOUND OF REVELRY BY NIGHT" ; 2. "THE CASTLED CRAG OF DRACHENFELS" ; 3. "I STOOD IN VENICE ON THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS" ; 4· "EGERIA, SWEET CREATION OF SOME HEART" ; 5· "OH LOVE! NO HABITANT OF EARTH THOU ART" ; 6. "THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS" / FROM Don Juan : 1. "'TIS SWEET TO HEAR" ; 2. "THEY TELL ME 'TIS DECIDED; YOU DEPART" ; 3· "TIS PLEASING TO BE SCHOOLED IN A STRANGE TONGUE" ; 4· "IT WAS THE COOLING HOUR..." ; 5· "THE ISLES OF GREECE..." / On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year / GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

To Mary / CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823)

FROM Prometheus Unbound : 1. "ON A POET'S LIPS I SLEPT" ; 2. "THE PATH THROUGH WHICH THAT LOVELY TWAIN" ; 3· "LIFE OF LIFE! THY LIPS ENKINDLE" / FROM Lines Written among the Euganean Hills : "'MID THE MOUNTAINS EUGANEAN" / Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples / Song to the Men of England / FROM To the Lord Chancellor : "OH, LET A FATHER'S CURSE BE ON THY SOUL" / Ode to the West Wind / The Indian Serenade / Love's Philosophy / The Cloud / To-: "I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden" / To the Moon / The World's Wanderers / Good-Night / To Night / To-: "Music, When Soft Voices Die" / Mutability / To-: "One Word Is Too Often Profaned" / Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered" / To Stella / FROM Adonais : "I WEEP FOR ADONAIS-HE IS DEAD!" / PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)

Written in Northampton County Asylum / JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)

Thanatopsis / "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids!" / Dante / WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)

Dedication, to Leigh Hunt, Esq. / On First Looking into Chapman's Homer / To a Nightingale / On a Grecian Urn / To Psyche / To the Poets / Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / To Autumn / On Melancholy / Sonnet on the Sea / Sonnet to Sleep / Ballad: La Belle Dame sans Merci / FROM The Eve of St. Agnes : "OUT WENT THE TAPER AS SHE HURRIED IN" / FROM Isabella or The Pot of Basil : 1. "FAIR ISABEL, POOR SIMPLE ISABEL!" ; 2. "O MELANCHOLY, LINGER HERE AWHILE!" / FROM Endymion : 1. "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER" ; 2. "AND, TRULY, I WOULD RATHER BE STRUCK DUMB" ; 3. "O SOVEREIGN POWER OF LOVE!..." ; 4. "BENEATH MY PALM-TREES, BY THE RIVER SIDE" / FROM Hyperion : 1. "AS WHEN, UPON A TRANCED SUMMER-NIGHT" ; 2. "O LEAVE THEM, MUSE!..." / "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" / JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

Siren Chorus / GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846)

Song: "She Is Not Fair to Outward View" / HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796-1849) Autumn / The Water Lady / Sonnet: "It Is Not Death, That Sometime in a Sigh" / Silence / THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845)

Epitaph on a Jacobite / THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY (1800-1859)

FROM The Belle of the Ball-Room : "OUR LOVE WAS LIKE MOST OTHER LOVES" / WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802-1839)

"And When I Am Entombed..." / FROM Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing : "THE GOD WHO MADE NEW HAMPSHIRE" / Forbearance / Give All to Love / Bacchus / FROM Concord Hymn : "BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOOD" / Days / April / Heroism / Brahma / RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)

Song: "How Many Times Do I Love Thee, Dear?" / Dream-Pedlary / Love-in-Idleness / Song: "Who Tames the Lion Now?" / The Phantom-Wooer / Song: "Strew Not Earth with Empty Stars" / THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)

Dark Rosaleen / JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN (1803-1849)

Sonnets from the Portuguese : I. "I THOUGHT ONCE HOW THEOCIDTUS HAD SUNG" ; VI. "GO FROM ME. YET I FEEL THAT I SHALL STAND" ; XIV. "IF THOU MUST LOVE ME, LET IT BE FOR NOUGHT" ; XXII. "WHEN OUR TWO SOULS STAND UP ERECT AND STRONG" ; XXVIII. "MY LETTERS! ALL DEAD PAPER, MUTE AND WHITE!" ; XXXII. "THE FIRST TIME THAT THE SUN ROSE ON THINE OATH" ; xxxv. "IF I LEAVE ALL FOR THEE, WILT THOU EXCHANGE" ; XXXVIII. "FIRST TIME HE KISSED ME, HE BUT ONLY KISSED" ; XLIII. "HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS" / The Cry of the Children / ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)

Hymn to the Night / Serenade / Suspiria / My Lost Youth / "Some Day, Some Day" / Divina Commedia / Ultima Thule / HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)

"I Call the Old Time Back..." / JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)

The Voiceless / After a Lecture on Keats / OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur / EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)

Mariana / Choric Song of the Lotos-Eaters / CEnone / FROM The Princess : I. "THE SPLENDOUR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS" ; 2. "TEARS, IDLE TEARS, I KNOW NOT WHAT THEY MEAN" ; 3· "NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL, NOW THE WHITE" ; 4· "COME DOWN, O MAID, FROM YONDER MOUNTAIN HEIGHT" / FROM In Memoriam : xxxv. "YET IF SOME VOICE THAT MAN COULD TRUST" ; LXXXII. "DIP DOWN UPON THE NORTHERN SHORE" ; XC. "WHEN ROSY PLUMELETS TUFT THE LARCH" ; CXIV. "NOW FADES THE LAST LONG STREAK OF SNOW" / Ulysses / Crossing the Bar / ALFRED TENNYSON, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)

The Raven / Ulalume / The Valley of Unrest / The City in the Sea / To One in Paradise / The Haunted Palace / Annabel Lee / To Helen / EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)

FROM The Chronicle of the Drum : "AH, GENTLE, TENDER LADY MINE!" / The Ballad of Bouillabaisse / WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)

A Winter Wish / ROBERT HINCKLEY MESSINGER (1811-1874)

Song: "Give Her but a Least Excuse to Love Me!" / The Lost Leader / The Confessional / Meeting at Night / A Woman's Last Word / Respectability / Women and Roses / FROM In a Gondola : "I SEND MY HEART UP TO THEE, ALL MY HEART" / The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church / Fra Lippo Lippi / Song: "Nay but You, Who Do Not Love Her" / Confessions / Youth and Art / FROM One Word More : "THERE THEY ARE, MY FIFTY MEN AND WOMEN" / Epilogue / ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)

On the Death of Anne Bronte / CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855)

"Low-Anchored Cloud..." / "Woof of the Sun..." / The Atlantides / "All Things Are Current Found" / "Light-Winged Smoke ..." / HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

The Old Stoic / "Tell Me, Tell Me..." / "The Sun Has Set..." / "Sleep Brings No Joy..." / "A Little While, a Little While" / FROM "I Am the Only Being..." : "I AM THE ONLY BEING WHOSE DOOM" / "I Gazed Within..." / At Castle Wood / "No Coward Soul..." / EMILY JANE BRONTE (1818-1848)

The Latest Decalogue / "Say Not the Struggle..." / ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861)

FROM Starting from Paumanok : "STARTING FROM FISH-SHAPE PAUMANOK" / FROM Song of Myself " "I CELEBRATE MYSELF, AND SING MYSELF" / From Pent-Up Aching Rivers / Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd / FROM Song of the Open Road : "AFOOT AND LIGHT-HEARTED I TAKE TO THE OPEN ROAD" / FROM Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods / The Wound-Dresser / When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd / To a Common Prostitute / Darest Thou Now O Soul / WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)

"When All the World..." / CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875)

She Came and Went / JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)

"The Ribs and Terrors..." / The March into Virginia / Shiloh, a Requiem / FROM John Marr : "SINCE AS IN NIGHT'S DECK-WATCH YE SHOW" / To Ned / Lone Founts / Art / Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem / L'Envoi: The Return of the Sire de Nesle / Immolated / Camoens / Camoens in the Hospital / Falstaff's Lament over Prince Hal Become Henry V / HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)

Shakespeare / The Forsaken Merman / Requiescat / The Scholar Gipsy / FROM Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse : "FOR RIGOROUS TEACHERS SEIZED MY YOUTH" / Dover Beach / MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)

Heraclitus / WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY (1823-1892)

FROM The Angel in the House : "AN IDLE POET, HERE AND THERE" / The Toys / COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE (1823-1896)

The Fairies / WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-1889)

Love in the Valley / FROM Modern Love : VI. "IT CHANCED HIS LIPS DID MEET HER FOREHEAD COOL" ; XII. "NOT SOLELY THAT THE FUTURE SHE DESTROYS" ; XXX. "WHAT ARE WE FIRST? FIRST, ANIMALS; AND NEXT" ; XLII. "I AM TO FOLLOW HER. THERE IS MUCH GRACE" ; XLVII. "WE SAW THE SWALLOWS GATHERING IN THE SKY" ; L. "THUS PITEOUSLY LOVE CLOSED WHAT HE BEGAT" /Appreciation / Lucifer in Starlight / GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)

A Little While / Three Shadows / Autumn Song / For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione / FROM The House of Life : 1. "A SONNET IS A MOMENT'S MONUMENT" ; 2. LOVESIGHT ; 3· WITHOUT HER ; 4· THE CHOICE / The Ballad of Dead Ladies / Beauty / DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)

A Decanter of Madeira / SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914)

FROM Manna Innominata : XI. "MANY IN AFTER TIMES WILL SAY OF YOU" ; XIV. "YOUTH GONE, AND BEAUTY GONE IF EVER THERE" / Song: "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" / Song: "Oh Roses for the Flush of Youth" / Remember / FROM The Prince's Progress : "TOO LATE FOR LOVE, TOO LATE FOR JOY" / A Birthday / Echo / Up-Hill / Twice / CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)

"My Life Closed Twice..." / "Doubt Me..." / "I'm Ceded..." / "I'm Wife..." / "Proud of My Broken Heart..." / "Heart, We Will Forget Him!" / "Title Divine Is Mine" / "This Quiet Dust..." / EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

FROM The City of Dreadful Night : PROEM ; I. "THE CITY IS OF NIGHT; PERCHANCE OF DEATH" ; XIII. "OF ALL THINGS HUMAN WHICH ARE STRANGE..." / FROM Sunday up the River : I. "I LOOKED OUT INTO THE MORNING" ; XVIII. "THE WINE OF LOVE IS MUSIC" / FROM Sunday at Hampstead : X. "AS WE RUSH, AS WE RUSH IN THE TRAIN" / JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)

Summer Dawn / FROM The Life and Death of Jason : 1. "I KNOW A LITTLE GARDEN-CLOSE" ; 2. "O HAPPY SEAFARERS ARE YE" / FROM The Earthly Paradise : I. "OF HEAVEN OR HELL I HAVE NO POWER TO SING" ; 2. "O JUNE, O JUNE, THAT WE DESIRED SO" / FROM Ogier the Dane : "IN THE WHITE-FLOWERED HAWTHORN BRAKE" / FROM Love Is Enough : "LOVE IS ENOUGH: THOUGH THE WORLD BE A-WANING" / WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)

FROM The Triumph of Time : "I HAVE PUT MY DAYS AND DREAMS OUT OF MIND" / A Leave-Taking / FROM Anactoria : "THEE TOO THE YEARS SHALL COVER; THOU SHALT BE" / Rococo / Rondel / The Garden of Proserpine / An Interlude / At Parting / Ave atque Vale / Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon : 1. "WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING..." ; 2. "BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF YEARS" ; 3· "WHO HATH GIVEN MAN SPEECH?..." / ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)

The Impercipient / To an Unborn Pauper Child / Shut Out That Moon / The Conformers / Let Me Enjoy / Afterwards / THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

On a Fan That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour / HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON (1840-1921)

FROM Esther : L. "HE WHO HAS ONCE BEEN HAPPY IS FOR AYE" ; LI. "WHEN I HEAR LAUGHTER FROM A TAVERN DOOR" / FROM The Love Sonnets of Proteus : AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER ; HE HAS FALLEN FROM THE HEIGHT OF HIS LOVE ; ON THE NATURE OF LOVE ; IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION ; FAREWELL TO JULIET ; ST. VALENTINE'S DAY ; TO ONE ON HER WASTE OF TIME ; TO ONE WHO WOULD MAKE CONFESSION / Song: "Oh Fly Not, Pleasure" / FROM The Wisdom of Merlyn : "WHAT THEN IS MERLYN'S MESSAGE..." / WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840-1922)

FROM The Symphony : "I SPEAK FOR EACH NO-TONGUED TREE" / SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)

Heaven-Haven / The Habit of Perfection / In the Valley of the Elwy / The Starlight Night / Pied Beauty / GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)

The Odyssey / ANDREW LANG (1844-1911)

FROM Ode : "WE ARE THE MUSIC-MAKERS" / ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844-1881)

Pater Filio / To L.B.C.L.M. / On a Dead Child / ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930)

Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age / Renouncement / ALICE MEYNELL (1849-1922)

I.M., R. T. Hamilton Bruce [Invictus] / "Fill a Glass with Golden Wine" / To A.D. / "On the Way to Kew" / Epilogue to Rhymes and Rhythms / WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)

The Celestial Surgeon / The Vagabond / Requiem / ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)

FROM The Ballad of Reading Gaol : "IN DEBTOR'S YARD THE STONES ARE HARD" / OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)

In Romney Marsh / Waiting / JOHN DAVIDSON (1857-1909)

"Loveliest of Trees..." / "When I Was One-and-Twenty" / "Into My Heart an Air..." / Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries / "I to My Perils" / For My Funeral / ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN (1859-1936)

The Hound of Heaven / FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)

Epitaphium Citharistriae / VICTOR PLARR (1863-1929)

Ode: "My Heart Rebels against My Generation" / On the Death of a Metaphysician / "We Needs Must Be Divided..." / GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863-1952)

A Faery Song / The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart / FROM The Land of Heart's Desire : "THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY" / FROM Deirdre : "'WHY IS IT, ' QUEEN EDAIN SAID" / When Helen Lived / FROM A Prayer for My Daughter : "I HAVE WALKED AND PRAYED FOR THIS YOUNG CHILD..." / Sailing to Byzantium / WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)

Declaration / Wanderer's Song / ARTHUR SYMONS (1865-1945)

The Long Trail / Screw-Guns / Shillin' a Day / Recessional / RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

Vitae Summa Brevis / Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae / ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)

Chivalry / A.E.-GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (1867-1935)

The Precept of Silence / LIONEL JOHNSON (1867-1902)

The Hill / Howard Lamson / EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1869-1950)

For a Dead Lady / Momus / Mr. Flood's Party / EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

FROM For the Fallen : "THEY WENT WITH SONGS TO THE BATTLE..." / LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943)

The Sailor to His Parrot / WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES (1870-1940)

Discovery / HILAIRE BELLOC (1870-1953)

The Dead Poet / LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945)

Sea Love / Moorland Night / CHARLOTTE MEW (1870-1928)

The Fairy Fiddler / NORA HOPPER (1871-1906)

War Is Kind / "A Newspaper Is..." / STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

Time, You Old Gipsy Man / RALPH HODGSON (B. 1871)

In Flanders Fields / JOHN McCRAE (1872-1918)

FROM On Heaven : "...AND MY DEAR ONE SAT IN THE SHADOWS..." / A Solis Ortus Cardine... / FORD MADOX FORD (1873-1939)

An Epitaph / The Listeners / All That's Past / Clear Eyes / WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956)

Wine and Water / On a Prohibitionist Poem / Elegy in a Country Churchyard / GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936)

"I Know Where I'm Going" / ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY)

Mnemosyne / TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904) / Little Ivory Figures Pulled with String / AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)

The Pasture / My November Guest / After Apple-Picking / Storm Fear / Mending Wall / FROM Two Witches : THE WITCH OF COOS / Fire and Ice / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / ROBERT FROST (B. 1875)

FROM Reynard the Fox : "THE COBBLER BENT AT HIS WOODEN FOOT" / On Growing Old / JOHN MASEFIELD (B. 1878)

The Sign-Post / EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)

Chicago / Cool Tombs / CARL SANDBURG (B. 1878)

The Eagle That Is Forgotten / VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)

Midnight Lamentation / HAROLD MONRO (1879-1932)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream / Peter Quince at the Clavier / Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself / WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1957)

Exit / WILSON PUGSLEY MAcDONALD (B. 1880)

"Mourn Not the Dead..." / RALPH CHAPLIN (B. 1880)

Epitaph / LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE (1881-1938)

The Old Woman / JOSEPH CAMPBELL (B. 1881)

A Drover / PADRAIC COLUM (B. 1881)

"I Hear an Army Charging..." / She Weeps over Rahoon / A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight / JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)

Deirdre / JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950)

Autumn / Conversion / THOMAS ERNEST HULME (1883-1917)

Peace on Earth / The Yachts / WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (B. 1883)

The Fresh Start / ANNA WICKHAM (B. 1884)

The Dying Patriot / JAMES ELROY FLECKER (1884-1915)

FROM The Virgin Mother : "I KISS YOU GOOD-BYE, MY DARLING" / River Roses / Song of a Man Who Has Come Through / Sinners / Bavarian Gentians / Ship of Death / DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE (1885-1930)

Awpia / The Return / FROM Canto LXXXI : "WHAT THOU LOVEST WELL REMAINS" / EZRA POUND (B. 1885)

The Eagle and the Mole / ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)

Aftermath / SIEGFRIED SASSOON (B. 1886)

Sitalkas / Lethe / FROM Hymen : "NEVER MORE WILL THE WIND" / H.D.-HILDA DOOLITTLE (B. 1886)

Signpost / Shine, Perishing Republic / ROBINSON JEFFERS (B. 1887)

An Old Woman Laments in Spring-Time / EDITH SITWELL (B. 1887)

The Road / EDWIN MUIR (B. 1887)

Chorus from a Tragedy / LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)

Silence / A Talisman / Poetry / In Distrust of Merits / MARIANNE MOORE (B. 1887)

The Hill / The Soldier / RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915)

"I Have a Rendezvous with Death" / ALAN SEEGER (1888-1916)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / La Figlia Che Piange / "Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears" / FROM Four Quartets (FROM "Burnt Norton") : "WORDS MOVE, MUSIC MOVES" / THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (B. 1888)

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son / JOHN CROWE RANSOM (B. 1888)

FROM Time in the Rock : "AND YOU WHO LOVE, YOU WHO ATTACH YOURSELVES" / Blind Date / CONRAD AIKEN (B. 1889)

Break of Day in the Trenches / ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)

Mrs. Southern's Enemy / FROM England Reclaimed : "SOUND OUT, PROUD TRUMPETS" / OSBERT SITWELL (B. 1892)

You, Andrew Marvel / "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" / ARCHIBALD MAcLEISH (B. 1892)

"Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave" / "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed..." / EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)

Greater Love / The Show / Anthem for Doomed Youth / WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)

Ninth Philosopher's Song / Frascati's / ALDOUS HUXLEY (B. 1894)

Epitaphs: For a Fickle Man / The End / MARK VAN DOREN (B. 1894)

Song: "All in Green Went My Love Riding" / "The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls" / "What If a Much of a Which of a Wind" / EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS (B. 1894)

Hasbrouck and the Rose / HOWARD PHELPS PUTNAM (1891-1948)

The Bards / The Climate of Thought / Counting the Beats / ROBERT GRAVES (B. 1895)

Into the Salient / An Infantryman / EDMUND BLUNDEN (B. 1896)

FROM John Brown's Body : "THIS IS THE HIDDEN PLACE THAT HIDERS KNOW" / STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1913)

Voyages: II / FROM The Bridge : THE RIVER / HART CRANE (1899-1932)

Shadow and Shade / Ode to the Confederate Dead / ALLEN TATE (B. 1899)

Country Summer / LEONIE ADAMS (B. 1899)

Variation on a Theme by John Lyly / SACHEVERELL SITWELL (B. 1900)

Metempsychosis / KENNETH SLESSOR (B. 1901)

The Zebras / FROM Talking Bronco : THE VOLUNTEER'S REPLY TO THE POET / ROY CAMPBELL (1902-1957)

FROM From Feathers to Iron : "NOW THE FULL-THROATED DAFFODILS" / CECIL DAY LEWIS (B. 1904)

Midcentury Love Letter / PHYLLIS McGINLEY (B. 1905)

Missing Dates / WILLIAM EMPSON (B. 1906)

"O for Doors to Be Open" / Ballad: "O What Is That Sound..." / In Memory of W. B. Yeats / WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (B. 1907)

Aubade / Bagpipe Music / LOUIS MAcNEICE (B. 1907)

The Pythoness / KATHLEEN RAINE (B. 1908)

Big Wind / THEODORE ROETHKE (B. 1908)

Thoughts during an Air Raid / "I Think Continually of Those..." / STEPHEN SPENDER (B. 1909)

Eclogue / FREDERIC PROKOSCH (B. 1909)

Neither Here nor There / WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS (B. 1909)

The Fish / ELIZABETH BISHOP (B. 1911)

Sonnet to My Mother / To Any Member of My Generation / GEORGE BARKER (B. 1913)

FROM The Repetitive Heart : "ALL CLOWNS ARE MASKED AND ALL PERSONAE" / DELMORE SCHWARTZ (B. 1913)

Buick / KARL SHAPIRO (B. 1913)

Lessons of the War: Naming of Parts / HENRY REED (B. 1914)

"The Force That through the Green Fuse..." / "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" / Fern Hill / "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" / DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket / ROBERT LOWELL (B. 1917)

After the Last Bulletins / RICHARD WILBUR (B. 1921).