101 Best-Loved Poems

Large print anthology contains some of the most popular poems in the English language, including Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?," Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," Frost's "The Road Not Taken," as well as works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, and many others.

Ballads

Lord Randal

1

(1)

Sir Patrick Spens

2

(4)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed

6

(1)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

7

(1)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sonnet XVIII (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')

8

(1)

Sonnet LXXIII (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')

9

(1)

Sonnet XCIV (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')

9

(1)

Sonnet CXVI (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')

10

(1)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

``Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss''

11

(1)

John Donne (1572-1631)

The Good Morrow

12

(1)

Holy Sonnet X (``Death be not proud, though some have called thee'')

13

(1)

Holy Sonnet XIV (``Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you'')

14

(1)

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

To Celia

14

(1)

On My First Son

15

(1)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

16

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

16

(1)

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Love Bade Me Welcome

17

(1)

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Song (``Go, lovely Rose---'')

18

(1)

John Milton (1608-1674)

On His Blindness

19

(1)

On His Deceased Wife

20

(1)

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

``Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?''

20

(1)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

21

(1)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

To His Coy Mistress

22

(2)

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

The Retreat

24

(1)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

25

(5)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

30

(2)

William Blake (1757-1827)

The Lamb

32

(1)

The Sick Rose

33

(1)

The Tyger

33

(1)

London

34

(1)

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

To a Mouse

35

(2)

A Red, Red Rose

37

(1)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802

38

(1)

``I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''

39

(1)

``The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon''

40

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Kubla Khan

40

(3)

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

Abou Ben Adhem

43

(1)

Jenny Kiss'd Me

43

(1)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

``She Walks in Beauty''

44

(1)

The Destruction of Sennacherib

45

(1)

``So We'll Go No More a Roving''

46

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ozymandias

46

(1)

Ode to the West Wind

47

(3)

To a Skylark

50

(4)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Thanatopsis

54

(3)

John Keats (1795-1821)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

57

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

58

(3)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

61

(2)

La Belle Dame sans Merci

63

(2)

``When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be''

65

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument

66

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Sonnet XLIII (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')

67

(1)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Village Blacksmith

67

(2)

The Children's Hour

69

(2)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Barbara Frietchie

71

(3)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

To Helen

74

(1)

The Raven

74

(7)

Annabel Lee

81

(2)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

Old Ironsides

83

(1)

The Chambered Nautilus

84

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Charge of the Light Brigade

85

(2)

Crossing the Bar

87

(1)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

My Last Duchess

88

(2)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

I Hear America Singing

90

(1)

O Captain! My Captain!

91

(2)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

93

(1)

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Dover Beach

93

(2)

George Meredith (1828-1909)

Lucifer in Starlight

95

(1)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

``I'm Nobody! Who Are You?''

96

(1)

``This Is My Letter to the World''

96

(1)

``I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died''

97

(1)

``Because I Could Not Stop for Death''

97

(1)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

A Birthday

98

(1)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Jabberwocky

99

(1)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

The Darkling Thrush

100

(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

The Windhover

102

(1)

Pied Beauty

103

(1)

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

The New Colossus

103

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Requiem

104

(1)

A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

To an Athlete Dying Young

105

(1)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Gunga Din

106

(4)

Recessional

110

(1)

If---

111

(1)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

112

(1)

When You Are Old

113

(1)

The Second Coming

113

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Richard Cory

115

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

115

(2)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

The Road Not Taken

117

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

118

(1)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Chicago

119

(1)

Fog

120

(1)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

121

(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

The Red Wheelbarrow

122

(1)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

123

(1)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Poetry

124

(2)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

First Fig

126

(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

126

(1)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

``anyone lived in a pretty how town''

127

(2)

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Musee des Beaux Arts

129

(1)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

130

(2)

Alphabetical List of Titles

132

(5)

Alphabetical List of First Lines

137

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