Great Short Poems from Around the World
, by Blaisdell, Bob
- ISBN: 9780486478777 | 0486478777
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/19/2013
This hardcover edition presents an international sampling of classic poetry. It features ancient Greek, Latin, and Persian poets such as Homer, Sappho, and Martial as well as Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Yiddish poems from the 12th century BC through the 20th century, plus English, Irish, and American classics by Yeats, Byron, Dickinson, and others.
Note Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’rri "Thus they have passed, and we shall follow soon" Yamabe Akahito "Like the mists that ever rise" Anna Akhmatova "One can never mistake true tenderness" The Muse Richard Aldington Evening The River Amalfi Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memory William Allingham Four Ducks on a Pond Alpheius of Mytilene "Unhappy they whose life is loveless" Anacreon Nature’s Laws Ball Game Anonymous "The way down to Hades" "Young Men dancing, and the old" "Caught, Thrasybulus, in the net of a boy’s love" "The love of women touches not my heart" "Persistent Love" "My name—my country—what are they to thee?" "Poor in my youth, and in life’s later scenes" The Scribe: "A Hedge of Trees" "As the moon sinks on the mountain-edge" "The cloud clings" "While with my sleeves I sweep the bed" "The nightingale on the flowering plum" "Moonlight" Three Triads "Ah, would that I could hide within my songs" Grief Song ("Since you love me and I love you") Cuckoo Song "Adam lay ybounden" Youth and Age Westphalian Song "Western wind, when wilt thou blow?" "Give justice, O blue sky" "O sleep, fond Fancy, sleep, my head thou tirest" Madrigal ("My Love in her attire doth shew her wit") I see the snowy winter sky Quail Magpie Song Black Hair Spring Song Song of the Trees The Approach of the Storm A Loon I Thought It Was Envoy Butterfly Song Ptarmigan You Have No Horses Minnow and Flowers "I took up my lament" Yaqui Song The Rising of the Buffalo Men Asclepiades "Thou hoardest still thy maidenhead’s hid treasure" "Sweet to the thirsty" Matsuo Basho "The quiet pond" "Sleeping at noon" "The roadside thistle" "Will you turn toward me?" Charles Baudelaire The Voyage Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Rhyme 10 Rhyme 21 Rhyme 30 Rhyme 38 Rhyme 50 Bhartrihari "The silvery laughter; eyes that sparkle bold" "Brightly the hearth-fire leap, and the lit lamp" "But to remember her my heart is sad" "The sportive Love-god in this worldly sea" Bhasa The Moon Elizabeth Bishop Song William Blake The Fly Bertolt Brecht The Mask of Evil Emily Bronte "The night is darkening round me" Robert Browning Bad Dreams Pippa’s Song Yosa Buson "struck by a raindrop" Lord Byron, George Gordon "So, we’ll no more go a roving" Callimachos Elegy for Heraclitus Joseph Campbell The Old Woman The Hills of Cualann Thomas Campion "When to her lute Corinna sings" "Though you are young and I am old" Catullus "Thou saidst that I alone thy Heart could move" "Lesbia for ever on me rails" Gutierre de Cetina Madrigal Wang Chi Tell Me Now T’ao Ch’ien "A long time ago" Po Chu-i Resignation Illness Matthias Claudius Death and the Maiden Abraham Cowley The Epicure John Clare The Secret Adelaide Crapsey November Night The Guarded Wound On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees Robert Creeley I Know a Man Dakiki "O would that in the world there were no night" Samuel Daniel "Love is a sickness full of woes" Emily Dickinson "I’m Nobody! Who are you?" "The Soul selects her own Society" "There’s a certain Slant of light" Dilsoz "If the proud girl I love would cast a glance behind her" Digby Mackworth Dolben Requests H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Song Paul Laurence Dunbar Silence Compensation Theology T. S. Eliot Morning at the Window Juan Escriva Welcome Death Euenus The Vine to the Goat Firdawsi Reproach John Gould Fletcher Kurenai-ye (or "Red Picture") Memory and Forgetting Changing Love Fugitive Beauty F. S. Flint Cones Terror Robert Frost Fire and Ice Nothing Gold Can Stay Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Calm at Sea "All the time a man is sober" Wanderer’s Night Song Barnabe Googe A Posy Of Money Jehudah Halevi Ophra Thomas Hardy Her Initials I Look into My Glass An Upbraiding John Harington The Author to His Wife, of a Woman’s Eloquence Comparison of the Sonnet and the Epigram Heinrich Heine "I wish that all my love-songs" "Your eyes of azure violets" "Ah, yes, my songs are poisoned" Religion "The old dream comes again to me" "I love this white and slender body" "From pain, wherein I languish" George Herbert The Quiddity Robert Herrick Upon Julia’s Clothes Her Legs Upon Some To God, on His Sicknesse Hermann Hesse "I love women who a thousand years ago" Nazim Hikmet I Love You Optimistic Man After Release From Prison Princess Hirokawa "The sheaves of my love-thoughts" "I thought there could be" Friedrich Holderlin Socrates and Alcibiades Langston Hughes Personal Death of an Old Seaman The Negro Speaks of Rivers T. E. Hulme Autumn Kobayashi Issa "Hey! Don’t swat" "Thud-thud" Juan Ramon Jiménez Yellow Spring Ben Jonson Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. Why I Write Not of Love The Hourglass "Still to be neat, still to be dressed" On My First Daughter "Swell me a bowl with lusty wine" Kabir "A sore pain troubles me day and night" "Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves" Kasa Kanamura "A sojourner in Mika’s plains" Empress Kogyoku "From the age of the gods" Alfred Kreymborg Clay Screen Dance: For Rihani Walter Savage Landor Ianthe Emily Lawless In Spain D. H. Lawrence Brooding Grief Nonentity New Year’s Eve Luis de Leon On Leaving Prison Mikhail Lermontov Gratitude "Land of masters, land of slaves" Detlev von Liliencron Four in Hand Federico Garcia Lorca Hour of Stars (1920) Lucilius "When Ulysses after twenty years" Lady Maisun She Scorns Her Husband the Caliph Taylor Mali Because My Students Asked Me Jorge Manrique Song Manzei "To what shall I liken this life?" Martial "To read my book the Virgin she" "He unto whom thou art so partial" Mayura "With her left hand doing up her heavy hair" "Who is this maiden" "Who is this timid gazelle" Meleager Mosquitoes "The cup rejoiceth in its pride" "Oh, ye bitter waves of Love" "I made haste to escape from Love" "Pain has begun to touch my heart" George Meredith "They have no song, the sedges dry" Czeslaw Milosz Gift Otomo Miyori "You seem to have lived, my lady" Thomas Moore An Argument Edward Morike Think of It, My Soul! Arakida Moritake "A fallen blossom" Nikolai Nekrasov The Capitals Are Rocked In My Country (The Serf Speaks) Farewell Ivan Savvich Nikitin A Night in a Village Princess Nukada "While waiting for you" Abu Nuwas "Four things banish grief and care" "Ho! a cup, and fill it up, and tell me it is wine" Nikolay Ogarev The Road Prince Otsu and Lady Ishikawa "Waiting for you" Octavio Paz Touch George Peele Song of Bethsabe Bathing Gyorgy Petri To Be Said Over and Over Again "I am stuck, Lord, on your hook" Caius Petronius "Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short" Li Po Taking Leave of a Friend Still Night Thoughts A Night with a Friend Autumn Cove Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro Couplet The Garret Το Καλον [title in Greek letters] Alba Chanson Arabe Alexander Pushkin I Loved You Work Francis Quarles On the World Rafi of Merv The Roses of Thy Cheeks Anthony Raftery I Am Raftery Walter Raleigh Epitaph Mathurin Regnier His Epitaph Abraham Reisen Healing Rainer Maria Rilke The Panther Arthur Rimbaud Departure Sensation Theodore Roethke Heard in a Violent Ward Emile Roumer The Peasant Declares His Love Conrado Nale Roxlo The Unforseen Rufinus "I am armed with the breastplate of reason" Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig Eel-Grass Lady Otomo no Sakanoye "My heart, thinking" Carl Sandburg Fog Sappho A Young Bride "My muse, what ails this ardor?" William Shakespeare "Where the bee sucks, there suck I" "Under the greenwood tree" "Full fathom five thy father lies" Percy Bysshe Shelley To —— Masoka Shiki "Snow’s falling" James Shirley Good-night On Her Dancing Philip Sidney The Bargain Iio Sogi "Everything that was" Yamazaki Sokan "O Moon!" Georgios Souris Ode to Coffee Gertrude Stein I Am Rose Alan Stephens Watching the Shorebirds That Winter Here A Last Time Wallace Stevens The Worms at Heaven’s Gate Anecdote of the Jar Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock The Wind Shifts Strato "How shall I know when the prime" "Seek not to hide our love" "How long shall we steal kisses" "Happy little book" "Perchance someone in future years" John Suckling Song Jonathan Swift Verses Made for Women Who Cry Apples, etc. Otomo Tabito In Praise of Sake Torquato Tasso "I would like to be a bee" Sara Teasdale The Kiss Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Come not, when I am dead" Henry David Thoreau My Life Has Been the Poem John Todhunter Song Marina Tsvetaeva "I do not think, or argue, or complain" "They fly–quick-wrought and quickly written" "The gypsy passion of parting!" Su Tung-p’o Spring Night On the Birth of His Son Fyodor Tyutchev Holy Russia Paul Verlaine Autumn Song Gil Vicente Song Edmund Waller On a Girdle Wang Wei Deer Fence Duckweed Pond Walt Whitman The Last Invocation Oscar Wilde Requiescat William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow The Young Housewife Pastoral Willow Poem To Waken an Old Lady The Thinker The Lonely Street The Great Figure John Wilson Papa’s Alba Three Haiku William Wordsworth "A slumber did my spirit seal" My Heart Leaps Up Emperor Wu-ti Liu Ch’e The Autumn Wind Li Fu-Jen Otomo Yakamochi "What pain and distress" Mei Yao-ch’en At Night, Hearing Someone Sing in the House Next Door William Butler Yeats He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven A Drinking Song Down by the Salley Gardens Shen Yo Dreaming of Her Bibliography
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