Great Short Poems

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers an impressive sampling of more than 150 succinct masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others.

Sir Walter Ralegh
Even Such Is Time
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
"When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes"
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
John Donne
"Death, Be Not Proud"
Ben Jonson
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
John Webster
A Dirge
Robert Herrick
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Upon Julia's Clothes
Francis Quarles
On the World
Thomas Crew
The Unfading Beauty
John Milton
On His Blindness
Sir John Suckling
"Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?"
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Richard Lovelace
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
Sir George Etherege
To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
Matthew Prior
A Reasonable Affliction
Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude
John Gay
Song
Oliver Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
George Crabbe
A Marriage Ring
William Blake
The Tiger
"Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau"
The Sick Rose
Robert Burns
"A Red, Red Rose"
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
My Heart Leaps Up
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer
Twenty Years Hence
Thomas Moore
"Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms"
Leigh Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem
Jenny Kiss'd Me
Thomas Love Peacock
Beneath the Cypress Shade
"George Gordon, Lord Byron"
So We'll Go No More a-Roving
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
John Keats
When I Have Fears
Hartley Coleridge
Song
Early Death
Thomas Hood
The Death-Bed
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days
Character
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
There Was a Little Girl
Edgar Allan Poe
To One in Paradise
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
The Splendor Falls
Crossing the Bar
The Eagle
Flower in the Crannied Wall
Edward FitzGerald
The Three Arrows
Robert Browning
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
Pippa's Song
Henry David Thoreau
"I Was Born Upon Thy Bank, River"
My Life Has Been the Poem
Emily Brontë
The Old Stoic
Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
I Hear America Singing
Coventry Patmore
The Kiss
Magna Est Veritas
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight
Emily Dickinson
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
I Never Saw a Moor
Christina Rossetti
Remember
Up-Hill
Lewis Carroll
How Doth the Little Crocodile
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memory
Thomas Hardy
Hap
"In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
I Look into My Glass
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
God's Grandeur
"No Worst, There Is None"
John Banister Tabb
Evolution
The Shadow
The Mid-Day Moon
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
William Ernest Henley
Invictus
Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
The Winds of Fate
Oscar Wilde
E Tenebris
Symphony in Yellow
John Davidson
Song
A. E. Housman
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Into My Heart an Air That Kills
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Loveliest of Trees
William Butler Yeats
Leda and the Swan
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Down by the Salley Gardens
When You Are Old
Gelett Burgess
The Purple Cow
Cinque Ans Aprés
Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
Envoy
E. A. Robinson
Richard Cory
Eros Turannos
Stephen Crane
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
In the Desert
A Learned Man Came to Me Once
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life
We Wear the Mask
Silence
Amy Lowell
Solitaire
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Fire and Ice
The Road Not Taken
Acquainted with the Night
Hughes Mearns
Antigonish
Adelaide Crapsey
November Night
The Warning
John Masefield
Sea Fever
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Grass
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Sara Teasdale
The Kiss
I Shall Not Care
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
"L'Art, 1910"
Joyce Kilmer
Trees
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier
Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows
T.S. Eliot
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Archibald MacLeish
The End of the World
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dylan Thomas
Do Not So Gentle into That Good Night