London : A Collection of Poetry of Place

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ISBN: 9781903651032 | 1903651034
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/15/2004

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This is the first book in a new series of pocket-sized poetry books for travelers and poetry lovers who seek inspiration while on a bus, subway train, or taxi, or while waiting for a museum to open. Here is the poetry of London, from the up-beat rap-

Introduction	p. 9
The Ruin	p. 13
London Bridge	p. 15
from Chronicle	p. 16
from The Canterbury Tales	p. 17
Ring-a ring o'roses	p. 18
When Adam delved	p. 19
London lickpenny
from To the city of London	p. 21
Mother Shipton's prophecy	p. 23
The magnificat from the Bible translated by William Tyndale	p. 24
from Prothalamion	p. 27
Oranges and lemons	p. 28
Lines	p. 29
To his son	p. 30
Elegy for himself	p. 31
Queen Elizabeth's speech at Tilbury	p. 32
from Richard III	p. 33
from King Lear	p. 33
All the World's a Stage	p. 34
from The tragedy of Dr. Faustus	p. 36
from Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne	p. 37
Life	p. 38
from The poly-olbion	p. 40
Verses on London Bridge	p. 40
In Westminster Abbey	p. 41
from The Thames	p. 42
from Drunken Barnaby	p. 42
To Althea from prison	p. 44
His tears to Thamasis	p. 45
from Ode on leaving the great town	p. 46
When the assault was intended to the city	p. 47
Miller of Wandsworth	p. 48
from one of James Shirley's dramas	p. 49
from Upon the death of his late Highness the Lord Protector	p. 50
from An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland	p. 51
A poem on St. James's Park as lately improved by His Majesty	p. 52
An anonymous ditty on the London spa at Clerkenwell	p. 53
Lusts of all sorts	p. 54
Vauxhall Gardens	p. 54
The bailiff's daughter of Islington	p. 56
from Annus Mirabilis : the year of wonders	p. 58
from Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged	p. 60
from On poetry : a rhapsody	p. 61
Two couplets composed by Alexander Pope; one for the collar of a dog belonging to Frederick, Prince of Wales, the other addressed to his own kind	p. 62
Verse	p. 62
from Epistle to the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq	p. 63
from About in London	p. 63
from The distressed poet	p. 64
High Street Kensington	p. 65
from London	p. 66
from London suburbs	p. 68
London	p. 70
from Liberty	p. 71
Lines	p. 72
Epitaph for a goldfinch	p. 73
London from Westminster Bridge	p. 74
London, MDCCCII	p. 75
from On first looking into Chapman's Homer	p. 76
Lines on the mermaid tavern	p. 77
Ode to a nightingale	p. 77
All on that magic list depends	p. 81
Piccadilly	p. 82
Lines written in Kensington Gardens	p. 84
from Mr. Molony's account of the crystal palace	p. 85
Fog	p. 87
The waterman	p. 88
The embankment	p. 88
A ballad of London	p. 89
Impression de Nuit	p. 91
Symphony in yellow	p. 92
City nights	p. 93
from London nights	p. 94
In St. James's Park, a prose poem	p. 95
London	p. 95
Vesperal	p. 96
from Vagabonds	p. 97
from Villes	p. 98
from Metropolitan	p. 98
London	p. 99
By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross	p. 100
To Merry London	p. 102
A London fete	p. 103
Sir Christopher Wren	p. 105
Pall Mall	p. 105
from The song of the ill-loved, to Paul Leautaud	p. 106
Envoi	p. 107
At Lord's	p. 108
from Embankment at night	p. 108
Ballad of the Londoner	p. 109
The balland of Camden Town	p. 110
The garrett	p. 112
The garden	p. 106
London revisited	p. 114
Slough	p. 114
In Westminster Abbey	p. 116
Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station	p. 117
London Airport	p. 120
Incident in Chapel Market	p. 120
Bar Italia	p. 121
Lonely hearts	p. 123
Photo in St. James's Park	p. 124
Erratum	p. 125
London nautical	p. 126
Previously on 'London ways'	p. 126
Schmaltz	p. 130
Perhaps you have seen dreams	p. 132
The deterioration of dignity	p. 133
London	p. 134
On Shepherd's Bush roundabout	p. 134
The London breed	p. 135
Acknowledgements	p. 137
Index of first lines	p. 139
Index of poem titles	p. 140
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