100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486285537 ISBN 13: 9780486285535

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1995

Synopsis

Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud"); Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind"; Longfellow: "The Children's Hour"; Poe: "The Raven"; Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"; Dickinson: "This Is My Letter to the World"; Yeats: "When You Are Old"; Frost: "The Road Not Taken"; Millay: "First Fig."
Works by many other poets — Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them — are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.

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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert Burns
The Destruction Of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron
She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Song by George Gordon Byron
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who Are You by Emily Dickinson
This Is My Letter To The World by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Good-morrow by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 10 by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 14 by John Donne
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub by Thomas Gray
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Love (3) by George Herbert
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman
Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Jenny Kissed Me by James Henry Leigh Hunt
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
Sonnet by John Keats
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
If by Rudyard Kipling
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Lucifer In Starlight by George Meredith
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 19. On His Blindness by John Milton
Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton
Poetry by Marianne Moore
Summer's Last Will And Testament: A Litany In Time Of Plague by Thomas Nashe
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen (1) by Edgar Allan Poe
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Sonnet: 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 18 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 73 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 94 by William Shakespeare
Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To A Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Emperor Of Ice-cream by Wallace Stevens
Underwoods: Book 1: 21. Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Song [or, Orsames' Song] by John Suckling
The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
Crossing The Bar by Alfred Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Lord Rendal by Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous
The Retreat by Henry Vaughan
Song by Edmund Waller
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
The World; Sonnet by William Wordsworth
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Thomas Wyatt
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0486285537
• ISBN 13: 9780486285535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Philip Smith