Faber Book of Reflective Verse - Softcover

Grigson, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571133002 ISBN 13: 9780571133000

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1985

Synopsis

Poems by British writers consider death, mortality, grief, friendship, the beauty of nature, time, and love

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The Mount Of Olives, Sels. by Aneirin
Ah, Love! Let Us Be True by Matthew Arnold
Apollo [or, Not Here, O Apollo] by Matthew Arnold
The First-born Star by Matthew Arnold
If Birth Persists by Matthew Arnold
Resignation by Matthew Arnold
Earth, Receive An Honoured Guest by Wystan Hugh Auden
Ode by Wystan Hugh Auden
Our News Is Seldom Good by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Summer Night by Wystan Hugh Auden
Sonnet: Leaves by William Barnes
A Winter Night by William Barnes
Elegy On Mr. William Shakespeare by William Basse
Upon A Funeral by John Beaumont
The Sunflower, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
To The Evening Star by William Blake
O Death, Rock Me Asleep by George Boleyn
Song by Emily Jane Bronte
May And Death by Robert Browning
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
Lines From Catullus by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
Night: An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Sels. by Charles Churchill
A Nut, A World, A Squirrel, And A King by Charles Churchill
Hesperus by John Clare
Song by John Clare
A Vision by John Clare
Say Not by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Silent Icicles by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Written Under The Influence Of Delirium by William Cowper
The Deserter['s Meditation] by John Philpot Curran
The Robin by George Daniel
Humaner Letters by Samuel Daniel
Musophilus, Sels. by Samuel Daniel
The Phoenix (from Nepenthe) by George Darley
Siren Chorus by George Darley
The Solitary Lyre by George Darley
Nosce Teipsum, Sels. by John (1569-1626) Davies
What Is This Knowledge? Fr. Nosce Teipsum by John (1569-1626) Davies
The Comb by Walter John De La Mare
The Old Summerhouse by Walter John De La Mare
A Robin by Walter John De La Mare
Winter Evening by Walter John De La Mare
Stances by Honorat De Racan
Epitaph Of La Graunde Amoure by Madeline Defrees
Dark Churches by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 10 by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 7 by John Donne
Verse And Fame by John Donne
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare by Ernest Dowson
Sound The Trumpet, Beat The Drum by John Dryden
Timor Mortis Conturbat Me by William Dunbar
The Flowers Of The Forest by Jean (1727-1805) Elliot
The Golden Journey To Samarkand: Prologue by James Elroy Flecker
The Old Ships by James Elroy Flecker
A Ship, An Isle, A Sickle Moon by James Elroy Flecker
To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker
Invocation To Sleep by John Fletcher
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Barmenissa's Song by Robert Greene
His Swans by Geoffrey Grigson
Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
'and There Was A Great Calm' by Thomas Hardy
Before Life And After by Thomas Hardy
Epitaph by Thomas Hardy
Friends Beyond by Thomas Hardy
If You Had Known by Thomas Hardy
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden by Thomas Hardy
Lying Awake by Thomas Hardy
To An Unborn Pauper Child by Thomas Hardy
The Epitaph Of Graunde Amoure by Stephen Hawes
The Answer by George Herbert
Avarice by George Herbert
The Flower by George Herbert
Life [and The Flowers] by George Herbert
The Pilgrimage by George Herbert
Virtue [or, Vertue] by George Herbert
The Departure Of The Good Daemon by Robert Herrick
Lyrick For Legacies by Robert Herrick
Upon His Departure Hence by Robert Herrick
The Passing Bell by Thomas Heywood
Crossing Alone The Nighted Ferry by Alfred Edward Housman
Booz Endormi by Victor Marie Hugo
Domain Des L'aube by Victor Marie Hugo
Paroles Sur La Dune by Victor Marie Hugo
By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross by Lionel Pigot Johnson
O Sweetheart, Hear Thou by James Joyce
After Dark Vapours by John Keats
Sonnet: To Sleep by John Keats
To Autumn by John Keats
L'isolement by Alphonse Marie Louis De Lamartine
Le Vallon by Alphonse Marie Louis De Lamartine
Where Have They Gone, The Old Familiar Faces? by Charles Lamb
All Souls by David Herbert Lawrence
Giorno Dei Morti by David Herbert Lawrence
The Ship Of Death by David Herbert Lawrence
Snowflakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To The Driving Cloud by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Death Of Charles I [or, King Charles On The Scaffold] by Andrew Marvell
Old Counsel Of Young Master Of A Wrecked California Clipper by Herman Melville
The Tuft Of Kelp by Herman Melville
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age by Alice Meynell
Consolation by John Milton
Exit From Eden by John Milton
Immortality by John Milton
Now Came Still Evening On by John Milton
The Peace Of A Good Mind by Thomas More
A Rueful Lamentation Of The Death Of Queen Elizabeth by Thomas More
Epitaph by John (1943-) Morgan
Fair Is The World by William (1834-1896) Morris
For The Bed At Kelmscott by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 7 by Omar Khayyam
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
The End by Wilfred Owen
Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
The Parable Of The Old Men And The Young by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
The Lonely Cloud Of Care by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Music Of Forefended Spheres by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Rain That Fell Upon The Height by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Winter by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Farewell To Arms by George Peele
Behold The Child, By Nature's Kindly Law by Alexander Pope
Dull, Sullen Prisoners by Alexander Pope
The Soul's Calmer Sunshine by Alexander Pope
A Proper Sonnet, How Time Consumeth All Earthly Things by Thomas Proctor
Animula Vagula, Blandula by Publius Aelius Hadrianus
Inscription Above The Entrance To The Abbey Of Theleme by Francois Rabelais
His Epitaph by Walter Raleigh
An End by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sea-sand And Sorrow by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Up-hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Angels Are Bright by William Shakespeare
The Bird Of Dawning [or, Christmas, Or The Nativity] by William Shakespeare
Chorus Before Agincourt by William Shakespeare
The Fear Of Death by William Shakespeare
Frost On The Flower by William Shakespeare
Henry Iv's Soliloquy On Sleep [or, O Gentle Sleep] by William Shakespeare
I Am Dead, Horatio by William Shakespeare
Immortal Longings [or, I Am Fire, And Air] by William Shakespeare
Music [by Moonlight] by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 30 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 71 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 73 by William Shakespeare
To-morrow And To-morrow And To-morrow by William Shakespeare
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou, Earth, Calm Empire Of A Happy Soul by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Time by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death The Leveller [or, Death The Conqueror] by James Shirley
Arcadia: Solitariness by Philip Sidney
Astrophel And Stella: 110 by Philip Sidney
The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sels. by Philip Sidney
The Day Of Judgement by Jonathan Swift
The Garden Of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hendecasyllabics by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But Not Farewell by Alfred Tennyson
Come Not, When I Am Dead by Alfred Tennyson
Crossing The Bar by Alfred Tennyson
Enid's Song [or, Fortune] by Alfred Tennyson
A Farewell by Alfred Tennyson
Ford by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 11 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 115 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 123 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 28 by Alfred Tennyson
Merlin's Riddling by Alfred Tennyson
Over The Dark World Flies The Wind by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
So All This Day Long The Noise Of Battle Rolled by Alfred Tennyson
Tristram's Song by Alfred Tennyson
The Owl by Philip Edward Thomas
Tichborne's Elegy, Written In The Tower Before His Execution by Chidiock Tichborne
De Rerum Natura: Book 3. Against The Fear Of Death by Titus Lucretius Carus
Spring: A Formal Ode by Feodor (fyodor) Ivanovich Tyutchev
Barthram's Dirge by Anonymous
Epitaph On The Death Of Elizabeth, Queen Of Henry Vii by Anonymous
Farewell This World by Anonymous
Hymnus Sanctae Mariae, Sels. by Anonymous
I Went To Death by Anonymous
Inscription On Melrose Abbey by Anonymous
The Lyke-wake Dirge by Anonymous
Memento Homo Quod Cinis Es Et In Cinerem Revertis by Anonymous
They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan
The Timber by Henry Vaughan
A Winged Heart by Henry Vaughan
Winter's Frosty Pangs by Henry Vaughan
Of The Last Verses In The Book by Edmund Waller
Upon A Passing Bell by Thomas Washbourne
Time by Thomas Watson
The Burial Of Sir John Moore At [or After] Corunna by Charles Wolfe
The Climb To Snowdon [or, The Snowdon Sunrise] by William Wordsworth
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Evening On Calais Beach by William Wordsworth
Extempore Effusion Upon The Death Of James Hogg by William Wordsworth
In Patterdale by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
The Progress Of Poets [or, Chatterton, Or, We Poets In Our Youth] by William Wordsworth
The River Duddon: Sonnet 34. After-thought by William Wordsworth
The Sunbeam Said, Be Happy by William Wordsworth
There Was A Boy (version 1) by William Wordsworth
6. by William Butler Yeats
The Magi by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0571133002
• ISBN 13: 9780571133000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238