The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking WorldRichard Aldington Viking Press, 1962 - 1297 pages |
Contents
ANONYMOUS A D 600800 | 1 |
FROM The Legend of Good Women | 17 |
I Am as Light as Any Roe | 23 |
JOHN SKELTON 1460?1529 | 26 |
WILLIAM DUNBAR 14601520? | 32 |
FROM The Death of Robin Hood | 38 |
Waly Waly | 51 |
Joseph Was an Old Man | 58 |
FROM Jerusalem | 623 |
My Bonie Mary | 646 |
Charlie Hes My Darling | 652 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 17701850 | 655 |
ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC | 661 |
AND NOW WITH GLEAMS OF HALF | 667 |
THE ROSE IS FAIREST WHEN TIS BUDDING | 673 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 679 |
ANONYMOUS 15TH16TH CENTURY | 64 |
SIR THOMAS WYATT 15031542 | 76 |
NICHOLAS BRETON 15421626 | 82 |
SIR EDWARD DYER 1545?1607 | 89 |
Epithalamion | 104 |
FROM The Faery Queen | 116 |
Pans Syrinx Was a Girl | 122 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 15541586 | 125 |
FROM The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe 1599 | 137 |
Ah Were She Pitiful | 143 |
FROM The Conspiracy of Charles Duke of Byron 1608 | 147 |
HENRY CONSTABLE 1562?1613? | 154 |
To His Coy Love | 160 |
SWEET SECRECY WHAT TONGUE CAN TELL | 166 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593 | 168 |
FROM The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great | 174 |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616 | 180 |
PARDON GODDESS OF THE NIGHT | 186 |
66 | 192 |
NO MORE DAMS ILL MAKE | 198 |
RICHARD ROWLANDS alias VERSTEGAN 15651630 | 210 |
Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes | 216 |
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN 15701638 | 224 |
OH WHITHER AM I RAPT | 230 |
JOHN DAY 15?1640? | 242 |
HIGH STEWARD OF THY VINES | 243 |
The Message | 249 |
Satire II | 259 |
RICHARD BARNEFIELD 15741627 | 265 |
THOMAS HEYWOOD 1575?1650? | 271 |
CYRIL TOURNEUR 1575?1626 | 273 |
Orpheus with His Lute | 286 |
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT 15831627 | 293 |
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 15841616 | 299 |
JOHN FORD 15861639 | 308 |
GEORGE WITHER 15881667 | 311 |
GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER 1588?1623 | 318 |
To Violets | 327 |
The Mad Maids Song | 333 |
To Meadows | 336 |
Discipline | 342 |
THOMAS CAREW 1598?1639? | 348 |
Daphnis Came on a Summers Day | 354 |
FROM The New Jerusalem | 366 |
The Queen of Fairies | 374 |
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 16061668 | 384 |
SWEET ECHO SWEETEST NYMPH | 399 |
To the Lord General Cromwell | 407 |
FROM Samson Agonistes | 413 |
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart | 422 |
THIS STURDY SQUIRE HE HAD AS WELL | 429 |
RICHARD CRASHAW 1613?1649 | 430 |
JOHN CLEVELAND 16131658 | 440 |
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 447 |
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678 | 455 |
HENRY VAUGHAN 16221695 | 462 |
THOMAS STANLEY 16251678 | 470 |
FROM | 477 |
Fair Iris and Her Swain | 484 |
FROM MacFlecknoe | 490 |
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY 16391701 | 497 |
JOHN OLDHAM 16531683 | 507 |
ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA 1661?1720 | 510 |
FROM On the Death of Doctor Swift | 516 |
JOHN GAY 16851732 | 522 |
HENRY CAREY 16871743 | 527 |
FROM Eloisa to Abelard | 535 |
Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton | 542 |
ROBERT BLAIR 16991746 | 543 |
HENRY FIELDING 17071754 | 551 |
WILLIAM SHENSTONE 17141763 | 558 |
FRANCIS FAWKES 17201777 | 570 |
JANE ELLIOT 17271805 | 582 |
JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL 17301783 | 588 |
SAMUEL BISHOP 17311795 | 596 |
MICHAEL BRUCE 17461767 | 601 |
ANONYMOUS 18TH CENTURY | 608 |
FROM Christabel | 698 |
ROBERT BROWNING 18121889 | 702 |
Past Ruined Ilion | 706 |
JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT 17841859 | 712 |
FROM Don Juan | 729 |
THE ISLES OF GREECE | 735 |
CHARLES WOLFE 17911823 | 739 |
JOHN CLARE 17931864 | 764 |
Bright Star Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art | 794 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882 | 800 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 18061861 | 815 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 18071882 | 823 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894 | 830 |
ALFRED TENNYSON LORD TENNYSON 18091892 | 845 |
THE SPLENDOUR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS | 858 |
Crossing the Bar | 865 |
ROBERT HINCKLEY MESSINGER 18111874 | 882 |
Women and Roses | 890 |
Fra Lippo Lippi | 898 |
Nay but You Who Do Not Love Her | 908 |
Epilogue | 916 |
A Little While a Little While | 922 |
WALT WHITMAN 18191892 | 927 |
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | 933 |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd | 940 |
To a Common Prostitute | 948 |
MATTHEW ARNOLD 18221888 | 959 |
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY 18231892 | 973 |
Lucifer in Starlight | 985 |
The Ballad of Dead Ladies | 991 |
A Birthday | 997 |
Title Divine Is Mine | 1003 |
FROM Sunday at Hampstead | 1010 |
FROM Love Is Enough | 1017 |
THOMAS HARDY 18401928 | 1045 |
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT 18401922 | 1051 |
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 | 1058 |
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 18441889 | 1059 |
ALICE MEYNELL 18491922 | 1065 |
OSCAR WILDE 18561900 | 1072 |
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN 18591936 | 1079 |
GEORGE SANTAYANA 18631952 | 1087 |
ARTHUR SYMONS 18651945 | 1094 |
Shillin a | 1100 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 1106 |
LAURENCE BINYON 18691943 | 1109 |
JOHN MCCRAE 18721918 | 1115 |
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON 18741936 | 1121 |
AMY LOWELL 18741925 | 1124 |
CARL SANDBURG B 1878 | 1137 |
RALPH CHAPLIN B 1880 | 1147 |
THOMAS ERNEST HULME 18831917 | 1152 |
Bavarian Gentians | 1159 |
ELINOR WYLIE 18851928 | 1166 |
EDWIN MUIR B 1887 | 1172 |
Chorus from Mustapha | 1173 |
RUPERT BROOKE 18871915 | 1178 |
JOHN CROWE RANSOM B 1888 | 1186 |
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH B 1892 | 1193 |
ALDOUS HUXLEY B 1894 | 1199 |
ROBERT GRAVES B 1895 | 1205 |
ALLEN TATE B 1899 | 1215 |
KENNETH SLESSOR B 1901 | 1221 |
CECIL DAY LEWIS B 1904 | 1224 |
LOUIS MACNEICE B 1907 | 1231 |
WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS B 1909 | 1237 |
HENRY REED B 1914 | 1243 |
ROBERT LOWELL B 1917 | 1248 |
Song | 1263 |
271 | 1267 |
923 | 1272 |
145 | 1278 |
1121 | 1279 |
PHINEAS FLETCHER 15821650 | 1281 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1293 |
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