The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking World

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Richard 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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