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From the Book - 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Sonnet; Elizabeth Bishop - At the round earths imagin'd corners; John Donne - On first looking into Chapman's Homer; John Keats - The new colossus; Emma Lazarus - Lucifer in starlight; George Meredith - On his blindness; John Hamilton - Piazza piece; John Crowe Ransom - Sonnet #18; Shakespeare - Sonnet #55; Shakespeare - Ozymandias; Percy Bysshe Shelley - Composed upon Westminster Bridge; William Wordsworth - The spacious firmament on high; Jospeh Addison - Lay your sleeping head, my love; W.H. Auden - from Milton: And did those feet; William Blake - The tyger; William Blake - Afton water; Robert Burns - A red, red rose; Robert Burns - So we'll go no more a roving; Lord Byron - Ask me no more; Thomas Carew - The song of the mad prince; Walter de la Mare - Dear March
come in
; Emily Dickinson - Break of day; John Donne - When Malindy sings; Paul Laurence Dunbar - Concord hymn; Ralph Waldo Emerson - THe blue and the gray; Francis Miles Finch - Those winter sundays; Robert Hayden - Invictus; William Ernest Henley - Love(III); George Herbert - Pied beauty; Gerard Manley Hopkins - The negro speaks of rivers; Langston Hughes - To Celia; Ben Jonson - I hear an army charging upon the land; James Joyce - To Althea, from prison; Richard Lovelace - The mower's song; Andrew Marvell - A litany in time of plague; Thomas Nashe - To Helen; Edgar Allan Poe - Coronach; Sir Walter Scott - Blow, blow, thou winter wind; William Shakespeare - When that I was and a little tiny boy; William Shakespeare - The splendor falls; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - from In Memoriam; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Tears, idle tears; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Song of myself, #11; Walt Whitman - The widow's lament in springtime; William Carlos Williams - A slumber did my spirit seal; William Wordsworth - They flee from me; Thomas Wyatt - The cat and the moon; William Butler Yeats - The song of wandering Aengus; William Butler Aengus.
April mortality; Leonie Adams - Ecclesiastese 3: 1-8; Anonymous (Old Testement, Kind James Version) - Brahma; Ralph Waldo Emerson - from The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald - The world; George Herbert - To the virgins, to make much of time; Robert Herrick - To an athlete dying young; A.E. Housman - If; Rudyard Kipling - Up-hill; Christina Rossetti - Do not go gentle into that good night; Dylan Thomas - Go, lovely rose!; Edmund Waller - The eagle and the mole; Elinor Wylie - The second coming; William Butler Yeats - Lord Randall; Anonymous - My last duchess; Robert Browning - Jabberwocky; Lewis Carroll - Kubla Khan; Samuel Taylor Coleridge - anyone lived in a pretty how town; E.E. Cummings - The road not taken; Robert Frost - Ode on the death of a favorite cat; Thomas Gray - The oxen; Thomas Hardy - La Belle Dame sans Merci; John Keats - The owl and the pussy-cat; Edward Lear - Richard Cory; Edwin Arlington Robinson - An apple gathering; Christina Rossetti - The woodspurge; Dante Gabriel Rossetti - All the world's a stage; William Shakespeare - Casey at the bat; Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Adlestrop; Edward Thomas - from Snow-bound; John Greenleaf Whittier - Dover beach; Matthew Arnold - Stanzas; Emily Bronte - To a waterfowl; William Cullen Bryant - from Childe Harold's pilgrimage; Lord Byron - A narrow fellow in the grass; Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death; Emily Dickinson - Mending wall; Robert Frost - Hyla Brook; Robert Frost - Spring pools; Robert Frost - The darkling thrush; Thomas Hardy - The chambered nautilus; Oliver Wendell Holmes - Spring and fall; Gerard Manley Hopkins - To autumn; John Keats - On his seventy-fifth birthday; Walter Savage Landor - Snow-flakes; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The tide rises, the tide falls; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Shiloh; Herman Melville - The animals; Edwin Muir - The house on the hill; Edwin Arlington Robinson - from Adonais; Percy Bysshe Shelley - Not waving but drowning; Stevie Smith - Mnemosyne; Trumbull Stickney.
Ulysses; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - from In memoriam; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The kraken; Alfred, Lord Tennyson - A noiseless patient spider; Walt Whitman.
From the Book
Sonnets: Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop
At the round Earths imagin'd corners / John Donne
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
New colossus / Emma Lazarus
Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith
On his blindness / John Milton / Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom
Sonnet #18 / William Shakespeare
Sonnet #55 / William Shakespeare
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Compose upon Westminster bridge / William Wordsworth
Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Song of myself, #11 / Walt Whitman
Widow's lament on springtime / William Carlos Williams
Slumber did my spirit seal / WIlliam Wordsworth
They flee from me / Thomas Wyatt
Cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats
Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats
Counsels: April mortality / Leonie Adams - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous
Braham / Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald
World / George Herbert
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
If / Rudyard Kipling
Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Go, lovely rose! / Edmund Waller
Eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie
Second coming / William Butler Yeats.
Tales: Lord Randall / Anonymous
My last duchess / Robert Browning
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
anyone live in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings
Road not taken / Robert Frost
Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray
Oxen / Thomas Hardy
Le belle dame sans merci / John Keats
Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Apple gathering / Christina Rossetti
Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Adlestrop / Edward Thomas
From Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier
Meditations: Dover beach / Matthew Arnold
Stanzas / Emily Bronte
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George G.N., Lord Byron
Narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson
Mending wall / Robert Frost
Hyla brook / Robert Frost - Spring pools / Robert Frost
Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy
Chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins
To autumn / John Keats
On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor
Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Shiloh / Herman Melville
Animals / Edwin Muir
House on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
From Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith
Mnemosyne / Trumbull Stickney
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Kraken / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman.
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