Table Of Contents:
Introduction 1(10)

John Hollander

SONNETS

Sonnet 11(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

At the round earths imagin'd corners 12(1)

John Donne

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 13(1)

John Keats

The New Colossus 14(1)

Emma Lazarus

Lucifer in Starlight 15(1)

George Meredith

On His Blindness 16(1)

John Milton

Piazza Piece 17(1)

John Crowe Ransom

Sonnet νm;18 18(1)

William Shakespeare

Sonnet νm;55 19(1)

William Shakespeare

Ozymandias 20(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Composed upon Westminster Bridge 21(4)

William Wordsworth

SONGS

The Spacious Firmament on high 25(2)

Joseph Addison

Lay your sleeping head, my love 27(2)

W. H. Auden

From Milton: And did those feet 29(1)

William Blake

The Tyger 30(2)

William Blake

Afton Water 32(2)

Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose 34(1)

Robert Burns

So we'll go no more a roving 35(1)

George G. N.

Lord Byron

Ask me no more 36(2)

Thomas Carew

The Song of the Mad Prince 38(1)

Walter De La Mare

Dear March---Come in--- 39(2)

Emily Dickinson

Break of Day 41(1)

John Donne

When Malindy Sings 42(3)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Concord Hymn 45(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Blue and the Gray 46(3)

Francis Miles Finch

Those Winter Sundays 49(1)

Robert Hayden

Invictus 50(1)

William Ernest Henley

Love (III) 51(1)

George Herbert

Pied Beauty 52(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 53(1)

Langston Hughes

To Celia 54(1)

Ben Jonson

I hear an army charging upon the land 55(1)

James Joyce

To Althea, from Prison 56(2)

Richard Lovelace

The Mower's Song 58(2)

Andrew Marvell

A Litany in Time of Plague 60(2)

Thomas Nashe

To Helen 62(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Coronach 63(2)

Sir Walter Scott

Blow, blow, thou winter wind 65(1)

William Shakespeare

When that I was and a little tiny boy 66(2)

William Shakespeare

The Splendor Falls 68(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

From In Memoriam 69(2)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Tears, Idle Tears 71(2)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Song of Myself, #11 73(2)

Walt Whitman

The Widow's Lament in Springtime 75(2)

William Carlos Williams

A slumber did my spirit seal 77(1)

William Wordsworth

They flee from me 78(2)

Thomas Wyatt

The Cat and the Moon 80(2)

William Butler Yeats

The Song of Wandering Aengus 82(5)

William Butler Yeats

COUNSELS

April Mortality 87(2)

Leonie Adams

Ecclesiastes 3:1--8 89(1)

Anonymous

Brahma 90(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 91(4)

Edward Fitzgerald

The World 95(2)

George Herbert

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 97(1)

Robert Herrick

To an Athlete Dying Young 98(2)

A. E. Housman

If 100(2)

Rudyard Kipling

Up-Hill 102(1)

Christina Rossetti

Do not go gentle into that good night 103(2)

Dylan Thomas

Go, lovely rose! 105(2)

Edmund Waller

The Eagle and the Mole 107(2)

Elinor Wylie

The Second Coming 109(4)

William Butler Yeats

TALES

Lord Randall 113(2)

Anonymous

My Last Duchess 115(3)

Robert Browning

Jabberwocky 118(2)

Lewis Carroll

Kubla Khan 120(3)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

anyone lived in a pretty how town 123(2)

E. E. Cummings

The Road Not Taken 125(2)

Robert Frost

Ode on the death of a favorite cat 127(2)

Thomas Gray

The Oxen 129(1)

Thomas Hardy

La Belle Dame sans Merci 130(3)

John Keats

The Owl and the Pussy-cat 133(2)

Edward Lear

Richard Cory 135(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

An Apple Gathering 136(2)

Christina Rossetti

The Woodspurge 138(2)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

All the world's a stage 140(2)

William Shakespeare

Casey at the Bat 142(3)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Adlestrop 145(1)

Edward Thomas

From Snow-Bound 146(5)

John Greenleaf Whittier

MEDITATIONS

Dover Beach 151(2)

Matthew Arnold

Stanzas 153(2)

Emily Bronte

To a Waterfowl 155(2)

William Cullen Bryant

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 157(2)

George G. N.

Lord Byron

A narrow Fellow in the Grass 159(2)

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death 161(2)

Emily Dickinson

Mending Wall 163(2)

Robert Frost

Hyla Brook 165(1)

Robert Frost

Spring Pools 166(1)

Robert Frost

The Darkling Thrush 167(2)

Thomas Hardy

The Chambered Nautilus 169(2)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Spring and Fall 171(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

To Autumn 172(2)

John Keats

On His Seventy-fifth Birthday 174(1)

Walter Savage Landor

Snow-Flakes 175(1)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 176(1)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shiloh 177(1)

Herman Melville

The Animals 178(2)

Edwin Muir

The House on the Hill 180(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

From Adonais 182(2)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Not Waving but Drowning 184(1)

Stevie Smith

Mnemosyne 185(2)

Trumbull Stickney

Ulysses 187(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From In Memoriam 190(2)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Kraken 192(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A noiseless patient spider 193(2)

Walt Whitman
Acknowledgments 195