In the shadow of the bear

In the shadow of the bear

So you want to be president?

The Oxford book of short poems

'Fowls in the frith' -- 'Lord, Thou Clèpedest me' -- 'When I see on Rood' -- 'Why have you no ruth?' -- Roundel ('Now welcome, summer') from The Parliament of Fowls -- Unto Adam, His Own Scrivèyn -- Roundel ('Since I from Love escapèd am') from Merciless Beauty -- 'I shall say what inordinate love is' -- 'Onmes gentes plaudite!' -- 'Blessed Mary' -- 'Peace maketh plenty' -- 'Hail, Queen of Heaven' -- 'I have been a foster' -- 'Western wind' -- 'Though ye suppose' -- 'Madam, withouten many words' -- 'Who hath heard' -- 'The enemy of life' -- 'Sighs are my food' -- 'Lux, my fair falcon' -- 'Throughout the world' -- The Spouse to the Younglings -- 'Thou sleepest fast' -- To an Old Gentlewoman that Painted Her Face -- 'The lowest trees have tops' -- Epigram ('Were I a king') -- To His Son -- 'What is our life?' -- 'Even such is time' -- 'Sleep, baby mine, Desire' -- 'Like those sick folks' -- 'Whenas man's life' -- Bathsabe's Song ('Hot sun, cool fire') from David and Bethsabe -- Bridal Song ('Now, Sleep, bind fast') from The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn -- 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou?' -- 'A sparrow-hawk proud' -- 'Thule' -- 'My love in her attire' -- 'Since first I saw your face' -- 'Love me not' -- 'Sweet, let me go!' -- 'He that hath no mistress' -- 'Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire' -- To His Wife, for Striking Her Dog -- Song ('O mistress mine') from Twelfth Night -- Song ('When daffodils begin to peer') from The Winter's Tale -- song ('Jog on, jog on') from The Winter's Tale -- Song ('Full fathom five') from The Tempest -- Song ('The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I') from The Tempest -- Song ('Where the bee sucks') from The Tempest -- A Remembrance of My Friend Mr. Thomas Morley -- 'Happy were he' -- 'Happy were he' -- De Puero Balbutiente -- 'Fair summer droops' -- 'When thou must home' -- 'Never weather-beaten sail' 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' -- 'Thus I resolve' -- 'Sleep, angry beauty' -- Think'st thou to seduce me then' -- Song ('In a maiden-time professed') from The Witch -- Melancholy Conceit -- Song ('Care-charming sleep') from The Tragedy of Valentinian --

Discontents in Devon -- Dreams -- Impossibilities, to His Friend -- Upon Himself -- The Coming of Good Luck -- The Silken Snake -- To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon -- Upon Her Feet -- His Prayer to Ben Jonson -- To Fortune -- Lovers, How They Come and Part -- Upon Julia's Clothes -- Kisses Loathsome -- To His Book -- His Desire -- No Coming to God without Christ -- Of Common Devotion -- On Zacchaeus -- On Change of Weathers-- Sic Vita -- Sonnet ("Go, thou that vainly') -- Song ('We'll, placed in Love's triumphant chariot high') from The Humorous Lovers -- Love's Epitaph -- Sin -- Church Music -- Church Lock and Key -- Trinity Sunday -- Bitter-Sweet -- A Wreath -- Lips and Eyes -- A Lady's Prayer to Cupid -- Song to the Masquers ('Why do you dwell so long in clouds') from The Triumph of Peace -- Fie on Love -- On a Young Man and an Old Man -- On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snow -- Occasioned by Seeing a Walk of Bay Trees -- In Praise of Fidelia -- In Obitum Ben. Jons. -- 'Come from thy palace' from The Conceited Pedlar -- A Song ('Music, thou queen of souls') -- 'From witty men and mad' -- Song ('The lark now leaves his watery nest') -- Song ('Where did you borrow that last sigh') from The Lost Lady -- To One Married to an Old Man -- To Chloris, Upon a Favour Received -- Nymph's Song ('Let us use it whilst we may') from Il Pastor Fido -- Song ('O'er the smooth enamelled green') from Arcades -- To My Nephew, J.B. -- On the Miracle of Multiplied Loaves -- To the Infant Martyrs -- On the Miracle of Loaves -- On the Blessed Virgin's Bashfulness -- On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody -- On Himself, Upon Hearing What Was His Sentence -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- Seeing her Dancing -- Preface to the Progress of Learning -- One Desiring me to Read, but Slept It Out, Wakening -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars -- Song ('In mine own monument I lie') -- The Dream -- 'The proud Egyptian queen' -- Invocation of Silence -- The Eclipse -- Soul and Body -- Of the Theme of Love -- Song ('Distil not poison in mine ears') -- Song of the Shepherd Boy from The Pilgrim's Progress -- Upon the Snail -- Song ("'Tis true our life is but a long dis-ease") -- Mercury's Song ('Fair Iris I love') from Amphitryon -- Momus' Song to Mars ('Thy sword within the scabbard keep') from The Secular Masque -- Chorus to the Gods ('all, all of a piece throughout') from The Secular Masque -- Meditation 8 -- Christian Ethics -- Nudus Redibo -- On Dorinda -- Ever Present -- The Old Man's Complaint -- A Thought on Human Life.

Song ('Kind lovers, love on') from Calisto -- To --- ('Let those with cost') -- To My More than Meritorious Wife -- Grecian Kindness -- Song ('Leave this gaudy gilded stage') -- A Rodomontade on His Cruel Mistress -- A Catch ('If all be true') -- The Choice -- To Her Lover's Complaint -- Song ('Ladies, though to your conquering eyes') from The comical revenge -- On Myself -- A Song ('The nymph in vain') -- To His False Mistress -- Phillis's Resolution -- Les Estreines -- Adriani Morientis ad Animam Suam -- The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to Venus -- Democritus and Heraclitus -- A Letter to the Honourable Lady, Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holles-Harley -- The Insatiable Priest -- 'Impatient with desire' -- Cloe -- Shall I Repine? -- Song ('See, see, she wakes') -- Song ('Pious Selinda') -- Lesbia -- Song ('False though she be') -- Fancy -- Trim's Song: The Fair Kitchen-Maid from The Funeral -- 'If it be true' -- Jealousy -- Song ('Can love be controlled by advice?') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song ('Before the barn-door crowing') from The Beggar's Opera -- Song('Think of dress in every light') from Achilles -- Written on a Window -- Modesty -- On Dullness -- On a Lady Who p-ssed at the Tragedy of Cato -- Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old -- A Hymn, Written in Windsor Forest -- Inscriptio -- Epigram ('When other ladies to the shades go down') -- To Mr. C, St. James's Place, London, October 22nd -- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I Gave to His Royal Highness -- On the Benefactions in the Late Frost, 1740 -- The Lady's Resolve -- The Monument -- On the Setting Up Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey -- Upon an Ingenious Friend, Over-Vain -- Song ('Man's a poor deluded bubble') -- Ad Coelum -- On the Death of Squire Christopher, a Remarkably Fat Sportsman -- Lines Written on a Window at The Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow -- Tophet -- Ode: Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 -- Sonnet ('When Phoebe formed a wanton smile') -- 'O Memory, thou fond deceiver' from The Captivity -- A Comparison -- A Moral Tetrastich: from the Persian -- 'If wishing for the mystic joys of love' -- My Birthday -- 'The Angel that presided' -- Infant Joy -- Infant Sorrow -- The Clod and the Pebble -- The Sick Rose -- Eternity -- 'Mock on, mock on' -- 'an old maid early' -- The Question Answered -- 'Great things are done' -- To the Accuser Who Is the God of this World -- Grace at Kirkudbright -- 'Twa bonny lads' -- On a Dog of Lord Eglinton's -- Parental Recollections -- 'Says Tweed to Till' -- 'Oh, England' -- 'As I walked by my self' -- 'I saw a peacock' -- 'How many miles to Babylon?' -- 'My mother said'.

'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' -- 'My heart leaps up' -- To a Child: Written in Her Album -- 'Look no thou' -- 'Youth! thou wear'st to manhood now' -- A Sunset -- Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Phantom -- On Imitation -- The Soldier's Wife: Dactylics -- 'Had we two met' -- Dirce -- Plays -- 'Ireland never was contented' -- 'Death stands above me' -- Venetian Air -- An Argument: To Any Phillis or Chloe -- Song ('When the heart's feeling') -- To Miss ---('With woman's form') -- To --- --- ('When I loved you') -- Beneath the Cypress Shade -- 'So we'll go no more a-roving' -- 'I would to Heaven' -- 'Remember thee! remember thee! -- Answer to ---'s Professions of Affection -- 'They say that Hope is happiness' -- A song ('Widow bird sate mourning') -- The Waning Moon -- Lines to a Reviewer -- To --- ('Music, when soft voices die') -- Field Path -- Lines Written on a Very Boisterous Day in may, 1844 -- Solitude -- Fragment ('Language has not the power') -- Birds' Nests -- 'This Living hand' -- Song ('Strew not earth') from The Second Brother -- Letters -- Days -- Character -- Quatrain: Poet -- Water -- Limits -- The Best -- All's Well -- 'From sorrow sorrow yet is born' -- The Eagle -- A Dedication -- 'I stood on a tower in the wet' -- 'Somebody being a nobody' -- Frater Ave Atque Vale -- Home Thoughts from the Sea -- Meeting at Night -- Parting at Morning -- Among the Rocks from James Lee's Wife -- 'When I vexed you' from Ferishtah's Fancies -- To Edward FitzGerald -- Appearances -- Bad Dreams -- 'Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird' -- 'Each more melodious note I hear' -- On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon -- 'For though the eaves were rabbeted' -- 'They made me erect and lone' -- Fall, leaves, fall -- Darkness -- 'To spend uncounted years of pain' -- Sixty-Eighth Birthday -- Monody -- Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century -- In the Pauper's Turnip-Field -- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? -- Sometimes With One I Love -- Reconciliation -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- The Last Invocation -- Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats -- Old War-Dreams -- A Clear Midnight -- To the Pending Year -- Destiny -- 'Below the surface-stream' -- Heraclitus -- A Mill -- The Revelation -- The Spirit's Epochs -- Constancy Rewarded -- Magna Est Veritas -- Aspecta Medusa -- Memory -- 'I like a look of agony' -- 'I'm Nobody!' -- 'They say that time assuages' -- 'It dropped so low' -- 'I stepped from plank to plank' -- 'The stimulus beyond the grave' -- 'We miss a kinsman more' -- 'It sounded as if the streets were running' -- 'Drowning is not so pitiful' -- 'My life closed twice before its close' -- What Would I Give? -- The Last Wish -- The Power of Interval -- 'I Look Into My Glass' -- A Thunderstorm in Town -- The Peace-Offering -- The Pink Frock -- On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic) -- The Nettles -- The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House -- The Lodging-House Fuchsias.

Heaven-Haven: A Nun takes the Veil -- Pied Beauty -- Peace -- 'How looks the night?' -- 'Repeat that, repeat' -- 'Not of all my eyes see' -- 'She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes' -- The Rainbow -- Triolet ('When first we met') -- April 1885 -- 'I am the Way' -- The Rainy Summer -- Maternity -- 'I am a hunchback' -- On a Wife -- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes -- Symphony in Yellow -- At Lord's -- Heaven and Hell -- The End of It -- Eight o'Clock -- 'The night is freezing fast' -- 'The fairies break their dances' -- Revolution -- 'Stars, I have seen them fall' -- 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry' -- 'Half-way, for one commandment broken' -- The Nurse's Lament -- 'We never said farewell' -- 'I saw a stable' -- Miniature -- 'Look, you have cast out Love!' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Lisped') -- 'There is a tide' from Plain Tales from the Hills ('Kidnapped') -- A Dead Statesman from Epitaphs of War -- All Things Can Tempt Me -- Paudeen -- The Cold Heaven -- A Coat -- A Thought from Propertius -- Death -- Spilt Milk -- The Choice -- Consolation -- The Great Day -- Maquillage -- At The Cavour -- Isolation -- Venice -- Epigram ('Because I am idolatrous') -- Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam -- Outcast -- Beside the Bed -- An Old Story -- Exit -- The Early Morning -- Discovery -- The False Heart -- 'In the desert' -- 'A god in wrath' -- 'A man said' -- On a Island -- Dread -- I Am the Poet Davies, William -- The Villain -- D is for Dog -- All in June -- The Bells of Heaven -- 'Reason has moons' -- Sidera Cadentia: On the Death of Queen Victoria -- Arrogance -- The Spotted Flycatcher -- The Owl -- Crazed -- 'Sir, say no more' -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard -- Ecclesiates -- In Neglect -- A Patch of Old Snow -- The Cow in Apple-Time -- The Line-Gang -- Dust of Snow -- Fireflies in the Garden -- The Armful -- Were I in Trouble -- A Mood Apart -- 'She had a name' -- Cock-Crow -- Thaw -- Tall Nettles -- 'By the ford' -- Cool Tombs -- The Leaden-Eyed -- What the Moon Saw -- Factory Windows Are Always Broken -- Anecdote of the Jar -- The Death of a Soldier -- Men Made Out of Words -- The Hounds -- A Glass of Beer -- The Embankment (The Fantasia of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night) -- Conversion -- A Sort of a Song -- The Hard Listener -- No Coward's Song -- Gift to a Jade -- Soul's Liberty -- Interior -- Let No Charitable Hope -- Cold-Blooded Creatures -- Piano -- I Am Like a Rose -- Glory -- What Would You Fight For? -- To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned -- Intimates -- In Teesdale -- A Dead Mole -- Ba Cottage -- The Garden: En robe de parade. Samain -- The Lake Isle -- Childhood -- All Souls' Night -- 'Blighters' -- Base Details -- The General -- Everyone Sang -- 'In me, past, present, future meet' -- Ave Caesar -- Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind -- Bells of Grey Crystal -- Poetry -- A Face -- I May, I Might, I Must -- A Jellyfish -- Cousin Nancy.

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster -- After War -- On the Night -- The Escape -- Moments -- Never May the Fruit Be Plucked -- To a Young Poet -- The True Encounter -- One of the Principal Causes of War -- Arms and the Boy -- Be Frugal -- 'Buffalo Bill's' -- 'may my heart always' -- 'no time ago' -- 'Me up at does' -- Good Appetite -- Flying Crooked -- At First Sight -- On Dwelling -- The Beach -- Cat-Goddesses -- In Her Only Way -- She Is No Liar -- In Perspective -- Departure -- Black Tambourine -- Pitcher -- Fishing Boats in Martigues -- No Mean City -- Postscript to a Pettiness -- The Murderer -- The Lads of the Village -- Love Me! -- Lady 'Rogue' Singleton -- Where Are the War Poets? -- For a Lamb -- She and I -- The Compassionate Fool -- Forgive Me, Sire -- Shepherdess -- The Temptations of Saint Anthony -- The Adversary -- Trinity Place -- Leave Them Alone -- Old Triton Time -- Gnome -- Death of King George V -- Remorse -- Let It Go -- Snow -- The Ear -- Night Club -- Precursors -- Figure of Eight -- Gare du Midi -- Epitaph on a Tyrant -- 'Base words are uttered' 'Behold the manly mesomorph' -- At the Party -- August1968 -- The Bed -- Old Florist -- Dolor -- Night Crow -- Wish for a Young Wife -- Words -- War-Time -- The Lovers -- The Stone Gentleman -- The Double Autumn -- Things to Come -- Entreaty -- Stars and Planets -- Casabiance -- In Innocence -- 'I had gone broke' -- Interview with Doctor Drink -- During a Bombardment by V-Weapons -- Memorial Poem: N.S. 1888-1949 -- The Hittites -- The Wind in the Tree -- 'The village coddled in the valley' -- Epitaph for the Poet -- 'Not in the poet' -- Ire -- 'On no work of words' -- Twenty-Four Years -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A War -- Well Water -- Fox -- He Resigns -- KingDavid Dances -- Weather Ear -- Invasion Summer -- Money -- Easter -- Portrait -- Families -- Plea -- Ending -- A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter -- Lady Ralegh's Lament -- American Primitive -- Faith and Works.

Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars -- The Monuments of Hiroshima -- Development -- An Old Picture -- A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One -- The Death of God -- Casting -- O Sheriffs -- King Lot's Envoys -- Epistemology -- Parable -- Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning -- Mind -- The Proof -- Avarice -- Home Is So Sad -- Water -- Days -- As Bad as a Mile -- Memories of Verdun -- I Know a Man -- Answers -- A Renewal -- In a Parlor Containing a Table -- When the War Is Over -- To My Daughter -- Nude Descending a Staircase -- Last Child: for Daniel -- Cat and Mouse -- Thistles -- Full Moon and Little Frieda -- Water -- Praying -- Frog Autumn -- Barren Woman -- Riddle -- Upon Shaving Off One's Beard -- A Birthday Poem: for Rachel -- Sous-Entendu -- The Demolition -- Mother of the Groom -- Tractatus: for Aidan Higgins.