[1965]
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The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Works. Selections. English. 1965
Consciousness -- Self-consciousness -- Consciousness and reflection -- The Vertigo of consciousness -- Consciousness of existence -- Storytelling -- Contingency -- The Work of art -- Emotional consciousness -- Imaginative consciousness -- Perception and imagination -- Mental and material images -- From the sign to the image -- Thought and imagination -- Feeling and imagination -- Art and existence -- Consciousness and being -- The Pursuit of being -- Consciousness of something -- The Ontological proof -- The Encounter with nothingness -- The Question -- Anguish -- Possibility -- Flight -- Self-negation -- Bad faith -- The Unconscious -- Play-acting -- Sincerity -- The "Faith" of bad faith -- The Being of consciousness -- Facticity -- Transcendence -- Value -- The Circuit of selfness -- Consciousness and the other -- Hell is other people -- The Encounter with the other -- The Look -- Shame -- Fear and pride -- The Body -- Desire -- The Caress -- The Obscene -- Consciousness and action -- Resistance -- The Deed -- Being and doing -- Intention and motive -- Motive and reason -- Choice -- Conversion -- Freedom -- The Given -- My past -- My situation -- My responsibility -- Doing and having -- Self-expression -- The Desire to be -- Existential psychoanalysis -- The Desire to make -- Play -- The Desire to have -- Existential symbolism -- Existential metaphysics -- Existential ethics -- Consciousness and literature -- Art and action -- Poetry and prose -- The Writer and his audience -- Art and salvation -- A Vertiginous word -- The Language of crime -- The Crime of art -- Consciousness and society -- Actions and meanings -- Individual actions and social consequences -- Dialectical reason -- Anyone at all -- Need -- Scarcity -- Expendables -- Violence -- Labor -- Reification -- The Tool -- Social structures -- Solitude -- The Series -- Alienation -- The Group -- Encirclement -- Apocalypse -- The Oath -- Terror -- The Institution -- The Scandal -- The Verdict of history --
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
Cumming, Robert Denoon, 1916-2004, editor.
edited by Robert Denoon Cumming.
1965
The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
©1963.
[1st ed.].
A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poet.
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Wesleyan University Press,
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The branch will not break : poems
The Wesleyan poetry program
Wesleyan poetry program.
As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor -- Goodbye to the poetry of calcium -- In fear of harvests -- Three stanzas from Goethe -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- The jewel -- In the face of hatred -- Fear is what quickens me -- A message hidden in an empty wine bottle that I threw into a gully of maple trees one night at an indecent hour -- Stages on a journey westward -- How my fever left -- Miners -- In Ohio -- Two poems about President Harding -- Eisenhower's visit to Franco, 1959 -- In memory of a Spanish poet -- The undermining of the defense economy -- Twilights -- Two hangovers -- Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me -- Two horses playing in the orchard -- By a lake in Minnesota -- Beginning -- From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower -- March -- Trying to pray -- Two spring charms -- Spring images -- Arriving in the country again -- In the cold house -- Snowstorm in the Midwest -- Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon : Christmas 1960 -- American wedding -- A prayer to escape from the market place -- Rain -- Today I was happy, so I made this poem -- Mary Bly -- To the evening star : Central Minnesota -- I was afraid of dying -- A blessing -- Milkweed -- A dream of burial.
Wright, James, 1927-1980.
by James Wright.
1963
The branch will not break : poems
Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
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The experience of literature : a reader with commentaries
Oedipus Rex / The tragedy of King Lear / The wild duck / The three sisters / The doctor's dilemma / Six characters in search of an author : a comedy in the making / Purgatory / Galileo
My kinsman, Major Molineux / Bartleby the scrivener : a story of Wall Street / The grand inquisitor / The death of Ivan Ilych / The treasure / Duchoux / Enemies / The pupil / The secret sharer / The dead / The hunter Gracchus / Tickets, please / The road from Colonus / Disorder and early sorrow / Di Grasso : a tale of Odessa / The sailor-boy's tale / Hills like white elephants / Barn burning / Summer's day / Of this time, of that place / The guest / The magic barrel
Edward / They flee from me / A valediction : forbidding mourning / Lycidas / To his coy mistress / An essay on Man : epistle I / Tyger! Tyger! / Resolution and independence / Kubla Khan or a vision in a dream, a fragment / Don Juan : an episode from canto II / Ode to the west wind / Ode to a nightingale / Beach / Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / The leaden echo and the golden echo / Go tell it--what a message / Sailing to Byzantium / The waste land / Neither out far nor in deep / My father moved through dooms of love / In memory of Sigmund Freud / For the union dead
A lyke-wake dirge / The cherry-tree carol / The three ravens / Sir Patrick Spens / Mary Hamilton / Westron winde, when will thou blow / To mistress Isabel Pennell / To mistress Margaret Hussey / My galley charged with forgetfulness / Forget not yet / Epithalamion / The passionate shepherd to his love / The nymph's reply / As you came from the Holy Land / Full fathom five / Tell me where is fancy bred / O mistress mine! / When that I was and a little tiny boy / Fear no more / Sonnet 18 / Sonnet 29 / Sonnet 30 / Sonnet 33 / Sonnet 55 / Sonnet 73 / Sonnet 107 / Sonnet 129 / Spring / In time of pestilence / Affliction / On my first son / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / To Penshurst / Song, to Celia / The triumph of Charis / Hymn to Diana / To the memory of / My beloved, the author / Mr. William Shakespeare / The indifferent / The good-morrow / The undertaking / Holy sonnet VII / The funeral / The autumnal
All the flowers of the spring / A dirge / Delight in disorder / To the virgins / To make much of time / Upon Julia's clothes / To Phyllis, to love and live with him / Ceremonies for Candlemas eve / The quip / The collar / The pulley / Song / Dirge / Go, lovely rose / On the morning of Christ's nativity / On Shakespeare / L'Allegro / How soon hath time / When I consider how my light is spent / Why so pale and wan? / A ballad upon a wedding / The constant lover / Wishes to his (supposed) mistress / To Amarantha, that she would dishevele her hair / To Althea, from prison / To Lucasta, going to the wars / The grasshopper / The garden / The mower against gardens / The mower's song / Bermudas / The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers / The pursuit / The retreat / Childhood / The world
To the memory of Mr. Oldham / Upon nothing / A description of a city shower Stella's Birthday (March 13, 1726/27) / On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Elegy written in a country churchyard / Of Jeoffry, his cat / The ecchoing green / The lamb / The clod and the pebble / A poison tree / Ah, sun-flower / London / Stanzas from Milton / Mary Morison / Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous / Auld Lang syne / Robert Bruce's march / To Bannockburn / A red, red rose / A man's a man for a' that / Expostulation and reply / The tables turned / She dwelt among the untrodden ways / There was a boy / Nutting / Composed upon Westminster bridge / The world is too much with us / Surprised by joy / The solitary reaper / Stepping westward / Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / Frost at midnight / Dejection : an ode / Darkness / She walks in beauty / When we two parted / So, we'll go no more a-roving / Hymn to intellectual beauty / Ozymandias / Sonnet : England in 1819 / Tonight / To-- / Chorus from Hellas
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / When I have fears / Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / La Belle Dame sans Merci / Ode on a Grecian urn / To autumn / Ode on melancholy / Hamatreya / Give all to love / Brahma / The valley of unrest / To Helen / Alone / Ulysses / The lotos-eaters / How sleeps the crimson petal / Come down, 0 maid / Morte d'Arthur / The revenge / The jumblies / My last duchess / Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / A woman's last word / Childe Roland to the Dark / Tower came / Starting from Paumanok / When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Shakespeare / Memorial verses, April 1850 / To Marguerite in returning a volume of the letters of Ortis / The scholar gipsy / Lucifer in starlight / Papa above / There's a certain slant of light / A clock stopped / I taste a liquor never brewed / Because I could not stop for death / I've seen a dying eye / A narrow fellow in the grass / Heavenly father-- take to thee / Twas later when the summer went / Before the beginning of years / When the hounds of spring / The garden of Proserpine / Sapphics / The subalterns / Wives in the Sere / The lacking sense / The darkling thrush / The voice / The five students / Who's in the next room? / Afterwards
Spring and fall / The windhover / Pied beauty / Carrion comfort / Loveliest of trees / Be still, my soul, be still / Danny Deever / Recessional / Byzantium / Leda and the swan / The second coming / A prayer for my daughter / Luke Havergal / Miniver Cheevy / Mr. Flood's party / The listeners / Home burial / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Design / Provide, provide / Directive / Anecdote of the jar / Peter Quince at the clavier / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Soldier, there is a war / Tortoise shout / The elephant is slow to mate / The snake / A pact / Ite / Les Millwin / Come my cantilations / Prayer for his lady's life / Poetry / Elephants / La Figlia Che Piange / Sweeney among the nightingales / Journey of the magi / Animula / Here lies a lady / Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / Blue girls
Ars poetica / The end of the world / You, Andrew Marvell / All in green went my love riding / My girl's tall with hard long eyes / Anyone lived in a pretty how town / I say no world / Warning to children / The climate of thought / To Juan at the winter solstice / Voyages (II) / At Melville's tomb / The Mediterranean / Ode to the Confederate dead / Variation : ode to fear / Bearded oaks / Foreign affairs / For the word is flesh / Historical song of then and now / Modes of belief / Poetry : the art / Musée des Beaux arts / In memory of W.B. Yeats / The shield of Achilles / Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze / The far field / Light listened / In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / The heavy bear / The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Fern hill / Do not go gentle into that good night / In my craft or sullen art / Conversation / Dream song : 14 (life, friends, is boring) / Dream song : 18 (a strut for Roethke) / The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Mr. Edwards and the spider / The fat man in the mirror / The fiend / A supermarket in California / To Aunt Rose
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Archibald Macleish -- Archibald Macleish -- Archibald Macleish -- e. e. cummings -- e. e. cummings -- e. e. cummings -- e. e. cummings -- Robert Graves -- Robert Graves -- Robert Graves -- Hart Crane -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Allen Tate -- Robert Penn Warren -- Robert Penn Warren -- Stanley Kunitz -- Stanley Kunitz -- Stanley Burnshaw -- Stanley Burnshaw -- Stanley Burnshaw -- W.H. Auden -- W.H. Auden -- W.H. Auden -- Theodore Roethke -- Theodore Roethke -- Theodore Roethke -- Delinore Schwartz -- Delinore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Dylan Thomas -- Dylan Thomas -- Dylan Thomas -- John Berryman -- John Berryman -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Robert Lowell -- Robert Lowell -- James Dickey -- Allen Ginsberg -- Allen Ginsberg.
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1967
The experience of literature : a reader with commentaries
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 Token for the children of New-England.
By James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel. ; To which is added, A token for the children of New-England. Or, Some examples of children, in whom the fear of God was remarkably budding before they died; in several parts of New-England. Preserved and published for the encouragement of piety in other children. ; With new additions.
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1887 -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now -- The recruit -- Reveille -- Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers -- When the lad for longing sighs -- When smoke stood up from Ludlow -- Farewell to barn and stack and tree -- On moonlit heath and lonesome bank -- March -- On your midnight pallet lying -- When I watch the living meet -- When I was one-and-twenty -- There pass the careless people -- Look not in my eyes, for fear -- It nods and curtseys and recovers -- Twice a week the winter thorough -- Oh, when I was in love with you -- To an athlete dying young -- Oh fair enough are sky and plain -- Bredon Hill -- The street sounds to the soldiers' tread -- The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair -- Say, lad, have you things to do -- This time of year a twelvemonth past -- Along the field as we came by -- Is my team ploughing -- The Welsh marches -- The lent lily -- Others, I am not the first -- On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble -- From far, from eve and morning -- If truth in hearts that perish -- The new mistress -- On the idle hill of summer -- White in the moon the long road lies -- As through the wild green hills of Wyre -- The winds out of the west land blow -- Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town -- Into my heart an air that kills -- In my own shire, if I was sad -- The merry guide -- The immortal part -- If it chance your eye offend you -- Bring, in this timeless grave to throw -- The carpenter's son -- Be still, my soul, be still -- Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly -- Clunton and Clunbury -- Loitering with a vacant eye -- Far in a western brookland -- The true lover -- With rue my heart is laden -- Westward on the high-hilled plains -- The day of battle -- You smile upon your friend to-day -- When I came last to Ludlow -- The isle of Portland -- Now hollow fires burn out to black -- Hughley Steeple -- Terence, this is stupid stuff -- I hoed and trenched and weeded -- We'll to the woods no more -- The west -- As I gird on for fighting -- Her strong enchantments failing -- Illis jacet -- Grenadier -- Lancer -- In valleys green and still -- Soldier from the ars returning -- The chestnut casts his flambeaux -- Yonder see the morning blink -- The laws of God, the laws of man -- The deserter -- The culprit -- Eight o'clock -- Spring morning -- Astronomy -- The rain, it streams on stone and hillock -- In midnights of November -- The night is freezing fast -- The fairies break their dances -- The sloe was lost in flower -- In the morning, in the morning -- Epithalamium -- The oracles -- The half-moon westers low, my love -- The sigh that heaves the grasses -- Now dreary dawns the eastern light -- Wake not for the world-heard thunder -- Sunner's rue -- Hell gate -- When I would muse in boyhood -- When the eye of day is shut -- The first of May -- When first my way to fair I took -- Revolution -- Epitaph on an army of mercenaries -- Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough -- When summer's end is nighing -- Tell me not here, it needs not saying -- Fancy's knell -- They say my verse is sad -- Easter hymn -- When Israel out of Egypt came -- For these of old the trader -- The sage to the young man -- Diffugere nives -- I to my perils -- Stars, I have seen them fall -- Give me a land of boughs in leaf.
When green buds hang in the elm like dust -- The weeping Pleiads wester -- The rainy Pleiads wester -- I promise nothing : friends will part -- I lay me down and slumber -- The farms of home lie lost in even -- Tarry delight; so seldom met -- How clear, how lovely bright -- Bells in tower at evening toll -- Delight it is in youth and May -- The mill-stream, now that noises cease -- Like mine, the veins of these that slumber -- The world goes none the lamer -- Ho, everyone that thirsteth -- Crossing alone the nighted ferry -- Stone, stell, dominions pass -- Yon flakes that fret the eastern sky -- I counsel you beware -- To stand up straight and tread the turning mill -- He, standing hushed, a pace or two apart -- From the wash the laundress sends -- Shake hands, we shall never be friends -- Because I liked you better -- With seed the sowers scatter -- On forelands high in heaven -- Young is the blood that yonder -- Half-way, for one commandment broken -- Here dead lie we because we did not choose -- I did not lose my heart in summer's even -- By shores and woods and steeples -- My dreams are of a field afar -- Farewell to a name and a number -- He looked at me with eyes I thought -- A.J.J. -- I wake from dreams and turning -- Far known to sea and shore -- Smooth between sea and land -- The land of Biscay -- For my funeral -- Parta Quies -- Atys -- Oh were he and I together -- When Adam walked in Eden young -- It is no gift I tender -- Here are the skies, the planets seven -- Ask me no more, for fear I should reply -- He would not stay for me -- Now to her lap the incestuous earth -- When the bells justle in the tower -- Oh, on my breast in days hereafter -- God's acre -- An epitaph -- Oh turn not in from marching -- Oh is it the jar of nations -- Tis five years since, 'An end', said I -- Some can gaze and not be sick -- The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do -- Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists -- The defeated -- I shall not die for you -- New Year's Eve -- R.L.S. -- The olive -- Now do our eyes behold / What man is he that yearneth / In heaven-high musings and many
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936.
Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966.
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by Basil Davenport and a history of the text by Tom Burns Haber.
1959
Complete poems : centennial edition with an introduction
[1956]
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from Hudibras ; A politician ; A bumpkin or country-squire ; A latitudinarian ; A fanatic ; A play-writer / from The diary / A satire against mankind / To my honor'd friend, Sir Robert Howard ; To my honor'd friend, Dr. Charleton / Songs. from Tyrannic love ; from Marriage a-la-mode ; from The Spanish fryar / Prologue to The tempest ; Epilogue to the second part of The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards ; Prologue to Aureng-Zebe ; Absalom and Achitophel ; The medal : a satire against sedition ; Mac Flecknoe ; Religio Laici ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; To the pious memory of the accomplish'd young lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew ; The hind and the panther : the first part ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 ; Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, in Tonson's folio edition of the "Paradise lost", 1688 ; To my dear friend Mr. Congreve, on his comedy call'd The doubledealer ; Alexander's feast, or, The power of music : an ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697 ; An essay of dramatic poesy / Of poetry / The choice / To a lady : she refusing to continue a dispute with me ; To a child of quality five years old ; An English padlock ; A simile ; To Cloe weeping ; An ode ; Cloe jealous ; A better answer (to Cloe jealous) ; An epitaph / To the echo : in a clear night upon astrop walks ; The bird ; The tree ; To the nightingale ; A nocturnal reverie / from An essay on projects ; A true relation of the apparition of Mrs. Veal / Baucis and Philemon ; A description of the morning ; A description of a city shower ; On Stella's birthday ; Stella's birthday, March 13, 1726-27 ; The beasts' confessions to the priest ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift ; The day of judgment ; from A tale of a tub ; from The battle of the books [episode of The spider and the bee] ; Against the abolishing of Christianity in England ; Gulliver's travels, part IV ; A modest proposal / The tatler, Nos. 1, 21 ; The spectator [selections] / To the Earl of Warwick on the death of Mr. Addison ; Colin and Lucy / The splendid shilling : an imitation of Milton / To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her mother's arms
Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / An inquiry concerning virtue or merit ; from Miscellany III ; The apostrophe to nature, from The moralists / The grumbling hive, or, Knaves turned honest ; from The fable of the bees : an enquiry into the origin of moral virtue / Summer : the second pastoral, or, Alexis ; An essay on criticism (pt. I, II, III) ; The rape of the lock ; Elegy : to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Eloïsa to Abelard ; An essay on man ; The universal prayer ; Moral essays. Epistle IV, Of the use of riches : to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington / Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; The first Epistle of the second book of Horace : to Augustus ; The Dunciad, Book I ; The guardian, No. 173 ; Preface to the works of Shakespeare / On a miscellany of poems / The shepherd's week. Thursday, or, The spell ; Friday, or, The dirge ; Saturday, or, The flights / from trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London, from Book II / Sweet William's farewell to black-eyed susan ; To a lady on her passion for old China ; Song / A hymn to contentment ; When thy beauty appears (song) ; A night piece on death ; My days have been so wondrous free (song) / Thomas Parnell -- The young laird and Edinburgh Katy ; Katy's answer ; The poet's wish : an ode ; An thou were my ain thing ; Sang
The ballad of Sally in our alley / The braces of Yarrow / Grongar Hill / A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton ; Hymn on solitude ; from The seasons (winter) ; A hymn on the seasons ; Rule, Britannia! ; The castle of indolence / The spleen / The day of judgment ; The hazard of loving the creatures ; Crucifixion to the world by the cross of Christ ; A prospect of heaven makes death easy ; Man frail and God eternal ; A cradle hymn / Wrestling Jacob ; In temptation / The complaint, or, Night thoughts : night I / The grave / The pleasures of imagination : book I / The schoolmistress ; Written at an inn at Henley ; Slender's ghost ; Inscription : on a tablet against a root-house ; Inscription : On the back of a Gothic seat / The enthusiast, or, The lover of nature ; Ode I, To fancy / The pleasures of melancholy ; The crusade ; Sonnet III, written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon ; Sonnet IV, written at Stonehenge ; Sonnet VIII, On King Arthur's round table at Winchester / A song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline ; Ode to pity ; Ode to fear ; Ode to simplicity ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode : written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode to evening ; The passions : an ode for music ; Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson ; Ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland / Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West ; Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Hymn to adversity ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; Stanzas to Mr. Bentley ; The progress of poesy : a Pindaric ode ; The bard : a Pindaric ode ; The fatal sisters ; The descent of Odin : an ode from the Norse tongue ; Letters / from The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, Drury Lane, 1747 ; The vanity of human wishes ; Lines written in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 ; On the death of Mr. Robert Levet ; The rambler, No. 4 ; The idler, nos. 60 and 61 ; The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia / A song to David / Carthon, a poem
The prophecy of famine : a Scots pastoral / Letters / The traveller, or, A prospect of society ; Song ; The deserted village ; Retaliation ; Asem, an Eastern tale ; A reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap ; Letters from a citizen of the world, nos. 4, 11, 13, 26, 27, 30, 71, 72, 119 ; Essay on the theatre, or, A comparison between sentimental and laughing comedy / Ode to the cuckoo / The minstrel, or, The progress of genius (The first book) / The flowers of the forest / Bristowe tragedie ; Mynstrelles songe ; An excelente balade of charitie / Olney Hymns. Praise for the fountain opened ; Walking with God ; Light shining out of darkness ; The happy change / The shrubbery ; Addressed to a young lady ; The diverting history of John Gilpin ; The poplar-field / The task. Book three, The garden ; Book IV, The winter evening / On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk ; To Mary ; The castaway ; Letters / The holy fair ; Address to the deil ; The Cotter's Saturday night ; To a mouse ; To a mountain daisy ; Epistle of John Lapraik, an old Scottish bard ; A bard's epitaph ; To the Rev. John M'Math ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous ; The jolly beggars ; Tam O'Shanter ; Green grow the rashes ; Of a' the airts ; John Anderson my Jo ; Highland Mary ; Thou lingering star ; Afton water ; Ae fond kiss ; Duncan Gray ; A red, red rose ; Auld lang syne ; Ye banks and braes ; Go fetch to me a pint o' wine ; For a' that and a' that ; Scots wha hae ; O, wert thou in the cauld blast / The village (book I) ; The parish register, from part III : Burials / Letters / from Reflection on the revolution in France ; A letter from the right Hon. Edmund Burke to a noble lord / from The rights of man
from Poetical sketches. How sweet I roamed from field to field (song) ; To the evening star ; My silks and fine array (song) ; I love the jocund dance (song) ; Memory, hither come (song) ; Mad song ; Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year (song) ; To the muses / from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; The shepherd ; The echoing green ; The lamb ; The little black boy ; The chimney-sweeper ; Laughing song ; A cradle song ; The divine image ; Holy Thursday ; Nurse's songs ; Infant joy / from Songs of experience. Introduction ; Earth's answer ; The clod and the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The chimney-sweeper ; Nurse's song ; The sick rose ; The fly ; The angel ; The tiger ; Ah! Sunflower ; London ; The human abstract ; Infant sorrow ; To Tirzah / The book of Thel ; The French revolution : book the first ; The marriage of heaven and hell ; A song of liberty ; Auguries of innocence ; Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; from Milton
The life and genuine character of Dean Swift ; Gulliver's travel, part II / The spectator, nos. 10, 519 / The Dunciad, book IV / Conjectures on original composition / Jubilate Agno / A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / The seventh discourse (with Blake's notes)
Bredvold, Louis I. (Louis Ignatius), 1888-1977, editor.
Samuel Butler -- Samuel Pepys -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- Sir William Temple -- John Pomfret -- Matthew Prior -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Daniel DeFoe -- Jonathan Swift -- Richard Steele and Joseph Addison -- Thomas Tickell -- John Philips -- Ambrose Philips.
George Berkeley -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- Bernard Mandeville -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- John Gay -- John Gay -- John Gay -- John Gay -- Allan Ramsay.
Henry Carey -- William Hamilton of Bangour -- John Dyer -- James Thomson -- Matthew Green -- Isaac Watts -- Charles Wesley -- Edward Young -- Robert Blair -- Mark Akenside -- William Shenstone -- Joseph Warton -- Thomas Warton the Younger -- William Collins -- Thomas Gray -- James Boswell -- Samuel Johnson -- Christopher Smart -- James Macpherson.
Charles Churchill -- Horace Walpole -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Michael Bruce -- James Beattie -- Jane Elliot -- Thomas Chatterton -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- Robert Burns -- George Crabbe -- Junius -- Edmund Burke -- Thomas Paine.
William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake.
Jonathan Swift -- Richard Steele and Joseph Addison -- Alexander Pope -- Edward Young -- Christopher Smart -- Edmund Burke -- Sir Joshua Reynolds.
edited by Louis I. Bredvold, Alan D. McKillop [and] Lois Whitney.
1956
Eighteenth century poetry & prose,
[1959]
Enl. ed.
Includes Chaucer; Spenser; Shakespeare; Bacon; Donne; Milton; Dryden; Swift; Pope; Johnson; Boswell.
Book
Harcourt, Brace
Book
Major British writers,
The Canterbury tales. The general prologue ; The pardoner's prologue ; The pardoner's tale ; The pardoner's epilogue ; The prioress's prologue ; The prioress's tale ; The prioress's epilogue ; The miller's tale ; The wife of Bath's prologue ; The wife of Bath's tale ; The clerk's tale ; The clerk's epilogue ; The Franklin's tale ; The nun's priest's tale ; Chaucer's prayer
Epithalamion ; The Faerie queene. Selections from Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV, Book V, Book VI, Book VII / The first part of King Henry the Fourth ; The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; The tempest
Essays or counsels. Of truth ; Of death ; Of adversity ; Of marriage and single life ; Of great place ; Of goodness, and goodness of nature ; Of seditions and troubles ; Of atheism ; Of superstition ; Of travel ; Of cunning ; Of wisdom for a man's self ; Of suspicion ; Of discourse ; Of plantations ; Of masques and triumphs ; Of building ; Of studies (1597) / Advancement of learning. from Book I ; from Book II
from Songs and sonnets. The good morrow ; Song (Go, and catch a falling star) ; Woman's constancy ; The sun rising ; The canonization ; Lovers' infiniteness ; Song (Sweetest love, I do not go) ; Air and angels ; The anniversary ; A valediction : of my name, in the window ; Twickenham Garden ; Love's growth ; The dream ; A valediction : of weeping ; The message ; A nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day ; A valediction : forbidding mourning ; The ecstasy ; Love's deity ; The funeral ; The blossom ; The relique ; The prohibition ; The expiration / from The satires. Satire III ; Satire IV / Verse letter to the Countess of Bedford ; An anatomy of the world : the first anniversary / from Holy sonnets. I, Thou has made me ; VII, At the round Earth's imagined corners ; X, Death be not proud ; XIII, What if this present were the world's last night? ; XIV, Batter my heart, three-personed God ; XVIII, Show me, dear Christ ; XIX, Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one / Other Divine poems. Good Friday, 1613, riding westward ; from The litany : XV and XVI ; A hymn to Christ ; Hymn to God my God, in my sickness ; A hymn to God the Father / from Devotions upon emergent occasions. II, The strength, and the function of the senses ; III, The patient takes his bed ; XVI, From the bells of the church adjoining ; XVII, Now, this bell tolling softly ; XVIII, The bell rings out / The Sermons. from Sermon II, Sermon VII, Sermon XV, Sermon LXVI, Sermon LXXX / L sermons. Sermon XXXVI
On the morning of Christ's nativity ; L'Allegro ; Il penseroso ; Sonnet VII, How soon hath time ; Lycidas / Autobiographical extracts. from The reason of church government ; from An apology for Smectymnuus / Areopagitica / VIII, When the assault was intended to the city ; XII, I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs ; XV, On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester ; XIX, When I consider how my light is spent ; XVI, To the Lord General Cromwell ; XVIII, On the late massacre in Piemont ; XX, Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son ; XXII, To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness ; XXIII, Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Paridise lost. Book I, Book II, from Book III, from Book IV, from Book V, from Book VII, Book IX, from Book XII / Samson agonistes
To my honored friend, Dr. Charleton ; An essay of dramatic poesy ; from Secret love, or, The maiden queen. Prologue ; Song / from The tempest : prologue ; from An evening's love : song ; from Tyrannic love : epilogue ; from The conquest of Granada, II. Epilogue ; The zambra dance / from Mariage à la mode. Prologue ; Song / Epilogue to the University of Oxford, 1674 ; from Troilus and Cressida : prologue ; from The Spanish friar : song ; from Amphitryon. Mercury's song to Phaedra ; The lady's song ; Song to a fair young lady going out of the town in the spring / Mac Flecknoe ; Absalom and Achitophel ; from Absalom and Achitophel, part II ; Epigram on Plutarch ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; from Sylvae. Horace : the ninth ode of the first book ; Horace : the twenty-ninth ode of the the third book ; Lucretius : the latter part of the third book against the fear of death / To the pious memory of the accomplished young lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 ; Epigram on Milton ; Epitaph on John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee ; Juvenal : from the Sixth satire ; To my dear friend Mr. Congreve ; Alexander's feast ; To my friend Mr. Motteux ; Epigram on Tonson ; from Fables, ancient and modern. Preface ; To my honored kinsman, John Driden ; Baucis and Philemon, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Chaucer : from The cock and the fox ; Chaucer : from The wife of Bath, her tale / The secular masque
An argument against abolishing Christianity ; from A letter to a young gentleman ; The first Drapier letter / Gulliver's travels. A letter from Captain Bulliver to his cousin Sympson ; The publisher to the reader ; Part I, a voyage to Lilliput ; Part II, A voyage to Brobdingnag ; Part IV, A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms / A modest proposal ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift
Essay on criticism ; Windsor Forest ; The rape of the Lock ; Ode on Solitude ; Epistle X, To a young lady on her leaving the town after the coronation ; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Eloïsa to Abelard ; Essay on man / from Epistles to several persons. Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington ; Epistle III, To Allen, Lord Bathurst / from Imitations of Horace : the first satire of the second book, to Mr. Fortescue ; from Imitations of Donne : the fourth satire of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, versified ; An epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / from Epistles to several persons. Epistle II, to a lady / from Imitations of Horace The first Epistle of the second book. To Augustus / from The dunciad, Book IV
from The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. Monday, 30th August, 1773 ; Tuesday, 31st August, 1773 ; Wednesday, 1st September, 1773 ; Wednesday, 8th September, 1773 ; Thursday, 16th September 1773 ; Sunday, 3d October, 1773 / from The life of Samuel Johnson. May 16-August 6, 1763 ; October 16-26, 1769 ; May 7, 1773 ; May 1776
Letters. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield ; To Mrs. Montagu ; To George Strahan ; To James Macpherson ; To Mrs. Boswell ; To Mrs. Thrale / A short song of congratulations ; Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theater in Drury Lane, 1747 / from The rambler. No. 25, No. 154, No. 155 / from the Idler. No. 32, No. 60 / from the preface to A dictionary of the English language ; from the preface to Shakespeare ; On Henry IV ; On Polonius / The lives of the poets. from Milton, Cowley, Drayden, Addison, Pope / Thoughts during and after the writing of The lives of the Poets
Preface to Lyrical ballads ; Lines left upon a seat in a yew tree ; The reverie of poor Susan ; The ruined cottage (from The excursion, book I) ; The old Cumberland beggar ; We are seven ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; To my sister ; Lines written in early spring ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / The prelude. Book I, introduction, childhood and schooltime ; Book II, schooltime, continued ; Book III, residence at Cambridge ; from Book IV, summer vacation ; Book V, books ; from Book VI, Cambridge and the Alps ; from Book VII, residence in London ; from Book VIII, retrospect, love of nature leading to love of man ; from Book IX, residence in France ; from Book X, residence in France, continued ; from Book XII, imagination and taste, how impaired and restored ; from Book XIII, imagination and taste, how impaired and restored, concluded ; from Book XIV, conclusion / Lucy Gray ; Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; A poet's epitaph ; Matthew ; The two April mornings ; The fountain ; Ellen Irwin ; Michael ; I traveled among unknown men ; To the cuckoo ; My heart leaps up when I behold ; Resolution and independence to H.C. ; I grieved for Buonaparté ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; On the extinction of the Venetian Republic ; Composed by the seaside, near Calais, August, 1802 ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; Near Dover, September, 1802 ; In London, September 1802 ; London, 1802 ; Great men have been among us ; It is not to be thought of ; England! The time is come when thou shouldst wean ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper ; Ode to duty ; Ode, Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood ; With how sad steps, o moon, thou climb'st the sky ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; The world is too much with us ; Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? -- With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh ; To sleep ; Elegiac stanzas ; Character of the happy warrior ; Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Lines : composed at Grasmere ; Laodamía ; Weak is the will of man, his judgment blind ; Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty ; Afterthought ; Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge ; Mutability ; Scorn not the sonnet ; Why art thou silent! ; The Trossachs ; Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg
To a young ass ; The Eolian harp ; The lime tree bower my prison ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; France : an ode ; Kubla Khan ; Dejection : an ode ; To William Wordsworth ; Work without hope / Biographis literaria. from Chapter XIII ; Chapter XIV ; Chapter XV / Shakespearean criticism. from Hamlet ; The tempest
Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; Remember thee! Remember thee! ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib / Stanzas for music ; Sonnet on Chillon ; Darkness ; So we'll go no more a-roving ; Sonnet to Prince Regent ; On my thirty-third birthday ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year / Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. from Canto I ( Childe Harold's Good night, To Inez) ; from Canto III ; from Canto IV / The prisoner of Chillon ; Manfred ; The vision of judgment ; Don Juan. Canto I ; from Canto III
Stanzas, April, 1814 ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Ozymandias ; Ode to the west wind ; Prometheus unbound ; The cloud ; To a skylark ; Ode to liberty ; Arethusa ; Hymn of Apollo ; Hymn of Pan ; To the moon ; from Epipsychidion / Epigrams. To Stella ; Circumstance / from Adonais ; Lines (When the lamp is shattered) ; To Jane : the invitation ; To Jane : the recollection ; A defence of poetry
Imitation of Spenser ; To Byron ; To one who has been long ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; Keen, fitful gusts ; To Haydon ; On the grasshopper and cricket ; On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time ; On the sea ; Endymion : from Book I ; On sitting down to read King Lear once again ; When I have fears ; To Spenser ; What the thrush said ; To Homer ; Fragment of an Ode to Maia ; Where's the poet? ; from Hyperion, Book I ; The eve of St. Agnes ; Why did I laugh? ; Bright star ; On a dream ; La belle dame sans merci ; To sleep ; On the sonnet ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Lamia ; The fall of Hyperion : from Canto I ; This living hand ; To autumn / Letters. To John Hamilton Reymonds, Benjamin Bailey, George and Thomas Keats ; from To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To John Taylor ; from To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To Richard Woodhouse ; from To George and Georgiana Keats ; To Miss Jeffrey, Benjamin Bailey, Percy Blysshe Shelley, Charles Brown
The kraken ; Mariana ; The poet ; The Hesperides ; The lady of Shalott ; Œnone ; The palace of art ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses ; Tithonus ; Break, break, break ; You ask me, why ; Love thou thy land ; Morte D'Arthur. The epic ; Morte d'Arthur / Locksley Hall / Songs from the Princess. Sweet and low ; The splendor falls ; Tears, idle tears ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; The eagle / In Memorium A.H.H. ; Maud ; In the Valley of Cauteretz ; Northern farmer, old style ; Northern farmer, new style ; Lucretium / Idylls of the King. The Holy grail / Frater Ave atque Vale ; To Virgil ; Demeter and Persephone ; Crossing the bar
from Dramatic lyrics. ; Porphyris's lover ; My last duchess ; Count Gismond ; Incident of the French camp ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; Cristina ; The pied piper of Hamelin / from Dramatic romances. How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix ; The lost leader ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home-thoughts, from the sea ; The Bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's Church ; Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / from Men and women. Love among the ruins ; Evelyn Hope ; Up at a villa, down in the city ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; A toccata of Galuppi's ; By the fireside ; My star ; Childe Roland to the dark tower came ; Respectability ; How it strikes a contemporary ; Memorabilia ; Andrea del Sarto ; Saul ; De Gustibus ; Cleon ; Two in the campagna ; A grammarian's funeral / from Dramatis personae. Abt Bogler ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; Confessions ; May and death ; Prospice ; Youth and art / from The ring and the book. Pompilia ; The Pope / from Pacchiarotto. House / from Dramatic idyls, second series. Epilogue, Touch him ne'er so lightly / from Jocoseria. Wanting is-- what? ; Never the time and the place / from Asolando. Dubiety ; Epilogue, At midnight in the silence
The strayed reveler ; To a friend ; Shakespeare ; Written in Butler's sermons ; In harmony with nature ; To a Republican friend, 1848 ; To a Republican friend, 1848 (continued) ; Religious isolation ; The forsaken merman ; Urania ; Euphrosyne ; Meeting ; A farewell ; Isolation : to Marguerite ; To Marguerite, continued ; Absence ; Longing ; Destiny ; Human life ; Self-deception ; Youth and calm ; Memorial verses ; Courage ; Self-dependence ; A summer night ; The buried life ; Lines written in Kensington Gardens ; from Sohrab and Rustum ; Philomela ; Requiescat ; The scholar gypsy ; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ; Thyrsis ; Persistency of poetry ; Dover Beach ; Fragment of chorus of a Dejaneira ; Early death and fame ; Growing old ; The progress of Poesy ; The last word ; Rugby Chapel ; Preface to Poems, edition of 1853 ; Advertisement to the second edition of Poems ; The function of criticism at the present time ; Literature and science ; The study of poetry ; Wordsworth ; John Keats
Man and superman. Epistle dedicatory
The lake isle of Innisfree ; Who goes with Fergus? ; The folly of being comforted ; No second Troy ; To a friend whose work has come to nothing ; The magi ; The dolls ; The wild swans at Coole ; Men improve with the years ; Lines written in dejection ; The fisherman ; Easter 1916 ; The second coming ; Sailing to Byzantium ; from The tower : III ; Two songs from a play ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz ; from Blood and the moon : I and II ; The nineteenth century and after ; Coole Park, 1929 ; from Vacillation : VII and VIII ; Words for music perhaps. XVII, After long silence ; XVIII, Mad as the mist and snow / An acre of grass ; The wild old wicked man ; A bronze head / from The Autobiography. Middletons and Pollexfens ; Early reading ; His father's influence ; Personal utterance ; A Pre-Raphaelite's son ; Maud Gonne The mask ( Morris : his antithetical dream ; Yeats's anti-self ; Abstraction) ; Unity of being : unity of culture ( A world of fragments ; Image of unity ; Shaw's Arms and the man ; Wilson and Shaw : Phases of the moon ; The tragic generation) ; Yeats on his own writing / from the Essays. Personality and the intellectual essences ; Rhetoricians, sentimentalists, and poets
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Sweeney among the nightingales / The waste land. I, The burial of the dead ; II, A game of chess ; III, The fire sermon ; IV, Death by water ; V, What the thunder said / The hollow men ; Marina ; Triumphal march ; The dry salvages ; Hamlet ; The metaphysical poets ; The music of poetry
Harrison, G. B. (George Bagshawe), 1894-1991, editor.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Edmund Spenser -- William Shakespeare.
Francis Bacon -- Francis Bacon.
John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne -- John Donne.
John Milton -- John Milton -- John Milton -- John Milton -- John Milton -- John Milton.
John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden -- John Dryden.
Jonathan Swift -- Jonathan Swift -- Jonathan Swift.
Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope -- Alexander Pope.
James Boswell -- James Boswell.
Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson.
William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
George Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Keats -- John Keats.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning -- Robert Browning.
Matthew Arnold.
George Bernard Shaw.
William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats.
T.S. Eliot -- T.S. Eliot -- T.S. Eliot.
under the general editorship of G.B. Harrison. The editors, Walter J. Bate [and others].
1959
Major British writers,
Scott, Foresman,
Book
English poetry and prose of the Romantic movement
The tree ; from The petition for an absolute retreat ; To the nightingale ; A nocturnal reverie / A fairy tale ; A night-piece on death ; A hymn to contentment / The highland laddie ; My Peggy ; Sweet William's ghost ; Through the wood laddie ; An thou were my ain thing ; from The gentle shepherd. Patie and Peggy / Preface to the evergreen / The braes of Yarrow / William and Margaret ; The Birks of Endermay / Grongar Hill ; The fleece. from Book I / The seasons. from Winter ; from Summer ; from Autumn / A hymn on the seasons ; The castle of indolence. from Canto I / Tell me, thou soul of her I love ; To Amanda ; Preface to winter
Night thoughts. from Night I ; from Night III ; from Night V ; from Night VI ; from Night IX / from Conjectures on original composition / from The grave / from The schoolmistress / The pleasures of the imagination. from Part I / For a grotto ; Ode to the evening star / A song from Shakespear's Cymbelyne ; Ode to simplicity ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode to evening ; The passions ; Ode on the death of Mr. Thomson ; An ode on the popular superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland / Ode on the spring ; Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Hymn to adversity ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; The progress of poesy ; The bard ; Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude ; Song (Thyrsis, when we parted, swore) ; The fatal sisters ; The descent of Odin ; The triumphs of Owen ; The death of Hoel ; Caràdoc ; Conan ; from Journal in France ; From Gray's letters. To Mrs. Dorothy Gray ; To Richard West ; To Horace Walpole ; To Richard Stonehewer ; To Thomas Wharton To the Reverend William Mason ; from Journal in the lakes / from The pleasures of melancholy ; from Ode on the approach of summer ; The crusade ; Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's monasticon ; Written at Stonehenge ; While summer suns o'er the gay prospect play'd ; On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester / from Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser / The enthusiast : or the lover of nature ; Ode to fancy ; from Essay on the genius and writing of Pope / Carthon : a poem ; Oina-Morul : a poem ; from Fingal : an ancient epic poem. Book I / from Letters on chivalry and romance. Letter I ; Letter VI / from The castle of Otranto. Chapter I
from Reliques of ancient English poetry. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne ; The ancient ballad of Chevy-Chase ; Sir Patrick Spence ; Edom o'Gordon ; Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor / Retirement ; The minstrel, or, The progress of genius ; from Book I / Bristowe tragedie, or, The dethe of Syr Charles Bawdin ; The accounte of W. Canynges feast ; from Ælla : a tragycal enterlude. Mynstrelles song (the boddynge flourettes bloshes atte the lyghte) ; Mynstrelles song (o! synge untoe mie ruondelaie) / An excelente balade of charitie ; Epitaph on Robert Canynge / from The history of the Caliph Vathek / from Olney hymns. Lovest thou me ; Light shining out of darkness / The task. from Book I. The sofa ; from Book II. The time-piece ; from Book VI. The winter walk at noon / The poplar-field ; The Negro's complaint ; On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk ; Yardley Oak ; To Mary ; The castaway / from The village. Book I ; from The borough. Letter I. General description / At Tynemouth Priory ; The bells, Ostend ; Bereavement ; Bamborough Castle ; Hope ; Influence of time on greif ; Approach of summer ; Absence / from Poetical sketches. To spring ; To the evening star ; Song : "How sweet I roam'd" ; Song : "My silks and fine array" ; Song : "Love and harmony combine ; Song : "I love the jocund dance" ; Song : "Memory, hither come ; Mad song ; Song : Fresh from the dewy hill" ; To the muses / from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; A dream ; The lamb ; The echoing green ; The divine image ; The chimney sweeper ; Infant joy ; The shepherd ; A cradle song ; Nurse's song ; Holy Thursday ; On another's sorrow ; Laughing song ; The little black boy / The book of Thel ; from The marriage of heaven and hell. The voice of the Devil ; A memorable fancy : as I was walking among the fires of hell" ; Proverbs of hell ; A memorable fancy : "The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel" ; A memorable fancy : an angel came to me and said" ; A memorable fancy : "once I saw a devil in a flame" / A song of liberty ; from Visions of the daughters of Albion ; from America : a prophecy ; from Songs of experience. Introduction ; Earth's answer ; The clod and the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The chimney sweeper ; Nurse's song ; The sick rose ; The fly ; The angel ; The tyger ; Ah, sunflower ; The garden of love ; London ; The human abstract ; Infant sorrow ; A poison tree ; A little boy lost / A cradle song ; A divine image ; To Tirzah ; Love's secret ; Couplet : "Great things" ; from The four Zoas. from Night II / Auguries of innocence ; The mental traveller ; from Milton. Preface ; from Book the second / from Jerusalem. from To the public ; from To the deists ; from To the Christians / Dedication of the illustrations to Blair's "The grave" ; from The letters. To the Rev Dr. Trusler ; To John Flaxman / from Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynold's discourses ; from Annotations to "Poems" by William Wordsworth
O, once i lov'd a bonie lass ; A prayer in the prospect of death ; Mary Morison ; My nanie, O ; Poor Mailie's elegy ; Green grow the rashes O ; To Davie ; Epistle to J. Lapraik ; Epistle to the Rev. John M'Math ; The jolly beggars ; The Holy Fair ; The cotter's Saturday night ; To a mouse ; Address to the deil ; A bard's epitaph ; Address to the unco guide, or, The rigidly righteous ; To a mountain daisy ; To a louse ; The silver tassie ; Of a' the airts ; Auld Lang Syne ; Whistle o'er the lave o't ; My heart's in the Highlands ; John Anderson my Jo ; Sweet Afton ; Willie brew'd a peck of maut ; Tam Glen ; Thou ling'ring star ; Tam o' Shanter ; Ye flowery banks ; Ae fond kiss ; The deil's awa wi' th' exciseman ; Saw ye bonie Lesley ; Highland Mary ; Last May a braw wooer ; Scots, wha hae ; A red, red rose ; My nanie's awa ; Contented wi' little ; Lassie wi' the lint-white locks ; Is there for honest poverty ; O, wert thou in the cauld blast ; O, lay thy loof in mine, lass ; Preface to the first, or Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems
The pleasures of memory ; from Part I ; An Italian song ; Written at midnight -- Written in the Highlands of Scotland ; An inscription in the Crimea ; The boy of Egremond ; from Italy ; The lake of Geneva ; The gondola ; The fountain / Enquiry concerning political justice. from Book I. Of the powers of man considered in his social capacity ; from Book V. Of the legislative and executive power / Extract from the conclusion of a poem, composed in anticipation of leaving school. -- Written in very early youth ; from An evening walk ; Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree ; The reverie of poor Susan ; We are seven ; The thorn ; Goody Blake and Harry Gill ; Her eyes are wild ; Simon Lee ; Lines written in early spring ; To my sister ; A whirl-blast from behind the hill ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; The old Cumberland beggar ; Nutting ; Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; I travelled among unknown men ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; A poet's epitaph ; Matthew ; The two April mornings ; The fountain ; Lucy Gray ; The prelude ; from Book I Introduction--childhood and school-time ; from Book II School-time ; from Book III Residence at Cambridge ; from Book IV Summer vacation ; from Book V Books ; from Book VI Cambridge and the Alps ; Book VIII Retrospect : love of nature leading to love of man ; from Book XI France ; from Book XII Imagination and taste, how impaired and restored--(concluded) ; Michael / It was an April morning ; "Tis said that some have died for love ; The excursion. from Book I The wanderer ; Pelion and Ossa ; The sparrow's nest ; To a butterfly ; My heart leaps up ; Written in March ; To the small celandine ; To the same flower ; Resolution and independence ; I grieved for Buonaparté ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803 ; Composed by the sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 ; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; On the extinction of the Venetian Republic ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Composed in the valley near Dover, on the day of landing ; Near Dover, September, 1802 ; Written in London, September, 1802 ; London, 1802 ; Great men have been among us ; It is not to be thought of that the flood ; When I have borne in memory ; To H.C. ; To the daisy ; To the same flower ; To the daisy ; The green linnet ; Yew-trees ; At the grave of Burns ; To a Highland girl ; Stepping westward ; The solitary reaper ; Yarrow unvisited ; October, 1803 ; To the men of Kent ; Anticipation, October, 1803 ; To the cuckoo ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The affliction of Margaret ; Ode to duty ; To a skylark ; Elegiac stanzas ; To a young lady ; Character of the happy warrior ; Power of music ; Yes, it was the mountain echo ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; Personal talk ; Admonition ; How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks ; Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake ; The world is too much with us; late and soon ; To sleep ; November, 1806 ; Ode : intimations of immortality ; Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Characteristics of a child three years old ; Here pause : the poet claims at least this praise ; Laodamía ; Yarrow visited ; Hast thou seen, with flash incessant ; Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty ; To a snowdrop ; There is a little unpretending rill ; Between Namur and Liege ; Composed in one of the Catholic cantons ; from The river Duddon. Sol listener, Duddon ; After-thought / from Ecclesiastical sonnets mutability ; Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge / To a skylark ; Scorn not the sonnet ; To the cuckoo ; Yarrow revisited ; On the departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples ; The Trosachs ; If thou indeed derive thy light from heaven ; If this great world of joy and pain ; "There!" said a stripling, pointing with meet pride ; Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes ; To a child ; Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg ; Hark! 'Tis the thrush ; A poet!--he hath put his heart to school ; So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive ; The unremitting voice of nightly streams ; Preface to the second edition of several of the foregoing poems (lyrical ballads)
Life ; Pantisocracy ; To a young ass ; La Fayette ; Koskiusko ; To the Reverend W.L. Bowles ; The Eolian harp ; Reflections on having left a place of retirement ; Sonnet to a friend who asked how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me ; Ode on the departing year ; This lime-tree bower my prison ; The dungeon ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; France : an ode ; Lewti, or, The circassian love-chant ; Fears in solitude ; The nightingale ; The ballad of the dark ladie ; Kubla Khan ; Lines written in the album at Elbingerode ; Love ; Dejecton : an ode ; Hymn before sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni ; Inscription for a fountain on a heath ; Answer to a child's question ; The pains of sleep ; To a gentleman ; Time real and imaginary ; from Remorse hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell ; from Zapolya a sunny shaft did I behold ; The knight's tomb ; To nature ; Youth and age ; Work without hope ; The garden of Boccaccio ; Phantom or fact ; Epitaph ; The wanderings of Cain ; from Biographia literaria. Chapter XIV ; Chapter XVII ; from Chapter XVIII ; Chapter XXII / Characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas / Sonnet concerning the slave trade ; The battle of Blenheim ; The holly tree ; The old man's comforts ; God's judgement on a wicked bishop ; from The curse of Kehama. The funeral ; The march to Moscow ; Ode written during the negotiations with Buonaparte ; My days among the dead are past ; from A vision of judgement. The beatification ; The cataract of Lodore ; from The life of Nelson. The battle of Trafalgar / The pleasures of hope. from Part I ; Ye mariners of England ; Hohenlinden ; Lochiel's warning ; Lord Ullin's daughter ; Battle of the Baltic ; The last man ; The death-boat of Heligoland / A Canadian boat song ; from Irish melodies. Oh, breathe not his name ; When he who adores thee ; The harp that once through Tara's halls ; Oh! blame not the bard ; Lesbia hath a beaming eye ; The young May moon ; The minstrel boy ; Farewell!--but whenever you welcome the hour ; The time I've lost in wooing ; Dear harp of my country ; She is far from the land / from National airs. Oh, come to me when daylight sets ; Oft, in the stilly-night / Lalla Rookh from the light of the haram ; from Fables for the Holy Alliance. The dissolution of the Holy Alliance / The burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna ; Sonnet (my spirit's on the mountians, where the birds) ; Oh say not that my heart is cold
William and Helen ; The violet ; To a lady ; Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's coronach ; Cadyow castle ; from The minstrelsy of the Scottish border. Kinmont Willie ; Lord Randal / The lay of the last minstrel. from Canto VI ; Harold (the lay of Rosabelle) / The maid of Neidpath ; Hunting song ; from Marmion. Where shall the lover rest ; Lochinvar / from The lady of the lake. Canto I. The chase ; from Canto II. Boat song ; from Canto III. Coronach ; Canto VI. The guard-room / from Rokeby. Brignall banks ; Allen-a-Dale / from Waverley. Hie away, hie away ; from Guy Mannering. Twist ye, twine ye ; Wasted, weary, wherefore stay / Lines on the lifting of the banner of the house of Buccleuch ; Jock of Hazeldean ; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu ; from The antiquary. Why sitt'st thou by that ruin'd hall? ; from Old mortality. And what through winter will pinch severe ; Clarion / The dreary change ; from Rob Roy. Farewell to the land ; from The heart of Midlothian. Proud maisie ; from Ivanhoe. The barefooted friar ; Rebecca's hymn / from The monastery. Border march ; from The pirate. The song of the Reim-Kennar ; Farewell to the muse ; from Quentin Durward. County guy ; from The talisman. What brave chief ; from The doom of Devergoil. Robin Hood ; Bonny Dundee ; When friends are met / from Woodstock. Glee for King Charles ; The foray / from The beacon. Fishermann's song ; Woo'd and married and a' ; A Scotch song / The lovely lass of Preston Mill ; Gane were but the winter cauld ; A wet sheet and a flowing sea / When the kye comes hame ; The skylark ; When Maggy gangs away ; from The queen's wake. Kilmeny ; The witch o' Fife ; A boy's song ; M'Kimman ; Lock the door, Lariston ; The maid of the sea ;
Lachin y Gair ; Farewell! if ever fondest prayer ; Bright be the place of thy soul! ; When we two parted ; from English bards and Scotch reviewers ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; The bride of Abydos ; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ; She walks in beauty ; Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom ; My soul is dark ; Song of Saul before his last battle ; Herod's lament for Mariamne ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; Stanzas for music (there's not a joy the world can give) ; Fare thee well ; Stanzas for music (there be none of beauty's daughters) ; Sonnet on Chillon ; The prisoners of Chillon ; Stanzas to Augusta ; Epistle to Augusta ; Darkness ; Prometheus ; Sonnet to Lake Leman ; Stanzas for music (they say that hope is happiness) ; from Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto III ; from Canto IV / Manfred ; So, we'll go no more a-roving ; My boat is on the shore ; Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the Times ; Mazeppa ; from Don Juan. Dedication ; from Canto I ; from Canto II ; from Canto III. The isles of Greece ; from Canto IV ; from Canto XI / When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home ; The world is a bundle of hay ; Who kill'd John Keats? ; For Orford and for Waldegrave ; The vision of judgment ; Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year
Queen Mab. from Section II ; Section VIII / Mutability (we are as clouds that veil the midnight moon) ; To---(oh! there are spirits of the air) ; To Wordsworth ; Feelings of a republican on the fall of Bonaparte ; Alastor, or The spirit of solitude ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Lines (the cold earth slept below ; To Mary ; Death (they die--the dead return not) ; Lines to a critic ; Ozymandias ; The past ; On a faded violet ; Lines written among the Euganean Hills ; Stanzas (the sun is warm, the sky is clear) ; Lines written during the Castlereagh administration ; The mask of anarchy ; Song to the men of England ; England in 1819 ; Ode to the west wind ; The Indian serenade ; Love's philosophy ; The poet's lover ; Proemtheus unbound ; The sensitive plant ; The cloud ; To a skylark ; To---(I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden) ; Arethusa ; Hymn of Apollo ; Hymn of Pan ; The question ; The two spirits : an allegory ; Autumn : a dirge ; The waning moon ; To the moon ; Death (death is here, and death is there) ; The world's wanderers ; Time long past ; An allegory ; The witch of Atlas ; Epipsychidion ; Song (rarely, rerely comest thou) ; To night ; Time ; To Emilia Viviani ; To---(music, when soft voices die) ; To---(when passion's trance is overpast) ; Mutability (the flower that smiles today) ; A lament ; Sonnet : political greatness ; Adonais ; from Hellas. Life may change, but it may fly not ; Worlds on worlds are rolling ever ; Darkness has dawned in the east ; The world's great age begins anew / Evening ; To---(one word is too often profaned) ; On Keats ; Tomorrow ; Remembrance ; To Edward Williams ; Music ; Lines (when the lamp is shattered) ; With a guitar : to Jane ; To Jane ; from Charles the first a widow bird sate mourning for her love ; A dirge ; Lines (we meet not as we parted) ; The isle ; from A defense of poetry
Imitation of Spenser ; To Byron ; To Chatterton ; Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain ; Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left prison ; To a young lady who sent me a laurel crown ; How many bards gild the lapses of time ; Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; As from the darkening gloom a silver dove ; Sonnet to solitude ; To one who has been long in city pent ; Oh! how I love on a fair summer's eve ; I stood tiptoe upon a little hill ; Sleep and poetry ; Addressed to Benjamin Robert Haydon ; To G.A.W. ; Stanzas (in a drear-nighted December) ; Happy is England ; On the grasshopper and the cricket ; After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains ; Written on the blank space at the end of Chaucer's tale of "The floure and the lefe" ; On a picture of Leander ; To Leigh Hunt, esq. ; On seeing the Elgin marbles ; On the sea ; Lines (unfelt, unheard, unseen) ; On Leigh Hunt's poem "The story of Rimini" ; When I have fears that I may cease to be ; On sitting down to read "King Lear" once again ; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern ; Robin Hood ; To the Nile ; To Spenser ; The human seasons ; Endymion ; Isabella, or The pot of basil ; To Homer ; Fragment of an ode to Maia ; To Ailsa Rock ; Fancy ; Ode (bards of passion and of mirth) ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode on indolence ; La belle dame sans merci ; On fame ; Another on fame ; To sleep ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Lamia ; The Eve of St. Agnes ; The Eve of St. Mark ; Hyperion ; To Autumn ; To Fannie ; Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ; from Keats letters to Benjamin Bailey ; To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To John Taylor ; To James Augustus Hessey ; To George and Georgiana Keats ; To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To Percy Bysshe Shelley
The story of Rimini. from Canto III ; To Hampstead ; To the grasshopper and the cricket ; The Nile ; Mahmoud ; Song of fairies robbing orchard ; Abou Ben Adhem and the angel ; The glove and the lions ; Rondeau ; The fish, the man, and the spirit ; Hearing music ; The old lady ; Getting up on cold mornings ; from On the realities of imagination ; A "now," descriptive of a hot day ; Shaking hands ; from Dreams on the borders of the land of poetry . I. The demands of poetry ; II. My bower ; III. On a bust of Bacchus / Of the sight of shops. from Part II ; Proem to selection from Keats's poetry / from Crabbe's poems ; from Alison's Essays on the nature and principles of taste ; from Wordsworth's The excursion ; from Wordsowrth's The white doe of Rylstone ; from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Canto the third / Endymion : a poetic romance by John Keats
The midnight wind ; Was it some sweet device of faery ; It from my lips some angry accents fell ; Childhood ; The old familiar faces ; Hester ; The three graves ; The gipsy's malison ; On an infant dying as soon as born ; She is going ; Letter to Wordsworth ; from Characters of dramatic writers contemporary with Shakespeare. Thomas Heywood ; John Webster ; John Ford ; George Chapman ; Francis Beaumont-- John Fletcher / from On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation ; The south-sea house ; Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago ; The two races of men ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist ; Mackery End, in Hertfordshire ; Dream children ; A dissertation upon roast pig ; Old China ; Poor relations ; Sanity of true genius ; The death of Coleridge
from Gebir book I ; Rose Aylmer ; Child of a day, thou knowest not ; For an epitaph at Fiesole ; Lyrics to Ianthe. Homage ; On the smooth brow and clustering hair ; Heart's-ease ; It often comes into my head ; All tender thoughts that e'er possess'd ; Thou hast not raised, Ianthe, such desire ; Pleasure! Why thus desert the heart ; Renunciation ; You smiled, you spoke, and I believed ; So late removed from him she swore ; I held her hand, the pledge of bliss ; Absence ; Flow, precious tears! Thus shall my rival know ; Mile is the parting year, and sweet ; Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives ; Here ever since you went abroad ; Years after ; She I love (alas in vain!) ; No, my own love of other years ; I wonder now that youth remains ; Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass ; Years, many parti-colored years ; Well I remember how you smiled / A Fiesolan Idyl -- from The citation and examination of William Shakespeare. The maid's lament ; Upon a sweet-briar / from Pericles and Aspasia. Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens ; I will not love ; The death of Artemidora ; Life passes not as some men say ; Little Aglae to her father, on her statue being called like her ; We mind not how the sun in the mid-sky ; Sappho to Hesperus ; Dirce / On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia ; To Wordsworth ; To Joseph Ablett ; To the sister of Elia ; On his own Agamemnon and Iphigeneia ; I cannot tell, not I, why she ; You tell me I must come again ; Remain, ah not in youth alone ; "You must give back," her mother said ; The maid I love ne'er thought of me ; Very true, the linnets sing ; To a painter ; Dull is my verse : not even thou ; Sweet was the song that youth sang once ; To sleep ; Why, why repine ; Mother, I cannot mind my wheel ; To a bride, Feb. 17, 1846 ; One year ago my path was green ; Yes; I write verses now and then ; The leaves are falling; so am I ; The place where soon I think to lie ; Give me the eyes that look on mine ; Twenty years hence my eyes may grow ; Proud word you never spoke ; Alas, how soon the hours are over ; My hopes retire, my wishes as before ; Various the roads of life; in one ; It is not better at an early hour ; Pursuits! alas, I now have none ; With an album ; The day returns, my natal day ; How many voices gaily sing ; To Robert Browning ; from The Hellenics. On the Hellenics ; Thrasymedes and Eunöe ; Iphigeneia and Agamemnon ; The Hamadryad / Shakespeare and Milton ; To youth ; To age ; The chrysolites and rubies Bacchus brings ; So then, I feel not deeply ; On music (many love music but for music's sake) ; Death stands above me ; On his seventy-fifth birthday ; I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson ; To E. Arundell ; Age ; To his young rose an old man said ; Nay, thank me not again for those ; One lovely name adorns my song ; Separation ; All is not over while the shade ; God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers ; Thou needst not pitch upon my hat ; To a cyclamen ; On Southey's death ; The three roses ; Lately our songsters loiter'd in green lanes ; from Heroic Idyls Theseus and Hippolyta ; They are sweet flowers that only blow by night ; Memory ; An aged man who loved to doze away ; To my ninth decade ; from Imaginary conversations. Tiberius and Vipsania ; Marcellus and Hannibal ; Metellus and Marius ; Leofric and Godiva / from Pericles and Aspasia. Pericles to Aspasia ; Aspasia to Pericles ; Aspasia to Cleone / The Pentameron. from Fifth day's interview. The dream of Boccaccio ; from On the statue of Ebenezer Elliott
Beneath the Cypress shade ; from Headlong Hall. Hail to the Headlong ; from Nightmare Abbey. Seamen three! what men be ye? ; from Maid Marian. For the slender beech and the sapling oak ; Though I be now a gray, gray friar ; Oh! bold Robin Hood is a forester good ; Ye woods, that oft at sultry noon / Margaret Love Peacock ; from The misfortunes of Elphin. The circling of the mead horns ; The war song of Dinas Vawr / from Crochet Castle. In the days of old ; From Gryll Grange. Love and age / from Rural rides / from Characters of Shakespear's plays. Hamlet ; On familiar style ; The fight ; On going a journey ; My first acquaintance with poets ; On the feeling of immortality in youth / Confessions of an English opium eater. from Preliminary confessions ; The pleasures of opium ; from Introduction to the pains of opium ; The pains of opium / On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth ; from Recollections of Charles Lamb ; Style. from Part 1 ; from Autobiographic sketches. The affliction of childhood ; from Suspiria de profundis. Levana and our ladies of sorrow ; Savannah-la-Mar / from The poetry of Pope. Literature of knowledge and literature of power ; The English mail-coach. Section I--The glory of motion ; Section II--The vision of sudden death ; Secton III--Dream-fugue
Lines (write it in gold--a spirit of the sun) ; from The bride's tragedy. Poor old pilgrim misery ; A ho! a ho! / from The second brother. Strew not earth with empty stars ; from Torrismond. How many times do I love thee, dear? ; from Death's jest book. To sea, to sea! ; The swallow leaves her nest ; If thou wilt ease thine heart ; Lady, was it fair of thee ; A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet ; Old Adam, the carrion crow ; We do lie beneath the grass / r Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The boding dreams ; Dream-pedlary ; Let the dew the flowers fill / from The Christian year. First Sunday after Trinity ; Twentieth Sunday after Trinity / United States / Song ; Faithless Nelly Gray ; Fair Ines ; Ruth ; I remember, I remember ; The stars are with the voyager ; Silence ; False poets and true ; Song (there is dew for the flow'ret) ; Autumn ; Ballad (it was not in the winter) ; The dream of Eugene Aram, the murderer ; The death-bed ; Sally Simpkin's lament ; The song of the shirt ; The bridge of sighs ; The lay of the laborer ; Stanzas (farewell, life! My senses swim) ; Queen Mab / from The troubador. Spirits, that walk and wail tonight ; Oh fly with me! 'tis passion's hour / Time's song ; from Letters from Teignmouth. I--our ball ; from Every-day characters. The belle of the ball-room ; Tell him I love him yet ; Fairy song ; Stanzas (o'er yon churchyard the storm may lower) ; The talented man ; Stanzas on seeing the speaker asleep
The song of the western men ; Clovelly ; The first fathers ; Mawgan of Melhuach ; Featherstone's doom ; The silent tower of Bottreaux ; "Pater vester pascit illa" ; Death song ; Are they not all ministering spirits? ; Queen Guennivar's round ; To Alfred Tennyson / from Noctes Ambrosaine / A dirge ; England's dead ; The graves of a household ; The landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England ; The homes of England / The sword chant of Thorstein Raudi ; Jeanie Morrison ; My heid is like to rend, Willie ; The forester's carol ; Song (if to thy heart I were as near) / Song (child, is thy father dead?) ; Battle song ; The press ; Preston Mills ; Spenserian ; A poet's epitaph ; Sabbath morning ; The way broad-leaf ; Religion ; Plaint / The sea ; The stormy petrel ; The hunter's song ; Life ; Peace! what do tears avail ; A poet's thought ; The poet's song to his wife ; Inscription for a fountain ; A petition to time / Song (she is not fair to outward view) ; An old man's wish ; Whither is gone the wisdom and the power ; November ; Night ; To Shakespeare ; May, 1840 ; "Multum dilexit" ; Homer ; Prayer
from Windsor Forest ; from An essay on criticism. Part I ; from An essay on man. Epistle I / from Preface to Shakespeare ; The lives of the English poets from Pope ; Letter to Macpherson / from Reflections on the revolution in France
Woods, George Benjamin, 1878-1958.
Anne, Countess of Winchilsea -- Thomas Parnell -- Allan Ramsay -- Allan Ramsay -- William Hamilton of Bangour -- David Mallet -- John Dyer -- James Thomson -- James Thompson -- James Thomson.
Edward Young -- Edward Young -- Robert Blair -- William Shenstone -- Mark Akenside -- Mark Akenside -- William Collins -- Thomas Gray. -- Thomas Warton -- Thomas Warton -- Joseph Warton -- James Macpherson -- Richard Hurd -- Horace Walpole.
Thomas Percy -- James Beattie -- Thomas Chatterton -- Thomas Chatterton -- William Beckford -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- William Cowper -- George Crabbe -- William Lisle Bowles -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake -- William Blake.
Robert Burns.
Samuel Rogers -- William Godwin -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth -- William Wordsworth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -- Robert Southey. -- Thomas Campbell. The lake of the dismal swamp ; Thomas Moore -- Thomas Moore -- Thomas Moore -- Charles Wolfe.
Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott -- Joanna Baillie -- Allan Cunningham -- James Hogg.
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron -- George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley.
John Keats.
James Henry Leigh Hunt -- James Henry Leigh Hunt -- Francis Jeffrey -- John Wilson Croker.
Charles Lamb -- Charles Lamb.
Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor -- Walter Savage Landor.
Thomas Love Peacock -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Thomas Love Peacock -- William Cobbett. -- William Hazlitt -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas De Quincey.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- John Keble -- John Keble -- Thomas Hood -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed.
Robert Stephen Hawker -- John Wilson "Christopher North" -- Felicia Dorothea Heman -- William Motherwell -- Ebenezer Elliott -- Bryan Waller Procter, "Barry Cornwall" -- Hartley Coleridge.
Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- Edmund Burke.
edited by George Benjamin Woods.
1950
English poetry and prose of the Romantic movement
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