2000.
Contains information on and examples of the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the sonnet, the ballad, blank verse, the heroic couplet, and th
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Norton,
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9780393321784
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The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms
Strand, Mark, 1934-2014.
Boland, Eavan.
edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland.
2000
The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms
©2010.
1st ed.
A collection of poems by one hundred poets, including pieces from T.S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William
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Harper,
9780061923050
9780061923067
9780062009739
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Till I end my song : a gathering of last poems
Prothalamion / The ocean to Cynthia / Astrophil and Stella : "Who will in fairest book" / "Down in the depth of mine iniquity" / Last verses : "So well I love thee" / Doctor Faustus / The tempest / A hymn to God the father / Pleasure reconciled to virtue / The white island, or place of the blest / Love (III) / Dirge / Of the last verses in the book / Samson Agonistes / On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost / The night / The secular masque / Upon nothing / The day of judgment / The dunciad (Book IV) / On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / The cast-away / To the accuser who is the god of this world / Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg / Epitaph / Memory / On this day I complete by thirty-sixth year / The triumph of life / This living hand / Terminus / Elegiac verse / The rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám / Crossing the bar / Asolando / Last lines / Night on the prairies / Shelley's vision / Growing old / A ballad of past meridian / Insomnia / Passing away / The saddest noise / The story of Sigurd the Volsung / Sonnet : between two seas / He never expected much / To R.B. / Low barometer / Requiem / The ballad of Reading Gaol / They say my verse is sad / The fabulists / Cuchulain comforted / The dark angel / Why he was there / Monsieur qui passe / One more brevity / Liberty / The lonely death / Of mere being / The world contracted to a recognizable image / Shadows / Ejaculation / I have been warned / Little Gidding / Tetélestai / A worm fed on the heart of Corinth / To dear Daniel / Futility / The dragonfly / Fish food : an obituary to Hart Crane / The broken tower / Black March / Heart of autumn / Missing dates / A lullaby / Charon / In a dark time / To Walker Evans / Souls lake / Sonnet / Grief was to go out, away / Last poem / Bone-flower elegy / The first night of fall and falling rain / Space walking / Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another / Poem on his birthday / Henry's understanding / Thinking of the lost world / Epilogue / Language ah now you have me / A silence / Aristocrats / "The darkness and the light are both alike to thee" / Proverb / In view of the fact / Days of 1994 / A winter daybreak above Vence / News from the dogs / The veiled suite
Bloom, Harold.
Edmund Spenser -- Walter Ralegh -- Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- Robert Herrick -- George Herbert -- James Shirley -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- John Dryden -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Samuel Johnson -- William Cowper -- William Blake -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Robert Browning -- Emily Jane Brontë -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Matthew Arnold -- George Meredith -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti -- Emily Dickinson -- William Morris -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Thomas Hardy -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Robert Bridges -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- A.E. Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Lionel Johnson -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Charlotte Mew -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Adelaide Crapsey -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- D.H. Lawrence -- Elinor Wylie -- Robinson Jeffers -- T.S. Eliot -- Conrad Aiken -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Samuel Greenberg -- Wilfred Owen -- Louise Bogan -- John Brooks Wheelwright -- Hart Crane -- Stevie Smith -- Robert Penn Warren -- William Empson -- W.H. Auden -- Louis MacNiece -- Theodore Roethke -- James Agee -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Jean Garrigue -- F.T. Prince -- Robert Hayden -- Delmore Schwartz -- R.S. Thomas -- May Swenson -- Dylan Thomas -- John Berryman -- Randall Jarrell -- Robert Lowell -- W.S. Graham -- Amy Clampitt -- Keith Douglas -- Anthony Hecht -- Kenneth Koch -- A.R. Ammons -- James Merrill -- James Wright -- Vicki Hearne -- Agha Shahid Ali.
edited with commentaries by Harold Bloom.
2010
Till I end my song : a gathering of last poems
c2013.
1st ed.
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite po
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Disney/Hyperion Books,
9781423108054
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Poems to learn by heart
The first book / Here I am, and other poems about the self: from The world is round / I am cherry alive / My shadow / Crying / O dear! How disgusting is life! / Bad morning / Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Don't worry if your job is small / It couldn't be done / Personal / A man said / Sonnet 94 / Dust of snow / If-- / from A drama of exile / Between what I see and what I say-- / Micah 6:8 --
I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family: Disobedience / Brother / Brother and sister / If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Andre / The parent / Bilingual/bilingüe / Ballad of Birmingham / Manners
I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love: Bee! I'm expecting you! / Vade mecum / Evil / A poison tree / Tableau / Voices rising / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / The dream keeper / A blessing / Invitation to love / 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / For Katrina's sun-dial / Liberty
I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches: The little elf / The fairies / I'd love to be a fairy's child / Some one / Under the bed / What's that? / from The masque of queens / Song of the ogres / The splendour falls on castle walls
Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems: Foolish questions / Way down South / There was an old man in a garden / There was an old person whose habits / Baby ate a microchip / from Through the looking-glass / Herbert Glerbett / The toys talk of the world / All about boys and girls / Some worlds inside of words / The tale of custard the dragon
It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school: Duty of the student / Gnome / Sick / Homework / Lucky trade / Bubble troubles / How to paint a donkey / The lesson / Theme for English B / if everything happens that can't be done
We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games: The secret sits / Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Block city / The girls in the circle / We real cool / Slam, dunk, & hook / Defender / Zuri at bat / Casey at the bat / Casey's revenge / May
Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war: Will, lost in a sea of trouble / The destruction of Sennacherib / Ozymandias / from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / Shiloh / Gettysburg Address / Charge of the light brigade / Ukase / When he was small, when he would fall / The unknown soldier / First they came for the Jews / from "Voice from Lemnos" / Peace
The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature: from "Auguries of innocence" / Happy thought / What are heavy? / Devotion / Will there really be a "morning"? / Ballad of the morning streets / who are you, little i / In beauty may I walk / Tommy / from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / Anecdote of the jar / The snow man / Winter trees / from The metamorphoses, Book I / The world / from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Young Lochinvar / The cremation of Sam McGee / Paul Revere's ride / Kubla Khan / Catch a little rhyme
Kennedy, Caroline.
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
by Caroline Kennedy -- Rita Dove -- Gertrude Stein ; Delmore Schwartz ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Galway Kinnell ; Edward Lear ; Langston Hughes ; Gary Soto ; anonymous ; Edgar Albert Guest ; Langston Hughes ; Stephen Crane ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Frost ; Rudyard Kipling ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Octavio Paz ;
A.A. Milne ; Mary Ann Hoberman ; Lewis Carroll ; Jeff Moss ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Ogden Nash ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Dudley Randall ; Elizabeth Bishop --
Emily Dickinson ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; William Blake ; Countee Cullen ; DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; William Butler Yeats ; Langston Hughes ; James Wright ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Saint Paul ; Henry van Dyke ; Janet S. Wong --
John Kendrick Bangs ; Rose Fyleman ; Robert Graves ; Walter de la Mare ; Penny Trzynka ; Florence Parry Heide ; Ben Jonson ; W.H. Auden ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
American folk rhyme ; anonymous ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Neal Levin ; Lewis Carroll ; Jack Prelutsky ; Katharine Pyle ; John Ciardi ; Richard Wilbur ; Ogden Nash --
Edward Anthony ; Samuel Beckett ; Shel Silverstein ; Jane Yolen ; Matthew M. Fredericks ; Janet S. Wong ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; E.E. Cummings --
Robert Frost ; Galway Kinnell ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Nikki Giovanni ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Linda Sue Park ; Nikki Grimes ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Grantland Rice ; John Updike --
Archilochos ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; William Shakespeare ; Herman Melville ; Abraham Lincoln ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Billy Rose ; Martin Niemöller ; Seamus Heaney ; Gerard Manley Hopkins --
William Blake ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christina Rossetti ; Robert Frost ; Emily Dickinson ; Amiri Baraka ; E.E. Cummings ; from the Navajo ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; William Shakespeare ; Wallace Stevens ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ovid ; William Brighty Rands -- Geoffrey Chaucer ; Sir Walter Scott ; Robert Service ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Eve Merriam.
Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
2013
Poems to learn by heart
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
9780674065680
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London : a history in verse
Confessio amantis -- The vision of piers plowman -- The Canterbury tales -- La male regle de T Hoccleue -- King Henry VI's triumphal entry into London -- London lickpenny -- Collyn Clout -- "London, thou art of townes A perse" -- "Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams" "Who list his wealth and ease retain" -- "London, hast thou accusèd me" -- The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- The lover to the Thames of London, to favour his lady passing thereon -- The manner of her will, and what she left to London and to all those in it, at her departing -- Prothalamion -- King Edward the first -- Tichborne's elegy -- Poly-olbion -- Henry VI, part II Henry V from Henry VIII -- Summer's last will and testament -- Skialetheia -- The devil in an ass On the famous voyage -- Satire 1 To Mr. E. G. Epithalamion made at Lincoln's inn Satire 4 Twickenham garden --
The sculler ; from Sir Gregory Nonsense's news from no place -- The city madam -- The knight of the burning pestle -- Letter to Ben Johnson On the tombs in Westminster Abbey -- London's progress -- Turner's dish of Lenten stuff, or a Gallimaufry -- London, look back -- An ode for him [Ben Jonson] His return to London His tears to Thamasis -- London sad London : an echo -- On the statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross On St. James's park, as lately improved by his majesty -- When the assault was intended to the city -- The cheaters cheated from The triumphs of London A song sung at the lord mayor's table in honour of the city and the goldsmith's company -- Cooper's hill -- The civil war -- To Althea, from prison : song -- London's resurrection -- A rhapsody -- The cries of London -- An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland -- Annus Mirabilis ; from MacFlecknoe -- In the fields of Lincoln's inn -- A letter from Artemisa in the town to Chloe in the country Song ("Quoth the duchess of Cleveland to counselor knight") A ramble in St. James's park --
A satire in imitation of the third of juvenal -- A winter wonder: or, The Thames frozen over, with remarks on the resort there -- The wonders of the deep -- A song -- A description of the morning A description of a city shower Clever Tom Clinch A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; from On poetry : a rhapsody -- Trivia : or, The art of walking the streets of London ; from The beggar's opera -- The fair lass of Islington -- The alley : an imitation of Spenser A farewell to London in the year 1715 Epistle to Miss Bount, on her leaving the town, after the coronation ; from The dunciad -- Six town eclogues -- On the prospect from Westminster bridge, March 1750 -- A description of London -- Hail, London! -- London -- London bridge Oranges and lemons "Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?" "Poussie, poussie, baudrons" "Up at Piccadilly oh!" "See-saw, sacradown" "Upon Paul's steeple stands a tree" "As I was going o'er London bridge" "As I was going o'er London bridge" [sic] "I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod" Pop goes the weasel -- The sweepers -- Description of an author's bedchamber -- The task -- Twon eclogues -- Song for the London volunteers West End fair -- The jolly young waterman Poll of wapping -- The gin-shop: or, A peep into prison --
London's summer morning -- Holy Thursday The chimney sweeper ; from Jerusalem -- London -- The farmer of Tilsbury Vale The reverie of poor Susan ; Composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802 ; from The prelude -- Horace in London -- To Hampstead Description of Hampstead -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; from Don Juan -- Letter to Maria Gisborne ; from Peter Bell the third -- Sonnet -- "To one who has been long in city pent" On seeing the Elgin marbles Lines on the Mermaid tavern -- Moral reflections on the cross of St. Paul's The lord mayor's show ; SSonnetto Vauxhall The workhouse clock : an allegory -- Scenes in London : Piccadilly-- Goodnight to the season -- Aurora Leigh -- In memoriam ; from Ode on the death of duke of Wellington Cleopatra's needle -- Have you been to the crystal palace? -- Waring -- There was an old person of Putney ; There was an old man of Blackheath ; There was a young person of Kew ; There was an old person of Bow ; There was a young lady of Greenwich ; There was an old person of Ealing ; There was an old person of Bromley ; There was an old person of Sheen ; There was an old man of Thames Ditton -- To the great metropolis ; In the great metropolis ; "Blessed are those who have not seen" ; "Ye flags of Piccadilly" --
The cries of London -- In a London drawingroom -- Strike of the London Cabmen -- St. James's street -- Lines written in Kensington gardens ; West London ; East London -- Tiber, Nile, and Thames -- A London fête -- Sunday at Hampstead -- A Cockney's evening song -- Bloomsbury -- A new song of the spring garden -- Beyond the last lamp ; The coronation ; In the British museum In St. Paul's a while ago Coming up Oxford street : evening A refusal To a tree in London Christmas in the Elgin room -- To a London sparrow -- London snow Trafalgar square -- London voluntaries ; from London types -- Impression du matin -- London Thirty bob a week In the isle of dogs Fog ; from The Thames embankment -- "From the wash the laundress sends" -- In London town -- A March day in London Straw in the street -- In partibus The river's tale London snow The craftsman ; from Epitaphs of the war -- London nights ; from Décor de théâtre ; London -- Vacillation -- London town By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross -- In Nunhead cemetery -- As I walked through London -- The embankment -- Portrait d'une femme The garden Simulacra ; from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Flat suburbs, S. W., in the morning ; from Guards Bombardment Hyde park at night, before the war Embankment at night, before the war Town in 1917 -- London streets Parting in wartime --
Monody on the demolition of Devonshire house -- The waste land ; from Sweeney Agonistes ; from Four quartets -- Fleet street -- St. Mary's, Kensington In the tube Hampstead heath Whitechapel Eros and Psyche -- "I am the ghost of Shadwell stair" -- Song from the bride of Smithfield East London cemetery -- The shop The searchlight -- Armistice Day, 1918 -- Tube station ; London Summer night at Hyde park corner Autumn The city : midday nocturne -- Suburb -- Homage to the British museum -- The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan hotel In Westminster abbey Parliament hill fields St. Saviour's, Aberdeen park, Highbury, London, N. The metropolitan railway Business girls N.W.5 & N.6 ; from Summoned by bells -- Autumn journal The British museum reading room Goodbye to London Charon -- Hampstead autumn Epilogue to a human drama -- Regent's park terrace Train to work -- London buses -- Memento mori -- First winter of war Battersea : after Dunkirk, June 3, 1940 London air-raid, 1940 --
Wentworth place : Keats grove -- Kew gardens -- Westminster abbey -- Redcliffe square ; from Winter and London -- Monmouth street -- Lonton architecture 1960s Lament for the "old swan," Notting hill gate -- The night city -- A tour of London -- The "bête noire" fragments -- The stations of King's cross -- Deceptions Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses -- To Londoners -- Street scene Soho : Saturday night -- Two black labourers on a London building site Beginning in a city, 1948 -- The tower of London -- Autobiography Talbot road -- Vauxhall Bottleneck -- Thomas Hardy at Westbourne park villas -- Rising damp Widening the Westway -- Fate playing Epiphany -- Omeros -- A202 -- The same power -- Churchill's funeral To the high court of parliament -- Parliament hill fields --
Cashpoint Charlie -- Miss Hamilton in London Londoner To Marilyn from London -- London songs ; from The shires -- The London poems -- The underground District and circle -- Rain journal : London : June 65 -- Outside Biba's -- In England -- Sunday Morning -- Tavistock square Bar Italia Bar Italia [sic] Notting hill -- Bunhill fields Hurricane drummers : self-aid in Haggerston -- Earls court -- Pleasure island, marble arch -- Lonely hearts After the lunch -- Perduta gente -- North London sonnet Exasperated piety -- Museum, 19 Princelet street, Spitalfields -- Toussaint L'Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth's Sonnet "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" Chilling out beside the Thames -- Island man -- The miracle at Shepherd's bush -- London plane -- Sonny's Lettah -- St. Bride's -- The river glideth of his own sweet will ; Poem on the underground --
Quentin Crisp as prime minister ; from Sainthood : elegies for Derek Jarman -- John Keats walks home following a night spent reading ; Homer with Cowden Clarke -- Woman seated in the underground, 1941 -- The London dissector -- Occupations of Bridewell ; Penal architecture ; The deadhouse -- Cockney -- Almost the equinox -- kensal rise to heaven From A to B and back again ; Malvern road -- Smash the windows -- The bombs, July 2005 -- Home -- River history -- The fires by the river -- KX -- Another Westminster bridge -- Yobbos! -- The tip -- German phenomenology makes me want to strip and run through north London -- Donjong heights -- Big skies over docklands -- "Girl with ridiculous earrings"
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John Gower William Langland Geoffrey Chaucer Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate Anon. (15th century) John Skelton Anon. (1500?) Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Anne Askew George Turberville Isabella Whitney Edmund Spenser George Peele Chidiock Tichborne Michael Drayton William Shakespeare Thomas Nashe Everard Guilpin Ben Jonson John Donne
John Taylor Philip Massinger Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Thomas Freeman W. Turner Abraham Holland Robert Herrick Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) Edmund Waller John Milton Thomas Jordan Sir John Denham Abraham Cowley Richard Lovelace Simon Ford Henry Vaughan Anon. (17th century) Andrew Marvell John Dryden Anon. (pub. 1680) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
John Oldham Anon. (1684) Anon. (1684) Pierre Antoine Motteux Jonathan Swift John Gay Anon. (pub. 1719) Alexander Pope Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Elizabeth Tollet John Bancks Anon. (1739) Samuel Johnson Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th-19th centuries) William Whitehead Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Charles Jenner Anna Letitia Barbauld Charles Dibdin Hannah More
Mary Robinson William Blake Joanna Baillie William Wordsworth James Smith and Horace Smith Leigh Hunt Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Hamilton Reynolds John Keats Thomas Hood Letitia Elizabeth Landon Winthrop Mackworth Praed Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred, Lord Tennyson Anon. (1851) Robert Browning Edward Lear Arthur Hugh Clogh
Anon. (19th century) George Eliot Anon. (1869) Frederick Locker-Lampson Matthew Arnold Dante Gabriel Rosetti Coventry Patmore James Thomson Henry S. Leigh Anon. (1893) Austin Dobson Thomas Hardy W. H. Hudson Robert Bridges W. E. Henley Oscar Wilde John Davidson A. E. Housman Mary E. Coleridge Amy Levy Rudyard Kipling Arthur Symons W. B. Yeats Lionel Johnson Charlotte Mew Laurence Binyon T. E. Hulme Ezra Pound D. H. Lawrence Frances Cornford
Siegfried Sassoon T. S. Eliot Isaac Rosenberg Richard Aldington Wilfred Owen Sylvia Townsend Warner John Rodker Robert Graves A. S. J. Tessimond Stevie Smith William Empson John Betjeman Louis MacNeice Stephen Spender Bernard Spencer Mervyn Peake Kenneth Allott Roy Fuller
Anne Ridler George Barker Alun Lewis Robert Lowell Nicholas Moore John Heath-Stubbs W. S. Graham Muriel Spark Keith Douglas D. J. Enright Philip Larkin Donald Davie Dannie Abse James Berry John Ashbery Thom Gunn Connie Bensley Peter Porter U. A. Fanthorpe Ted Hughes Derek Walcott Alan Brownjohn Ruth Fainlight Geoffrey Hill Sylvia Plath
Anne Stevenson Fleur Adcock John Fuller Ken Smith Seamus Heaney Lee Harwood Grey Gowrie Joseph Brodsky Derek Mahon Hugo Williams Iain Sinclair Mimi Khalvati Carol Rumens Wendy Cope Peter Reading Christopher Reid Gillian Allnutt John Agard Grace Nichols Charles Boyle Andrew Motion Linton Kwesi Johnson Jo Shapcott Michael Donaghy
Jeremy Reed John Stammers Carol Ann Duffy Alan Jenkins Jamie McKendrick Mick Imlah Sarah Maguire Michael Hofmann Maura Dooley David Kennedy Fred d'Aguiar Lavinia Greenlaw Glyn Maxwell Simon Armitage Alice Oswald Daljit Nagra Nick Laird Heather Phillipson Ben Borek Tom Chivers Ahren Warner
edited by Mark Ford.
2012
London : a history in verse
1985.
Contains 658 poems not longer than thirteen lines and written since the thirteenth century.
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Oxford University Press,
9780192141354
9780192820730
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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.
Kavanagh, P. J. (Patrick Joseph), 1931-
Michie, James.
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William Meredith (1919- ) / D.J. Enright (1920- ) / Howard Nemerov (1920- ) / Drummond Allison (1921-1943) / Richard Wilbur (1921- ) / Anthony Hecht (1922- ) / Philip Larkin(1922- ) / Alan Dugan (1923- ) / Robert Creeley (1926- ) / Elizabeth Jennings (1926- ) / James Merrill (1926- ) / Galway Kinnell (1927- ) / W.S. Merwin (1927- ) / James Michie (1927- ) / X.J. Kennedy (1929- ) / Ted Hughes (1930- ) / P.J. Kavanagh (1931- ) / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) / Adrian Mitchell (1932- ) / John Updike (1932- ) / James Simmons (1933- ) / Anne Stevenson(1933- ) / Seamus Heaney (1939- ) / Derek Mahon (1941- )
chosen and edited by P.J. Kavanagh and James Michie.
1985
The Oxford book of short poems
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