©1996.
A collection of over 100 poems selected specifically for memorization, emcompassing a wide variety of genres, structures, and patterns, and drawn
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Academy of American Poets,
9781885983152
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Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize
Sonnets: Sonnet / At the round Earths imagin'd corners / On first looking into Chapman's Homer / New colossus / Lucifer in starlight / On his blindness / Sonnet #18 / Sonnet #55 / Ozymandias / Compose upon Westminster bridge / Tears, idle tears / Song of myself, #11 / Widow's lament on springtime / Slumber did my spirit seal / They flee from me / Cat and the moon / Song of wandering Aengus / Braham / From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / World / To the virgins, to make much of time / To an athlete dying young / If / Up-hill / Do not go gentle into that good night / Go, lovely rose! / Eagle and the mole / Second coming
Tales: Lord Randall / My last duchess / Jabberwocky / Kubla Khan / anyone live in a pretty how town / Road not taken / Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Oxen / Le belle dame sans merci / Owl and the pussy-cat / Richard Cory / Apple gathering / Woodspurge / All the world's a stage / Casey at the bat / Adlestrop / From Snow-bound / Meditations: Dover beach / Stanzas / To a waterfowl / From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / Narrow fellow in the grass / Because I could not stop for death / Mending wall / Hyla brook / Darkling thrush / Chambered nautilus / Spring and fall / To autumn / On his seventy-fifth birthday / Snow-flakes / Tide rises, the tide falls / Shiloh / Animals / House on the hill / From Adonais / Not waving but drowning / Mnemosyne / Ulysses / From In memoriam / Kraken / Noiseless patient spider
Hollander, John.
Elizabeth Bishop -- John Donne -- John Keats -- Emma Lazarus -- George Meredith -- John Milton / Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- William Wordsworth -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman -- William Carlos Williams -- WIlliam Wordsworth -- Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats --Counsels: April mortality / Leonie Adams -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edward Fitzgerald -- George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- A.E. Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- Christina Rossetti -- Dylan Thomas -- Edmund Waller -- Elinor Wylie -- William Butler Yeats.
Anonymous -- Robert Browning -- Lewis Carroll -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- E.E. Cummings -- Robert Frost -- Thomas Gray -- Thomas Hardy -- John Keats -- Edward Lear -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- William Shakespeare -- Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Edward Thomas -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Matthew Arnold -- Emily Bronte -- William Cullen Bryant -- George G.N., Lord Byron -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- Spring pools / Robert Frost -- Thomas Hardy -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- John Keats -- Walter Savage Landor -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Herman Melville -- Edwin Muir -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Stevie Smith -- Trumbull Stickney -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman.
edited, with an introduction, by John Hollander.
1996
Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize
2004.
1st ed.
A collection of nearly sixty poems dealing with revenge and forgiveness, plus suggested readings about each contributing poet. Revenge and forgiv
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Henry Holt,
9780805073768
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Revenge and forgiveness : an anthology of poems
"My heart, you might pierce it and take it" : song / Only cherries? / Dogs / Enemies / Say you love me / Sugarmother's daughter dreams / First memory / Revenge fable / Grief / Mine enemy is growing old / Revenge / A curse on a thief / "I will write songs against you" / A curse on mine-owners -- Sonnet XC / "Envenomed are my songs" / Revenge / Bitter fruit of the tree / Hygiene / Envy / A ritual to read to each other / Catch / Sea of faith / To a bad heart / Blink / Stronger lessons / A pact / Poem / To a terrorist / The minefield / What they wanted / Becoming Milton / Hero / From Henry V, act IV, scene 1 / No sorry / Another vigil at San Quentin / Prayer / Why people murder / Kissie Lee / Poison / Electrocuting an elephant / Malediction / The appartition / Note from a loving wife / "I had never seen her so angry" / Wheels / Any lover to any beloved / You called me corazón / Quatrain : forgive me not / Jerusalem / Forgiveness / The Jewish time bomb / Mending wall / Sonnet XXXV / Love after love / Let there be new flowering
Vecchione, Patrice.
from a Quechuan myth -- Kenneth Patchen -- Kat Meads -- Wendell Berry -- Molly Peacock -- Patrice Vecchione -- Louise Gluck -- Ted Hughes -- Gaius Valerius Catullus -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Herrick -- X.J. Kennedy -- Charles Reznikoff -- William Shakespeare -- Heinrich Heine -- Charles Henry Webb -- Sterling A. Brown -- Toni Mirosevich -- Edmund Spenser -- William Stafford -- George Bilgere -- John Brehm -- Tim Reynolds -- Cecilia Woloch -- Walt Whitman -- Ezra Pound -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Stephen Dunn -- Diane Thiel -- Victor H. Bausch -- Coleman Barks -- Semezdin Mehmedinovic -- William Shakespeare -- Catherine Bowman -- Alison Luterman -- Francisco X. Alarcón -- Ellen Bass -- Margaret Walker -- William Heyen -- George Bradley -- Barry Spacks -- John Donne -- Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- Gary Young -- Sarah Rabkin -- Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- Sandra Cisneros -- Lilla Cabot Perry -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Morton Marcus -- Yehuda Amichai -- Robert Frost -- William Shakespeare -- Derek Walcott -- Lucille Clifton.
edited by Patrice Vecchione.
2004
Revenge and forgiveness : an anthology of poems
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