DOVER-THRIFT-EDITIONS
100 Favorite
English and Irish
Poems
Edited by
CLARENCE C. STROWBRIDGE
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Mineola, New York
Contents
Anonymous (late Middle Ages)
Lord Randal
Sir Patrick Spens
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2
Edmund Spenser (1552P-1599)
Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")
4
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Sonnet 1 from Astrophil and Stella ("Loving in truth, and fain
in verse my love to show")
5
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
6
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
7
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")
Sonnet 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")
Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth")
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
There Is a Garden in Her Face
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John Donne (1572P-1631)
The Good Morrow
Song ("Go and catch a falling star")
Holy Sonnet 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have
called thee")
12
13
14
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Song: To Celia
14
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
15
George Herbert (1593-1633)
The Pulley
16
Thomas Carew (1595-1639)
A Song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows")
16
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Song ("Go, lovely Rose")
17
John Milton (1608-1674)
On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
18
18
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
19
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
To Althea, from Prison
20
20
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
The Retreat
21
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress
22
John Dryden (1631-1700)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
24
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Ode on Solitude
26
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William Blake (1757-1827)
The Tyger
London
27
28
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart's in the Highlands
28
29
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Upon Westminster Bridge
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
Daffodils
My Heart Leaps Up
The World Is Too Much with Us
29
30
31
31
32
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan
32
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Abou Ben Adhem
34
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
The Destruction of Sennacherib
So We'll Go No More a Roving
34
35
36
37
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
When the Lamp Is Shatter'd
Music, When Soft Voices Die
37
38
40
40
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John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
Ode on a Grecian Urn
41
41
42
42
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnet 6 ("Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand")
Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")
44
44
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Crossing the Bar
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
Tears, Idle Tears
O, Yet We Trust that Somehow Good (section 54 of
In Memoriam A. H. H.)
Flower in the Crannied Wall
45
46
47
49
49
50
50
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
51
52
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach
53
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Woodspurge
54
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Lucifer in Starlight
55
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A Birthday
Remember
55
56
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
56
William Morris (1834-1896)
An Apology
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57
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Love and Sleep
)
59
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Hap
59
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur
Hurrahing in Harvest
60
60
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Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Nightingales
61
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Invictus
62
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Requiem
62
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
To an Athlete Dying Young
Loveliest of Trees
When I Was One-and-Twenty
63
64
64
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Gunga Din
Recessional
If
65
67
68
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Wild Swans at Coole
Easter 1916
69
70
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
The Listeners
72
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The Owl
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73
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Cargoes
Sea Fever
74
74
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Snake
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75
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
The Soldier
77
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
78
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Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Returning, We Hear the Larks
79
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Greater Love
80
80
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
When I'm Killed
81
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts
82
Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
83
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
84
Alphabetical List of Titles
85
Alphabetical List of First Lines
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