A treasury of great poems, English and American, from the foundations of the English spirit to the outstanding poetry of our own time, with lives of the poets and historical settings
Louis Untermeyer (Editor)
poetry
lviii pages, 1 leaf, 1288 pages, 1 leaf 22 cm
798794
The twenty-third psalm from The book of psalms
A time for everything from Ecclesiastes
The beatitudes from The gospel according to Saint Matthew
from The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
As I lay sleeping / Anonymous
Good company / Henry VIII
Sonnets from Idea / Michael Drayton
Sonnets ; This England from King Richard the Second ; Mercy from The merchant of Venice ; Thus with a kiss I die from Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
from Tamburlaine the great / Christopher Marlowe
To Celia (drink to me only with thine eyes) / Ben Jonson
The flea / John Donne
from Paradise lost / John Milton
Epitaph on his wife / John Dryden
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope
Introduction to Songs of innocence / William Blake. Partial contents cont'd: The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats
Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Remembrance / Emily Bronte
from Song of myself / Walt Whitman
from The pirates of penzance / W.S. Gilbert
from The ballad of reading gaol / Oscar Wilde
Five American folk songs: Dixie ; My old Kentucky home ; Frankie and Johnny ; Casey Jones ; John Henry
Four Negro spirituals: Joshua fit de battle of Jericho ; Steal away ; The crucifixion ; Water-boy
O world / George Santayana
Elegy in a country churchyard / G.K. Chesterton
Love on the farm / D.H. Lawrence
The soldier / Rupert Brooke
Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell
from The bridge / Hart Crane
An elementary school classroom in a slum / Stephen Spender