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    100 Best-Loved Poems

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    by Philip Smith (Editor)

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    Table of Contents

    BALLADS
     Lord Randal
     Sir Patrick Spens
    SIR THOMAS WYATT
     The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
    CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
     The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
     "Sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")"
     "Sonnet LXXIII ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")"
     "Sonnet XCIV ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")"
     "Sonnet CXVI ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")"
    THOMAS NASHE
     "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss"
    JOHN DONNE
     The Good Morrow
     "Holy Sonnet X ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee")"
     "Holy Sonnet XIV ("Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you")"
    BEN JONSON
     To Celia
     On My First Son
    ROBERT HERRICK
     "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
     Upon Julia's Clothes
    GEORGE HERBERT
     Love Bade Me Welcome
    EDMUND WALLER
     "Song ("Go, lovely Rose -")"
    JOHN MILTON
     On His Blindness
     On His Deceased Wife
    SIR JOHN SUCKLING
     "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?"
    RICHARD LOVELACE
     "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
    ANDREW MARVELL
     To His Coy Mistress
    HANRY VAUGHAN
     The Retreat
    THOMAS GRAY
     Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
     "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"
    WILLIAM BLAKE
     The Lamb
     The Sick Rose
     The Tyger
     London
    ROBERT BURNS
     To a Mouse
     "A Red, Red Rose"
    WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
     "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802"
     "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
     "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon"
    SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
     Kubla Khan
    LEIGH HUNT
     Abou Ben Adhem
     Jenny Kiss'd Me
    "GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON"
     "She Walks in Beauty"
     The Destruction of Sennacherib
     "So We'll Go No More a Roving"
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
     Ozymandias
     Ode to the West Wind
     To a Skylark
    WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
     Thanatopsis
    JOHN KEATS
     On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
     Ode to a Nightingale
     Ode on a Grecian Urn
     La Belle Dame sans Merci
     "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
    RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     Hymn: sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument
    ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
     "Sonnet XLIII ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")"
    HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
     The Village Blacksmith
     The Children's Hour
    JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
     Barbara Frietchie
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
     To Helen
     The Raven
     Annabel Lee
    "OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR."
     Old Ironsides
     The Chambered Nautilus
    "ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON"
     The Charge of the Light Brigade
     Crossing the Bar
    ROBERT BROWNING
     My Last Duchess
    WALT WHITMAN
     I Hear America Singing
     O Captain! My Captain!
     A Noiseless Patient Spider
    MATTHEW ARNOLD
     Dover Beach
    GEORGE MEREDITH
     Lucifer in Starlight
    EMILY DICKINSON
     "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
     "This Is My Letter to the World"
     "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"
     "Because I Could No Stop for Death"
    CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
     A Birthday
    LEWIS CARROLL
     Jabberwocky
    THOMAS HARDY
     The Darkling Thrush
    GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
     The Windhover
     Pied Beauty
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
     Requiem
    A. E. HOUSMAN
     To an Athlete Dying Young
    RUDYARD KIPLING
     Gunga Din
     Recessional
     If -
    WILLIAM BUTLER YEARTS
     The Lake Isle of Innisfree
     When You Are Old
     The Second Coming
    EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
     Richard Cory
     Miniver Cheevy
    ROBERT FROST
     The Road Not Taken
     Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    CARL SANDBURG
     Chicago
     Fog
    WALLACE STEVENS
     The Emperor of Ice-Cream
    WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
     The Red Wheelbarrow
    EZRA POUND
     The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
    MARIANNE MOORE
     Poetry
    EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
     First Fig
    WILFRED OWEN
     Anthem for Doomed youth
    E. E. CUMMINGS
     "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
    W. H. AUDEN
     Musée des Beaux Arts
    DYLAN THOMAS
     Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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    Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
    Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud"); Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind"; Longfellow: "The Children's Hour"; Poe: "The Raven"; Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"; Dickinson: "This Is My Letter to the World"; Yeats: "When You Are Old"; Frost: "The Road Not Taken"; Millay: "First Fig."
    Works by many other poets — Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them — are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.

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