The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-speaking WorldRichard Aldington |
Contents
A LETTER TO MY PUBLISHER | 1 |
THE MILLERE WAS A STOUT CARL | 11 |
FROM The Legend of Good Women | 17 |
JOHN SKELTON 1460?1529 | 26 |
WILLIAM DUNBAR 14601520? | 32 |
FROM The Death of Robin Hood | 38 |
Joseph Was an Old Man | 58 |
ANONYMOUS 15TH16TH CENTURY | 64 |
The Rigs o Barley | 641 |
My Love Shes but a Lassie | 647 |
A Mans a Man for A That | 653 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 17701850 | 655 |
ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC | 661 |
FROM Tintern Abbey | 667 |
THE ROSE IS FAIREST WHEN TIS BUDDING NEW | 673 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 679 |
SIR THOMAS WYATT 15031542 | 76 |
NICHOLAS BRETON 15421626 | 82 |
SIR EDWARD DYER 1545?1607 | 89 |
MAMMON EMOVED WAS WITH INWARD WRATH | 118 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 15541586 | 125 |
A Mind Content | 142 |
FROM The Sixth Book of Homers Iliads | 148 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 154 |
To His Coy Love | 160 |
DEAR WHY SHOULD YOU COMMAND | 168 |
FROM The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great | 174 |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616 | 180 |
PARDON GODDESS OF THE NIGHT | 186 |
66 | 191 |
WILL YOU BUY ANY TAPE | 197 |
BEING YOUR SLAVE WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND | 203 |
NONE | 206 |
WILLIAM ALEXANDER EARL OF STIRLING 1567?1640 | 212 |
Now Winter Nights | 218 |
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN 15701638 | 224 |
OH WHITHER AM I RAPT | 230 |
JOHN DAY 15P1640? | 242 |
JOHN DONNE 15731631 | 244 |
The Apparition | 250 |
Satire II | 259 |
RICHARD BARNEFIELD 15741627 | 265 |
THOMAS HEYWOOD 1575?1650? | 271 |
CYRIL TOURNEUR 1575?1626 | 273 |
CareCharming Sleep | 279 |
Orpheus with His Lute | 286 |
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT 15831627 | 293 |
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 15841616 | 299 |
GILES EARLE 15?16? | 305 |
GEORGE WITHER 15881667 | 311 |
GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER 1588?1623 | 318 |
FROM Visions | 324 |
To Virgins | 331 |
Tell Me No More How Fair | 338 |
FROM A Rapture | 351 |
WILLIAM HABINGTON 16051654 | 378 |
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 16061668 | 384 |
FROM A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle Comus | 397 |
To the Lord General Cromwell | 407 |
FROM Samson Agonistes | 413 |
I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart | 422 |
THIS STURDY SQUIRE HE HAD as well | 429 |
RICHARD CRASHAW 1613?1649 | 430 |
JOHN CLEVELAND 16131658 | 440 |
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 447 |
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678 | 455 |
HENRY VAUGHAN 16221695 | 462 |
THOMAS STANLEY 16251678 | 470 |
JOHN DRYDEN 16311700 | 478 |
FROM MacFlecknoe | 490 |
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY 16391701 | 497 |
JOHN OLDHAM 16531683 | 507 |
ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA 1661P1720 | 510 |
FROM The Mourning Bride 1697 | 520 |
HENRY CAREY 16871743 | 527 |
FROM Eloisa to Abelard | 535 |
Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton | 542 |
ROBERT BLAIR 16991746 | 543 |
HENRY FIELDING 17071754 | 551 |
WILLIAM SHENSTONE 17141763 | 558 |
FRANCIS FAWKES 17201777 | 570 |
JANE ELLIOT 17271805 | 582 |
JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL 17301783 | 588 |
SAMUEL BISHOP 17311795 | 596 |
MICHAEL BRUCE 17461767 | 601 |
ANONYMOUS 18TH CENTURY | 608 |
Ah SunFlower | 614 |
To a Louse | 629 |
FROM Christabel | 698 |
ROBERT BROWNING 18121889 | 702 |
Do You Remember Me? | 707 |
JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT 17841859 | 712 |
CHARLES WOLFE 17911823 | 739 |
JOHN CLARE 17931864 | 764 |
HARTLEY COLERIDGE 17961849 | 795 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 18061861 | 815 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 18071882 | 823 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894 | 830 |
ALFRED TENNYSON LORD TENNYSON 18091892 | 845 |
THE SPLENDOUR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS | 858 |
ROBERT HINCKLEY MESSINGER 18111874 | 882 |
The Lost Leader | 884 |
Women and Roses | 890 |
Fra Lippo Lippi | 898 |
Nay but You Who Do Not Love Her | 908 |
Epilogue | 916 |
A Little While a Little While | 922 |
WALT WHITMAN 18191892 | 927 |
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd | 933 |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd | 940 |
To a Common Prostitute | 948 |
To | 954 |
The Scholar Gipsy | 964 |
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY 18231892 | 973 |
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 18281882 | 986 |
CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI 18301894 | 993 |
A Birthday | 997 |
Title Divine Is Mine | 1003 |
FROM Sunday up the River | 1009 |
FROM The Earthly Paradise | 1015 |
THOMAS HARDY 18401928 | 1045 |
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT 18401922 | 1051 |
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 | 1058 |
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 18441889 | 1059 |
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 18501894 | 1070 |
JOHN DAVIDSON 18571909 | 1077 |
FRANCIS THOMPSON 18591907 | 1082 |
When Helen Lived | 1091 |
ERNEST DOWSON 18671900 | 1102 |
LAURENCE BINYON B 1869 | 1109 |
JOHN MCCRAE 18721918 | 1115 |
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON 18741936 | 1121 |
JOHN MASEFIELD B 1878 | 1128 |
WALLACE STEVENS B 1879 | 1134 |
JAMES STEPHENS B 1882 | 1140 |
WILSON MACDONALD B 18? | 1145 |
EZRA LOOMIS POUND B 1885 | 1153 |
ROBINSON JEFFERS B 1887 | 1160 |
JOHN CROWE RANSOM B 1888 | 1167 |
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT B 1888 | 1168 |
CONRAD AIKEN B 1889 | 1174 |
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY B 1892 | 1180 |
MARK VAN DOREN B 1894 | 1187 |
EDWARD DAVISON B 1898 | 1192 |
ROY CAMPBELL B 1902 | 1198 |
DYLAN THOMAS B 1914 | 1204 |
26 | 1220 |
INDEX OF POETS | 1226 |
31 | 1235 |
271 | 1236 |
1081 | 1239 |
32 | 1244 |
LOVE TO faults is alwAYS BLIND | 1248 |
887 | 1249 |
145 | 1251 |
Pleasures Beauty | 1254 |
33385 | 1255 |
SIR FRANCIS KYNASTON 15871642 | 1262 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1269 |
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