101 Best-Loved PoemsPhilip Smith Large print anthology contains some of the most popular poems in the English language, dating from the 16th to the 20th century, including Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?,” Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” as well as works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, and many others. An affordable volume and an ideal companion for the spare moments of any day. |
Contents
Ballads | 1 |
Christopher Marlowe 15641593 | 7 |
Robert Herrick 15911674 | 16 |
Thomas Gray 17161771 | 25 |
William Blake 17571827 | 32 |
William Wordsworth 17701850 | 38 |
George Gordon Lord Byron 17881824 | 44 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley 17921822 | 46 |
John Greenleaf Whittier 18071892 | 71 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 18091894 | 83 |
Emily Dickinson 18301886 | 96 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins 18441889 | 102 |
William Butler Yeats 18651939 | 112 |
Wallace Stevens 18791955 | 121 |
Alphabetical List of First Lines | 137 |
William Cullen Bryant 17941878 | 54 |
Common terms and phrases
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