British Poetry 3
Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400) 3
The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts) 5
The Popular Ballads 10
Lord Randall 12
Sir Patrick Spens 15
Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons 20
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) 30
Sonnet 54 32
Sonnet 70 34
Sonnet 75 35
William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 38
Sonnet 18 39
Sonnet 29 41
Sonnet 73 43
Sonnet 116 44
John Donne(1572-1631) 47
Song[“Go,and Catch a Falling Star”] 49
Holy Sonnet 10(“Death,Be Not Proud”) 53
Holy Sonnet 14(“Batter My Heart”) 55
John Milton(1608-1674) 59
On His Blindness 60
Paradise Lost(Excerpts) 61
Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 67
An Essay on Criticism(Excerpts) 68
William Blake(1757-1827) 73
The Chimney Sweeper 75
London 77
The Sick Rose 79
Robert Burns(1759-1796) 81
A Red,Red Rose 82
Scots,Wha Hae 84
For A'That and A'That 86
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 89
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 90
Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3,1802 92
The Solitary Reaper 94
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 98
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) 101
Kubla Khan 103
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) 110
She Walks in Beauty 112
Song for the Luddites 113
So We'll Go No More A-Roving 115
When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home 117
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) 119
Ozymandias 120
Ode to the West Wind 122
To-[Music,When Soft Voices Die] 127
John Keats(1795-1821) 129
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 131
Ode to a Nightingale 133
Ode on a Grecian Urn 140
To Autumn 144
Robert Browning(1812-1889) 148
My Last Duchess 149
Home-Thoughts from Abroad 154
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) 156
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 157
When You Are Old 159
The Second Coming 160
Sailing to Byzantium 162
Leda and the Swan 164
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) 167
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 169
Preludes 179
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953) 184
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 186
Fern Hill 188
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 192
Philip Larkin(1922-1985) 195
Church Going 196
Talking in Bed 201
High Windows 202
Ted Hughes(1930-1998) 205
Wind 207
Theology 209
River 210
American Poetry 215
Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672) 215
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th,1666 216
To My Dear and Loving Husband 219
Philip Freneau(1752-1832) 222
The Wild Honey Suckle 223
The Indian Burying Ground 225
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 229
To Helen 231
The Raven 233
Sonnet-To Science 239
Annabel Lee 241
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) 244
A Psalm of Life 245
The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls 248
Walt Whitman(1819-1892) 250
I Hear America Singing 251
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 253
Cavalry Crossing a Ford 254
Come up from the Fields,Father 255
Reconciliation 258
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) 260
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 261
A Bird came down the Walk— 263
I died for Beauty—but was scarce 265
I like to see it lap the Miles— 266
Essential Oils—are wrung— 268
Because I could not stop for Death— 269
A Route of Evanescence 271
Stephen Crane(1871-1900) 273
In the Desert 275
Do Not Weep,Maiden,for War Is Kind 276
A Man Said to the Universe 278
Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935) 280
Richard Cory 282
Cliff Klingenhagen 283
Mr.Flood's Party 285
Robert Frost(1874-1963) 289
Mending Wall 291
The Road Not Taken 294
For Once.Then.Something 295
Fire and Ice 296
Design 298
Nothing Gold Can Stay 299
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 300
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967) 303
Chicago 305
The Harbor 307
Fog 308
Ezra Pound(1885-1972) 310
In a Station of the Metro 312
The River-Merchant's Wife:a Letter 313
E.E.Cummings(1894-1962) 316
[In Just—] 317
[Buffalo Bill's defunct] 319
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] 320
Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) 322
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock 324
Anecdote of the Jar 325
The Snow Man 326
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 328
William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) 330
Danse Russe 332
The Red Wheelbarrow 333
Between Walls 334
This Is Just to Say 336
A Sort of a Song 337
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 339
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 340
Mother to Son 342
Theme for English B 344
Gwendolyn Brooks(1917-2000) 347
Kitchenette Building 349
We Real Cool 350
Robert Lowell(1917-1977) 352
Katherine's Dream 354
Skunk Hour 356
Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997) 359
A Supermarket in California 361
Adrienne Rich(1929-) 364
Planetarium 366
For the Dead 369
Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) 371
Lady Lazarus 372
Daddy 377
References 382