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Tables of Contents for Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xxiii
Billy Collins
Introduction
xxvii
The Cycles of Nature
3
2
Spring
5
12
Loveless hearts shall love tomorrow, hearts that have loved shall love anew
5
1
Anonymous
F. L. Lucas
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king
5
1
Thomas Nashe
When daisies pied, and violets blue
6
1
William Shakespeare
Corinna's Going a-Maying
7
2
Robert Herrick
To Daffodils
9
1
Robert Herrick
The Spring
9
1
Thomas Carew
To Spring
10
1
William Blake
Lines Written in Early Spring
11
1
William Wordsworth
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
12
1
Robert Browning
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces
12
2
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Spring
14
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring Pools
15
1
Robert Frost
Spring
15
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
O sweet spontaneous
16
1
E. E. Cummings
The White Fury of the Spring
17
1
Lizette Woodworth Reese
SUMMER
17
8
Summer is y-comen in
17
1
Anonymous
Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe
18
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
Why are our summer sports so brittle
18
1
Anonymous
Summer Moods
18
1
John Clare
Summer Wind
19
1
William Cullen Bryant
I hear a river thro' the valley wander
20
1
Trumbull Stickney
The Oven Bird
20
1
Robert Frost
Heat
21
1
H.D.
Eel-Grass
22
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summer Night
22
1
Langston Hughes
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
23
1
Wallace Stevens
Summer
24
1
John Ashbery
AUTUMN
25
6
To Autumn
25
1
William Blake
To Autumn
25
1
John Keats
No!
26
1
Thomas Hood
The Harvest Moon
27
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Latter Rain
28
1
Jones Very
Mnemosyne
28
1
Trumbull Stickney
November Night
29
1
Adelaide Crapsey
Heart of Autumn
29
1
Robert Penn Warren
My November Guest
30
1
Robert Frost
WINTER
31
10
When icicles hang by the wall
31
1
William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
32
1
William Shakespeare
Now winter nights enlarge
33
1
Thomas Campion
Snow-Flakes
33
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Snow-Storm
34
1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The night is darkening round me
35
1
Emily Bronte
The Sky is low, the Clouds are mean
36
1
Emily Dickinson
January
36
1
William Carlos Williams
Winter Scene
37
1
A. R. Ammons
Ancient Music
37
1
Ezra Pound
Dust of Snow
38
1
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
38
1
Robert Frost
January
39
2
John Updike
THE ROUND OF THE YEAR
41
2
NEW YEAR'S
43
5
Seeing the Year Out
43
1
Su Tung-p'o
Burton Watson
The Old Year
43
1
John Clare
Auld Lang Syne
44
1
Robert Burns
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
45
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
A Song for New Year's Eve
46
2
William Cullen Bryant
VALENTINE'S DAY
48
3
Saint Valentine's Day
48
2
Coventry Patmore
St. Valentine's Day
50
1
Wilfred Scawen Blunt
A Very Valentine
50
1
Gertrude Stein
Happiest February
51
1
Louis Zukofsky
CELEBRATING FAMILY
51
10
With my father
51
1
Kobayashi Issa
Robert Hass
To Her Father with Some Verses
51
1
Anne Bradstreet
A Birthday
52
1
Christina Rossetti
To My Mother
53
1
Christina Rossetti
To My Mother
53
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
My grandfather, dead long before I was born
53
1
Charles Reznikoff
Those Winter Sundays
54
1
Robert Hayden
Lineage
54
1
Margaret Walker
Mother to Son
55
1
Langston Hughes
My father moved through dooms of love
55
3
E. E. Cummings
The 90th Year
58
1
Denise Levertov
For My Mother
59
1
May Sarton
Portrait
60
1
Louise Gluck
Follower
60
1
Seamus Heaney
THE FOURTH OF JULY
61
3
The New Colossus
61
1
Emma Lazarus
America the Beautiful
62
1
Katharine Lee Bates
I Hear America Singing
63
1
Walt Whitman
I, Too, Sing America
64
1
Langston Hughes
HALLOWEEN: PHANTASMS AND HAUNTINGS
64
8
Witches' Song (I) (From Macbeth)
64
1
William Shakespeare
Witches' Song (II)
65
1
Ben Jonson
Dirge
66
1
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The City in the Sea
66
2
Edgar Allan Poe
The Kraken
68
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Fairies
68
2
William Allingham
Little Orphant Annie
70
2
James Whitcomb Riley
THANKSGIVING
72
6
Grace for a Child
72
1
Robert Herrick
The Thanksgivings
72
1
Harriet Maxwell Converse
The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day
73
2
Lydia Marie Child
The Pumpkin
75
2
John Greenleaf Whittier
Signs of the Times
77
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
78
9
Make we merry both more and less
78
1
Anonymous
All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined
79
1
Anonymous
New Prince, New Pomp
79
1
Robert Southwell
Come, bring with a noise
80
1
Robert Herrick
A Visit from St. Nicholas
81
2
Clement C. Moore
Christmas Bells
83
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Mahogany Tree
84
2
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Oxen
86
1
Thomas Hardy
THE CYCLES OF LIFE
87
2
BIRTH AND INFANCY
89
11
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes
89
1
Thomas Dekker
The Salutation
89
2
Thomas Traherne
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her Mother's Arms
91
1
Ambrose Philips
The Angel that presided o'er my birth
92
1
William Blake
Infant Joy
92
1
William Blake
Infant Sorrow
92
1
William Blake
Nurse's Song
93
1
William Blake
Sweet and low, sweet and low
93
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Dutch Lullaby
94
2
Eugene Field
Seal Lullaby
96
1
Rudyard Kipling
Labor Pains
96
1
Yosano Akiko
The Birthnight
97
1
Walter De La Mare
By the road to the contagious hospital
97
1
William Carlos Williams
Sara in Her Father's Arms
98
1
George Oppen
Baby Song
99
1
Thom Gunn
CHILDHOOD
100
23
Growing an Orchid
100
1
Ema Saiko
Hiroaki Sato
For sport and play
100
1
Anonymous
Arthur Waley
I am called Childhood, in play is all my mind
101
1
Sir Thomas More
Methinks 'tis pretty sport to hear a child
101
1
Thomas Bastard
The Retreat
101
1
Henry Vaughan
Piping down the valleys wild
102
1
William Blake
Laughing Song
103
1
William Blake
Characteristics of a Child Three Years Old
104
1
William Wordsworth
I remember, I remember
104
1
Thomas Hood
The Children's Hour
105
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Barefoot Boy
107
3
John Greenleaf Whittier
There Was a Child Went Forth
110
2
Walt Whitman
The Land of Nod
112
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
My Bed Is a Boat
113
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
Silly Song
113
1
Federico Garcia Lorca
Harriet de Onis
A Prayer for My Daughter
114
2
William Butler Yeats
In Just-
116
1
E. E. Cummings
I am Rose my eyes are blue
117
1
Gertrude Stein
Fern Hill
118
1
Dylan Thomas
Portrait of Girl with Comic Book
119
1
Phyllis McGinley
In the Waiting Room
120
3
Elizabeth Bishop
YOUTH AND ITS PLEASURES
123
13
In Youth Is Pleasure
123
1
Robert Wever
Are they shadows that we see
123
1
Samuel Daniel
Crabbed Age and Youth
124
1
William Shakespeare
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
125
1
Robert Herrick
When maidens are young, and in their spring
126
1
Aphra Behn
So, we'll go no more a roving
126
1
George Gordon
Lord Byron
My Lost Youth
127
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
129
3
Edward Fitzgerald
Live blindly and upon the hour
132
1
Trumbull Stickney
The fairies break their dances
133
1
A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
133
1
A. E. Housman
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam
134
1
Ernest Dowson
First Fig
134
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Daphnis and Chloe
135
1
Haniel Long
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
135
1
Dylan Thomas
INTO ADULTHOOD
136
10
All the world's a stage
136
1
William Shakespeare
How happy is he born or taught
137
1
Sir Henry Wotton
My heart leaps up when I behold
138
1
William Wordsworth
Abou Ben Adhem
138
1
Leigh Hunt
The Choir Invisible
139
1
George Eliot
Invictus
140
1
William Ernest Henley
If
141
1
Rudyard Kipling
The Road Not Taken
142
1
Robert Frost
The City
143
1
C. P. Cavafy
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
Dreams
143
1
Langston Hughes
The Truly Great
144
1
Stephen Spender
Catch What You Can
144
1
Jean Garrigue
Album
145
1
Josephine Miles
MARRIAGE
146
19
The maidens came
146
1
Anonymous
My true Love hath my heart, and I have his
146
1
Sir Philip Sidney
The Shepherd's Wife's Song
147
1
Robert Greene
Prothalamion
148
5
Edmund Spenser
Verses Made the Night before He Died
153
1
Michael Drayton
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
154
1
William Shakespeare
Wedding is great Juno's crown
155
1
William Shakespeare
With thee conversing, I forget all time
155
1
John Milton
Even like two little bank-dividing brooks
156
1
Francis Quarles
To My Dear and Loving Husband
157
1
Anne Bradstreet
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
157
1
Robert Burns
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
158
1
Ezra Pound
Li Po
A Slice of Wedding Cake
159
1
Robert Graves
The 5:32
160
1
Phyllis McGinley
The Forms of Love
160
1
George Oppen
The Ache of Marriage
161
1
Denise Levertov
Marriage
162
3
Gregory Corso
THE PERSPECTIVES OF MIDLIFE
165
18
Reading the Book of Hills and Seas
165
1
T'ao Ch'ien
Arthur Waley
South of the Yangtze, Thinking of Spring
166
1
Li Po
David Hinton
On Being Sixty
167
1
Po Chu-i
Arthur Waley
Ode I.II
167
1
Horace
Sir Thomas Hawkins
When that I was a little tiny boy
168
1
William Shakespeare
Half of Life
168
1
Friedrich Holderlin
The Old Familiar Faces
169
1
Charles Lamb
Jenny kissed me when we met
170
1
Leigh Hunt
Mezzo Cammin
170
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
171
1
Henry David Thoreau
As when down some broad river dropping, we
172
1
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Dover Beach
173
1
Matthew Arnold
The passions that we fought with and subdued
174
1
Trumbull Stickney
Into my heart an air that kills
174
1
A. E. Housman
Thursday
175
1
William Carlos Williams
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
175
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Postcard from the Volcano
175
2
Wallace Stevens
Still Here
177
1
Langston Hughes
What I expected was
177
1
Stephen Spender
Not Waving but Drowning
178
1
Stevie Smith
One Art
179
1
Elizabeth Bishop
To Failure
179
1
Philip Larkin
Life, friends, is boring
180
1
John Berryman
From a Survivor
181
1
Adrienne Rich
I Thought It Was Harry
182
1
William Bronk
RETIREMENT FROM WORK AND FROM THE WORLD
183
8
Returning to the Fields
183
1
T'ao Ch'ien
Arthur Waley
Ease
183
1
Po Chu-i
Arthur Waley
Climb at court for me that will
184
1
Seneca
Andrew Marvell
Farewell to the Court
184
1
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Garden
185
2
Andrew Marvell
The world is too much with us
187
1
William Wordsworth
His heart was in his garden
188
1
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
The Last Word
188
1
Matthew Arnold
Leisure
189
1
W. H. Davies
Moving In
190
1
May Sarton
AGING
191
20
Written in a Carefree Mood
191
1
Lu Yu
Burton Watson
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
191
1
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore
192
1
William Shakespeare
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
192
1
William Shakespeare
The World a-hunting is
193
1
William Drummond
Young men dancing, and the old
193
1
Thomas Stanley
On the Last Verses in the Book
193
1
Edmund Waller
On His Blindness
194
1
John Milton
Nature
194
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Terminus
195
1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tithonus
196
2
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Growing Old
198
1
Matthew Arnold
Age
199
1
Walter Savage Landor
I look into my glass
200
1
Thomas Hardy
Mr. Flood's Party
200
2
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
202
1
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
203
1
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
203
1
William Butler Yeats
An Old Man's Winter Night
204
1
Robert Frost
The Descent
205
2
William Carlos Williams
The Plain Sense of Things
207
1
Wallace Stevens
Hail and Farewell
207
1
Charles Reznikoff
Do not go gentle into that good night
208
1
Dylan Thomas
The Street
209
1
Carl Rakosi
The Language
209
1
Jonathan Griffin
Now
210
1
Mary Barnard
Forgetfulness
210
1
Billy Collins
DEATH AND MORTALITY
211
18
What has this bugbear death to frighten man
211
1
Lucretius
John Dryden
Hadrian's Address to His Soul When Dying
212
1
Hadrian
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Out of the dark
212
1
Izumi Shikibu
Arthur Waley
That it is a road
213
1
Richard Lane
Death Song
213
1
Frances Densmore
The silver swan, who living had no note
213
1
Anonymous
Adieu! Farewell Earth's Bliss!
213
2
Thomas Nashe
Elegy for Himself, Written in the Tower Before His Execution
215
1
Chidiock Tichborne
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
216
2
Sir Walter Ralegh
What is our life? A play of passion
218
1
Sir Walter Ralegh
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore
218
1
Thomas Campion
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay
218
1
John Donne
Death, be not proud though some have called thee
219
1
John Donne
The Dying Christian to His Soul
219
1
Alexander Pope
Like to the falling of a star
220
1
Henry King
The Land o' the Leal
221
1
Lady Carolina Nairne
I've seen a Dying Eye
222
1
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death
222
1
Emily Dickinson
Crossing the Bar
223
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife
224
1
Walter Savage Landor
Death stands above me
224
1
Walter Savage Landor
Requiem
224
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lonely Death
225
1
Adelaide Crapsey
Dirge Without Music
225
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bavarian Gentians
226
1
D. H. Lawrence
The Bed by the Window
227
1
Robinson Jeffers
Lemon Elegy
227
1
Takamura Kotaro
Hiroaki Sato
Question
228
1
May Swenson
GRIEF AND MOURNING
229
22
To Stella
229
1
Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the days when my wife lived
229
2
Ralph Hodgson
On the Death of a New Born Child
231
1
Mei Yao Ch'en
Kenneth Rexroth
O grief! even on the bud that fairly flowered
231
1
Anonymous
On My First Son
231
1
Ben Jonson
Slow, slow, fresh fount
232
1
Ben Jonson
They are all gone into the world of light
232
2
Henry Vaughan
What piercing cold I feel
234
1
Yosa Buson
Harold Henderson
On His Deceased Wife
234
1
John Milton
Coronach
234
1
Sir Walter Scott
Surprised by joy --- impatient as the Wind
235
1
William Wordsworth
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep
236
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cross of Snow
236
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep brings no joy . . .
237
1
Emily Bronte
Annabel Lee
238
1
Edgar Allan Poe
Break, break, break
239
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Dark house, by which once more I stand
240
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Grief
240
1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May and Death
241
1
Robert Browning
Requiescat
242
1
Matthew Arnold
Requiescat
242
1
Oscar Wilde
The Haunter
243
1
Thomas Hardy
The Voice
244
1
Thomas Hardy
His Immortality
245
1
Thomas Hardy
Little Boy Blue
245
1
Eugene Field
To an Athlete Dying Young
246
1
A. E. Housman
For a Dead Lady
247
1
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House on the Hill
248
1
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
249
1
William Carlos Williams
Shout No More
250
1
Guiseppe Ungaretti
Andrew Frisardi
While I Slept
250
1
Robert Francis
THE HUMAN CONDITION
251
2
FRIENDSHIP
253
12
To an Old Comrade in the Army of Brutus
253
1
Horace
David Ferry
Inviting a Friend to Supper
253
2
Ben Jonson
Travelling
255
1
William Wordsworth
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
255
2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Fire of Drift-Wood
257
2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sonnet --- To a Friend
259
1
Hartley Coleridge
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead
260
1
William Cory
Monody
260
1
Herman Melville
They say that in the unchanging place
261
1
Hilaire Belloc
Exile's Letter
261
3
Ezra Pound
Li Po
Friendship and Illness
264
1
May Sarton
CONTENTMENT
265
7
Idle Thoughts
265
1
Lu Yu
Burton Watson
The things that make a life to please
265
1
Martial
Sir Richard Fanshawe
`Tis mirth that fills the veins with blood
266
1
Francis Beaumont
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers
266
1
Thomas Dekker
The Man of Life Upright
267
1
Thomas Campion
The Wish
268
1
Abraham Cowley
I Murder Hate by Field or Flood
269
1
Robert Burns
He who binds to himself a joy
270
1
William Blake
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
270
1
William Cullen Bryant
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
271
1
William Butler Yeats
THE WORKING LIFE
272
10
On Money
272
1
Barnabe Googe
He that is down needs fear no fall
272
1
John Bunyan
On the Death of Mr Robert Levet
273
1
Samuel Johnson
Work without Hope
274
1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I have fears that I may cease to be
275
1
John Keats
My life has been the poem I would have writ
275
1
Henry David Thoreau
The Village Blacksmith
276
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wasted Day
277
1
Robert F. Murray
Seams
278
1
Hazel Hall
Sea-Fever
278
1
John Masefield
Mesh cast for mackerel
279
1
Basil Bunting
Blue Monday
280
1
Langston Hughes
Pitcher
280
1
Robert Francis
Hay for the Horses
281
1
Gary Snyder
Where I Am Now
281
1
Harvey Shapiro
LOVE AND PASSION
282
51
Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals
282
1
Anonymous
John L. Foster
He is more than a hero
283
1
Sappho
Mary Barnard)
Flowers for Heliodora
284
1
Meleagros
Willis Barnstone
Lesbia for ever on me rails
284
1
Catullus
Jonathan Swift
Carmina 85
284
1
Catullus
Richard Lovelace
Her quick eyes
285
1
Bhartrihari
Andrew Schelling
Through the whole night we slowly
285
1
Bhavabhuti
Andrew Schelling)
This night of no moon
286
1
Donald Keene
Charles of Orleans: My ghostly father, I me confess
286
1
I must go walk the wood so wild
287
1
Anonymous
When to my lone soft bed at eve returning
288
1
Louise Labe
Robert Bridges
Love Will Find Out the Way
288
2
Anonymous
Ovid's Fifth Elegy
290
1
Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate
291
1
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
291
1
Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
292
1
Sir Walter Ralegh
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
293
1
William Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
293
1
William Shakespeare
There is a garden in her face
294
1
Thomas Campion
Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
294
1
Thomas Campion
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love
295
1
Thomas Campion
To Celia
296
1
Ben Jonson
The Good-Morrow
296
1
John Donne
The Sun Rising
297
1
John Donne
To His Mistress Going to Bed
298
1
John Donne
The Ecstasy
299
3
John Donne
Song
302
1
Thomas Carew
Clothes Do but Cheat and Cozen Us
303
1
Robert Herrick
To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing
303
1
Robert Herrick
The Fifth Ode of Horace, Book I
304
1
John Milton
All my past Life is mine no more
304
1
Why so pale and wan, fond lover
305
1
John Suckling
To His Coy Mistress
306
1
Andrew Marvell
The Prince of Love
307
1
William Blake
A Red, Red Rose
308
1
Robert Burns
Lang Hae We Parted Been
308
1
Robert Burns
She was a Phantom of delight
309
1
William Wordsworth
She Walks in Beauty
310
1
George Gordon
Lord Byron
To
311
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
311
1
John Keats
Lines Supposed to Have Been Addressed to Fanny Brawne
312
1
John Keats
Give all to love
312
2
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say over again, and yet once over again
314
1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
314
1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
315
1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
315
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Sudden Light
316
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Wild Nights!
317
1
Emily Dickinson
My delight and thy delight
317
1
Robert Bridges
White Heliotrope
318
1
Arthur Symons
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
319
1
Ernest Dowson
Love Song
319
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
Michael Hamburger
The Look
320
1
Sara Teasdale
Summer Night, Riverside
320
1
Sara Teasdale
Black hair
321
1
Yosano Akiko
Kenneth Rexroth
Terminus
321
3
Edith Wharton
Alba
324
1
Ezra Pound
Vernal Equinox
324
1
Amy Lowell
Fragment 113
325
1
H.D.
Recuerdo
326
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Want to Die While You Love Me
327
1
Georgia Douglas Johnson
in spite of everything
327
1
E. E. Cummings
Somewhere I have never travelled . . .
328
1
E. E. Cummings
Lay your sleeping head, my love
328
2
W. H. Auden
The Kimono
330
1
James Merrill
Having a Coke with You
330
2
Frank O'Hara
23rd Street Runs into Heaven
332
1
Kenneth Patchen
Elegy
332
1
Rosario Castellanos
Magda Bogin
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
333
1
Pablo Neruda
Stephen Tapscott
DISAPPOINTMENT
333
8
Hate whom ye list, for I care not
333
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
What meaneth this? When I lie alone
334
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
335
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
To My Lord Biron's Tune of ``Adieu Phillis''
336
1
Katherine Philips
And if I did what then
336
1
George Gascoigne
An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still
337
1
Michael Drayton
I saw my lady weep
337
1
Anonymous
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
338
1
William Shakespeare
I envy not in any moods
339
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Pity Me Not
339
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
the sonnet-ballad
340
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
SEPARATIONS AND FAREWELLS
341
20
Slim-waisted friend
341
1
Rajasekhara
Andrew Schelling)
Thoughts from the Women's Quarter
341
1
Li Ch'ing-chao
Kenneth Rexroth
Western wind, when will thou blow
342
1
Anonymous
Alas, departing is ground of woe
342
1
Anonymous
Sith fortune favors not and all things backward go
342
1
Barnabe Googe
And wilt thou leave me thus
342
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Oft have I mused, but now at length I find
343
1
Sir Philip Sidney
Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing
344
1
William Shakespeare
How like a winter hath my absence been
344
1
William Shakespeare
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
345
1
Michael Drayton
Sweetest love, I do not go
345
2
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
347
1
John Donne
Why should a foolish marriage vow
348
1
John Dryden
To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
349
1
Richard Lovelace
Farewell to Nancy
349
1
Robert Burns
When we two parted
350
1
George Gordon
Lord Byron
My life closed twice before its close
351
1
Emily Dickinson
Ulysses
352
2
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Meeting at Night
354
1
Robert Browning
Dawn on the Night-Journey
354
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Remember
355
1
Christina Rossetti
Thus piteously love closed what he begat
355
1
George Meredith
Departure
356
1
Arthur Rimbaud
Louise Varese
Ithaka
356
1
C. P. Cavafy
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
Passer Mortuus Est
357
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parting Gift
358
1
Elinor Wylie
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
358
1
W. H. Auden
O the valley in the summer where I and my John
359
1
W. H. Auden
Stone
360
1
Lorine Niedecker
A Kind of Loss
360
1
Ingeborg Bachmann
Mark Anderson
SOLITUDE
361
19
Tonight I've watched
361
1
Sappho
Mary Barnard
Drinking Alone with the Moon
362
1
Li Po
Witter Bynner
Dream Song of a Woman
362
1
Frances Densmore
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
362
2
Edward Dyer
Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk . . .
364
2
William Cowper
Ode to a Nightingale
366
2
John Keats
Alone
368
1
Edgar Allan Poe
I'm happiest when most away
369
1
Emily Bronte
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
369
1
Walt Whitman
The Soul selects her own Society
370
1
Emily Dickinson
Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray
370
1
Fredrick Goddard Tuckerman
Sense of Something Coming
371
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
Robert Bly
As Much As You Can
371
1
C. P. Cavafy
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
The New House
372
1
Edward Thomas
Solitaire
373
1
Amy Lowell
Morning Song
373
1
Sara Teasdale
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
373
1
William Butler Yeats
Acquainted with the Night
374
1
Robert Frost
The Most of It
375
1
Robert Frost
Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed
375
2
Pablo Neruda
Nathaniel Tarn
You
377
1
Jorge Luis Borges
Alastair Reid
Soledad
377
1
Robert Hayden
Anxiety
378
1
Frank O'Hara
Faure's Second Piano Quartet
379
1
James Schuyler
Unknown
380
1
Hilda Morley
SORROW AND COMFORT
380
14
Pain penetrates
380
1
Sappho
Mary Barnard
The flowers withered
381
1
Donald Keene
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable night
381
1
Samuel Daniel
In night when colours all to black are cast
381
1
Fulke Greville
My thoughts hold mortal strife
382
1
William Drummond
The Pains of Sleep
382
2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Melancholy
384
1
John Keats
I Am
384
2
John Clare
The Rainy Day
386
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away
386
1
Emily Bronte
There's a certain Slant of light
387
1
Emily Dickinson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
387
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Dregs
388
1
Ernest Dowson
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
388
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
389
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall
390
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
In the desert
390
1
Stephen Crane
These
391
1
William Carlos Williams
Resume
392
1
Dorothy Parker
Away, Melancholy
392
2
Stevie Smith
ENDURANCE, RESISTANCE, AND SURVIVAL
394
6
To Toussaint L'Ouverture . . .
394
1
William Wordsworth
No coward soul is mine
395
1
Emily Bronte
No Rack can torture me
396
1
Emily Dickinson
The Tuft of Kelp
396
1
Herman Melville
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
397
1
Arthur Hugh Clough
Sympathy
397
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask
398
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
If We Must Die
399
1
Claude McKay
Musee des Beaux Arts
399
1
W. H. Auden
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
400
11
The Flower
400
2
George Herbert
Love
402
1
George Herbert
And did those feet in ancient time
402
1
William Blake
Simple Gifts
403
1
Anonymous
Shaker hymn
Sursum Corda
403
1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Noiseless Patient Spider
404
1
Walt Whitman
The Thread of Life
404
1
Christina Rossetti
Archaic Torso of Apollo
405
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
Edward Snow
On a terribly clear day
406
1
Fernando Pessoa
Edwin Honig
Susan M. Brown
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
407
1
William Butler Yeats
Phoenix
407
1
D. H. Lawrence
Sunflower Sutra
407
2
Allen Ginsberg
In a Dark Time
409
2
Theodore Roethke
PUBLIC MOMENTS AND ULTIMATE MATTERS
411
2
THE FATES OF NATIONS AND EMPIRES
413
7
Spring Prospect
413
1
Tu Fu
Burton Watson
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
413
1
William Shakespeare
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
414
1
William Wordsworth
Ozymandias
414
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love among the Ruins
415
2
Robert Browning
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''
417
1
Thomas Hardy
Recessional
418
1
Rudyard Kipling
Cities and Thrones and Powers
419
1
Rudyard Kipling
Things Ended
419
1
C. P. Cavafy
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
IN TIME OF WAR
420
17
Thermopylae
420
1
Simonides
William Lisle Bowles
The glories of our blood and state
420
1
James Shirley
I hate that drum's discordant sound
421
1
John Scott
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
422
1
William Collins
Breathes there the man with soul so dead
422
1
Sir Walter Scott
The Battle of Blenheim
423
2
Robert Southey
The Charge of the Light Brigade
425
2
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
War Is Kind
427
1
Stephen Crane
Tommy
428
1
Rudyard Kipling
A Dead Statesman
429
1
Rudyard Kipling
Channel Firing
429
2
Thomas Hardy
In Flanders Fields
431
1
John McCrae
Rain
431
1
Edward Thomas
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
432
1
William Butler Yeats
Strange Meeting
432
2
Wilfred Owen
There died a myriad
434
1
Ezra Pound
There Will Come Soft Rains
434
1
Sara Teasdale
plato told
435
1
E. E. Cummings
What Did I Learn in the Wars
436
1
Yehuda Amichai
Benjamin Harshav
Barbara Harshav
FROM THE AMERICAN STORY
437
20
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
437
1
George Berkeley
Paul Revere's Ride
438
4
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Concord Hymm
442
1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old Ironsides
443
1
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide
443
2
James Russell Lowell
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
445
1
Julia Ward Howe
Shiloh
445
1
Herman Melville
The House-top
446
1
Herman Melville
The Colored Soldiers
447
2
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Barbara Frietchie
449
3
John Greenleaf Whittier
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
452
1
Walt Whitman
Reconciliation
453
1
Walt Whitman
Many Thousand Gone
453
1
Anonymous Spiritual
The Blue and the Gray
454
2
Francis Miles Finch
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
456
1
Richard Eberhart
A Box Comes Home
457
1
John Ciardi
GOD
457
15
Each inmost piece in me is thine
457
1
Mary Herbert
I Look for You
458
1
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Peter Cole
Song of the Soul That Is Glad to Know God by Faith
459
1
St. John
Roy Campbell
Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born
460
2
John Milton
The World
462
2
Henry Vaughan
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
464
1
Isaac Watts
Light Shining out of Darkness
465
1
William Cowper
First-Day Thoughts
466
1
John Greenleaf Whittier
Lead, Kindly Light
467
1
John Henry Newman
Abide with Me
468
1
Henry Francis Lyte
God's Grandeur
468
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Creation
469
3
James Weldon Johnson
THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWABLE
472
9
The Priest Mansei (trans. Arthur Waley): To what shall I compare
472
1
Gazing Through the Night
472
1
Shmuel Ha Nagid
Peter Cole
Written at the Ise Shrine
473
1
Saigyo
Arthur Waley
The Rose
474
1
Angelus Silesius
Geoffrey O'Brien
The Fly
474
1
William Blake
Silence
475
1
Thomas Hood
Enosis
475
1
Christopher Cranch
Flower in the crannied wall
476
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
477
1
Walt Whitman
Four Trees --- opon a solitary Acre
477
1
Emily Dickinson
Magna Est Veritas
478
1
Coventry Patmore
A man said to the universe
478
1
Stephen Crane
Buddha
478
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
Geoffrey O'Brien
The Darkling Thrush
479
1
Thomas Hardy
The Unknown Bird
480
1
Edward Thomas
Of Mere Being
481
Wallace Stevens