Best Remembered Poems
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley's homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat")
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DOVER BOOKS ON LITERATURE AND DRAMA; Title Page; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN (1832-1911); Rock Me to Sleep; MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888); Dover Beach; WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827); The Tyger; FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON (1852-1921); The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889); Pippa's Song; Meeting at Night; WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878); Thanatopsis; GELETT BURGESS (1866-1951); The Purple Cow; ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796); To a Mouse
On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785. 'Is There for Honest Poverty'GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824); She Walks in Beauty; The Destruction of Sennacherib; BLISS CARMAN (1861-1929); A Vagabond Song; LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898); Jabberwocky; ARTHUR CHAPMAN (1873-1935); Out Where the West Begins; SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834); Kubla Khan; STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900); 'A Man Said to the Universe'; EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886); 'I Never Saw a Moor'; 'If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking'; 'There Is No Frigate Like a Book'; 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'; JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1795-1820); The American Flag. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)Concord Hymn
Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836; EUGENE FIELD (1850-1895); Little Boy Blue; Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Dutch Lullaby; The Duel; SAM WALTER FOSS (1858-1911); The House by the Side of the Road; ROBERT FROST (1874-1963); Mending Wall; Fire and Ice; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771); Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; EDGAR GUEST (1881-1959); Home; It Couldn't Be Done; SARAH JOSEPHA HALE (1788-1879); Mary's Lamb; FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835); Casabianca. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New EnglandWILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903); Invictus; OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894); Old Ironsides; The Last Leaf; The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
A Logical Story; THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845); The Song of the Shirt; The Bridge of Sighs; RICHARD HOVEY (1864-1900); The Sea Gypsy; JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910); Battle Hymn of the Republic; LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859); Abou Ben Adhem; Jenny Kiss'd Me; JOHN KEATS (1795-1821); On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Ballad; Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode to a NightingaleJOYCE KILMER (1886-1918); Trees; RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936); Recessional; Mandalay; Danny Deever; If-; Tommy; Boots; Gunga Din; L'Envoi
(To 'The Seven Seas'); EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888); The Owl and the Pussy-Cat; HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882); The Day Is Done; A Psalm of Life
What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Palmist; Paul Revere's Ride; The Village Blacksmith; The Wreck of the Hesperus; The Arrow and the Song; The Children's Hour; Excelsior; There Was a Little Girl; JOHN McCRAE (1872-1918); In Flanders Fields; EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)