HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) From Evangeline 951 The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 952 The Song of Hiawatha 954 From Part III: Hiawatha's Childhood 954 Snow-Flakes 956 The Cross of Snow 956 Dedication 257 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") 257 2 ("When forty winters shall besiege thy brow") 258 3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest") 258 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") 258 15 ("When I consider everything that grows") 259 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") 259 20 ("A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted") 260 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") 260 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") 261 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") 261 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") 261 55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments") 262 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") 262 65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea") 263 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") 263 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") 263 76 ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride") 264 87 ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing") 264 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") 265 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") 265 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") 265 107 ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul") 266 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") 266 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power") 267 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame") 267 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") 267 135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will") 268 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") 268 144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair") 269 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") 269 The Phoenix and the Turtle 270 SONGS FROM THE PLAYS JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) Badger 893 Gypsies 894 Song: Love Lives beyond the Tomb First Love 895 Farewell 896 1 Am 896 ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) Porphyria's Lover 1009 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1010 My Last Duchess 1012 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1017 A Toccata of Galuppi's 1017 ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) The Argument of His Book 354 The Vine 354 To the Sour Reader 355 Delight in Disorder 355 Corinna's Going A-Maying 356 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Upon Julia's Breasts 358 Upon a Child That Died 358 His Prayer to Ben Jonson 358 The Night Piece, to Julia 359 Upon Julia's Clothes 359 Upon Prue, His Maid 360 Upon Ben Jonson 360 An Ode for Him 360 The Pillar of Fame 361 Neutrality Loathsome 361 To His Conscience 361 To Find God 362 The White Island, or Place of the Blest

JOHN GAY (1685-1732) Songs from The Beggar's Opera 594 Air X—"Thomas, I Cannot" 594 Air XI—"A Soldier and a Sailor" 595 Air XVI—"Over the Hills, and Far Away" 595 Air IV—"Cotillion" 595 Air XXII—"The Lass of Patie's Mill" 596 Air XXVII—"Green Sleeves" 596 JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) The Good-Morrow 293 Song ("Go and catch a falling star") 294 Woman's Constancy 294 The Apparition 295 The Sun Rising 295 The Canonization 296 Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go") 298 The Anniversary 299 Love's Growth 300 A Valediction of Weeping 300 A Valediction of the Book 301 Love's Alchemy 303 A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 306 The Ecstasy 307 The Funeral 309 The Flea 309 The Relic 310 Elegy VII 311 Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed 312 Satire III 314 PEARL, 1-5 (1375-1400) CHARLES D'ORLEANS (1391-1465) The Smiling Mouth 77 Oft in My Thought 78 ANONYMOUS LYRICS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Get the book, and learn to read poetry. It will improve your life in ways that you do not expect. The Norton Anthology of Poetry PDF About the Author ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720) The Introduction 556 The Spleen 558 Adam Posed 562 To Death 562 Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia 563 A Nocturnal Reverie 563 The Answer (To Pope's Impromptu) 565 On Myself 566 Six new contemporary authors (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Simon Armitage, Anne Carson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Phillips, and Hilary Mantel)

You little stars that live in skies") 206 39 ("The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing") 206 JOHN LYLY (1554-1606) Cupid and My Campaspe 207 Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary 207 KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664) Epitaph 526 To Mr. Henry Lawes 527 On the Welsh Language 528 To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) Song from The Indian Emperor 500 Song from Troilus and Cressida 501 From Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem Mac Flecknoe 517 To the Memory of Mr. Oldham 523 A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 524 I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") 2 ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") 3 ("A moth ate words; a marvellous event") 11And your know, every day I read a poem out of this book, I quietly thank that English Professor, who is not part of my life anymore, for connecting me with an important and necessary part of life. A Song Bewailing the Time of Christmas, So Much Decayed in England 122 Tom o' Bedlam's Song 124 THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542) The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor Whoso List to Hunt 126 My Galley 127 They Flee from Me 127 Patience, Though I Have Not 128 My Lute Awake! 129 Is It Possible 130 Forget Not Yet 131 Blame Not My Lute 131 What Should I Say 132 Lucks, My Fair Falcon 133 Stand Whoso List 134 Mine Own John Poins 134 EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) Sonnet—To Science 975 To Helen 975 The City in the Sea 976 The Raven 977 Eldorado 980 Annabel Lee 981 FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873) Sonnets, Third Series 1086 IV ("Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed") 1086 V ("How well do I recall that walk in state") 1087 VI ("I looked across the rollers of the deep") 1087