Great Short Poems Author:Paul Negri (Editor) This outstanding anthology of short verse offers an impressive sampling of more than 150 succinct masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud," Blake’s "The Tyger," Wordsworth’s "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,&q... more »uot; Byron’s "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley’s "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others.
Even such is time / Sir Walter Ralegh --
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ; When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ; let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare --
Death, be not proud / John Donne --
Drink to me only with thine eyes / Ben Johnson --
A dirge / John Webster --
To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick --
On the world / Francis Quarles --
The unfading beauty / Thomas Carew --
On his blindness / John Milton --
Why so pale and wan, fond lover / Sir John Suckling --
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace --
To a lady asking him how long he would love her / Sir George Etherege --
A reasonable affliction / Matthew Prior --
Ode on solitude / Alexander Pope --
Song / John Gay --
When lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith --
A marriage ring / George Crabbe --
The tiger ; Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; The sick rose / William Blake --
A red, red rose / Robert Burns --
I wandered lonely as a cloud ; My heart leaps up ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth --
Rose Aylmer ; Twenty years hence / Walter Savage Landor --
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore --
Abou Ben Adhem ; Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt --
Beneath the cypress shade / Thomas Love Peacock --
So we'll go no more a-roving ; She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
When I have fears / John Keats --
Song ; Early death / Hartley Coleridge --
The death-bed / Thomas Hood --
Days ; Character / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
The arrow and the song ; There was a little girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
To one in paradise / Edgar Allan Poe --
The splendor falls ; Crossing the bar ; The eagle ; Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
The three arrows / Edward FitzGerald --
Meeting at night ; Parting at morning ; Pippa's song / Robert Browning --
I was born upon thy bank, river ; My life has been the poem / Henry David Thoreau --
The old stoic / Emily Brontë --
Say not the struggle nought availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough --
A noiseless patient spider ; I hear America singing / Walt Whitman --
The kiss ; Magna est veritas / Coventry Patmore --
Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith --
I heard a fly buzz when I died ; The soul selects her own society ; My life closed twice before its close ; I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson --
Remember ; Up-hill / Christina Rossetti --
How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll --
Memory / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
Hap ; In time of "The breaking of nations" ; I look into my glass / Thomas Hardy --
Pied beauty ; God's grandeur ; No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Evolution ; The shadow ; The mid-day moon / John Banister Tabb --
The new colossus / Emma Lazarus --
Invictus / William Ernest Henley --
Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon --
Solitude ; The winds of fate / Ella Wheeler Wilcox --
E tenebris ; Symphony in yellow / Oscar Wilde --
Song / John Davidson --
When I was one-and-twenty ; Into my heart an air that kills ; With rue my heart is laden ; Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman --
Leda and the swan ; The lake isle of Innisfree ; Down by the salley gardens ; When you are old / William Butler Yeats --
The purple cow ; Cinque ans après / Gelett Burgess --
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae ; Envoy / Ernest Dowson --
Richard Cory ; Eros turannos / E.A. Robinson --
I saw a man pursuing the horizon ; In the desert ; A learned man came to me once / Stephen Crane --
Life ; We wear the mask ; Silence / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Solitaire / Amy Lowell --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Fire and ice ; The road not taken ; Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost --
Antigonish / Hughes Mearns --
November night ; The warning / Adelaide Crapsey --
Sea fever / John Masefield --
Fog ; Grass / Carl Sandburg --
The emperor of ice-cream ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens --
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --
The kiss ; I shall not care / Sara Teasdale --
In a station of the Metro ; L'Art, 1910 / Ezra Pound --
Trees / Joyce Kilmer --
The soldier / Rupert Brooke --
Harlem shadows / Claude McKay --
Morning at the window ; The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot --
The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish --
First fig ; Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen --
The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas« less