100 Favorite English and Irish Poems

Clarence C. Strowbridge

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780486113289
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Europäische Poesie

This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English—from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality.
Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Rupert Brooke, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and 43 other great English, Irish, and Scottish writers.
In addition to a concise introduction, this volume provides brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be studied and treasured by students and poetry lovers alike. Includes 5 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: `Loveliest of Trees,` `Musee des Beaux Arts,` `Ozymandias,` `Sonnet 73,` and `Ode on a Grecian Urn.`

Alphabetical List of Titles

Abou Ben Adhem

Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss

An Apology

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Birthday, A

Break, Break, Break

Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

Cargoes

Charge of the Light Brigade, The

Crossing the Bar

Daffodils

Destruction of Sennacherib, The

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Dover Beach

Easter

Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun

Flower in the Crannied Wall

God’s Grandeur

Good Morrow, The

Greater Love

Gunga Din

Hap

Holy Sonnet 10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have called

thee”)

Home–Thoughts, from Abroad

Hurrahing in Harvest

If

Invictus

I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great

Jabberwocky

Kubla Khan

Listeners, The

London

Lord Randal

Love and Sleep

Loveliest of Trees

Lucifer in Starlight

Musée des Beaux Arts

Music, When Soft Voices Die

My Heart Leaps Up

My Heart’s in the Highlands

My Last Duchess

Nightingales

Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, The

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Solitude

Ode to the West Wind

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

On His Blindness

On His Deceased Wife

Owl, The

O, Yet We Trust that Somehow Good

Ozymandias

Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The

Pulley, The

Recessional

Red, Red Rose, A

Remember

Requiem

Retreat, The

Returning, We Hear the Larks

Sea Fever

She Walks in Beauty

Sir Patrick Spens

Snake

So We’ll Go No More a Roving

Soldier, The

Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)

Song (“Go, lovely Rose”)

Song, A (“Ask me no more where Jove bestows”)

Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, A

Song:To Celia

Sonnet 1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)

Sonnet 6 (“Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand”)

Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)

Sonnet 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)

Sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)

Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)

Sonnet 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)

Sonnet 146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”)

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

Tears, Idle Tears

There Is a Garden in Her Face

To Althea, from Prison

To an Athlete Dying Young

To His Coy Mistress

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Tyger,The

Ulysses

Upon Westminster Bridge

When Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

When I’m Killed

When I Was One–and–Twenty

When the Lamp Is Shatter’d

When We Two Parted

Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

Wild Swans at Coole, The

Woodspurge,The

World Is Too Much with Us,The

Alphabetical List of First Lines

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

About suffering they were never wrong

Adieu, farewell earth’s bliss

Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees

Ask me no more where Jove bestows

A snake came to my water trough

Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come

Break, break, break

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art–

Come live with me and be my Love

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Do not go gentle into that good night

Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved

Drink to me, ...