Great Short Poems from Around the World

Bob Blaisdell

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780486478777
• eBook ISBN: 9780486783192
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

This keepsake gift volume ranges from the twelfth century B.C. to modern times to present an international sampling of the world's best short poems. The works of ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Persian poets appear alongside those of Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Hungarian authors, in addition to classics by English, Irish, and American writers.
Featured poems include those of Pushkin ("I Loved You"), Yeats ("Down by the Salley Gardens"), Jonson ("On My First Daughter"), Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers"), Basho ("The Quiet Pond"), Bhasa ("The Moon"), and Tsvetaeva ("I do not think, or argue, or complain"). Additional selections include verse by Li Po, Sappho, Paz, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Blake, Campion, H.D., Heine, Frost, Lermontov, Swift, Rilke, and many others.

Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines

Titles are given, in italics, only when distinct from the first lines.

A Beggar’s hut, a countryside 136

Adam lay ybounden 15

A day so happy 95

A fallen blossom 98

After Release from Prison 70

A hedge of trees surrounds me 10

Ah, would that I could hide within my songs 13

Ah, yes, my songs are poisoned 64

Alba 108

A little fir tree is in green leaf 97

All the time a man is sober 59

A long time ago 41

A loon I thought it was 21

Although you eat me to the root 54

Amalfi 4

Among the rain 145

Anecdote of the Jar 125

Approach of the Storm, The 21

April was coming, full 75

Argument, An 96

as a child he never plucked the wings off flies 70

As a white candle 37

As cool as the pale wet leaves 108

As I sd to my 46

A slumber did my spirit seal 147

A small ptarmigan sat 22

As my eyes search the prairie 20

A sojourner in Mika’s plains 79

A sore pain troubles me day and night 78

As the fish that leaps from the river 56

As the moon sinks on the mountain-edge 10

At Autumn Cove, so many white monkeys 106

A tear appeared in her eyes 29

A tent with rustling breezes cool 87

At Night, Hearing Someone Sing in the House Next Door 149

A touch of cold in the Autumn night 74

At ten AM the young housewife 142

At the last, tenderly 140

Author to His Wife, of a Woman’s Eloquence, The 62

Autumn 74

Autumn Cove 106

Autumn Song 137

Autumn Wind, The 148

Autumn wind rises; white clouds fly 148

Awake 70

A yellow leaf from the darkness 82

Bad Dreams 35

Ball Game 6

Bargain, The 122

Because I had loved so deeply 52

Because My Students Asked Me 88

Bid me no more good-night; because 121

Black Hair 19

Blue mountains to the north of the walls 105

Bright and serene eyes 40

Brightly the hearth-fire leap, and the lit lamp 30

Bring from the craggy haunts of birch and pine 134

Brooding Grief 82

Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly 22

Butterfly Song 22

But to remember her my heart is sad 31

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Note
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’rri
• Yamabe Akahito
• Anna Akhmatova
• Richard Aldington
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• William Allingham
• Alpheius of Mytilene
• Anacreon
• Anonymous
• Asclepiades
• Matsuo Basho
• Charles Baudelaire
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
• Bhartrihari
• Bhasa
• Elizabeth Bishop
• William Blake
• Bertolt Brecht
• Emily Brontë
• Robert Browning
• Yosa Buson
• Lord Byron, George Gordon
• Callimachos
• Joseph Campbell
• Thomas Campion
• Catullus
• Gutierre de Cetina
• Wang Chi
• T’ao Ch’ien
• Po Chu-i
• Matthias Claudius
• Abraham Cowley
• John Clare
• Adelaide Crapsey
• Robert Creeley
• Dakiki
• Samuel Daniel
• Emily Dickinson
• Dilsoz
• Digby Mackworth Dolben
• H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• T. S. Eliot
• Juan Escriva
• Euenus
• Firdawsi
• John Gould Fletcher
• F. S. Flint
• Robert Frost
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Barnabe Googe
• Jehudah Halevi
• Thomas Hardy
• John Harington
• Heinrich Heine
• George Herbert
• Robert Herrick
• Hermann Hesse
• Nazim Hikmet
• Princess Hirokawa
• Friedrich Holderlin
• Langston Hughes
• T. E. Hulme
• Kobayashi Issa
• Juan Ramon Jiménez
• Ben Jonson
• Kabir
• Kasa Kanamura
• Empress Kogyoku
• Alfred Kreymborg
• Walter Savage Landor
• Emily Lawless
• D. H. Lawrence
• Luis de Leon
• Mikhail Lermontov
• Detlev von Liliencron
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Lucilius
• Lady Maisun
• Taylor Mali
• Jorge Manrique
• Manzei
• Martial
• Mayura
• Meleager
• George Meredith
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Otomo Miyori
• Thomas Moore
• Edward Morike
• Arakida Moritake
• Nikolai Nekrasov
• Ivan Savvich Nikitin
• Princess Nukada
• Abu Nuwas
• Nikolay Ogarev
• Prince Otsu and Lady Ishikawa
• Octavio Paz
• George Peele
• Gyorgy Petri
• Caius Petronius
• Li Po
• Ezra Pound
• Alexander Pushkin
• Francis Quarles
• Rafi of Merv
• Anthony Raftery
• Walter Raleigh
• Mathurin Régnier
• Abraham Reisen
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Theodore Roethke
• Emile Roumer
• Conrado Nale Roxlo
• Rufinus
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Lady Otomo no Sakanoye
• Carl Sandburg
• Sappho
• William Shakespeare
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Masoka Shiki
• James Shirley
• Philip Sidney
• Iio Sogi
• Yamazaki Sokan
• Georgios Souris
• Gertrude Stein
• Alan Stephens
• Wallace Stevens
• Strato
• John Suckling
• Jonathan Swift
• Otomo Tabito
• Torquato Tasso
• Sara Teasdale
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Henry David Thoreau
• John Todhunter
• Marina Tsvetaeva
• Su Tung-p’o
• Fyodor Tyutchev
• Paul Verlaine
• Gil Vicente
• Edmund Waller
• Wang Wei
• Walt Whitman
• Oscar Wilde
• William Carlos Williams
• John Wilson
• William Wordsworth
• Emperor Wu-ti
• Otomo Yakamochi
• Mei Yao-ch’en
• William Butler Yeats
• Shen Yo
• Bibliography
• Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines