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"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon All I could see from where I stood A man said to the universe An old sweetheart of mine!—Is this her presence here with me As I was going up the stair Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight Because I could not stop for Death Behind him lay the gray Azores Between the dark and the daylight Blessings on thee, little man Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Break, break, break By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to the sea By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Earth has not anything to show more fair England’s sun was slowly setting Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare
Flower in the crannied wall
God of our fathers, known of old
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Half a league, half a league Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay Hear the sledges with the bells— Helen, thy beauty is to me Hog Butcher for the World How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood
I am fevered with the sunset If I can stop one heart from breaking If you can keep your head when all about you I have a rendezvous with Death I met a traveller from an antique land I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky I never saw a moor I never saw a Purple Cow In Flanders fields the poppies blow In winter I get up at night In Xanadu did Kubla Khan I saw him once before I shot an arrow into the air Is there for honest poverty I think that I shall never see It is a beauteous evening, calm and free It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home It was a summer evening It was many and many a year ago It was six men of Indostan It was the schooner Hesperus I wandered lonely as a cloud I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer
Jenny kiss’d me when we met
Laugh, and the world laughs with you Listen, my children, and you shall hear Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay
Mary had a little lamb Maud Muller on a summer’s day ’Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold My candle burns at both ends My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! whare the crick so still and deep Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary One more Unfortunate One ship drives east and another drives west Out of the night that covers me Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Seated one day at the Organ She walks in beauty, like the night Somebody said that it couldn’t be done Some say the world will end in fire 35 Something there is that doesn’t love a wall Sunset and evening star
Tell me not, in mournful numbers The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold The boy stood on the burning deck The breaking waves dashed high The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day The day is done, and the darkness The fog comes The gingham dog and the calico cat The gray sea and the long black land The little toy dog is covered with dust The night has a thousand eyes The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea There are hermit souls that live withdrawn There are strange things done in the midnight sun There is no frigate like a book There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— There’s a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street There was a little girl, she had a little curl The sea is calm to-night The shades of night were falling fast The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The world is so full of a number of things The world is too much with us; late and soon The year’s at the spring Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness To him who in the love of Nature holds ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Twinkle, twinkle, little star Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
Under a spreading chestnut-tree Under the wide and starry sky
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa— ‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade When Earth’s last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried
When Freedom, from her mountain height When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock When you were a tadpole and I was a fish Whose woods these are I think I know With fingers weary and worn Woodman, spare that tree! Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
You may talk o’ gin and beer
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