
A Poet's Choice
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This anthology is a window on the personal culture of one of our best-loved writers.
'She is one of the few living poets we could not do without,' Peter Levi said.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- The Prologue
- SIR THOMAS WYATT
- 'They flee from me'
- EDMUND SPENSER
- 'Lacking my love'
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
- 'Come sleep'
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
- 'When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes'
- 'That thou hast her, it is not all my grief'
- 'Not marble nor the gilded monuments'
- 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'
- 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold'
- 'Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid'
- 'Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing'
- 'When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light'
- 'Some glory in their birth, some in their skill'
- 'From you have I been absent in the spring'
- 'To me, fair friend, you never can be old'
- 'O never say that I was false of heart'
- 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds'
- 'When my love swears that she is made of truth'
- 'My love is as a fever, longing still'
- JOHN DONNE
- The Sun Rising
- A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy' Day being the shortest day
- Negative Love
- The Prohibition
- Holy Sonnets
- GEORGE HERBERT
- The Agony
- Redemption
- Easter Wings
- Prayer
- The Temper
- Praise
- Affliction
- The World
- Man
- Life
- The Collar
- The Forerunners
- SIR THOMAS BROWNE
- 'The world as text'
- 'All flesh is grass'
- Urn Burial Chapter III
- JOHN MILTON
- At a Solemn Music
- L'Allegro
- Lycidas
- On His Blindness
- RICHARD CRASHAW
- The Hymn of Saint Thomas in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
- HENRY VAUGHAN
- The Retreat
- Cheerfulness
- Peace
- Corruption
- The World
- Man
- JOHN DRYDEN
- A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687
- Alexander's Feast
- from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- THOMAS TRAHERNE
- from The First Century
- from The Second Century
- from The Third Century
- OLIVER GOLDSMITH
- The Double Transformation A Tale
- An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
- Stanzas on Woman
- The Citizen of the World
- WILLIAM BLAKE
- Songs of Innocence
- Songs of Experience
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- Lines written a few miles above Tintem Abbey
- Song
- 'A slumber did my spirit seal'
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Sept. 3, 1803
- 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free'
- 'Surprised by joy, impatient as the wind'
- from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Frost at Midnight
- Kubla Khan
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
- Ozymandias
- Ode to the West Wind
- JOHN KEATS
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode to Psyche
- Sonnet: On the Sea
- Sonnet 'When I have fears.'
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
- Ulysses
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- ROBERT BROWNING
- My Last Duchess
- Home-Thoughts from Abroad
- Meeting at Night
- Andrea del Sarto
- Two in the Campagna
- ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
- from Amours de Voyage
- MATTHEW ARNOLD
- Shakespeare
- The Scholar Gipsy
- Dover Beach
- DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
- During Music
- The Honeysuckle
- Sudden Light
- The Woodspurge
- A Little While
- Sunset Wings
- Three Shadows
- CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
- A Birthday
- EMILY DICKINSON
- 'Exultation is the going'
- 'I never hear the word 'escape"'
- 'There's a certain Slant of light'
- 'It might be lonelier'
- 'We grow accustomed to the Dark'
- 'This is my letter to the World'
- 'It was not Death, for I stood up'
- GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
- from The Wreck of the Deutschland
- God's Grandeur
- Spring
- The Lantern out of Doors
- The Windhover:
- Duns Scotus's Oxford
- Brothers
- 'As kingfishers catch fire'
- The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
- 'I wake and feel the fell of dark'
- 'My own heart let me more have pity on'
- In honour of St Alphonsus Rodriguez Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
- G.K. CHESTERTON
- Lepanto
- The Last Hero
- EDWARD THOMAS
- The Owl
- Like the Touch of Rain
- And You, Helen
- Rain
- Lights Out
- Words
- Snow
- No One So Much As You
- Out in the Dark
- WILFRED OWEN
- Futility
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Strange Meeting
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES
- By Elizabeth Jennings
- Copyright
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