Format:
Book
Title:
Seven centuries of verse, English & American : from the early English lyrics to the present day / Selected and edited by A.J.M. Smith.
Author:
Smith, A. J. M. (Arthur James Marshall), 1902-1980.
Call Number:
808.81 S642se2
Edition:
2d ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 1957.
Description:
xxxix, 778 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
English poetry.
American poetry.
Contents:
Early lyrics of unknown authorship: Sumer is icumen in -- Adam lay I-Bowndyn -- Quid Petis, O fily? -- Ubi sunt que ante nos fuerunt -- I have a yong suster -- I sing of a maiden -- O western wind -- The bailey beareth the bell away -- The falcon -- A Lyke-wake dirge -- Jolly good ale and old -- Balade: Hyde, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere ; Prologue to the Canterbury Tales ; The Nun's Priest's Tale / Geoffrey Chaucer -- English & Scottish popular ballads: Sir Patrick Spens -- The wife of Usher's well -- Thomas the rhymer -- Kemp owyne -- Clerk Suanders -- The cherry-tree carol -- The twa corbies -- The three ravens -- Lord Randal -- Edward, Edward -- Helen of Kirconnell -- To Mistress Margaret Hussey ; To Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton -- Desire / William Cornish -- The epitaph of Graunde Amoure / Stephen Hawes -- The Hind ; They flee from me, that sometime did me seek / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Description of the spring, wherein each thing renews save only the lover / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Three sonnets from "amoretti": LXVIII: Most glorious Lord of lyfe ; LXX: Fresh spring, the herald ; LXXV: one day I wrote her name ; Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- Walsinghame ; The lie ; Even such is time / Sir Walter Ralegh -- Cupid and campaspe / John Lyly -- Loving in truth ; with how sad steps, o moon ; My true love hath my heart ; Leave me, O love / Sir Philip Sidney -- O wearisome condition of humanity / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- The song at the well ; Bethsabe's song / George Peele -- Are they shadows that we see? / Samuel Daniel -- Sonet: Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin / Mark Alexander Boyd -- The parting / Michael Drayton -- The passionate shepherd to his love / The nymph's reply (by Sir Walter Ralegh) / Christopher Marlowe --
From the sonnets: XVII: Shall I compare thee; XXIX: When is disgrace with fortune; XXX: When to the sessions; XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning; LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments; LX: Like as the waves; LXIV: When I have seen by time's fell hand; LXV: Since brass, nor stone ; LXVI: Tired with all these; LXXI: No longer mourn for me; LXXIII: That time of year; CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time; CVII: Not mine own fears; CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds; CXXIX: Th'expense of spirit; CXXX: My mistress' eyes; CXLVI: Poor soul, the center; Songs from the plays: Who is Silvia?; When daisies pied; When icicles hang by the wall; Now the hungry lion roars; Tell me where is fancy bred; Sigh no more, ladies; Under the greenwood tree; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; Come away, death; O mistress mine ; Take, O! Take those lips away; Hark, Hark! the lark; fear no more the heat o' the sun; Where the bee sucks; Full Fathom five; The phoenix and the turtle / William Shakespeare -- Cherry-ripe; Rose-cheeked Laura; Vivamus mea lesbia atque amemus ; When to her lute corinna sings; Kind are her answers; Young and simple though I am; When thou must home / Thomas Campion -- Tom O'Bedlam's song / Author Unknown -- Song: go and catch a falling star; The canonization; The sun rising; The good-morrow; The Ecstasy; The Anniversary; Elegy: on his mistress; A valediction forbidding mourning; The relic; Holy sonnets: VII: At the round earth's imagined corners; X: Death, be not proud; Xiii: What if this present; XIV: Batter my heart, three-personed God; A hymn to God the father / John Donne -- To Celia: drink to me only with thine eyes; Song: to Celia; The triumph of Charis; Slow, Slow, fresh fount ; To the memory of my beloved, the author, Master William Shakespeare; An ode to himself; To Heaven / Ben Jonson -- Call for the Robin Redbreast / John Webster -- On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke ; In Obitum M.S., X Mai, 1614 / William Browne of Tavistock -- The argument of his book; Corrinna's going a-maying; To the Virgins, to make much of time; To daffodils; The night-piece, to Julia; Upon Julia's clothes; Delight in disorder; The cheat of Cupid, or, the ungentle guest; A child's grace; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The bad season makes the poet sad; A thanksgiving to God, for his house; His creed / Robert Herrick -- The collar; Redemption; Peace; The church-floor; Love; The pulley; Discipline; Life; Virture / George Herbert --
Death the leveller / James shirley -- Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller -- At a solemn music ; On time ; On the morning of Christ's nativity ; L'allegro ; Il Penseroso; Lycidas; Songs from "comus": The star that bids the shepherds fold; Sweet echo, sweetest nymph; Sabrina fair; To the ocean now I fly ; Sonnets: How soon hath time; When I consider how my light is spent; To Oliver Cromwell ; On the late massacre in Piemont ; On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises ; On the same; On his deceased wife; Choruses from "Samson Agonistes": Many are the sayings of the wise; Oh how comely it is and how reviving; All is best / John Milton -- Out upon it! I have loved; A ballad upon a wedding; Song / Sir John Suckling -- In the Holy Nativity of our Lord God ; A song / Richard Crashaw -- To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace -- To his coy mistress; The garden; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; Bermudas; The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- The world; The retreat; The night; Ascension-hymn / Henry Vaughan -- Wonder / Thomas Traherne -- Alexander's feast, or, the power of music ; To the memory of Mr. OIdham; Prologue to "Aureng-Zebe" ' Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton, 1688; Song of Venus; The lady's song; The secular masque / John Dryden -- A better answer (to Cloe Jealous); To a child of quality; On critics / Matthew Prior -- A description of the morning; Description of a city shower; A satyrical elegy on the death of a late famous general ; Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged / Jonathan Swift -- Damon and cupid; Song from "The beaggar's opera": were I laid on Greenland's coast; My own epitaph / John Gay -- On the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / Goerge Berkeley -- Ode on solitude; To a young lady on her leaving the town after the coronation ; The rape of the lock; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Engraved on the collar of a dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness; The balance of Europe; Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope -- Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the theatre in Drury Lane, 1747 / Samuel Johnson -- Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; On the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes ; Elegy written in a country churchyard; On Lord Holland's seat near Margate, Kent / Thomas Gray --
Ode to evening; Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 / William Collins -- For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey / Christopher Smart -- When lovely woman stoops to folly ; Edmund Burke (from "retaliation") ; David Garrick (from "retaliation") / Oliver Goldsmith -- The poplar field / Epitaph on a hare ; Light shining out of darkness / William Cowper -- To the muses ; Song: how sweet I roam'd ; Songs of innocence: introduction ; The lamb; The little black boy; The tyger; Ah! sun-flower ; The sick rose; London; The little vagabond ; The garden of love; I asked a thief; From "Milton" ; Scoffers; Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- Scots wha hae ; A red, red rose; Ae fond kiss; To a mouse, on turning up her nest with the plough ; John Barleycorn: a ballad ; To a louse, on seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church ; Address to the unco guid, or the rigidly righteous / Robert Burns -- The daffodils; The solitary reaper; To a butterfly; Stepping westward; Lucy Gray, or, solitude ; Three years she grew; A slumber did my spirit seal; Ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; Sonnets: The world is too much with use; Upon Westminster Bridge; London, 1802; thoughts of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Mutability; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; Surprised by Joy, impatient as the wind / William Wordswoth -- Bonny Dundee; Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott -- The fruit plucker; Kubla Khan; The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Rose Aylmer; The death of Artemidora; Dirce; Ternissa! You are fled; On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor -- She walks in beauty; So we'll go no more a'roving; Sonnet on Chillon; from "Don Juan": The Isles of Greece / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The cloud; Ode to the west wind; Hymn of Pan; Chorus from "Hellas": The world's great age begins anew; Sonnet: England in 1819; Song to the men of England; from "Prometheus unbound": This is the day, which down the void abysm; Ozymandias; A widow bird sate mourning for her love; To night; To Jane: The invitation / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Mouse's nest; The hedgehog; The mole; The fear of flowers; Clock-a-clay / John Clare -- To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- La belle dame sans merci; Ode to a nightingale; Ode on a Grecian urn; Ode on melancholy; To autumn; The eve of St. Agnes; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern; Sonnets: To one who has been long in city pent; On the grasshopper and the cricket; On first looking into Chapman's Homer; On seeing the Elgin marbles; On the sea; When I have fears that I may cease to be; Bright star! Would that I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Concord hymn; Hamatreya; Days; The rhodora; Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- My lost youth; Three sonnets on "The Divine Comedy": Oft have I seen at some cathedral door; How strange the sculptures; I lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- To Helen; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: I: Stanzas I-III and VII; II: Stanzas XII-XXIV; III: Stanza LXXXI; IV: Stanzas XCVI-CI / Edward Fitzgerals -- The Lady of Shalott; The lotos-eaters; Ulysses; Morte d'Arthur; Songs from "The Princess": Come down, o maid; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Tears, idle tears; from "In Memoriam A.H.H.": Proem: Strong son of God; II: Old yew, which graspest; VII: Dark house, by which once more I stand; XI: Calm is the morn; LIV: Oh yet we trust; LV: The wish, that of the living whole; LVI: "So careful of the type?"; LXVI: When on my bed the moonlight falls; CI: Unwatch'd, the garden bough; CXV: Now fades the last long streak of snow; CXVII: Contemplate all this work of time; CXXIII: There rolls the deep; CXXVI: Love is and was my lord and king; The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The jumblies / Edward Lear -- Home thoughts from abroad; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister; My last duchess; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's church; Up at a villa, down in the city; "Childe Roland ot the dark tower came"; Two in the Campagna; Prospice / Robert Browning --
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking; Four poems from "Song of myself": Alone far in the wilds; I am a poet of the body; I believe a lieaf of grass; Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Dover beach; Philomela; A summer night; To marguerite; The scholar gypsy; The buries life / Matthew Arnold -- My sister's sleep; The blessed damozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Three "Sonnets" from "Modern love": Mark where the pressing wind; We saw the swallows; Thus piteously love closed; Lucifer in starlight; Dirge in the woods / George Meredith -- I taste a liquor never brewed; A bird came down the walk; A narrow fellow in the grass; In winter, in my room; Because I could not stop for death; I heard a fly buzz when I dies; 'Twas like a maelstrom with a notch / Emily Dickinson -- Eve; Echo / Christina Rossetti -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- The haystack in the floods / William Morris -- Chorus from "Atlanta in Calydon": When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces; Hymn to Proserpine; The garden of Proserpine / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- The darkling thrush; Drummer hodge; The convergence of the twain; Channel firing; In time of "The breaking of nations" (1915); The ruined maid; During wind and rain; Regret not me; Afterwards / Thomas Hardy -- God's grandeur; Spring and fall: To a young child; The wreck of the "Deutschland"; The windhover; I wake and feel the fell of dark / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Nightingales; A passer by; London snow; The north wind came up yesternight; Eros / Robert Bridges -- The kingdom of God; The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson -- To an athlete dying young; Is my team ploughin?; The deserter; Terence, this is stupid stuff; The starts have not dealt me; Easter hymn; Alta Quies / A.E. Housman -- Cities and thrones and powers; The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling --
The host of the air; Easter 1916; Leda and the swan; The second coming; Two songs from a play; For Anne Gregory; The tower; Among schoolchildren; Sailing to Byzantium; Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Flammonde; Miniver Cheevy; Cassandra; Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The hill / Edgar Lee Masters -- Eve / Ralph Hodgson -- The listeners; The sleepers; Echo; All that's past / Walter de la Mare -- The rolling English road / G.K. Chesterton -- The tuft of flowers; Mending wall; The road not taken; The death of the hired man; The woodpile; A soldier; Directive; Design / Robert Frost -- The yarn of the "Loch Achray"; Cargoes / John Masefield -- Four preludes on playthings of the wind / Carl Sandburg -- General William Booth enters into heaven / Vachel Lindsay -- Sunday morning; Bantams in pine woods; Dance of the macabre mice / Wallace Stevens -- A sort of a song; The yachts; A unison; To a dog injured in the street / William Carlos Williams -- Song of a man who has come through; Snake; Bavarian Gentians / D.H. Lawrence -- Exile's letter; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Pour l'election de son sepulchre I-V; Canto I; from Canto LXXXI: The ant's a centaur in his dragon world / Ezra Pound -- Old man; The manor farm; The brook / Edward Thomas -- The funeral of youth; Tiare Tahiti; Heaven; The dead / Rupert Brooke -- Apology for bad dreams / Robinson Jeffers -- A grave; The monkeys; In distrust of merits; Nevertheless / Marianne Moore -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Gerontion; Sweeney among the nightingales; Ash Wednesday; The dry salvages / T.S. Eliot -- Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom -- Oh, sleep forever in the Latmian cave / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The too-late born / Archilad MacLeish -- Strange meeting; Greater love; Insensibility / Wilfred Owen -- Who's most afraid of death? Thou / E.E. Cummings -- The Mediterranean; Ode to the confederate dead / Allen Tate -- To Brooklyn Bridge; Repose of rivers; The dance; Voyages VI / Hart Crane -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart --
Muse des beaux arts; September 1, 1939; As I walked out one evening; Preface (The stage manager to the critics); Fugal chorus from "For the time being" / W.H. Auden -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice -- The express; Two armies / Stephen Spender -- Scyros / Karl Shapiro -- In my craft or sullen art; Ballad of the long-legged bait; A winter's tale; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- After the surprising conversions; Mr. Edwards and the spider; The drunken fisherman / Robert Lowell -- The poet's world / Sir Philip Sidney -- Theseus on the imagination / William Shakespeare -- Of the poet / Ben Jonson -- A true poem / John Milton -- The troublesome bondage of riming / John Milton -- The function of imagination in poetical composition / John Dryden -- The accomplishments necessary to a poet / John Dryden -- Nature, the rules, and art / Alexander Pope -- A dissertation upon poetry / Samuel Johnson -- The wit of the metaphysical poets / Samuel Johnson -- What is a poet? / William Wordsworth -- The object of poetry / William Wordsworth -- A definition of poetry / William Wordsworth -- The power of the poet / S.T. Coleridge -- Imagination and truth / John Keats -- A few axioms / John Keats -- The utility of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poetry and the present age / Matthew Arnold -- The future of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- The purpose of rhythm / William Butler Yeats -- The great function of poetry / George Santayana -- The innocence of the eye / George Santayana -- The primitive, radical form of poetry / George Santayana -- Poetry and personal emotion / T.S. Eliot -- The chief use of meaning / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- Ars Poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Memorable speech / W.H Auden and John Garrett -- The modern poet / Lous MacNeice -- Versification -- Sound and sense -- Figurative language -- Verse forms and stanza patterns -- Some types of poetry.