World's Best Poetry: Description and Narrative [Hardcover]

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Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memorial Verses by Matthew Arnold
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmonstoune Aytoun
The Heart Of The Bruce by William Edmonstoune Aytoun
Muckle-mou'd Meg by James Ballantyne
City Bells by Richard Harris Barham
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker
Poe's Cottage At Fordham by John Henry Boner
The Burial Of Robert Browning by Katherine Harris Bradley
O, The Pleasant Days Of Old! by Frances Browne
England by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
On A Portrait Of Wordsworth By B.r. Haydon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A View Across The Roman Campagna by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Glove by Robert Browning
Herve Riel by Robert Browning
House by Robert Browning
How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix by Robert Browning
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
Memorabilia by Robert Browning
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant
A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns
The Coliseum by George Gordon Byron
Napoleon (stanzas 36-45) by George Gordon Byron
The Orient by George Gordon Byron
The Partheon by George Gordon Byron
The Rhine [or, Drachenfels, Or, Longing] by George Gordon Byron
Saint Peter's At Rome by George Gordon Byron
To Thomas Moore (1) by George Gordon Byron
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
Napoleon And The British [or English] Sailor [boy] by Thomas Campbell
The Canterbury Pilgrims by Geoffrey Chaucer
To The Memory Of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough
Shakespeare by David Hartley Coleridge
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell
London by John Davidson
Hymn 3. To The Spring [sun] [or, Acrostic] by John (1569-1626) Davies
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; In Memoriam by Henry Austin Dobson
Leonardo's 'monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden
Under The Portrait Of John Milton by John Dryden
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Poet's Epitaph by Ebenezer Elliott
The Forging Of The Anchor by Samuel Ferguson
On The Life-mask Of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
England by Oliver Goldsmith
February In Rome by Edmund William Gosse
Hans Christian Andersen, 1805-1875 by Edmund William Gosse
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert Gorton Greene
Joseph Rodman Drake, Died In New York, September, 1820 by Fitz-greene Halleck
Weehawken And The New York Bay by Fitz-greene Halleck
Chateau Papineau by Susan Frances Harrison
Dickens In Camp by Francis Bret Harte
Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
Ode To Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
Hierarchy Of Angels by Thomas Heywood
Jock Johnstone, The Tinkler by James Hogg
Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Napoleon by Victor Marie Hugo
Mahmoud by James Henry Leigh Hunt
The Nile by James Henry Leigh Hunt
On Hearing A Little Music-box by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp
Charles Xii Of Sweden (lines 119-222) by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
Shakespeare by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
Freedom In Dress [or, Clerimont's Song, Or, Sweet Neglect] by Ben Jonson
On The Portrait Of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
To The Memory Of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats
Christmas In India by Rudyard Kipling
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
Macaulay As Poet by Walter Savage Landor
Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang
Song Of The Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
Chopin by Emma Lazarus
Alonzo The Brave And The Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Old Bridge At Florence; Sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Skeleton In Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Abraham Lincoln: The Martyr Chief by James Russell Lowell
In A Copy Of Omar Khayyam by James Russell Lowell
Lowell On Himself by James Russell Lowell
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; On His Birthday, 27 Feb. 1867 by James Russell Lowell
To Washington by James Russell Lowell
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell
Horatius [at The Bridge], Fr. Lays Of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail
The Bells Of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony
To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes
Adam And Eve [man And Woman Made One Unity] by John Milton
Epitaph On The Admirable Dramatic Poet, William Shakespeare by John Milton
Sonnet: 16. To The Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 by John Milton
The Ballad Of Guibour by Frederic Mistral
To Madame De Sevigne by Mathieu De Montreuil
O, Breathe Not His Name! by Thomas Moore
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore
The Vale Of Cashmere by Thomas Moore
Laus Veneris (a Picture By Burne-jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton
Kane by Fitz-james O'brien
On A Bust Of Dante by Thomas William Parsons
The Nobleman And The Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
Byron by Robert Pollok
The Poet's Friend by Alexander Pope
The Toilet by Alexander Pope
Camp-bell by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor
The Fall Of Troy by Publius Vergilius Maro
To Rome; Buried In Its Ruins by Francisco Gomez De Quevedo Y Villegasco
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read
The Fight Of The Armstrong Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche
Naples by Samuel Rogers
Venice by Samuel Rogers
To Mary Stuart by Pierre De Ronsard
Sir Philip Sidney by Matthew Royden
Thor Recovers His Hammer From Thrym by Sigfusson Saemund
Carlyle And Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler
Christmas [or, In Olden Time] by Walter Scott
Fitz-james And Roderick Dhu by Walter Scott
James Fitz-james And Ellen by Walter Scott
The Knight by Walter Scott
Marmion And Douglas by Walter Scott
Melrose Abbey [by Moonlight] by Walter Scott
Cleopatra [on The Cyndus] by William Shakespeare
England by William Shakespeare
Seven Ages Of Man, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The White Peacock by William Sharp
Ozymandias Of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Ianthe, Sleeping by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Venice by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Village Schoolmistress by William Shenstone
To The Memory Of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons
The Cuckoo Clock by Caroline Anne Bowles Southey
The Cataract Of Lodore by Robert Southey
The Greenwood Shrift by Robert Southey
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Hand Of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein
Louis Xv by John (1806-1844) Sterling
A Day In The Pamfili Doria by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Settler: America In The Making by Alfred Billings Street
Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne
In Memory Of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lines On The Monument Of Giuseppe Mazzini by Algernon Charles Swinburne
On The Deaths Of Thomas Carlyle And George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Venice by John Addington Symonds
Erminia And The Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso
Abraham Lincoln by Tom Taylor
Frithiof At The Court Of Angantyr by Esaias Tegner
Albert, Prince Consort Of England by Alfred Tennyson
Godiva by Alfred Tennyson
Morte D'arthur by Alfred Tennyson
The Revenge; A Ballad Of The Fleet by Alfred Tennyson
To Victor Hugo by Alfred Tennyson
To Virgil by Alfred Tennyson
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
Drifted Out To Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Newport Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Anne Hathaway (1) by Anonymous
George Washington by Anonymous
Lord Lovel (1) by Anonymous
A Welcome To 'boz' by William Henry Venable
Lachrymae Musarum (the Death Of Tennyson) by William Watson
Poet Who Sleepest By This Wandering Wave! by William Watson
A Still Day In Autumn by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Out From Behind This Mask by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 1 by Walt Whitman
Barclay Of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier
Burns by John Greenleaf Whittier
Fitz-greene Halleck, At The Unveiling Of His Statue by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Prayer Of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Leper (2) by Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Evening Cloud by John (1785-1854) Wilson
Emerson; Concord by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Ecclesiastical Sonnets: Part 3: 5. Walton's Book Of Live by William Wordsworth
On The Departure Of Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford For Naples by William Wordsworth
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
To Milton by William Wordsworth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Roth Pub (May 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896092089
• ISBN-13: 978-0896092082
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
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