The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Oxford Standard Authors) (Paperback)

by the late Francis Turner Palgrave (Compiler), John Press (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
What's under REVIEWis not the entire Golden Treasury, the original nineteenth-century anthology that established the canon of English lyric poetry up to its time, but only the newest expansion of Palgrave's monument. The selections in these 116 pages reflect a little presumptuousness on the part of editor Press. Whereas Palgrave never chose work by his contemporaries, Press chooses primarily the work of living poets, which makes one a bit uneasy as to whether these poems are of passing fancy. That disquiet stated, what is here is by the names expected when entry is restricted to those long resident in the British Isles. By far the most familiar pieces are those by Dylan Thomas. Among the few other poets represented by more than two poems are, unsurprisingly, Philip Larkin, Thom Gunn (despite his three decades in San Francisco), Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Of course, a great many more hands are represented by only one or two poems each. Ray Olson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
Peachstone by Dannie Abse
An Illustration To Dante by Karen Fleur Adcock
To Aurora (1) [or, Sonnet] by William (1567-1640) Alexander
After Goliath by Kingsley Amis
Somewhere Along The Line by Simon Armitage
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
A Dream by Matthew Arnold
Isolation: To Marguerite - Continued by Matthew Arnold
The Oxus by Matthew Arnold
Palladium by Matthew Arnold
The Song Of Callicles: 21 by Matthew Arnold
Chorus by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Seascape by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Shield Of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
Life by Francis Bacon
Life [and Death] by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Summer Song: 1 by George Barker
Troubles Of The Day by William Barnes
White An' Blue by William Barnes
The Wind At The Door by William Barnes
The Nightingale by Richard Barnfield
On The Tombs In Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont
Birthday Poem From Venice by Patricia Beer
The Letter by Patricia Beer
The Cottage Hospital by John Betjeman
Ireland With Emily by John Betjeman
The Burning Of The Leaves by Laurence Binyon
Hospital For Defectives by Thomas Blackburn
A Smell Of Burning by Thomas Blackburn
At The Great Wall Of China by Edmund Charles Blunden
The Midnight Skaters by Edmund Charles Blunden
Report On Experience by Edmund Charles Blunden
Nights Of Childhood by Eavan Boland
Icarus by Ronald Bottrall
Awake, My Heart, To Be Loved, Awake, Awake! by Robert Seymour Bridges
London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges
The Storm Is Over, The Land Hushes To Rest by Robert Seymour Bridges
The Hawk by George Mackay Brown
Old Fisherman With Guitar by George Mackay Brown
Bianca Among The Nightingales by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Confessions by Robert Browning
How It Strikes A Contemporary by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
A Toccata Of Galuppi's by Robert Browning
Two In The Campagna by Robert Browning
Up At A Villa - Down In The City by Robert Browning
Somehow by Alan Brownjohn
The Banks O' Doon by Robert Burns
Bonie [bonnie] Lesley by Robert Burns
Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
A Farewell by Robert Burns
Highland Mary by Robert Burns
Jean by Robert Burns
John Anderson by Robert Burns
Lament For Culloden by Robert Burns
Mary Morison by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
To A Field-mouse by Robert Burns
All For Love by George Gordon Byron
Elegy by George Gordon Byron
Elegy On Thyrza by George Gordon Byron
On The Castle Of Chillon by George Gordon Byron
She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Stanzas For Music (3) by George Gordon Byron
When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron
Youth And Age by George Gordon Byron
The Compassionate Fool by Norman Cameron
Forgive Me, Sire, For Cheating Your Intent by Norman Cameron
The Thespians At Thermopylae by Norman Cameron
Three Love Poems: 1. From A Woman To A Greedy Lover by Norman Cameron
Three Love Poems: 2. In The Queen's Room by Norman Cameron
Three Love Poems: 3. Shepherdess by Norman Cameron
Autumn by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
On Professor Drennan's Verse by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
On Some South African Novelists by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
The Serf by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
Battle Of The Baltic by Thomas Campbell
The Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
Freedom And Love by Thomas Campbell
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
The Maid Of Neidpath by Thomas Campbell
Ode To Winter by Thomas Campbell
The River Of Life by Thomas Campbell
To The Evening Star (1) by Thomas Campbell
Ye Mariners Of England by Thomas Campbell
Cherry Ripe by Thomas Campion
The True Beauty by Thomas Carew
Sally In Our Alley by Henry (1687-1743) Carey
At The British War Cemetery, Bayeux by Charles Causley
Six Women by Charles Causley
The Blind Boy by Colley Cibber
Death by John Clare
Hesperus by John Clare
I Am by John Clare
A Vision by John Clare
Marriage by Austin Clarke
Penal Law by Austin Clarke
Christ In The Clay-pit by Jack R. Clemo
Canto 2, 11. Claude To Eustace by Arthur Hugh Clough
Canto 3, 11. On Montorio's Height (valley & Villa Of Horace) by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not by Arthur Hugh Clough
Spectator Ab Extra by Arthur Hugh Clough
Song by David Hartley Coleridge
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Verse, A Breeze Mid Blossoms Straying by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tomorrow by John Collins
Ode Written In [the Beginning Of The Year] 1746 by William (1721-1759) Collins
The Passions: An Ode For Music by William (1721-1759) Collins
To Evening by William (1721-1759) Collins
Porto Venere by Tony Connor
Diaphenia by Henry Constable
Red Figure Vase by David Constantine
The Invocation [or, The Supplication, Or, The Lover To His Lyre] by Abraham Cowley
On The Loss Of The Royal George by William Cowper
The Poplar Field by William Cowper
The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk by William Cowper
To A Young Lady by William Cowper
To Mary Unwin by William Cowper
To The Same (mary Unwin) by William Cowper
Wishes For The Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw
At Lansdowne Kirk by Robert (1959-) Crawford
A Sea Song by Allan Cunningham
To Delia: 45 by Samuel Daniel
The Loveliness Of Love by George Darley
Green River by Donald Davie
Time Passing, Beloved by Donald Davie
Tunstall Forest by Donald Davie
The Inquest by William Henry Davies
St. George And The Villagers by Dick Davis
Touring A Past by Dick Davis
Emily Bronte by Cecil Day Lewis
Sonnet: 9 by Cecil Day Lewis
At Ease by Walter John De La Mare
Fare Well by Walter John De La Mare
The Old Summerhouse by Walter John De La Mare
Reserved by Walter John De La Mare
The Happy Heart [or, The Basket-maker's Song] by Thomas Dekker
Song by Richard Watson Dixon
Winter Will Follow by Richard Watson Dixon
Evidence Read At The Trial Of The Knave Of Hearts by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Humpty Dumpty Recitation [or, Song] by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Sportsmen by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton
Doth Then The World Go Thus, Doth All Thus Move? by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
The Lessons Of Nature by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Madrigal by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Madrigal: 1 by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Saint John Baptist by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Sonnet: To His Lute by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Summons To Love by William Drummond Of Hawthornden
Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music by John Dryden
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden
In Mrs. Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy
Le Pere-lachaise by Carol Ann Duffy
Wild Strawberries by Helen Dunmore
France by Douglas Dunn
Reading Pascal In The Lowlands by Douglas Dunn
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1-5 Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Marina by Thomas Stearns Eliot
New Hampshire by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Last Day Of Marriage by Alistair Elliot
Lament For Flodden [field] by Jean (1727-1805) Elliot
This Last Pain by William Empson
To An Old Lady by William Empson
The Laughing Hyena, After Hokusai by Dennis Joseph Enright
The Dell by Gavin Ewart
Victorian by Gavin Ewart
In A Notebook by James Fenton
The Hospital In Winter by Roy Fisher
Melancholy [or, In Praise Of Melancholy] by John Fletcher
I Loved You And You Loved Me by Veronica Forrest-thomson
An Exchange Between The Fingers And The Toes by John Fuller
The Green Hills Of Africa by Roy Fuller
The Translation by Roy Fuller
Envoi (1) by Elizabeth Garrett
Eve by David Gascoyne
Miserere: Ex Nihilo by David Gascoyne
Winter Garden by David Gascoyne
Black-eyed Susan by John Gay
Song by Oliver Goldsmith
My Lady's Pleasure by Robert Graham
Certain Mercies by Robert Ranke Graves
The Cool Web by Robert Ranke Graves
Counting The Beats by Robert Ranke Graves
Love Without Hope by Robert Ranke Graves
A Plea To Boys And Girls by Robert Ranke Graves
Pure Death by Robert Ranke Graves
Sick Love by Robert Ranke Graves
The Thieves by Robert Ranke Graves
Vanity by Robert Ranke Graves
The Bard; A Pindaric Ode by Thomas Gray
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray
On A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray
The Progress Of Poesy; A Pindaric Ode by Thomas Gray
At My Father's Grave by Christopher Murray Grieve
O Wha's The Bride? by Christopher Murray Grieve
From The Wave by Thomson William Gunn
In Santa Maria Del Popolo by Thomson William Gunn
Terminal by Thomson William Gunn
Epitaph For A Horseman by Michael Hamburger
Memorial by Iain Hamilton
After A Journey by Thomas Hardy
Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
An Ancient To Ancients by Thomas Hardy
At Castle Boterel by Thomas Hardy
Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
During Wind And Rain by Thomas Hardy
The Five Students by Thomas Hardy
Friends Beyond by Thomas Hardy
Great Things by Thomas Hardy
To An Unborn Pauper Child by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
The Earthen Lot by Tony Harrison
Long Distance Ii by Tony Harrison
National Trust by Tony Harrison
Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
The Skunk by Seamus Heaney
To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by John Heath-stubbs
The Unpredicted by John Heath-stubbs
The Gifts Of God by George Herbert
Counsel To Girls by Robert Herrick
The Poetry Of Dress (1) by Robert Herrick
The Poetry Of Dress (2) by Robert Herrick
To Anthea [who May Command Him Anything] by Robert Herrick
To Blossoms by Robert Herrick
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
To Dianeme (1) by Robert Herrick
Good Morrow [or, Waking Song] by Thomas Heywood
Christmas Trees by Geoffrey Hill
Genesis by Geoffrey Hill
Lachrimae Amantis by Geoffrey Hill
Time by Ralph Hodgson
On The Brink Of A Pit by David Holbrook
Photograph Of Haymaker, 1890 by Molly Holden
The Bridge Of Sighs by Thomas Hood
The Death-bed by Thomas Hood
Past And Present by Thomas Hood
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Duns Scotus's Oxford by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Starlight Night by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Terrible Sonnets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire & Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To R. B. by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Crossing Alone The Nighted Ferry by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 31 by Alfred Edward Housman
The Stars Have Not Dealt Me The Worst They Could Do by Alfred Edward Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by Alfred Edward Housman
November by Edward James Hughes
Relic by Edward James Hughes
Thistles by Edward James Hughes
Above The Dock by Thomas Ernest Hulme
The Embankment (the Fantasia Of A Fallen Gentleman On A Cold Night) by Thomas Ernest Hulme
Song At The Beginning Of Autumn by Elizabeth Jennings
The Dark Angel by Lionel Pigot Johnson
Hymn To Diana [or, The Moon-goddess] by Ben Jonson
The Noble Nature [or, Honour In Bud] by Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
October by Patrick Kavanagh
To The Man After The Harrow by Patrick Kavanagh
Happy Insensibility by John Keats
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Last Sonnet (revised Version) by John Keats
The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
Ode To Autumn by John Keats
Ode [on The Poets] by John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
The Realm Of Fancy by John Keats
Sonnet: The Human Seasons by John Keats
The Terror Death by John Keats
North Sea by Sidney Keyes
Mirror In February by Thomas Kinsella
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Song Of The Galley-slaves by Rudyard Kipling
A Correct Compassion; To Mr. Philip Allison by James Kirkup
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born by Charles Lamb
To Hester [savory] by Charles Lamb
Alas! 'tis Very Sad To Hear by Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech Of An Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
Interlude by Walter Savage Landor
Ireland by Walter Savage Landor
Lately Our Poets [or, Songsters] Loiter'd In Green Lanes by Walter Savage Landor
William Gifford by Walter Savage Landor
Ambulances by Philip Larkin
An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Maiden Name by Philip Larkin
Bat by David Herbert Lawrence
Bavarian Gentians by David Herbert Lawrence
Piano by David Herbert Lawrence
Red Geranium And Godly Mignonette by David Herbert Lawrence
The Ship Of Death by David Herbert Lawrence
Song Of A Man Who Has Come Through by David Herbert Lawrence
Sorrow by David Herbert Lawrence
By Way Of Preface by Edward Lear
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear
April Rise by Laurie Lee
The Mahratta Ghats by Alun Lewis
Auld Robin Gray by Anne Lindsay
Rosaline by Thomas Lodge
The Braes Of Yarrow by John (1748-1788) Logan
Master Of Ceremonies by Michael Longley
To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, [on] Going Beyond The Seas by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
Faces by Edward Lowbury
Night Train by Edward Lowbury
Cupid And Campaspe [or, Cards And Kisses] by John Lyly
The Price by George Macbeth
Fetching Cows by Norman Maccaig
Spate In Winter Midnight by Norman Maccaig
Bagpipe Music by Frederick Louis Macneice
Prayer Before Birth by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Sunlight On The Garden by Frederick Louis Macneice
In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneice by Derek Mahon
Oblique Light On The Trite, On Brick And Tile by Derek Mahon
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Bermudas by Andrew Marvell
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland by Andrew Marvell
Thoughts In A Garden by Andrew Marvell
The Dead Knight by John Masefield
Modern Love: 47 by George Meredith
Modern Love: 50 by George Meredith
The Sailor's Wife by William Julius Mickle
At A Solemn Music by John Milton
Il Penseroso by John Milton
L'allegro by John Milton
Lycidas by John Milton
On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton
On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn by John Milton
Sonnet: 10. To The Lady Margaret Ley by John Milton
Sonnet: 18. On The Late Massacre In Piedmont by John Milton
Sonnet: 19. On His Blindness by John Milton
Sonnet: 20. To Mr. Lawrence by John Milton
Sonnet: 21. To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton
Sonnet: 8. When The Assault Was Intended To The City by John Milton
At The Mid Hour Of Night by Thomas Moore
Echo [or, Echoes] by Thomas Moore
The Journey Onwards by Thomas Moore
The Light Of Other Days by Thomas Moore
Pro Patria Mori by Thomas Moore
The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo by Thomas Sturge Moore
Shameful Death by William (1834-1896) Morris
Foundations by Andrew Motion
The Brothers by Edwin Muir
The Child Dying by Edwin Muir
The Face by Edwin Muir
For Ann Scott-moncrief (1914-1943) by Edwin Muir
One Foot In Eden by Edwin Muir
Anseo by Paul Muldoon
Colin by Anthony Munday
The Land O' The Leal by Carolina Oliphant Nairne
Spring by Thomas Nashe
The Sprig Of Lime by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
Blacke Combe White by Norman Nicholson
The Humours Of Shrone by Bernard O'donoghue
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 67 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 68 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 69 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 70 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 71 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 72 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 73 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 74 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition: 75 by Omar Khayyam
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen
Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
Spring Offensive by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
A Farewell by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Magna Est Veritas by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Rainbow by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Revelation by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Settlers by Tom Paulin
To Charlotte Pulteney [in Her Mother's Arms] by Ambrose Philips
The Quiet Life by Alexander Pope
An Angel In Blythburgh Church by Peter Porter
A Considered Reply To A Child by Jonathan Price
Soldiers Bathing by Frank Templeton Prince
An Ode (1) by Matthew Prior
Inca by Craig Raine
Bedtime Story For My Son by Peter Redgrove
Lessons Of The War: 2. Judging Distances by Henry Reed
Choosing A Name by Anne Ridler
Rippon by Michael Riviere
Life's Circumnavigators by William Robert Rodgers
The Sleeping Beauty by Samuel Rogers
A Wish by Samuel Rogers
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
The Boathouse by Alan Ross
Eve by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Sketch by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song (2) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Spring Quiet by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The House Of Life: 4. Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 73. The Choice (3) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House Of Life: 97. A Superscription by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Star Whisper by Carol-ann Lumley Rumens
The Cemetery At Gufidaun by Lawrence Sail
At The Grave Of Henry Vaughan by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
Incendiary by Vernon Scannell
Coronach by Walter Scott
Datur Hora Quieti [or, Evening] by Walter Scott
Edmund's Song [or, The Outlaw, Or Brignall Banks] by Walter Scott
Gathering Song Of Donald [or, Donui Dhu] The Black by Walter Scott
Hunting Song by Walter Scott
Jock Of Hazeldean by Walter Scott
The Maid Of Neidpath by Walter Scott
The Pride Of Youth by Walter Scott
Rosabelle [or, Harold's Song] by Walter Scott
The Rover's Adieu [or, Farewell]; Song by Walter Scott
A Serenade by Walter Scott
Song by Walter Scott
To A Lock Of Hair by Walter Scott
Christmas 1987 by John Peter Scupham
Child And Maiden by Charles Sedley
A Song To Celia by Charles Sedley
The Dying Man In His Garden by George Sewell
12. Madrigal by William Shakespeare
Absence by William Shakespeare
Ariel's Song (1) [or, Dirge] [or, A Sea Dirge]. Fr. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Blind Love by William Shakespeare
A Consolation by William Shakespeare
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
The Greenwood Tree, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The Life Without Passion by William Shakespeare
Love's Perjuries by William Shakespeare
The Lover's Lament [or, Despair, Or, Dirge For Love] by William Shakespeare
Madrigal by William Shakespeare
Pastoral Lyric [or, The Pages' Song, Or, Song Sung In Arden (2)] by William Shakespeare
Post Mortem by William Shakespeare
Remembrance by William Shakespeare
Revolutions by William Shakespeare
Song Of The Holly, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 104 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 73 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 87 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 97 by William Shakespeare
Soul And Body by William Shakespeare
Time And Love by William Shakespeare
Time And Love (2) by William Shakespeare
To His Love by William Shakespeare
To His Love by William Shakespeare
The Triumph Of Death by William Shakespeare
True Love by William Shakespeare
The Unchangeable by William Shakespeare
Winter, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
The World's Way by William Shakespeare
A Dream Of The Unknown by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Flight Of Love by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn To The Spirit Of Nature by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Invitation by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Invocation by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines To An Indian Air; Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Poet's Dream by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Recollection by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To - (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To - (2) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To - (3) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To A Lady, With A Guitar by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To A Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To The Moon (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To The Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death The Leveller [or, Death The Conqueror] by James Shirley
The Last Conqueror by James Shirley
Arcadia: Ditty by Philip Sidney
Death Of A Son (who Died In A Mental Hospital Aged One) by Jon Silkin
Sleep by Charles Hubert Sisson
The Temple by Charles Hubert Sisson
Facade: 17. Hornpipe by Edith Sitwell
Most Lovely Shade; For Alice Bouverie by Edith Sitwell
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
From The Train by Iain Crichton Smith
Owl And Mouse by Iain Crichton Smith
After Blenheim by Robert Southey
The Library by Robert Southey
The Rendezvous by Bernard Spencer
A Spring Wind by Bernard Spencer
Ice by Stephen Spender
Missing My Daughter by Stephen Spender
Prothalamion by Edmund Spenser
Here Comes Sir George by Jon Stallworthy
A Letter From Berlin by Jon Stallworthy
The Fiction-makers by Anne Stevenson
Encouragement To A Lover by John Suckling
A Couple Waiting by Matthew Sweeney
Chorus by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love's Omnipresence by Joshua Sylvester
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle; A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
Frater Ave Atque Vale by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 101 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 115 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 15 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 19 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 2 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 7 by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
Song (9) by Alfred Tennyson
Song [a Small Sweet Idyll] by Alfred Tennyson
Till Now The Doubtful Dusk Revealed by Alfred Tennyson
To The Rev. F.d. Maurice by Alfred Tennyson
To Virgil by Alfred Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
The Hunchback In The Park by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
As The Team's Head Brass by Philip Edward Thomas
Cock-crow by Philip Edward Thomas
The Combe by Philip Edward Thomas
In Memoriam (easter 1915) by Philip Edward Thomas
Out In The Dark Over The Snow by Philip Edward Thomas
The Owl by Philip Edward Thomas
A Private by Philip Edward Thomas
Tears by Philip Edward Thomas
Thaw by Philip Edward Thomas
Evans by Ronald Stuart Thomas
The Hill Farmer Speaks by Ronald Stuart Thomas
Pisces by Ronald Stuart Thomas
Correlated Greatness by Francis Thompson
The Kingdom Of God by Francis Thompson
Rule, Britannia by James (1700-1748) Thomson
To Fortune by James (1700-1748) Thomson
The City Of Dreadful Night: 21 by James (1834-1882) Thomson
At Ely; John Tiptoft, Earl Of Worcester, D. 1470 by Anthony Thwaite
Reading A Medal by Terence Tiller
Farewell To Van Gogh by Charles Tomlinson
The Hesitation by Charles Tomlinson
Winter-piece by Charles Tomlinson
Fair Helen by Anonymous
The Forsaken Bride by Anonymous
The Great Adventurer by Anonymous
The Poetry Of Dress by Anonymous
Present In Absence by Anonymous
Song by Anonymous
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous
The Unfaithful Shepherdess by Anonymous
Willie Drowned In Yarrow by Anonymous
The Retreat by Henry Vaughan
A Renunciation by Edward De Vere
Apology For Understatement by John Wain
Easter Poem by Ted Walker
On A Girdle by Edmund Waller
Song by Edmund Waller
Nuptial Song by John Byrne Leicester Warren
The Heron by Vernon Watkins
Peace In The Welsh Hills by Vernon Watkins
Land Dirge by John Webster
His Thirst by Robert Wells
The Statue by Robert Wells
The Stream by Robert Wells
A Form Of Epitaph by Laurence Whistler
Walking Out Of The Room Backwards by Hugo Williams
The Manly Heart by George Wither
The Burial Of Sir John Moore At [or After] Corunna by Charles Wolfe
Admonition To A Traveller by William Wordsworth
The Affliction Of Margaret by William Wordsworth
By The Sea by William Wordsworth
Composed At Neidpath Castle, 1803 by William Wordsworth
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Desideria by William Wordsworth
The Education Of Nature by William Wordsworth
England And Switzerland, 1802 by William Wordsworth
The Fountain; A Conversation by William Wordsworth
The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth
A Lesson by William Wordsworth
London, 1802 (1) by William Wordsworth
London, 1802 (2) by William Wordsworth
The Lost Love by William Wordsworth
Lucy (1) by William Wordsworth
Lucy (3) by William Wordsworth
The Motherland by William Wordsworth
Nature And The Poet by William Wordsworth
Ode To Duty by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
Perfect Woman by William Wordsworth
The Rainbow [in The Sky] by William Wordsworth
The Reaper by William Wordsworth
The Reverie Of Poor Susan by William Wordsworth
Ruth: Or The Influences Of Nature by William Wordsworth
Simon Lee The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
To A Distant Friend by William Wordsworth
To A Highland Girl; At Inversnaid, Upon Loch Lomond by William Wordsworth
To A Skylark (1) by William Wordsworth
To Sleep (1) by William Wordsworth
To The Cuckoo (1) by William Wordsworth
To The Daisy (2) by William Wordsworth
The Two April Mornings by William Wordsworth
Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge by William Wordsworth
The World; Sonnet by William Wordsworth
Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth
Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth
Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
The Character Of A Happy Life by Henry Wotton
Elizabeth Of Bohemia by Henry Wotton
Monologue Of A Deaf Man by David Wright
I Found South African Breweries Most Hospitable by Kit Wright
The Lover's Appeal by Thomas Wyatt
A Supplication by Thomas Wyatt
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
The Cold Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 by William Butler Yeats
The Gyres by William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
Meditations In Time Of Civil War: 6. The Stare's Nest by William Butler Yeats
The Municipal Galley Revisited by William Butler Yeats
The New Faces by William Butler Yeats
No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
September 1913 by William Butler Yeats
The Wheel by William Butler Yeats
A Woman Young And Old: 2. Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
Culbin Sands by Andrew (1885-1971) Young
A Dead Mole by Andrew (1885-1971) Young
Field-glasses by Andrew (1885-1971) Young
Wiltshire Downs by Andrew (1885-1971) Young
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• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 6 edition (July 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192823159
• ISBN-13: 978-0192823151
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Finest Lyrical Poetry In English - Highly Recommended, February 25, 2003

By	Michael Wischmeyer (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Oxford standard authors) (Paperback)

I now enjoy poetry almost as much as mathematics and physics. I credit my appreciation for poetry to the cumulative effects of three Poetic forces: a Publisher plus Perrine plus Palgrave.

I could not resist the attraction of Dover Publications' Thrift Editions of the poetry of Keats, Wordsworth, Burns, Blake, Shelley, Shakespeare, Marvell, Frost, and many other poets. I began to read poetry for leisure and enjoyment.

Perrine's Sound and Sense, an intriguing text on reading poetry, helped me to recognize poetic forms, structure, sounds, and meanings. I began to see the subtleties and beauty of great poetry.

My discovery of the third force, "The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language" by Francis Turner Palgrave, was pure serendipity. I had read some lyrical poetry, some odes, elegies, and sonnets, but I had never explored the full scope of English lyrical poetry.

I clearly recall my excitement in my first reading of Palgrave's collection. I am fortunate that my first extended travels into English poetry were guided by a master. I have since become familiar with several other good anthologies, but Palgrave's remains my favorite.

Palgrave's "The Golden Treasury" has remained continuously in print since 1861, with Oxford University Press editions in 1907, 1909, 1929, 1940, 1964 (Section V added), and 1994 (Section VI added). I have the 1994 edition (sixth). The two additions, Sections V and VI, include a sampling of modern poets. This remarkable anthology is now nearly 700 pages. The font size is large and easy to read.

Palgrave's notes for Books I-IV are good, but many readers, like myself, may need a good dictionary for occasional archaic words and unfamiliar references to Greek and Roman mythology. I have found it quite helpful and entertaining to have a copy of Bulfinch's The Age of Fable nearby. I hope you enjoy Palgrave's selections of the finest poets in the English language as much as I did.