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Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets.
Contents
William Blake
From Songs of Innocence
Introduction
Holy Thursday
Nurse's Song
The Little Black Boy
The Lamb
From Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod and the Pebble
The Chimney Sweeper
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Garden of Love
London
A Poison Tree
From Poetical Sketches
"Song: "How sweet I roam'd from field to field"
From Songs and Ballads
"I saw a chapel all of gold"
"Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"
The Smile
Auguries of Innocence
The Book of Thel
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Proverbs of Hell
From America a Prophecy
Preludium
From Milton
"And did those feet in ancient time"
William Wordsworth
We Are Seven
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Nutting
"Strange fits of passion have I known"
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
"I travelled among unknown men"
"A slumber did my spirit seal"
Lucy Gray
"My heart leaps up when I behold"
Resolution and Independence
"Composed upon Westminister Bridge, Sept. 3 1802"
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
"In London, September 1802"
"London, 1802"
The Solitary Reaper
"She was a Phantom of delight" "
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Ode to Duty
From The Prelude (1799-1805)
"From Book I: "Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows"
"From Book XI: " O pleasant exercise of hope and joy!"
Character of the Happy Warrior
"The world is too much with us; late and soon"
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Mutability
"Scorn not the sonnet"
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The Dungeon
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98, revised later; marginal glosses added 1815-16)"
On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country
Christabel
Part I
Part II
"The Conclusion to Part II"
Frost at Midnight
France: An Ode
Kubla Khan
Dejection: An Ode
The Pains of Sleep
"George Gordon, Lord Byron"
"When we two parted"
The Girls of Cadiz
From Hebrew Melodies
"She walks in beauty"
The Destruction of Sennacherib
"Stanzas for Music: "There be none of Beauty's daughters"
The Prisoner of Chillon
Darkness
Stanzas to Augusta
"So we'll go no more a roving"
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"Adieu, adieu! my native shore" (I, between xiii and xiv)"
"III, xxi-xxviii [Waterloo]"
"IV, clxxvii-clxxiv [Ocean]"
From don Juan
"I, cc-ccii"
"The isles of Greece" (III, between lxxxvi and lxxxvii)"
"Xl, lvii-lx"
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
"Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples"
"Sonnet: "Lift not the painted veil . . ."
Song to the Men of England
Sonnet: England in 1819
Ode to the West Wind
The Indian Serenade
Love's Philosophy
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Arethusa
The Waning Moon
To the Moon
To Night
"To --: "Music, when soft voices die"
"Song: "Rarely, rarely, comest thou"
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
Hellas: A Lyrical Drama [Excerpt: Final Chorus]
"Lines: "When the lamp is shattered"
To Jane: The Invitation
To Jane: The Recollection
"With a Guitar, to Jane"
A Dirge
John Keats
From Poems
"Sonnet: "To one who has been long in city pent"
Sonnet: On first looking into Chapman's Homer
"Sonnet: "Happy is England! . . ."
"From Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems"
"Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio"
The Eve of St. Agnes
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
"From Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats"
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Ode on Indolence
Sonnet: On the Sea
"Sonnet: "When I have fears ..."
Sonnet: To Homer
Sonnet: To Sleep
"Sonnet: "Why did I laugh to-night? ..."
"Sonnet: "Bright star, ..."
Sonnet: On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
To J. H. Reynolds Esq.
From Other Posthumous and Fugitive Pieces
Sonnet: To Mrs. Reynold's Cat
Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
