A Book of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges

This 1928 anthology was created to provide readers aged fourteen upwards with a representation of English poetry from Spenser onwards.

A. Watson Bain (Compiled by)

9781107650596, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

286 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.31 kg

Originally published in 1928, this anthology was created to provide readers aged fourteen upwards with a representation of English poetry from Spenser onwards. Selections were made with a view towards stimulating the interest of the young reader and encouraging an emotional and intellectual involvement in poetry. The material is ordered chronologically with the exception of two sections at the end of the text, which are devoted to sonnets and poems about death. This book will remain of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry and poetry anthologies.

Prothalamion Edmund Spenser
God's ministering angles Edmund Spenser
The bower of bliss Edmund Spenser
Helen Christopher Marlowe
The passionate shepherd to his love Christopher Marlowe
The nymph's reply Sir Walter Raleigh
His pilgrimage Sir Walter Raleigh
Lines before death Sir Walter Raleigh
The inconstant nymph William Shakespeare
Men's inconstancy William Shakespeare
A lover's song William Shakespeare
A lover's lament William Shakespeare
England William Shakespeare
Mercy William Shakespeare
The end of the play William Shakespeare
Age and youth Anon
Tears Anon
Sister, awake! Anon
Preparations Anon
The man of life upright Thomas Campion
The happy life Sir Henry Wotton
To the memory of Shakespeare Ben Jonson
The noble nature Richard Barnfield
To blossoms Robert Herrick
To the virgins to make much of time Robert Herrick
To Anthea, who may command him anything Robert Herrick
The best beloved Francis Quarles
Virtue George Herbert
Song Thomas Carew
Death of the leveller James Shirley
The rose messenger Edmund Waller
Hymn on the morning of Christ's nativity John Milton
Lycidas John Milton
On Shakespeare John Milton
Eve to Adam John Milton
A ballad upon a wedding Sir John Suckling
The shepherd's song Richard Crashaw
To Lucasta on going to the wars Richard Lovelace
To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace
A wish Abraham Cowley
Thoughts in a garden Andrew Marvell
Peace Henry Vaughan
The ways of wisdom Thomas Traherne
A song for Saint Cecilia's day John Dryden
Milton John Dryden
The music of the spheres Joseph Addison
Ode on solitude Alexander Pope
A little learning Alexander Pope
Newton Alexander Pope
Shakespeare Samuel Johnson
Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray
Dirge for Fidele William Collins
To Mary William Cowper
To spring William Blake
To a mountain daisy Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss Robert Burns
My Jean Robert Burns
O, wert thou in the cauld blast Robert Burns
To Mary in heaven Robert Burns
For a' that and a' that Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns
Nature's child William Wordsworth
The solitary reaper William Wordsworth
Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood William Wordsworth
Character of the happy warrior William Wordsworth
Ode to duty William Wordsworth
Coronach Sir Walter Scott
Jock o' Hazeldean Sir Walter Scott
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The old familiar faces Charles Lamb
Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor
Canadian boat song Anon
Hame, hame, hame Allan Cunningham
The isles of Greece George Gordon, Lord Byron
Time Percy Bysshe Shelley
To night Percy Bysshe Shelley
An Ionian isle Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the west wind Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life and victory Percy Bysshe Shelley
The new Hellas Percy Bysshe Shelley
Memory Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's insecurity Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to a nightingale John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn John Keats
The forest maid William Cullen Bryant
The death-bed Thomas Hood
A Jacobite's epitaph Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Dark Rosaleen James Clarence Mangan
A musical instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My lost youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stanzas from Omar Khayyám Edward Fitzgerald
Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Galahad Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A prayer Alfred, Lord Tennyson
O swallow, swallow Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A small sweet idyl Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Come into the garden, Maud Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Calm Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Virgil Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Evelyn Hope Robert Browning
My star Robert Browning
God's whisper Robert Browning
Parting at morning Robert Browning
Epilogue to Asolando Robert Browning
To the dandelion James Russell Lowell
To the man-of-war bird Walt Whitman
Star of France Walt Whitman
Prayer of Columbus Walt Whitman
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