Selected Poems

  • Selected Poems
    By Aphra Behn

    Notes | The compliments are taken from among the titles of poems dedicated to Aphra Behn on the publication of her Poems Upon Several Occasions ( 1684 ) . See Montague Summers , ed . , The Works of Aphra Behn , 6 vols .

  • Selected Poems
    By William Wordsworth, Sandra Anstey

    In poems such as 'Michael', 'The Old Cumberland Beggar', 'Resolution and Independence' and the other Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth forged a style and vocabulary to express the experiences of people previously ignored by literature--beggars, ...

  • Selected Poems
    By William Wordsworth

    Collects poems by William Wordsworth, including "Lucy Gray; or, Solitude", "Tintern Abbey," and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge."

  • Selected Poems: in Five Sets
    By Laura, Laura Riding

    Selected Poems: in Five Sets

  • Selected Poems
    By Kate Clanchy

    Kate Clanchy's 'Selected Poems' gathers together poetry from her three prize-winning collections, 'Slattern', 'Samarkand', and 'Newborn'.

  • Selected Poems
    By Kate Clanchy

    Kate Clanchy. Dark,. Dark. He is calling down the night, the way hecalls out next door's dog and sees the word grow ears and eyes, emerge on heavy loping legs, afurry manifest of name. The dark will have a lion's neck.

  • Selected Poems: Oscar Wilde
    By Oscar Wilde

    The Bloomsbury Classic Series has established itself as the preeminent hardcover poetry and literary collection -- books to be cherished, savored, and given on special occasions.To this series we now add two works by Oscar Wilde to herald ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Анна Андреевна Ахматова, Robin Kemball

    Page 96 , " The Muse " ' : Sisyphus chore : unending labor ; from the legendary King of Corinth who for earthly misdeeds was ... Page 96-97 : " Epigram " : Trixie is for Beatrix or Beatrice , Dante's beloved ; Laura inspired Petrarch's ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Gaspara Stampa

    This dual-language edition of selected poems presents, along with the Italian original, the first English translation of Stampa's work.

  • Selected Poems
    By George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

    Criticism : On the date of composition and Byron's relations with his cousin , see Noel McLachlan , “ She Walks in Beauty : Some Byron Mysteries ' ; on the Hebrew Melodies generally , see T.L. Ashton's monograph , Byron's Hebrew ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Thomas Hardy

    Selected from thirty years of his poetry, this annotated collection of verse explores the various forms Hardy found interesting, as well the philosophical scope of his work, and includes moving elegies of regret and love lyrics written for ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Thomas Hardy

    After the hostile reception of Jude the Obscure in 1896, Thomas Hardy devoted the last thirty years of his life to poetry. This generous selection of poems displays the wide...

  • Selected Poems
    By Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë

    This selection gives an idea of the variety of thought and feeling within each author's work, and of the way in which the poems of these three writers parallel and reflect each other.

  • Selected Poems
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Gather Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, selections from The Song of Hiawatha, and other lyric and narrative poems

  • Selected Poems: Tennyson
    By Alfred Tennyson

    Presents a selection of works by the nineteenth-century poet, including "Maud," "In Memoriam," and "Locksley Hall."

  • Selected Poems: Tennyson
    By Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Alfred Lord Tennyson. Allingham, William, Diary (1907); with an introduction by Christopher Ricks (2007) Bevis, Matthew, ed., Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, I: vol. 3, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2003) Martin, Robert Bernard, ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Alfred Lord Tennyson Christopher Ricks. NOTES. ABBREVIATIONS. TENNYSON'S. WORKS. 1830 Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. 1832 Poems. 1842 Poems, 2 vols. 1847 The Princess. 1850 The Princess, third edition. Maud, and Other Poems.

  • Selected Poems
    By William Yeats

    Longenbach, James, Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats and Modernism (New York and Oxford, 1988) Lynch, David, Yeats: The ... Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) (Ithaca, NY and London, 1978) O'Brien, Conor Cruise, ...

  • Selected Poems
    By Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Tildy Taylor chewed huh hank'cher twell she'd chewed it in a hole, - All de sinnahs was rejoicin' 'cause a lamb had lef de fol', An' de las' I seed o' Lucy, she an''Lish was side an' side: I don't blame de gal fu' dancin', ...

  • Selected Poems
    By William Carlos Williams

    Offers a collection of poems along with notes on the text.