Treasury of Favorite Poems

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Louis Untermeyer
Barnes & Noble, 1945 - American poetry - 590 pages
A collection of some of the greatest writing in the English language. It is arranged chronologically and spans the entire breadth of both American and English poetry, beginning with a wonderful selection of Old English ballads and continuing through hundred of years to the modern period.

Contents

OLD ENGLISH BALLADS
3
OR THE TWO SISTERS
10
THE WIFE OF USHERS WELL
16
SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD
22
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599
42
MY LOVE IS LIKE TO ICE FROM AMORETTI
51
SONG OF THE TWO PAGES FROM AS YOU LIKE IT
62
BEN JONSON 15731637
76
58
393
MATTHEW ARNOLD 18221888
399
GEORGE MEREDITH 18281909
409
CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI 18301894
419
AMERICAN POETRY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
433
EDGAR ALLAN POE A 18091849
440
WALT WHITMAN A 18191892
448
THE MODERN PERIOD
471

THE CANONIZATION
83
ROBERT HERRICK 15911674
89
GEORGE HERBERT 15931632
98
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678
144
JOHN DRYDEN 16311700
151
ALEXANDER POPE 16881744
161
THOMAS GRAY 17161771
173
ROBERT BURNS 17591796
187
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 17701850
207
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834
229
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 17751864
249
THE MOON
273
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS
284
JOHN KEATS 17951821
300
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
325
TEARS IDLE TEARS
343
ROBERT BROWNING 18121889
356
A E HOUSMAN 18591936
482
RUDYARD KIPLING 18651936
488
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON A 18691935
497
RALPH HODGSON 18721962
505
ROBERT FROST A 18751963
514
TO EARTHWARD
520
CARL SANDBURG A 18781967
528
THE LEADENEYED
537
RUPERT BROOKE 18871915
543
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY A 18921950
556
WILFRED OWEN 18931918
563
W H AUDEN 19071973
569
INDEX OF AUTHORS TITLES FIRST LINES
577
BOYS SONG TO MARIANA FROM MEASURE FOR MEASURE
578
343
580
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