Machine generated contents note: III. Pity this busy monster, manunkind. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Sonnet 75 "One day I wrote her name" -- Prothalamion -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love -- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Spring, the Sweet Spring -- John Donne (1572-1631) Song ("Go and catch a falling star") -- Sonnet 10 ("Death, be not proud") -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Song: To Celia -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time -- George Herbert (1593-1633) Virtue ("Sweet day") -- John Milton (1608-1674) How Soon Hath Time -- When I Consider How My Light Is Spent -- Lycidas -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) To His Coy Mistress -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard -- William Blake (1757-1827) The Tyger -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) A Red, Red Rose -- John Anderson My Jo -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) My Heart Leaps up When I Behold -- Wandered Lonely as a Cloud -- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey -- The Solitary Reaper -- Ode on Intimations of Immortality -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ode to the West Wind -- Love's Philosophy -- To a Sky-Lark -- John Keats (1795-1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn -- To Autumn -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 43 ("How do I love thee?") -- A Musical Instrument -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Break, Break, Break -- The Lady of Shalott -- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) The Darkling Thrush -- In Time of "the Breaking of Nations" -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) When You Are Old -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night -- II. POEMS AND PASSAGES from the Sweet Swan of Avon, our Bard for all time! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 1 ("From fairest creatures") -- 18("Shall I compare thee") -- 19 ("Devouring Time") -- 20 ("A woman's face") -- 29 ("When, in disgrace") -- 60 ("Like as the waves") -- 66 ("Tired with all these") -- 71 ("No longer mourn for me") -- 73 ("That time of year") -- 106 ("When in the chronicle") -- 116 ("Let me not to the marriage") -- As You Like It, II.vii ("All the world's") -- Hamlet, I.ii. ("O, that this too too solid") -- Hamlet, I.iii. ("Give thy thoughts no tongue") -- Hamlet, II.ii. ("I will tell you why") -- Hamlet, II.ii. ("O, what a rogue") -- Hamlet, III.i. ("To be, or not to be") -- MacBeth, V.v. ("To-morrow, and to-morrow") -- The Merchant of Venice, V.v. ("How sweet") -- Romeo and Juliet, II.ii. ("But, soft! what light") -- Romeo and Juliet, II.ii. ("O Romeo, Romeo!") -- Romeo and Juliet, III.ii. ("Gallop apace") -- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (As You Like It, II.vii.) -- Full Fathom Five {The Tempest, I.ii.) -- Oh Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night, II.iii.) -- Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It, II.v.) -- III. UNCLE SAM'S CABIN OF VERSE from the United States of America -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The Arrow and the Song -- Snow-Flakes -- A Psalm of Life -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Annabel Lee -- To Helen -- Walt Whitman (1819-1893) I Hear America Singing -- O Captain! My Captain! -- From Song of Myself -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 112 (67) ("Success is counted sweetest") -- 260 (288) ("I'm Nobody! Who are You?") -- 269 (249) ("Wild Nights! Wild Nights!") -- 479 (712) ("Because I Could Not Stop") -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Road Not Taken -- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -- After Apple-Picking -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Spring and All -- The Red Wheelbarrow -- E. E. cummings (1894-1962) in Just -- Pity this busy monster, manunkind.
Summary:
"The Most Darling Buds presents an edition of some of the finest of English and American poems of the last five centuries, including a generous selection of poems (and poems from within plays) by William Shakespeare. The book is intended for students, primarily in China, studying the English language, or English and American literature, and for oral recitation of the poems herein, prepared in a pocket-sized edition that is easy to carry. Of course, we hope all sorts of readers love the poems enough to find the book of value, however they may make use of it."--Page 4 of cover
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