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Foreword by Seamus Heaney xvii

Long-legged Fly W.B.YEATS 3 Adze-head ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 4 Dover Beach MATTHEW ARNOLD 4 At the Fishhouses ELIZABETH BISHOP 5 AGrave MARIANNE MOORE 8 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 9 fromClanranald'sGalley ALASDAIR MACMHAIGHSTIR ALASDAIR 3O The Viking Terror ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 36 The Stone Cross 36 ANONYMOUS 37 TheBerg HERMAN MELVILLE 39 Repose of Rivers HARTCRANE 40 The Unspoken 41 TheShadow DAFYDD AP GWILYM 44 Resolution and Independence w 1 L L I A M WORDSWORTH 46 Strange Meeting WILFRED OWEN 52 from King Lear (Act III) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 53 Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ROBERT BROWNING 66 TheDeer'sCry ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 75 'Who would true valour see' JOHNBUNYAN 78 Photos of a Salt Mine p. K. PAGE 78 MalcolmMooney'sLand w. s. GRAHAM 80 The Listeners WALTER DE LA MARE 85 Field and Forest RANDALL JARRELL 86 FieldDay W.R. RODGERS 88 The Unknown Bird THOMAS 89 Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 90 The Straying Student 91 TheCollar GEORGE HERBERT 92 Route SiX STANLEY KUNITZ 94 Parting KATHLEEN RAINE 95 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning j oH N DONNE 98 Lay Your Arms Aside PIERCE FERRITER 99 'Will ye no come back again?' CAROLINA OLIPHANT, LADY NAIRNE IOO The Owl and the Pussy-cat EDWARD LEAR IOI Cargoes 102 TheSeafarer ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 103 /romRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam EDWARD FITZGERALD 106 TheLie SIR WALTER RALEGH HI TheGarden ANDREW MARVELL 114 Evening CHARLES COTTON 116 Bushed EARLE BIRNEY Il8 Ice ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) Iig ASongofWinter ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 119 from Grongar Hill JOHN DYER 120 March ANONYMOUS 122 Naming of Parts HENRY REED 122 'Somerisi-comenin' ANONYMOUS 124 SummerFarm NORMAN MACCAIG 124 TheSonoftheKingofMoy ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 125 La Belle Dame Sans Merci JOHNKEATS 125 Tom o'Bedlam's Song ANONYMOUS 127 Tweed and Till ANONYMOUS 129 Inversnaid 129 Prothalamion 130 The River God STEVIE SMITH 136

VI At the Bomb Testing Site WILLIAM STAFFORD I37 The Porpoise TOMOS PRYS 137 A Musical Instrument ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I40 Bavarian Gentians D.H. LAWRENCE 142 from Hymn to Proserpine A. c. SWINBURNE 143 Eve CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I46 Fawn's Foster-mother ROBINSON JEFFERS I48 Native Born EVE LANGLEY 149 The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie ANONYMOUS 151 Cantol EZRA POUND 152 from 's (Book III) ARTHUR GOLDING 155 ThomasRymer ANONYMOUS 162 Carentan0Carentan LOUISSIMPSON 164 LordRandal ANONYMOUS 166 The Pardoner's Tale 168 Lucifer in Starlight GEORGE MEREDITH 182 Behold the Lilies of the Field ANTHONY HECHT 183 Captain Carpenter JOHN CROWE RANSOM 186 from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (ActV) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE l88 The Strange Visitor ANONYMOUS 195 Eli, Eli JUDITH WRIGHT 197 'Adamlayibounden' ANONYMOUS 198 The Dream of the Rood ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 199 Here R.S.THOMAS 204 The Burning Babe ROBERT SOUTHWELL 205 The Corpus Christi Carol ANONYMOUS 206 TheMaoriJesus JAMES K. BAXTER 207

VII from The Great Hunger 2O8 The Hollow Men T. s. ELIOT 219 Break of Day in the Trenches is A AC ROSENBERG 222 The King's Horses JOHN HEWITT 223 PangurBan ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 224 from Jubilate Deo CHRISTOPHER SMART 225 ADeadMole ANDREW YOUNG 229 A Sonnet on a Monkey MARJORY FLEMING 229 Epitaph on a Hare WILLIAM COWPER 230 Cowper's Tame Hare NORM AN NICHOLSON 231 Upon a Spider Catching a Fly EDWARD TAYLOR 232 Roman Poem III: A Sparrow's Feather GEORGE BARKER 234 from Philip Sparrow 235 Cat Dying in Autumn IRVINGLAYTON 241 ' Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren' JOHN WEBSTER 243 A Lyke-Wake Dirge ANONYMOUS 243 Siberia 244 City of Dreadful Thirst A.B. ('BANJO') PATERSON 246 The Tay Bridge Disaster WILLIAM MCGONAGALL 249 The Wind ANONYMOUS (WELSH) 251 The Postilion Has Been Struck by Lightning PATRICIA BEER 253 'Oh who is that young sinner' A.E.HOUSMAN 253 from The of Reading Gaol 254 Elegy for Himself CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE 266

VIII AGlassofBeer DAVID O'BRUADAIR 266 ThirtyBob a Week JOHN DAVIDSON 267 Tommy RUDYARD KIPLING 270 from Amours de Voyage ARTHURHUGH CLOUGH 273 TheCastle EDWINMUIR 274 from The Deserted Village 275 from The Odyssey of Homer (Book XVII) GEORGE CHAPMAN 279 Song to the Foxes DUNCANBAN MACINTYRE 28l FernHill DYLAN THOMAS 283 Hallaig SORLEY MACLEAN 285 TellMeaStory ROBERT PENN WARREN 287 'Methinks 'tis pretty sport to hear a Child' THOMAS BASTARD 288 After Blenheim 289 from Pictures from Breughel WILLIAMCARLOS WILLIAMS 291 The Swimmers ALLENTATE 293 A Flask of Brandy PADRAIC FALLON 297 EdenRock 298 In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1656 ANNE BRADSTREET 299 OnMyFirstSon 302 Those Winter Sundays ROBERTHAYDEN 302 '0wen, wen, 0littlewennikins' ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 303 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' THOMAS CAMPION 303 Song of the Cauld Lad of Hylton ANONYMOUS 304 'There was a man of double deed' ANONYMOUS 304 Anguries of Innocence WILLIAMBLAKE 305

IX Law like Love W.H. AUDEN 308 BookerT. and W. E. B. DUDLEY RANDALL 310 'Ihaveayongsuster' ANONYMOUS 311 The Cubical Domes DAVID GASCOYNE 313 Gnomic Stanzas ANONYMOUS (WELSH) 314 Question in a Field LOUISE BOGAN 316 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' E.E.CUMMINGS 316 The Umbrella WELDON KEES 318 Cuckoo ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 32O Blight RALPH WALDO EMERSON 321 Continuum ALLEN CURNOW 323 The Waking THEODORE ROETHKE 323 Waking Early Sunday Morning 324 LetltGo WILLIAM EMPSON 328 On His Heid-ake WILLIAM DUNBAR 328 'In the desert' STEPHEN CRANE 329 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 329 from Dream Songs JOHNBERRYMAN 342 Miniver Cheevy EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 345 TheMaim'dDebauchee JOHNWILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER 346 SevenSisters j. T. 'FUNNY PAPER' SMITH 348 The Yellow Bittern CATHAL BUI MAC GIOLLA GHUNNA 349 Tamo'Shanter ROBERT BURNS 351 from The Midnight Court 358 Behaviour of Money BERNARD SPENCER 366 Drinking ABRAHAM COWLEY 367 The Vision of Mac Conglinne ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 368 'If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream' JOHN DAVIESOF HEREFORD 37O from Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 370 from The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 372 'I am Raftery the ' ANTHONY RAFTERY 373 Fine Knacks for Ladies ANONYMOUS 374 'I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre' ANONYMOUS (WELSH) 375 from Song of Myself WALT WHITMAN 376 A Supermarket in California A L L E N GINSBERG 396 from Piers Plowman WILLIAM LANGLAND 397 A Step Away from Them FRANK O'HARA 402 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard THOMAS GRAY 403 AtYorktown CHARLESOLSON 408 The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan ROBERT SEMPILL OF BELTREES 4IO An Epitaph upon the Celebrated Claudy Philips, Musician, Who Died Very Poor SAMUEL JOHNSON 412 Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye ANONYMOUS 413 from The Testament of Cresseid ROBERT HENRYSON 415 DonalOg ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 416 The Daemon Lover ANONYMOUS 418 TheFairies 420 The Fause Knicht upon the Road ANONYMOUS 422 TheBadger JOHNCLARE 423 TheFox HUWLLWYD 425 from Briggflatts BASIL BUNTING 429 Switch SEAN 6 RIORDAIN 43O

XI TheSeagull SIONPHYLIP 431 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore tOSS' WILLIAM FOWLER 433 The Harlem Dancer CLAUDEMCKAY 434 from The Song of Solomon 435 Delight in Disorder ROBERT HERRICK 438 Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning RICHARD WILBUR 439 She Moved through the Fair 440 I Only am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee HOWARD NEMEROV 440 from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum AEMELIA LANYER 44I On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia SIR HENRY WOTTON 444 The Princess Recalls Her One Adventure EDNA STVINCENT MILLAY 445 Kiss'dYestreen ANONYMOUS 445 'Maiden in the mor lay' ANONYMOUS 446 A Nocturnal Reverie ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA 447 'Silent is the house' EMILYBRONTE 448 Wedding-Wind PHILIPLARKIN 449 ' Westron winde, when will thou blow' ANONYMOUS 45O WulfandEadwacer ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 451 The Walking Woman SIDNEY KEYES 451 TheReverie EGAN O'RAHILLY 452 'Ichamoflrlaunde' ANONYMOUS 453 'Dear Harp of my Country!' 454 Ireland's Own or, The Burial of Thomas Moore SIR 455 'General wonder in our land' ANONYMOUS 456

XII CroppyBoy ANONYMOUS 457 from 's The (Book I) GAVIN DOUGLAS 458 from The Gododdin ANEIRIN 460 Battle-Hymn of the Republic JULIAWARD HOWE 464 from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage GEORGE GORDON,LORD BYRON 465 TheSilentOne IVORGURNEY 468 from In Parenthesis (Part 7) DAVIDJONES 469 BeachBurial KENNETH SLESSOR 473 TheTwaCorbies ANONYMOUS 474 from The Lament for Arthur O'Leary E 1 B H L I N DHUBH NI CHONAILL 475 Simplify Me When I'm Dead KEITH DOUGLAS 479 Faithless Nelly Gray THOMASHOOD 480 from Beowulf ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 482 Jabberwocky LEWIS CARROLL 484 from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ANONYMOUS (THE 'PEARL POET') 485 'Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed' JOHNLYLY 492 'My hand is weary with writing' SAINT COLUMCILLE 493 What is the Word 493 Bookworm ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 495 from Lament for Fergal Rua TADHG 6G O'HUIGINN 495 from In Memoriam ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 496 Lament for Thomas MacDonagh 508 Lycidas JOHN MILTON 509 Last Look A. D. HOPE 515

XIII Shadows in the Water THOMAS TRAHERNE 516 One Tuesday in Summer JAMES MCAULEY 518 'They are all gone into the world of light' HENRY VAUGHAN 519 Deor ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 521 'They flee from me, that sometime did me Seek' SIR THOMAS WYATT 522 To Earthward ROBERT FROST 523 On Monsieur's Departure QUEEN ELIZABETH I 524 'Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part' MICHAEL DRAYTON 525 'With how sad steps, 0 Moon, thou climb'st the skies' SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 525 '0 rosary that recalled my tear' AITHBHREAC INGHEANCORCADAIL 526 TheExequy HENRY KING 528 ANONYMOUS 532 The Wind Suffers LAURA RIDING 533 Meeting Point LOUIS MACNEICE 533 LostLove 535 'Foweles in the frith' ANONYMOUS 536 'Thule, the period of cosmography' ANONYMOUS 536 'When all this All doth pass from age to age' FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE 536 Ode to the West Wind PERCYBYSSHE SHELLEY 537 'This Life, which seems so fair' WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 54O The Rites for Cousin Vit GWENDOLYN BROOKS 541 Folding the Sheets ROSEMARY DOBSON 541 The Bonnie Broukit Bairn HUGH MACDIARMID 542

XIV The Tap-room ROBERT TANNAHILL 542 from The Revenger's Tragedy CYRIL TOURNEUR 543 TheSkull LLYWELYN GOCH AP MEURIG HEN 544 from Hateful Old Age ANONYMOUS (WELSH) 545 'Adieu! farewell earth's bliss!' THOMAS NASHE 546 'The rath in front of the oak wood' ANONYMOUS (IRISH) 547 The Flowers of the Forest JEANELLIOT 548 Widsith ANONYMOUS (OLD ENGLISH) 549 The Negro Speaks of Rivers LANGSTON HUGHES 554 The Bonnie Earl of Moray ANONYMOUS 554 The World as Meditation WALLACE STEVENS 555 The Truly Great 557 To Everlasting Oblivion JOHNMARSTON 558 Afterwards THOMAS HARDY 558 'Because I could not stop for Death' E M I L Y DICKINSON 560 from The Secular Masque JOHNDRYDEN 561 Afterword: Memorising Poems, by Ted Hughes 563 Acknowledgements 571 Index of 577 Index of First Lines 583

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