British and American Classical Poems NEWLY EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY HORST MELLER AND RUDOLF SUHNEL IN CONTINUATION OF LUDWIG HERRIG'S »CLASSICAL AUTHORS* Corrected Reprint of the Edition of 1966 UNIVERSITATSVERLAG C. WINTER HEIDELBERG CONTENTS 1. TRADITIONAL BALLADS 2 The Three Ravens 9 Thomas Rymer 3 The Twa Corbies 10 Bonnie George Campbell 4 Edward 10 The Unquiet Grave 5 Edward (English Rendering) 11 Go Down, Moses 6 Sir Patrick Spence 12 Casey Jones 7 Lord Randal 14 The Fox's Foray 8 The Wife of Usher's Well 15 Finnegan's Wake 2. NARRATIVE POEMS 18 DRAYTON: TO the Cambro-Britons and 45 KEATS: La Belle Dame Sans Merci Their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt 46 TENNYSON: The Kraken 21 GRAY: Ode on the Death of a Favourite 46 TENNYSON: The Charge of the Light Bri- Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes gade 22 GOLDSMITH: Elegy on the Death of a Mad 48 POE: The Raven Dog 52 YEATS: The Ballad of Moll Magee 23 BURNS: Tam O'Shanter 53 KIPLING: Danny Eeever 28 COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan 54 WILDE: From The Ballad of Reading 29 COLERIDGE: The Rime of the Ancient Gaol Mariner 55 ROBINSON: Miniver Cheevy 41 SOUTHEY: The Battle of Blenheim 56 HARDY: Ah, are you digging on my 42 BYRON: The Destruction of Sennacherib grave? 43 WOLFE: The Burial of Sir John Moore at 57 FROST: Out, out - Corunna 58 AUDEN: AS I walked out one evening 3. DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES 60 MARVELL: The Nymph Complaining for 65 BROWNING: The Laboratory the Death of Her Fawn 66 BROWNING: Youth and Art 61 TENNYSON: Ulysses 68 DAVIDSON: Thirty Bob a Week 63 BROWNING: My Last Duchess 71 ELIOT: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 4. SHORT LYRICS AND SONGS 77 ANONYMOUS: Sumer is icumen in 99 SHELLEY: A Song ("A widow bird sate 78 ANONYMOUS: Balow, my babe, lie still and mourning for her love") sleep 99 SHELLEY: TO — ("Music, when soft voices 79 WYATT: Forget not yet die") 79 GREVILLE: The world, that all contains, is ICO SHF.ILIY: Lines ("When the lamp is shat- ever moving tered") 80 SIDNEY: A Litany 101 I.ANDOR: Verse ("Past ruined Ilion Helen 81 SHAKESPEARE: Blow, blow, thou winter lives") wind 1C1 TINNYSON: Break, Break, Break 81 SHAKESPEARK Take, o take those 101 TFNNYSON: Tears, idle tears lips away 102 TENNYSON: The Eagle 82 ANONYMOUS: Life is a poet's fable 102 TENNYSON: Crossing the Bar 83 DYER: The lowest trees have tops 102 BRONTE: The night is darkening 83 DONNE: Song ("Go and catch a falling round me star") 103 BROWNING: Song ("The year's at the 84 DONNE: The Canonization spring") 85 FLETCHER (?): Aspatia's Song ("Lay a gar- 103 BROWNING: Summum Bonum land on my hearse") 103 LONGFELLOW: The Arrow and the Song 86 WEBSTER: Dirge ("Call for the robin red- 104 C. ROSSETTI: Song ("When I am dead, my breast and the wren") dearest") 86 CAMPION: NOW winter nights enlarge 104 EMERSON: Days 87 WOTTON: On His Mistress, the Queen of 104 DICKINSON: There's a certain Slant Bohemia of light 88 SUCKLING: Song ("Why so pale and wan, 105 DICKINSON: In the Garden fond lover?") 105 KINGSLEY: Young and Old 89 SUCKLING: Out upon it! I have loved 106 ARNOLD: Dover Beach 89 CAREW: A Song ("Ask me no more where 107 MEREDITH: Dirge in Woods Jove bestows") 107 HOPKINS: Spring and Fall 90 WALLER: Song ("Go, lovely rose!") 107 WHITMAN: Youth, Day, Old Age and 90 HERRICK: To Daffodils Night 91 HERR.CK: TO Anthea, Who May Command 108 STEVENSON: Requiem Him Anything 108 MELVILLE : Far Off-Shore 91 LOVELACE: TO Lucasta. Going to the 108 BRIDGES: I love all beauteous things Wars 92 My Dear and L 108 YEATS: The Pity of Love BHX7T: TO -- 109 DOWSON: Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam 92 COWPER: The Poplar-Field 109 HOUSMAN: From A Shropshire Lad 93 BURNS: TO a Mouse (VII: "When smoke stood up from 94 BURNS: John Anderson My JOl John Ludlow"; XXXIII: "If truth in hearts 95 BURNS: A Red, Red Rose that perish") 110 HARDY : The Darkling Thrush unFlower 96 BLAKE: The Sick Rose 111 HULME: Autumn 111 H. D.: Oread 96 WORDSWORTH: MV KM». I Q7 W7 " heart leaps u pp 111 POUND: In a Station of the Metro 97 WORDSWORTH: I WanH J . , cloud wandered lonely as a 112 FROST : The Road Not Taken 97 112 FROST: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy * OaW Evening 99 BYRON: So we'll 113 SANDBURG: Grass *> SCOTT: H3 WYLIE : Let No Charitable Hope 114 WILLIAMS: The Term VI 5. PASTORALS AND ANACREONTICS 116 SPENSER: From The Shepherd's Calendar: 120 HERRICK: Comma's Going March A-Maying 117 MARLOWE: The Passionate Shepherd to His 122 COWLEY: Drinking Love 122 MARVFIL: TO His Coy Mistress 117 RALEIGH: The Nymph's Reply to the Shep- 123 MARVELL: The Garden herd 126 POPE: Ode on Solitude 118 SHAKESPEARE: Under the greenwood tree 126 SHELLEY: Love's Philosophy 118 JONSON: Song, to Celia ("Drink to me only 126 CLARE: From The Shepherd's Calendar: with thine eyes") August 119 HERRICK: TO the Virgins, to Make Much 128 YEATS: The Lake Isle of Innisfree of Time 128 YEATS: A Drinking Song 6. SONNETS 130 SIDNEY: From Astrophel and Stella (1: 141 MILTON: On His Blindness "Loving in truth"; 31: "With how sad 142 MILTON: On the Late Massacre in Pied- steps, O Moon") mont 131 SIDNEY: Leave me, O Love which readiest 142 WORDSWORTH: Composed upon Westmin- but to dust ster Bridge 132 DANIEL: From Delia (47: "Beauty, sweet 143 WORDSWORTH: TO Touss.iini love, is like the morning dew"; 51: "Care- L'Ouverture charmer Sleep") 143 WORDSWORTH: The world is too much 133 SPENSER: One day I wrote her name upon with us the strand 144 KEATS: On First Looking into Chapman's 134 BOLTON: AS withereth the primrose by the Homer river 145 KEATS: On Seeing the Elgin 134 SHAKESPEARE: From Sonnets (18: "Shall I Marbles compare thee to a summer's day?"; 30: 146 KEATS: When I have fears that I may cease "When to the sessions of sweet silent to be thought"; 33: "Full many a glorious morn- 146 SHELLEY: Ozymandias ing have I seen"; 55: "Not marble, nor the 147 LONGFELLOW: Mezzo Cammin gilded monuments"; 71: "No longer mourn 147 E. B. BROWNING: If thou must for me when I am dead"; 73: "That time love me of year thou mayst in me behold"; 77: 148 C. ROSSETTI: Remember me when 1 am "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties gone away wear"; 116: "Let me not to the marriage 148 HOPKINS: The Windhover of true minds"; 130: "My mistress' eyes are 149 D. G. ROSSETTI: The Sonnet nothing like the sun"; 146: "Poor soul, the 150 MERFDITH: Lucifer in Starlight centre of my sinful earth") 150 BROOKF: The Soldier 140 DRAYTON: Since there's no help, come let 151 OWFN: Anthem for Doomed Youth us kiss and part 151 YEATS: Leda and the Swan 140 DONNE: From Holy Sonnets (7: "At the 152 RANSOM: Piazza Piece round earth's imagined corners, blow"; 10: 152 CL'MMINGS: pity this busy monster, manun- "Death be not proud") kjnd 7. OLD FRENCH FORMS 154 DOBSON: A Kiss 155 ALTON: Paysage Moralise 154 SWINBURNE: A Ballad of Dreamland 156 THOMAS: DO Not Go Gentle into That 155 MCCRAF: In Flanders Fields Good Night Vll 8. ELEGIES 158 ANONYMOUS: Weep you no more, sad among unknown men"; "A slumber did my fountains spirit seal") 158 SHAKESPEARE: Song ("Fear no more the 171 LANDOR: Rose Aylmer heat o'the sun") 171 SCOTT: Coronach 159 BROWNE: On the Countess Dowager of 172 WHITMAN: When Lilacs Last in the Door- Pembroke yard Bloomed 160 MILTON: Lycidas 179 SWINBURNE: A Forsaken Garden 165 GRAY: Elegy Written in a Country Church- 181 H. D.: Lethe yard 181 CRANE : At Melville's Tomb 170 WORDSWORTH: Lucy Poems ("She dwelt 182 MILLAY: Dirge without Music among th'untrodden ways"; "I travelled 9. ODES 184 MILTON: L1 Allegro 202 SHELLEY: Ode to the West Wind 187 MILTON: II Penseroso 205 SHELLEY: The Cloud 191 DRYDEN: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 207 KEATS: Ode to a Nightingale 194 COLLINS: Ode to Evening 209 KEATS: Ode on a Grecian Urn 196 WORDSWORTH: Ode: Intimations of Immor- 211 KEATS: TO Autumn tality from Recollections of Early Child- 212 SWINBURNE: Hymn to Proserpine hood 215 YEATS: Easter 1916 10. POEMS OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION 218 NASHE: The Song ("Adieu, farewell earth's 234 COWPER : Light Shining Out of Darkness bliss") 235 BLAKE: The Lamb 219 SOUTHWELL: The Burning Babe 235 BLAKE: The Tyger 220 DONNE: Hymn to God My God in My 236 BLAKE: London Sickness 237 DICKINSON: Because I could not stop for 221 HERBERT: Employment ("He that is weary, Death let him sit") 221 237 HOPKINS: Pied Beauty HERBERT: Virtue 238 HARDY: The Oxen 222 HERBERT: The Collar 223 238 YEATS: The Second Coming HERBERT: The Pulley 239 YEATS: Sailing to Byzantium 224 QUARLES: Behold how short a span 240 ELIOT: A Song for Simeon 226 CRASHAW: Charitas Nimia 241 LAWRENCE: Only Man 228 VAUGHAN: The Retreat 229 241 THOMAS: The Force That through the Green VAUGHAN: The Waterfall 230 TKAHERNE: Wonder Fuse Drives the Flower 232 MARVELL: A Dialogue between the Resolved 242 THOMAS : Was There a Time Soul and Created Pleasure 243 SITWELL: Still Falls the Rain 234 TAYLOR: The Ebb and Flow 244 POUND: From Canto LXXXI 245 LARKIN: Church Going 11. REFLECTIVE VERSE AND VERSE ESSAYS 248 DAV.ES: From NosceTeipsum 249 SH,KESPEARAnh 251 DONNE: From An Anatomy of the World 252 RALEIGH: What is our life? VIII 253 SHIRLEY: The glories of our blood and state 262 COWPER: From The Task 254 POPE: From An Essay on Criticism 263 WORDSWORTH: Lines Composed a Few 255 POPE: From An Essay on Man Miles Above Tintern Abbey 256 THOMSON: From The Seasons 267 BRYANT: Thanatopsis 257 BLAIR: From The Grave 268 PATMORE: The Revelation 258 YOUNG: From The Complaint, or Night 268 SYMONS: Epilogue: Credo Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality 269 EMPSON: This Last Pain 260 AKENSIDE: From The Pleasures of Imagina- 270 EBFRHART: The Groundhog tion 271 AUDEN: Musee des Beaux Arts 261 GOLDSMITH: From The Deserted Village 272 DAVIE: The Fountain 12.