Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. - John Keats Table of Contents Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) ........................................................................................................... 8 To My Dear and Loving Husband................................................................................................... 8 Henry Longfellow (1807-1882).......................................................................................................... 9 The Day is Done ............................................................................................................................. 9 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day ............................................................................................. 11 A Nameless Grave ....................................................................................................................... 12 Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) ........................................................................................................... 13 Annabel Lee................................................................................................................................. 13 A Dream Within a Dream ............................................................................................................ 15 A Valentine .................................................................................................................................. 16 Evening Star ................................................................................................................................. 17 Dreams ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ............................................................................................................ 19 O Captain! My Captain! ............................................................................................................... 19 To You .......................................................................................................................................... 20 I Hear America Singing ................................................................................................................ 23 A Child Said, What is the Grass?.................................................................................................. 24 A Child’s Amaze ........................................................................................................................... 26 A Noiseless, Patient Spider .......................................................................................................... 27 Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) .................................................................................................... 28 Two Truths ................................................................................................................................... 28 A Dream ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Best ............................................................................................................................................. 30 A Last Prayer ................................................................................................................................ 31 At Last .......................................................................................................................................... 32 My Strawberry ............................................................................................................................ 34 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)........................................................................................................... 35 Because I could not stop For Death ............................................................................................ 35 If I can stop one heart from breaking .......................................................................................... 36 “Hope” is the thing with feathers ............................................................................................... 37 I’m Nobody! Who are you? ......................................................................................................... 38 Death sets a Thing significant...................................................................................................... 39 I died for Beauty—but was scarce............................................................................................... 40 After great pain, a formal feeling comes – .................................................................................. 41 I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ................................................................................................. 42 Success is counted sweetest ....................................................................................................... 43 I cannot live with You – ............................................................................................................... 44 I had no time to Hate— ............................................................................................................... 46 Robert Frost (1874-1963) ................................................................................................................ 47 Nothing Gold Can Stay ................................................................................................................ 47 The Road Not Taken .................................................................................................................... 48 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening .............................................................................. 49 Fire and Ice .................................................................................................................................. 50 A Time to Talk .............................................................................................................................. 51 A Question................................................................................................................................... 52 Amy Lowell (1875-1925) ................................................................................................................. 53 Petals ........................................................................................................................................... 53 A Little Song ................................................................................................................................ 54 A Lady .......................................................................................................................................... 55 To a Friend ................................................................................................................................... 56 Ezra Pound (1885-1972) .................................................................................................................. 57 In a Station of the Metro ............................................................................................................. 57 A Girl............................................................................................................................................ 58 An Immortality ............................................................................................................................ 59 And the days are not full enough ................................................................................................ 60 W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ................................................................................................................. 61 If I Could Tell You ......................................................................................................................... 61 Funeral Blues ............................................................................................................................... 62 Lullaby ......................................................................................................................................... 63 The More Loving One .................................................................................................................. 65 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) .............................................................................................. 66 The Young Housewife .................................................................................................................. 66 The Red Wheelbarrow ................................................................................................................ 67 This Is Just To Say ........................................................................................................................ 68 Blizzard ........................................................................................................................................ 69 Daisy ............................................................................................................................................ 70 Approaches of Winter ................................................................................................................