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Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among them are:
Marlowe:”The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”;
Shakespeare: “Sonnet XVIII” (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”); Donne: “Holy Sonnet X” (“Death, be not proud”);
Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”;
Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”;
Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”;
Longfellow: “The Children’s Hour”;
Poe: “The Raven”;
Tennyson: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”;
Whitman: “O Captain! My Captain!”;
Dickinson: “This Is My Letter to the World”;
Yeats: “When You Are Old”;
Frost: “The Road Not Taken”;
Millay: “First Fig.”
Works by many other poets — Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them — are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.
Dover Original.
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