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Author Woods, Ralph Louis, 1904-1989

Title Famous poems and the little-known stories behind them / Ralph L. Woods.

Publication Info. New York : Hawthorn Books, [1961]
©1961

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Non Fiction  821.2 W866    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 336 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliography.
Contents Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- The Old Stoic / Emily Brontë -- Last Lines / Emily Brontë -- The Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- The Dead / Rupert Brooke -- How Do I Love Thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Lost Leader / Robert Browning -- Prospice / Robert Browning -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- To a Waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- O, Fairest of the Rural Maids / William Cullen Bryant -- Highland Mary / Robert Burns -- Of A' the Airts / Robert Burns -- Waiting / John Burroughs -- When We Two Parted / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- I Speak Not, I Trace Not, I Breathe Not Thy Name / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Fare Thee Well / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- So We'll Go No More A'Roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Maid of Athens / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- The Soldier's Dream / Thomas Campbell -- Sally in Our Alley / Henry Carey -- Father William / Lewis Carroll -- Secret Love / John Clare -- Say Not, the Struggle Naught Availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough -- There is No God / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Kulba Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Wish / Abraham Cowley -- Light Shining Out of Darkness / William Cowper -- To Mary Unwin / William Cowper -- A Selection of Ten Love-Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go / John Donne -- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning / John Donne -- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Rego Cynarae / Ernest Dowson -- Since There's No Help / Michael Drayton -- So Well I Love Thee / Michael Drayton -- Good-Bye / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald -- Bereft / Robert Frost -- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray -- Joseph Rodman Drake / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- The Going / Thomas Hardy -- The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes / Robert Herrick -- The Night-Piece, to Julia / Robert Herrick -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Song of the Shirt / Thomas Hood -- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats -- Ode to a Nightingale / John Keats -- Bright Star / John Keats -- Gunga Din / Rudyard Kipling -- IF / Rudyard Kipling -- Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor -- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher / Walter Savage Landor -- To Age / Walter Savage Landor -- Evening Song / Sidney Lanier -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- The Congo / Vachel Lindsay -- A Psalm of Life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Village Blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Bridge / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Children's Hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Cross of Snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- To Althea from Prison / Richard Lovelace -- To Lucasta, Going to the Wars / Richard Lovelace -- My Love / James Russell Lowell -- She Came and Went / James Russell Lowell -- And What is so Rare as a Day in June? / James Russell Lowell.
The Man With the Hoe / Edwin Markham -- from Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- from Modern Love / George Meredith -- Exodus from Oregon / Joaquin Miller -- On His Blindness / John Milton -- Gloucester Moors / William Vaughan Moody -- Oh, Breathe Not His Name / Thomas Moore -- She is Far from the Land / Thomas Moore -- The Bivouac of the Dead / Theodore O'Hara -- Strange Meeting / Wilfred Owen -- The Married Love / Coventry Patmore -- Preludes to The Angel in the House / Coventry Patmore -- Departure / Coventry Patmore -- The Toys / Coventry Patmore -- A Health / Edward Coote Pinkney -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Bells / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Passionate Man 's Pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The Conclusion / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Mr. Flood's Party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- When I am Dead, My Dearest / Christina Rossetti -- A Birthday / Christina Rossetti -- Love Lies Bleeding / Christina Rossetti -- Up-Hill / Christina Rossetti -- The Conquered Banner / Abram Joseph Ryan -- I Have a Rendezvous with Death / Alan Seeger -- Elegy for a Dead Soldier / Karl Shapiro -- Indian Serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sleep / Sir Philip Sidney -- No More, My Dear / Sir Philip Sidney -- Fourth Song / Sir Philip Sidney -- The Land of Story-Books / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Triumph of Time / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- from In Memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Crossing the Bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas -- The Hound of Heaven / Francis Thompson -- Little Giffen / Francis Orr Ticknor -- The World / Henry Vaughan -- Beyond the Veil / Henry Vaughan -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / Walt Whitman -- Maud Muller / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde -- My Life is Like the Summer Rose / Richard Henry Wilde -- The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna / Charles Wolfe -- We Are Seven / William Wordsworth -- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth -- It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free / William Wordsworth -- She was a Phantom of Delight / William Wordsworth -- The Character of a Happy Life / Sir Henry Wotton -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats.
Nearer, My God, to Thee / Sarah Flower Adams -- Onward, Christian Soldiers / Sabine Baring-Gould -- America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates -- My Old Kentucky Home / Stephen Foster -- Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair / Stephen Foster -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Abide With Me / Henry Francis Lyte -- Silent Night / Joseph Mohr -- Lead, Kindly Light / John Henry, Cardinal Newman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne.
Subject English poetry.
American poetry.
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