The Columbia anthology of British poetry:
A compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, this work offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Unencumbered by extensive notes that divert attention from the spirit of...
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| adam_text | The Columbia Anthology of
BRITISH
POETRY
EDITED BY
CARL WOODRING
and JAMES SHAPIRO
COLUMBIAUNIVERSITYPRESS
NEWYORK
CONTENTS
Introduction xxvii
OLD ENGLISH POETRY
From Beowulf (c 8th century): 1
Translation by Ruth P M Lehmann {1912- ) 2
From Battle of Brunanburh (c 10th century): 3
Translation by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 3
From The Seafarer (c 10th century): 6
Translation by Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 7
Dafydd ap Gwilym (c J 320-c J 380)
Mis Mai 10
May, translation by Arthur James Johnes (1809-1871) 11
Geoffrey Chaucer (c J 343-1400)
From The Canterbury Tales, from The General Prologue:
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote 13
Words unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn 14
ANONYMOUS LYRICS AND BALLADS OF THE
FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
Money, Money 15
The Unquiet Grave 18
The Blacksmiths • 19
I Sing of a Maiden 19
Alone Walking 20
Western Wind 21
William Dunbar (14607-1513?)
Meditation in Winter 22
In Praise of Women 24
John Skelton {14637-1529)
Upon a Dead Man s Head 25
Knowledge, Acquaintance, Resort, Favour, with Grace 27
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Whoso List to Hunt 29
They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek 30
Is It Possible 31
vi CONTENTS
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (15177-1547)
Laid in My Quiet Bed 32
When Windsor Walls 33
So Cruel Prison 33
Anne Askew (c 1521-1546)
The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She
Was in Newgate 36
Anne Vaughan Locke (c 1530-c 1590)
So Foul Is Sin and Loathsome in Thy Sight 39
Sin and Despair Have So Possess d My Heart 40
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Written on a Wall at Woodstock 41
On Monsieur s Departure 41
George Gascoigne (c J539-1577)
Gascoigne s Good Morrow 43
Gascoigne s Woodmanship 45
Edmund Spenser (15527-1599)
Epithalamion 50
From Amoretti:
18: The rolling wheel, that runneth often round 61
54: Of this world s theatre in which we stay 61
67: Like as a huntsman after weary chase 62
75: One day I wrote her name upon the strand 62
80: After so long a race as I have run 63
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
From Astrophel and Stella:
1: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show 64
15: You that do search for ever) purling spring 65
27: Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise 65
31: With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb stthe skies 65
54: Because I breathe not love to ev ry one 66
Fulke Greville, First Baron Brooke (1554-1628)
From Caelica:
56: All my senses, like beacon s flame 67
87: Whenas man s life, the light of human lust 69
99: Down in the depth of mine iniquity 70
Sir Walter Ralegh (15547-1618)
The Nymph s Reply 71
CONTENTS vii
My Body in the Walls Captived 72
Verses Made the Night before His Beheading 72
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)
Psalm 84: How lovely is thy dwelling 74
Psalm 100: O all you lands, the treasures of your joy 75
To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney 76
Samuel Daniel (1562/63-1619)
From Delia:
34: When winter snows upon thy golden hairs 79
39: Read in my face a volume of despairs 79
45: Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night 80
46: Let others sing of knights and paladins 80
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
To the Virginian Voyage 82
To My Noble Friend Master William Browne: Of the Evil Time 84
Since There s No Help 87
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 89
From Elegies, by Ovid:
I iv: Thy husband to a banquet goes with me 90
I v: In summer s heat, and mid-time of the day 92
I xv: Envy, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill 92
III i: An old wood stands uncut, of long years space 93
III vi: Either she was foul, or her attire was bad 95
William Shakespeare (J 564-1616)
From Sonnets:
18: Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? 98
23: As an unperfect actor on the stage 99
30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 99
55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 99
60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore 100
66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry 100
73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold 101
86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse 101
94: They that have the pow r to hurt, and will do none 101
116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds 102
129: Th expense of spirit in a waste of shame 102
130: My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun 103
138: When my love swears that she is made of truth 103
The Phoenix and Turtle 103
viii CONTENTS
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground 106
Rose-cheek d Laura, Come 107
Eochaidh 6 Heoghusa (c 1568-c 1612)
A Winter Campaign 108
O Hussey s Ode to the Maguire, for translation by James Clarence Mangan
(1803-1849), see p 580
Aemilia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645)
The Description of Cookham 111
Benjonson (1572-1637)
ToPenshurst 117
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius
Cary and Sir Henry Morison 120
On My First Son 124
An Ode to Himself 124
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Good Morrow 126
The Sun Rising 127
The Canonization 128
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy s Day, Being the Shortest Day 129
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 130
The Ecstasy 131
On His Mistress 134
Death Be Not Proud 135
Batter My Heart, Three-Person d God 136
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)
The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love 137
JohnMarston (1576-1634)
A Cynic Satire 145
Mary Sidney Wroth (15877-1623?)
From Urania:
When Night s Black Mantle 151
Am I Thus Conquer d? 151
You Blessed Stars 152
In This Strange Labyrinth 152
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Delight in Disorder 154
Art above Nature, to Julia 155
CONTENTS ix
Upon Julia s Clothes 155
Corinna s Going a-Maying 155
Henry King (1592-1669)
An Exequy, to His Matchless Never to Be Forgotten Friend 158
George Herbert (J593-1633)
The Collar 162
Affliction (IV) 163
The Altar 164
Redemption 165
Easter Wings 165
Jordan (II) 166
The Agony 166
Love (HI) 167
Thomas Carew (1594/95-1640)
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St Paul s, Dr John Donne 168
A Rapture 171
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
To a Fair Lady Playing with a Snake 175
Of English Verse 176
Go Lovely Rose 177
]ohn Milton (1608-1674)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 178
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 179
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint 179
On Shakespeare 180
Lycidas 180
Sir John Suckling (1609-1641 ?)
Upon My Lady Carlisle s Walking in Hampton Court Garden 186
A Sessions of the Poets 188
Richard Crashaw (1612/13-1649)
The Flaming Heart 192
On Mr George Herbert s Book, The Temple 195
On Hope [written jointly with Abraham Cowley] 196
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
From Hudibras, from Canto I:
When civil dudgeon first grew high 199
X CONTENTS
JohnDenham (1615-1669)
Cooper s Hill 207
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 217
The Grasshopper 218
Song: To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair 219
Abraham Cowley (1618-1687)
Written in Juice of Lemon 221
The Muse 223
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
To the Most Excellently Accomplished Mrs Katherine Philips 225
The Retreat 226
They Are All Gone into the World of Light 227
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress 229
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell s Return from Ireland 230
On Mr Milton s Paradise Lost 233
The Mower against Gardens 235
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Dutchess of Newcastle (c 1623-
1674)
The Poetress s Petition 237
JohnDryden (1631-1700)
MacFlecknoe
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs Anne
Killigrew
A Song for St Cecilia s Day, 1687
Katherine Fowler Philips (1631-1664)
On the Welsh Language
Epitaph on Her Son Hector Philips
Friendship in Emblem
Thomas Traherne (16377-1674)
Innocence
Shadows in the Water
AphraBehn (1640-1689)
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven That Died Before 262
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More
Than Woman 263
The Disappointment 263
CONTENTS XI
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Against Constancy 268
A Satire against Reason and Mankind 269
Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710)
To the Ladies 275
Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)
A Farewell to Worldly Joys 277
Upon the Saying That My Verses Were Made by Another 277
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
A Nocturnal Reverie 280
Ardelia to Melancholy 281
The Circuit of Apollo 283
Lady Grisell Baillie (1665-1746)
Were Na My Heart Licht, I Wad Die 285
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Mrs Harris s Petition 287
In Sickness 289
Stella s Birthday, 1725 290
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723)
The Emulation 292
The Repulse to Alcander 293
Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)
On Sir J S Saying in a Sarcastic Manner, My Books Would Make
Me Mad 295
John Gay (1685-1732)
To a Young Lady, with Some Lampreys 298
My Own Epitaph 299
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women 301
The Rape of the Lock 308
Lady Mary Worthy Mon tagu (1689-1762)
Epitaph (Here lies John Hughes and Sarah Drew) 328
Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book
of Horace 329
xii CONTENTS
Elizabeth Boyd (fl 1727-1745)
On the Death of an Infant of Five Days Old 332
Mary Barber (16907-1757)
The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev Mr C 333
Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting On Breeches 335
Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin (1696-1764)
On Mr Pope s Characters of Women 338
John Dyer (1699-1757)
Grongar Hill 342
James Thomson (1700-1748)
A Hymn on the Seasons 347
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
From The Vanity of Human Wishes:
Let Observation, with extensive view 351
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 357
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
A Dialogue 362
Ode to Wisdom 363
William Collins (1721-1759)
Ode to Evening 367
How Sleep the Brave 368
A Song from Shakespeare s Cymbeline 369
MaryLeapor (1722-1746)
Mira s Will 370
An Epistle to a Lady 371
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies 374
From Jubilate Agno:
My Cat Jeoffrey 375
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly 378
From The Deserted Village:
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain 378
CONTENTS Xlll
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Light Shining out of Darkness 383
The Negro s Complaint 384
Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821)
A Winter in Wales 386
Anna Hunter Seward (1742-1809)
Eyam 389
Hannah Parkhouse Cowley (1743-1809)
Departed Youth 391
Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825)
On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792 • 393
The Rights of Woman 394
To Mr S T Coleridge 395
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex 397
On the Aphorism L Amitte est l amour sans ailes 398
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
The Daft Days 399
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
From Aella:
Mynstrelles Songe 402
Jane Cave Winscom (17547-1813)
An Elegy on a Maiden Name 405
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
From The Borough, from Letter I:
Describe the Borough 407
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Lamb 408
The Tyger 409
The Little Black Boy 410
The Sick Rose 411
London 411
From Milton, from Preface:
And did those feet in ancient time 411
Visions of the Daughters of Albion 412
xiv CONTENTS
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Song—For A That and A That 419
To a Mouse 421
Holy Willie s Prayer 422
Tarn o Shanter 425
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
A Mother to Her Waking Infant 432
A Child to His Sick Grandfather 433
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 436
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 440
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 441
The Solitary Reaper 442
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 443
The Simplon Pass 448
The World Is Too Much with Us 448
Composed upon Westminster Bridge 449
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 449
Surprised by Joy 450
James Hogg (1770-1835)
When Maggy Gangs Away 451
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Proud Maisie 453
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
To My Niece Dorothy, a Sleepless Baby - 454
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 455
Kubla Khan 474
Frost at Midnight 475
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
The Battle of Blenheim 478
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Rose Aylmer 481
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Hohenlinden 482
CONTENTS XV
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
The Harp That Once through Tara s Halls 484
Charlotte Dacre (1782-1841?)
The Kiss 485
Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
The Star 487
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Rondeau (Jenny Kissed Me) 488
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
The War Song of Dinas Vawr 489
George Gordon Noel Byron, Sixth Baron Byron
She Walks in Beauty
Darkness
So, We ll Go No More a-Roving
The Destruction of Sennacherib
From Childe Harold s Pilgrimage, from Canto III:
Is thy face like thy mother s, my fair child!
From Don Juan, from Canto I:
I want a hero: an uncommon want
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)
The Jackdaw of Rheims
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
Song to the Men of England
Adonais
John Clare (1793-1864)
The Shepherd Boy
I Am
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1793-1835)
The Image in Lava
John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman s Homer
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
On Sitting Down to Read Kins Lear Once Again
(1788-1824)
XVI CONTENTS
Bright Star 549
Ode on a Grecian Um 549
Ode to a Nightingale 551
Ode on Melancholy 553
To Autumn 554
La Belle Dame sans Merci 555
The Eve of St Agnes 556
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Sally Simpkin s Lament 569
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
From Horatius:
Then out spake brave Horatius 571
John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
From The Dream of Gerontius:
Nor touch, nor taste, nor hearing hast thou now 573
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
The Enchanted Island • 575
William Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
The Talented Man 577
James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
O Hussey s Ode to the Maguire 580
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
From Sonnets from the Portuguese:
3: Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart 583
13: And wilt thou have me fashion into speech 584
43: How do I love thee? 584
A Musical Instrument 584
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
From The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam:
12: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 586
13: Some for the Glories of This World 586
19: I sometimes think that never blows so red 586
27: Myself when young did eagerly frequent 587
68: We are no other than a moving row 587
69: But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays 587
70: The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes 587
71: The Moving Finger writes 587
72: And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky 587
CONTENTS XV11
73: With Earth s first Clay They did the Last Man knead 588
74: Yesterday This Day s Madness did prepare 588
Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Ulysses 589
Tithonus 591
The Higher Pantheism 593
Tears, Idle Tears 594
The Charge of the Light Brigade 595
From In Memoriam:
7: Dark house 596
27: I envy not in any moods 597
35: Yet if some voice that man could trust 597
50: Be near me when my light is low 598
54: Oh yet we trust that somehow good 598
108:1 will not shut me from my kind 599
124: That which we dare invoke to bless 599
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess 601
Meeting at Night 603
Parting at Morning 603
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 603
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed s Church 604
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
There Was an Old Man in a Tree 608
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 608
The Jumblies 609
Emily Jane Bronte (1818-1848)
Remembrance 612
No Coward Soul Is Mine 613
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
The Latest Decalogue 615
From Dipsychus:
There is no God, the wicked saith 616
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans 1819-1880)
From A Minor Prophet:
Tis on this theme—the vegetarian world 618
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach 620
xvii iCONTENTS
To Marguerite 621
In Harmony with Nature 622
Memorial Verses 623
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
To the Body 625
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Lucifer in Starlight 627
From Modem Love:
1: By this he knew she wept with waking eyes 628
30: What are we first? First, animals 628
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
The Blessed Damozel 629
The Woodspurge 633
Sudden Light 634
Willowwood 634
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A Birthday 637
Song (When I am dead, my dearest) 638
Uphill 638
From Monna Innominata:
Many in aftertimes will say of you 639
An Echo from Willow-wood 639
Cobwebs 640
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
Ballad (The auld wife sat at her ivied door) 641
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
1832-1898)
Jabberwocky 643
The Walrus and the Carpenter 644
William Morris (1834-1896)
The Haystack in the Floods 648
James Thomson (B V , 1834-1882)
William Blake 653
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell 654
From Patience:
Bunthome s Song 657
CONTENTS XIX
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
The Garden of Proserpine 659
The Lake of Gaube 662
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell 664
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Hap 666
The Darkling Thrush 667
The Oxen 668
Shelley s Skylark 668
Channel Firing 669
Neutral Tones 670
Beeny Cliff 671
The Convergence of the Twain 672
Arthur William Edgar O Shaughnessy (1844-1881)
From Ode: We Are the Music Makers
We are the music makers 674
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
The Windhover 676
Pied Beauty 677
Spring and Fall 677
Felix Randal 678
God s Grandeur 678
Duns Scotus s Oxford 679
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 679
Carrion Comfort 680
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Eros 681
Low Barometer 682
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1847-1922)
A Song of Derivations 683
The Shepherdess 684
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Invictus 685
I M Margaritae Sorori 686
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Sing Me a Song 687
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol:
He did not wear his scarlet coat 689
XX CONTENTS
John Davidson (1857-1909)
Battle 692
Thirty Bob a Week 693
James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
A Sonnet (Two voices are there) 696
A E Housman (1859-1936)
Reveille 697
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 698
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
From The Hound of Heaven:
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days 701
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
The Witch 703
Amy Levy (1861-1889)
Epitaph on a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed 705
May Kendall (1861-1943?)
Ether Insatiable 706
Michael Field (pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley,
1846-1914, and Edith Cooper, 1862-1913)
La Gioconda 708
A Dying Viper 708
Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
Faint Love 710
Nerves 711
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 712
The Second Coming 713
Sailing to Byzantium 713
Leda and the Swan 714
Among School Children 715
Coole Park, 1929 717
Crazy Janes Talks with the Bishop 718
Lapis Lazuli 718
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Tommy 721
CONTENTS XXI
The King 722
Recessional 724
Lionel Johnson (J 867-1902)
The Church of a Dream 725
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae 726
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam 727
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
Harebell and Pansy 728
The Unreturning Spring 728
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
The Farmer s Bride 730
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944)
Response to Rimbaud s Later Manner 732
EdwardThomas (1878-1917)
As the Team s Head-Brass 734
October 735
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Cargoes 737
Sea-Fever 738
The West Wind 738
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
Piano 740
Snake 741
Bavarian Gentians 743
Love on the Farm 744
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
Scotland 1941 746
The Horses 747
Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
The Soldier 749
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
Still Falls the Rain 750
xxii CONTENTS
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
From The Wasteland:
I The Burial of the Dead 752
Marina 754
From Four Quartets:
IV Little Gidding 755
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches 763
Hugh MacDiarmid (pseudonym of Christopher Murray
Grieve, 1892-1978)
Ex Vermibus 765
With the Herring Fishers 766
Lourd on My Hert 767
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth 768
Dulce et Decorum Est 768
Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985)
The Face in the Mirror 770
Not at Home 770
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
Not Waving but Drowning 772
Away, Melancholy 772
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
Poem for an Anniversary 775
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)
Spraying the Potatoes 777
Epic 778
The Hospital 778
Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984)
The Licorice Fields at Pontefract 780
Huxley Hall 781
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
Musee des Beaux Arts 782
In Memory of W B Yeats 783
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Bagpipe Music 786
Elegy for Minor Poets 787
CONTENTS xxiii
John Hewitt (1907-1987)
Once Alien Here 789
Sir Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
The Truly Great 791
Norman Alexander MacCaig (1910- )
Blue Tit on a String of Peanuts 793
Gone Are the Days 793
Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913- )
Pisces 795
Centuries 795
DylanThomas (1914-1953)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 797
Fern Hill 798
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 799
Donald Davie (1922- )
Rejoinder to a Critic 801
Across the Bay 802
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Church Going 803
Next, Please 805
Aubade (I work all day, and get half-drunk at night) 806
Patricia Beer (1924- )
Lemmings 808
Jane Austen 809
Charles Tomlinson (1927- )
A Word in Edgeways 810
A Death in the Desert 811
Thomas Kinsella (1928- )
Another September 813
John Patrick Montague (1929- )
Wild Sports of the West 815
Thorn Gunn (1929- )
Moly 817
Lines for a Book 818
The Man with Night Sweats 819
Xxiv CONTENTS
Ted Hughes (1930- )
A Modest Proposal 821
To Paint a Water Lily 822
Moon-Hops 823
A Childish Prank 823
Geoffrey Hill (1932- )
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings 825
Ovid in the Third Reich 826
Tony Harrison (1937- )
On Not Being Milton 827
Study 828
Ellie McDonald (1937- )
Itherness 829
Seamus Heaney (1939- )
Follower 831
The Tollund Man 832
A New Song 833
From the Frontier of Writing 834
Michael Longley (1939- )
Freeze-Up 836
To Derek Mahon 836
Derek Mahon (1941- )
A Disused Shed in Co Wexford 839
An Unborn Child 841
PaulDurcan (1944- )
Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail 843
Tom Leonard (1944- )
Fathers and Sons 845
EavanBoland (1944- )
The Pomegranate 846
LizLochhead (1947- )
The Grim Sisters 848
Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975)
The Garden of Proserpine 850
CONTENTS XXV
Ciaran Carson (1948- )
Slate Street School 853
TomPaulin (1949- )
The Impossible Pictures 854
Medbh McCaughan McGuckian (1950- )
The Orchid House 856
The Sitting 856
PaulMuldoon (1951- )
Sushi 858
The Briefcase 859
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (1952- )
Leaba Shioda 861
Labasheedy (The Silken Bed), translation by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 862
Acknowledgments 865
Index of Poets 873
Index of Titles and First Lines 877
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