101 Famous Poems Author:Roy J. Cook (Compiler) Abou Ben Adhem / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- — Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- — America for me / Henry Van dyke -- — Ann Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- — Apostrophe to the ocean (Childe' Harold's pilgrimage) / George Gordon Byron -- — The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier -- — Be strong / Maltbie Davenport Babcock --... more »
The bells /Edgar Allan Poe --
The blessed damozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
The builders / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The building of the ship / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Charge of the light brigade / Alfred Tennyson --
Childe Harold's farewell to England / George Gordon Byron --
The children's hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The choir invisible / George Eliot --
Christmas everywhere / Phillips Brooks --
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Columbus / Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (Joaquin Miller) --
Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson. Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson --
Cuddle Doon / Alexander Anderson --
The daffodils / William Wordsworth --
The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The deacon's masterpiece / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
The duel / Eugene Field --
Each and all / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Each in his own tongue / William Herbert Carruth --
Elegy written in a country church-yard / Thomas Gray --
Epilogue to Asolando / Robert Browning. The eternal goodness / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett --
The fool's prayer / Edward R. Sill --
For a' that and a' that / Robert Burns --
God save the flag / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
The gods of the copybook headings / Rudyard Kipling --
Gradatim / Josiah Gilbert Holland --
Grass / Carl Sandburg --
The happy warrior / William Wordsworth --
Heart of the tree / Henry Cuyler Bunner. Hiawatha's childhood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The highwayman / Alfred Noyes --
Home / Edgar A. Guest --
Horatius / Thomas Babington Macaulay --
The house by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss --
How did you die? / Edmund Vance Cooke --
If / Rudyard Kipling --
I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger --
In Flanders fields / Lieut. Col. John McCrae --
Invictus / William Ernest Henley --
I shall not pass this way again / Eva Rose York. Jest 'fore Christmas / Eugene Field --
June (the vision of Sir Launfal) / James Russell Lowell --
Keep a-going' / Frank L. Stanton --
Knee-deep in June / James Whitcomb Riley --
L'envoi / Rudyard Kipling --
Letter to a young friend / Robert Burns --
Life sculpture / George Washington Doane --
Lincoln, the man of the people / Edwin Markham --
Little boy blue / Eugene Field --
Love of country (the lay of the last minstrel) / Sir Walter Scott. The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham --
Marmion and Douglas (Marmion) / Sir Walter Scott --
Maud Muller / John Greenleaf Whittier --
Mending wall / Robert Frost --
Mercy / William Shakespeare --
The minuet / Mary Mapes Dodge / Moonlight (the merchant of Venice) / William Shakespeare --
My Kate / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
The night before Christmas / Clement Clarke Moore --
The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon. Nobility / Alice Cary --
Not in vain / Emily Dickinson --
O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman --
Ode on a grecian urn / John Keats --
Ode on intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth --
Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
On the building of Springfield / Vachel Lindsay --
Opportunity / Edward R. Sill --
Opportunity / John James Ingalls --
Out to old Aunt Mary's / James Whitcomb Riley --
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Plant a tree / Lucy Larcom --
Polonius' advice to Laertes (Hamlet) / William Shakespeare --
The present crisis / James Russell Lowell --
A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The raven / Edgar Allan Poe --
Recessional / Rudyard Kipling --
Renascence / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Requiem / Robert Lewis Stevenson --
The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Sea Fever / John Masefield --
She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth. Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read --
The snowstorm / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Soliloquy from Hamlet / William Shakespeare --
Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox --
Song of the Chattahoochee / Sidney Lanier --
Sonnet / William Wordsworth --
Sonnet on his blindness / John Milton --
The spider and the fly / Mary Howitt --
The spires of Oxford / Winifred M. Letts --
Summum Bonum / Robert Browning --
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant. That time of year / William Shakespeare --
The things that are more excellent / William Watson --
To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant --
Trees / Sergeant Joyce Kilmer --
Waiting / John Burroughs / Wolsey's farewell to his greatness (Henry VIII) / John Fletcher --
This is a reprint of my favorite poetry book when I was five. It fostered a lifelong love of poetry. Just perfect for those who love a variety of verse.