The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) The Aeolian Harp 805 This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 807 Kubla Khan 809 Frost at Midnight 810 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 812 Dejection: An Ode 828 GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 833 She Walks in Beauty 834 The Destruction of Sennacherib 834 When We Two Parted 835 So We'll Go No More A-Roving 836 Don Juan 837 Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I 837 Canto the First. Stanzas 1-119 837 Stanzas (When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home) 862 On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year 862 GEORGE GASCOIGNE (ca. 1534-1577) And If I Did, What Then? 144 For That He Looked Not upon Her 144 Gascoigne's Lullaby 145 Margaret Ferguson (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). Ferguson is coeditor of Feminism in Time; Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law; Literacies in Early Modern England; and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam. Professor Ferguson has served as president of the Modern Language Association and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tim Kendall (D. Phil. Oxford University) is Professor of English at the University of Exeter. He is author of The Art of Robert Frost (2012) and has edited The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), and Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (2013), among other works. Kendall also served as producer for the BBC2 documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar. He is currently working on an anthology of Second World War poetry, Poetry of the Second World War. Mary Jo Salter (M.A. Cambridge University) is Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches poetry and poetry-writing. She has published several books of poems, including Unfinished Painting (1989), Sunday Skaters (1994), Open Shutters (2003), and, most recently, The Surveyors (2017). A former vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she has also served as poetry editor of The New Republic. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 669 Sonnet (On the Death of Mr. Richard West) 673 WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 Ode on the Poetical Character 674 Ode to Evening 675 JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) The Flowers of the Forest

And your know, every day I read a poem out of this book, I quietly thank that English Professor, who is not part of my life anymore, for connecting me with an important and necessary part of life. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762) Saturday (The Smallpox) 639 The Lover: A Ballad 641 A Receipt to Cure the Vapors 642 Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 643 HENRY KING (1592-1669) An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend 363 The Boy's Answer to the Blackmoor 366THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 666 Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes) 668

The Douglas Tragedy 97 Lord Randal 100 The Three Ravens 101 The Twa Corbies 102 Sir Patrick Spens 103 The Unquiet Grave 104 The Wife of Usher's Well 105 Bonny Barbara Allan 107 Mary Hamilton 108 Get Up and Bar the Door 110 The Bitter Withy 112 The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter Once upon a time, I ran into an Tenured Professor of English who taught me how to read poetry, for the first time, in my entire life. Then found this book, which has been a total feast of beautiful poetry. Not just full of poems, from throughout history, but also an excellent explanation, of what I have come to call the “architecture” of poetry. JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 394 On Shakespeare 401 LAllegro 402 II Penseroso 405 How Soon Hath Time 410 Lycidas 410 Comus 415 Song ("Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen") Song ("Sabrina fair") 416 To Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs 416 I Did but Prompt the Age 417Tim Kendall (D. Phil. Oxford University) is Professor of English at the University of Exeter. He is author of The Art of Robert Frost (2012) and has edited The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), and Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (2013), among other works. Kendall also served as producer for the BBC2 documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar. He is currently working on an anthology of Second World War poetry, Poetry of the Second World War. MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) Shakespeare 1087 To Marguerite 1088 The Scholar-Gypsy 1089 Thyrsis 1095 Dover Beach 1101