The Hundred Best English Poems, Angielski
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Title:
The Hundred Best English Poems
Author: Various
Editor: Adam L. Gowans
Release Date: February 15, 2006 [eBook #17768]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUNDRED BEST ENGLISH POEMS***
E-text prepared by Brian Sogard, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg
THE HUNDRED BEST ENGLISH POEMS
Selected by
ADAM L. GOWANS, M.A.
[Illustration: Alfred, Lord Tennyson.]
[Illustration]
New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1904,
By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
THIS
LITTLE COLLECTION
IS DEDICATED TO
JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY, ESQ.
BY THE SELECTOR
AS A SLIGHT MARK OF A
DEEP ADMIRATION
PREFATORY NOTE.
Let me frankly admit, to begin with, that the attractiveness and
probable selling qualities of the title of this little book, "The
Hundred Best English Poems," proved, when it had been once thought of,
too powerful arguments for it to be abandoned. I am fully conscious of
the presumption such a title implies in an unknown selector, but at
the same time I submit that only a plebiscite of duly qualified lovers
of poetry could make a selection that could claim to deserve this
title beyond all question, and such a plebiscite is of course
impossible. I can claim no more than that my attempt to realize this
title is an honest one, and I can assert, without fear of
contradiction, that every one of the poems I have included is a "gem
of purest ray serene"; that none can be too often read or too often
repeated to one's self; that every one of them should be known by
heart by every lover of good literature, so that each may become, as
it were, a part of his inner being.
I have not inserted any poems by living authors.
I have taken the greatest care with the texts of the poems. The
editions followed have been mentioned in every case. I have
scrupulously retained the punctuation of these original editions, and
only modernized the spelling of the old copies; while I have not
ventured to omit any part of any poem. I have not supplied titles of
my own, but have adopted those I found already employed in the
editions used as models, or, in some of the cases in which I found
none, have merely added a descriptive one, such as "Song from 'Don
Juan.'"
In conclusion, my very warmest thanks are due to Messrs. Macmillan &
Co., Ltd., for permission to include Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"; to
Mr. D. Nutt for permission to insert W. E. Henley's "To R. T. H. B."
and "Margaritae Sorori"; to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. for a like
privilege in regard to Browning's "Epilogue," and to Mr. Lloyd
Osbourne and Messrs. Chatto & Windus for permission to reproduce
Stevenson's "Requiem." Without these poems the volume would have had a
much smaller claim to its title than it does possess, slight as that
may be. My thanks are also due to the following gentlemen who have
kindly allowed me to reproduce copyright texts of non-copyright poems
from editions published by them: Messrs. Bickers & Son (Ben Jonson),
Messrs. Chapman & Hall, Ltd. (Landor), Messrs. Chatto & Windus
(Herrick), Mr. Buxton Forman (Keats and Shelley), Mr. Henry Frowde
(Wordsworth), Mr. Alex. Gardner and the Rev. George Henderson, B.D.
(Lady Nairne), Messrs. T. C. & E. C. Jack (Burns), Messrs. Macmillan &
Co., Ltd. (Clough and Tennyson), Mr. John Murray (Byron), Messrs.
Smith, Elder & Co. (Browning), Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd.
(Coleridge and Hood).
A. L. G.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
ANONYMOUS.
1. Madrigal 1
ARNOLD (1822-1888).
2. The Forsaken Merman 2
BARBAULD (1743-1825).
3. Life 10
BROWNING (1812-1889).
4. Song from "Pippa Passes" 12
5. Song from "Pippa Passes" 12
6. The Lost Mistress 13
7. Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 14
8. Epilogue 15
BURNS (1759-1796).
9. The Silver Tassie 17
10. Of a' the Airts 18
11. John Anderson my Jo 19
12. Ae Fond Kiss 20
13. Ye Flowery Banks 21
14. A Red, Red Rose 22
15. Mary Morison 24
BYRON (1788-1824).
16. She Walks in Beauty 26
17. Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom 27
18. Song from "The Corsair" 28
19. Song from "Don Juan" 29
CAMPBELL (1777-1844).
20. Hohenlinden 35
CLOUGH (1819-1861).
21. Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth 37
COLERIDGE (1772-1834).
22. Youth and Age 38
COLLINS (1721-1759).
23. Written in the Year 1746 41
COWPER (1731-1800).
24. To a Young Lady 42
CUNNINGHAM (1784-1842).
25. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 43
DAVENANT (1606-1668).
26. Song 45
DRYDEN (1631-1700).
27. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 46
GOLDSMITH (1728-1774).
28. Song 50
GRAY (1716-1771).
29. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard 51
HENLEY (1849-1903).
30. To R. T. H. B. 59
31. I. M. Margaritae Sorori 60
HERBERT (1593-1632).
32. Virtue 62
HERRICK (1591-1674).
33. To the Virgins, to make much of Time 63
34. To Anthea, who may command him anything 64
HOOD (1798-1845).
35. The Death Bed 66
36. The Bridge of Sighs 67
37. I Remember, I Remember 72
JONSON (1573-1637).
38. To Celia 74
KEATS (1795-1821).
39. On first looking into Chapman's Homer 75
40. Ode to a Nightingale 76
41. Ode on a Grecian Urn 80
42. To Autumn 83
43. Ode on Melancholy 85
44. La Belle Dame sans Merci 87
45. Sonnet 90
LAMB (1775-1834).
46. The Old Familiar Faces 92
LANDOR (1775-1864).
47. The Maid's Lament 94
LOVELACE (1618-1658).
48. To Lucasta. Going to the Wars 96
MILTON (1608-1674).
49. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 97
50. L'Allegro 112
51. Il Penseroso 119
52. Lycidas 127
53. On his Blindness 137
NAIRINE (1766-1845).
54. The Land o' the Leal 138
POPE (1688-1744).
55. Ode on Solitude 140
RALEIGH (1552-1618).
56. The Night before his Death 142
ROGERS (1763-1855).
57. A Wish 143
SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616).
58. Sonnets. XVII. Who will believe my verse? 144
59. XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 145
60. XXX. When to the sessions 145
61. XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning 146
62. LX. Like as the waves 147
63. LXVI. Tired with all these 148
64. LXXI. No longer mourn 149
65. LXXIII. That time of year 149
66. LXXIV. But be contented 150
67. CVI. When in the chronicle 151
68. CXVI. Let me not to the marriage 152
69. Song from "The Tempest" 152
70. Song from "Measure for Measure" 153
71. Song from "Much Ado about Nothing" 153
72. Song from "Cymbeline" 154
SHELLEY (1792-1822).
73. Song from "Prometheus Unbound" 156
74. Ode to the West Wind 157
75. The Cloud 161
76. To a Skylark 165
77. Chorus from "Hellas" 171
78. Stanzas. Written in Dejection, near Naples 173
79. The Indian Serenade 176
80. To ---- 177
81. To Night 178
SHIRLEY (1596-1666).
82. Song from "Ajax and Ulysses" 181
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