Great Short Poems from Around the World
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Great Short Poems from Around the World

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Great Short Poems from Around the World

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This keepsake gift volume ranges from the twelfth century B.C. to modern times to present an international sampling of the world's best short poems. The works of ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Persian poets appear alongside those of Arabic, Chinese, German, Indian, Japanese, and Hungarian authors, in addition to classics by English, Irish, and American writers.
Featured poems include those of Pushkin ("I Loved You"), Yeats ("Down by the Salley Gardens"), Jonson ("On My First Daughter"), Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers"), Basho ("The Quiet Pond"), Bhasa ("The Moon"), and Tsvetaeva ("I do not think, or argue, or complain"). Additional selections include verse by Li Po, Sappho, Paz, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Blake, Campion, H.D., Heine, Frost, Lermontov, Swift, Rilke, and many others.

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Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2013
ISBN
9780486783192
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature
Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
Titles are given, in italics, only when distinct from the first lines.
A Beggar’s hut, a countryside 136
Adam lay ybounden 15
A day so happy 95
A fallen blossom 98
After Release from Prison 70
A hedge of trees surrounds me 10
Ah, would that I could hide within my songs 13
Ah, yes, my songs are poisoned 64
Alba 108
A little fir tree is in green leaf 97
All the time a man is sober 59
A long time ago 41
A loon I thought it was 21
Although you eat me to the root 54
Amalfi 4
Among the rain 145
Anecdote of the Jar 125
Approach of the Storm, The 21
April was coming, full 75
Argument, An 96
as a child he never plucked the wings off flies 70
As a white candle 37
As cool as the pale wet leaves 108
As I sd to my 46
A slumber did my spirit seal 147
A small ptarmigan sat 22
As my eyes search the prairie 20
A sojourner in Mika’s plains 79
A sore pain troubles me day and night 78
As the fish that leaps from the river 56
As the moon sinks on the mountain-edge 10
At Autumn Cove, so many white monkeys 106
A tear appeared in her eyes 29
A tent with rustling breezes cool 87
At Night, Hearing Someone Sing in the House Next Door 149
A touch of cold in the Autumn night 74
At ten AM the young housewife 142
At the last, tenderly 140
Author to His Wife, of a Woman’s Eloquence, The 62
Autumn 74
Autumn Cove 106
Autumn Song 137
Autumn Wind, The 148
Autumn wind rises; white clouds fly 148
Awake 70
A yellow leaf from the darkness 82
Bad Dreams 35
Ball Game 6
Bargain, The 122
Because I had loved so deeply 52
Because My Students Asked Me 88
Bid me no more good-night; because 121
Black Hair 19
Blue mountains to the north of the walls 105
Bright and serene eyes 40
Brightly the hearth-fire leap, and the lit lamp 30
Bring from the craggy haunts of birch and pine 134
Brooding Grief 82
Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly 22
Butterfly Song 22
But to remember her my heart is sad 31
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Note
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’rri
  8. Yamabe Akahito
  9. Anna Akhmatova
  10. Richard Aldington
  11. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  12. William Allingham
  13. Alpheius of Mytilene
  14. Anacreon
  15. Anonymous
  16. Asclepiades
  17. Matsuo Basho
  18. Charles Baudelaire
  19. Gustavo Adolfo BĂ©cquer
  20. Bhartrihari
  21. Bhasa
  22. Elizabeth Bishop
  23. William Blake
  24. Bertolt Brecht
  25. Emily Brontë
  26. Robert Browning
  27. Yosa Buson
  28. Lord Byron, George Gordon
  29. Callimachos
  30. Joseph Campbell
  31. Thomas Campion
  32. Catullus
  33. Gutierre de Cetina
  34. Wang Chi
  35. T’ao Ch’ien
  36. Po Chu-i
  37. Matthias Claudius
  38. Abraham Cowley
  39. John Clare
  40. Adelaide Crapsey
  41. Robert Creeley
  42. Dakiki
  43. Samuel Daniel
  44. Emily Dickinson
  45. Dilsoz
  46. Digby Mackworth Dolben
  47. H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  48. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  49. T. S. Eliot
  50. Juan Escriva
  51. Euenus
  52. Firdawsi
  53. John Gould Fletcher
  54. F. S. Flint
  55. Robert Frost
  56. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  57. Barnabe Googe
  58. Jehudah Halevi
  59. Thomas Hardy
  60. John Harington
  61. Heinrich Heine
  62. George Herbert
  63. Robert Herrick
  64. Hermann Hesse
  65. Nazim Hikmet
  66. Princess Hirokawa
  67. Friedrich Holderlin
  68. Langston Hughes
  69. T. E. Hulme
  70. Kobayashi Issa
  71. Juan Ramon Jiménez
  72. Ben Jonson
  73. Kabir
  74. Kasa Kanamura
  75. Empress Kogyoku
  76. Alfred Kreymborg
  77. Walter Savage Landor
  78. Emily Lawless
  79. D. H. Lawrence
  80. Luis de Leon
  81. Mikhail Lermontov
  82. Detlev von Liliencron
  83. Federico Garcia Lorca
  84. Lucilius
  85. Lady Maisun
  86. Taylor Mali
  87. Jorge Manrique
  88. Manzei
  89. Martial
  90. Mayura
  91. Meleager
  92. George Meredith
  93. Czeslaw Milosz
  94. Otomo Miyori
  95. Thomas Moore
  96. Edward Morike
  97. Arakida Moritake
  98. Nikolai Nekrasov
  99. Ivan Savvich Nikitin
  100. Princess Nukada
  101. Abu Nuwas
  102. Nikolay Ogarev
  103. Prince Otsu and Lady Ishikawa
  104. Octavio Paz
  105. George Peele
  106. Gyorgy Petri
  107. Caius Petronius
  108. Li Po
  109. Ezra Pound
  110. Alexander Pushkin
  111. Francis Quarles
  112. Rafi of Merv
  113. Anthony Raftery
  114. Walter Raleigh
  115. Mathurin RĂ©gnier
  116. Abraham Reisen
  117. Rainer Maria Rilke
  118. Arthur Rimbaud
  119. Theodore Roethke
  120. Emile Roumer
  121. Conrado Nale Roxlo
  122. Rufinus
  123. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  124. Lady Otomo no Sakanoye
  125. Carl Sandburg
  126. Sappho
  127. William Shakespeare
  128. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  129. Masoka Shiki
  130. James Shirley
  131. Philip Sidney
  132. Iio Sogi
  133. Yamazaki Sokan
  134. Georgios Souris
  135. Gertrude Stein
  136. Alan Stephens
  137. Wallace Stevens
  138. Strato
  139. John Suckling
  140. Jonathan Swift
  141. Otomo Tabito
  142. Torquato Tasso
  143. Sara Teasdale
  144. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  145. Henry David Thoreau
  146. John Todhunter
  147. Marina Tsvetaeva
  148. Su Tung-p’o
  149. Fyodor Tyutchev
  150. Paul Verlaine
  151. Gil Vicente
  152. Edmund Waller
  153. Wang Wei
  154. Walt Whitman
  155. Oscar Wilde
  156. William Carlos Williams
  157. John Wilson
  158. William Wordsworth
  159. Emperor Wu-ti
  160. Otomo Yakamochi
  161. Mei Yao-ch’en
  162. William Butler Yeats
  163. Shen Yo
  164. Bibliography
  165. Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines