The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 273 It Was a Lover and His Lass 274 Sigh No More 274 Oh Mistress Mine 275 Come Away, Come Away, Death 275 When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy 276 Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun 276 Full Fathom Five 277 Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I 277 THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620) My Sweetest Lesbia 278 I Care Not for These Ladies 278 Follow Thy Fair Sun 279 When to Her Lute Corinna Sings 280 When Thou Must Home 280 Rose-cheeked Laura 280 Now Winter Nights Enlarge 281 There Is a Garden in Her Face 282 Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty") 230 2 ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love") 230 6 ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair") 231 36 ("But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again") 231 37 ("When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass") 231 49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night") 232 50 ("Let others sing of knights and paladins") 232 53 ("Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers") 233 Ulysses and the Siren 233 Are They Shadows 235

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 ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) The Day of Judgment 589 A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy Our God, Our Help 591 Psalm 58 592 Psalm 114 593

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CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771) Jubilate Agno, lines 697—770 ("For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry") 678 From A Song to David 680 Psalm 58 684 Psalm 114 685 WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) Olney Hymns 695 Light Shining out of Darkness 695 Epitaph on a Hare 696 The Task 697 From Book IV: The Winter Evening 697 From Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon 699 The Castaway 702 Lines Written during a Period of Insanity 704 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 Get the book, and learn to read poetry. It will improve your life in ways that you do not expect. The Norton Anthology of Poetry PDF About the Author THOMAS 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

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. 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. 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. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London WIT 3QTJONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) A Description of the Morning 568 A Description of a City Shower 569 Stella's Birthday 570 The Lady's Dressing Room 572 A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. APHRA BEHN (1640?-1689) Song ("Love Armed") 540 The Disappointment 541 Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") 545 On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester 546 To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman 548 A Thousand Martyrs 549 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese 947 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") 947 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") 947 Aurora Leigh 948 From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age] 948 A Musical Instrument 950 Introduction ("Hear the voice of the Bard!") A Divine Image 741 Holy Thursday [II.] 741 The Clod & the Pebble 742 The Sick Rose 742 A Poison Tree 743 The Tyger 743 Ah Sun-flower 744 The Garden of Love 744 London 744 SONGS AND BALLADS

With 1,871 poems (351 NEW) and 355 poets (44 NEW), The Norton Anthology of Poetry gives teachers a diverse and flexible core text. No other poetry anthology offers such abundance, which is why students hold onto their anthology long after the course ends; it is their poetry reference for life. Introduction ("Piping down the valleys wild") The Lamb 734 Holy Thursday [I.] 734 The Divine Image 735 The Little Black Boy 735 The Little Boy Lost 736 The Little Boy Found 737 T H E BOOK OF THEL SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

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The Norton Anthology of Poetry has been in existence for almost fifty years, and during that time the way its audience experiences poetry has changed dramatically. Readers now expect to use their ears as much as their eyes when they encounter poetry; hearing poems read out loud deepens both readers’ enjoyment and their understanding. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) Song from The Indian Emperor 500 Song from Troilus and Cressida 501 From Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem Mac Flecknoe 517 To the Memory of Mr. Oldham 523 A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 524 ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) The Argument of His Book 354 The Vine 354 To the Sour Reader 355 Delight in Disorder 355 Corinna's Going A-Maying 356 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Upon Julia's Breasts 358 Upon a Child That Died 358 His Prayer to Ben Jonson 358 The Night Piece, to Julia 359 Upon Julia's Clothes 359 Upon Prue, His Maid 360 Upon Ben Jonson 360 An Ode for Him 360 The Pillar of Fame 361 Neutrality Loathsome 361 To His Conscience 361 To Find God 362 The White Island, or Place of the Blest