Great Short Poems

This outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias."

 

Songs for the Open Road

Great Short Poems

Sir Walter Ralegh
Even Such Is Time
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
"When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes"
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
John Donne
"Death, Be Not Proud"
Ben Jonson
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
John Webster
A Dirge
Robert Herrick
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Upon Julia's Clothes
Francis Quarles
On the World
Thomas Crew
The Unfading Beauty
John Milton
On His Blindness
Sir John Suckling
"Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?"
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Richard Lovelace
"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
Sir George Etherege
To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
Matthew Prior
A Reasonable Affliction
Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude
John Gay
Song
Oliver Goldsmith
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
George Crabbe
A Marriage Ring
William Blake
The Tiger
"Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau"
The Sick Rose
Robert Burns
"A Red, Red Rose"
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
My Heart Leaps Up
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer
Twenty Years Hence
Thomas Moore
"Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms"
Leigh Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem
Jenny Kiss'd Me
Thomas Love Peacock
Beneath the Cypress Shade
"George Gordon, Lord Byron"
So We'll Go No More a-Roving
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
John Keats
When I Have Fears
Hartley Coleridge
Song
Early Death
Thomas Hood
The Death-Bed
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days
Character
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
There Was a Little Girl
Edgar Allan Poe
To One in Paradise
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
The Splendor Falls
Crossing the Bar
The Eagle
Flower in the Crannied Wall
Edward FitzGerald
The Three Arrows
Robert Browning
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
Pippa's Song
Henry David Thoreau
"I Was Born Upon Thy Bank, River"
My Life Has Been the Poem
Emily Brontë
The Old Stoic
Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
I Hear America Singing
Coventry Patmore
The Kiss
Magna Est Veritas
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight
Emily Dickinson
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
I Never Saw a Moor
Christina Rossetti
Remember
Up-Hill
Lewis Carroll
How Doth the Little Crocodile
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memory
Thomas Hardy
Hap
"In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
I Look into My Glass
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
God's Grandeur
"No Worst, There Is None"
John Banister Tabb
Evolution
The Shadow
The Mid-Day Moon
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
William Ernest Henley
Invictus
Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
The Winds of Fate
Oscar Wilde
E Tenebris
Symphony in Yellow
John Davidson
Song
A. E. Housman
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Into My Heart an Air That Kills
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Loveliest of Trees
William Butler Yeats
Leda and the Swan
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Down by the Salley Gardens
When You Are Old
Gelett Burgess
The Purple Cow
Cinque Ans Aprés
Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
Envoy
E. A. Robinson
Richard Cory
Eros Turannos
Stephen Crane
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon
In the Desert
A Learned Man Came to Me Once
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life
We Wear the Mask
Silence
Amy Lowell
Solitaire
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Fire and Ice
The Road Not Taken
Acquainted with the Night
Hughes Mearns
Antigonish
Adelaide Crapsey
November Night
The Warning
John Masefield
Sea Fever
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Grass
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Sara Teasdale
The Kiss
I Shall Not Care
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
"L'Art, 1910"
Joyce Kilmer
Trees
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier
Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows
T.S. Eliot
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Archibald MacLeish
The End of the World
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dylan Thomas
Do Not So Gentle into That Good Night

 

SONGS FOR THE OPEN ROAD
  From Song of the Open Road. Walt Whitman
  There Is No Frigate Like a Book. Emily Dickinson
  "From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, George Gordon, Lory Byron"
  The Vagabond. Robert Louis Stevenson
  Ithaka. Constantine Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
  "Song of Songs. (from the Song of Solomon, 2:10-13, King James Bible)"
  what is. E. E. Cummings
  "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond. E. E. Cummings"
  On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. John Keats
  On Journeys Through the States. Walt Whitman
  Recuerdo. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  A Vagabond Song. Bliss Carman
  From A Rolling Stone. Robert Service
  The Land of Beyond. Robert Service
  On the World. Francis Quarles
  Great things are done when men & mountains meet. William Blake
  Roadways. John Masefield
  Out Where the West Begins. Arthur Chapman
  Highway. Gene Zeiger
  The Sacred. Stephen Dunn
  The Lake Isle of Innisfree. William Butler Yeats
  "I was Born Upon Thy Bank, River. Henry David Thoreau"
  The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost
  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Robert Frost
  Acquainted with the Night. Robert Frost
  When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. Walt Whitman
  The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Langston Hughes
  The Stolen Child. William Butler Years
  Sonnet - to an American Painter Departing for Europe. Wiliam Cullen Bryant
  Into My Own. Robert Frost
  Escapist - Never. Robert Frost
  To the Not Impossible Him. Edna St. Vincent Millay
"SEAR, RAIL AND SKY"
  "From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. George Gordon, Lord Byron"
  Sea-Fever. John Masefield
  Exultation is in the Going. Emily Dickinson
  The Secret of the Sea. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  "Put Off Thy Bark from Shore, Though Near the Night. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman"
  Golden Moonrise. William Stanley Braithwaite
  Exiled. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  A Strip of Blue. Lucy Larcom
  In Cabin'd Ships at Sea. Walt Whitman
  Columbus. Joaquin Miller
  Song. John Davidson
  The Winds of Fate. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  Seafarer. Archibald MacLeish
  All day I Hear the Noise of Waters. James Joyce
  "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
  From the Shore. Carl Sandburg
  Les Silhouettes (from Impressions). Oscar Wilde
  The Flying Dutchman. Edwin Arlington Robinson
  Ships That Pass in the Night. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  From My Lost Youth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Emigravit. Helen Hunt Jackson
  Possibilities. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Song. Elizabeth Bishop
  Death of an Old Seaman. Langston Hughes
  "Ulysses. Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
  Travel. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  I like to see it lap the Miles. Emily Dickinson
  Riding on a Railroad Train. Ogden Nash
  Taking the Night-Train. John James Piatt
  Night Journey. Theodore Roethke
  Window. Carl Sandburg
  Pennsylvania Station. Langston Hughes
  The Engine. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  Midnight on the Great Western. Thomas Hardy
  To a Locomotive in Winter. Walt Whitman
  A Dream of Trains. Mark Van Doren
  "High Flight. John Gillespie Magee, Jr. "
  "First Flight. Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington"
  To a Waterfowl. William Cullen Bryant
  The Journey is Everything. Helen Bevington
  Sympathy. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  To the Man-of-War Bird. Walt Whitman
  "Get Up, Blues. James A. Emanuel"
"HOME, REST AND FINAL VOYAGES"
  From Little Gidding. T. S. Eliot
  Into My Heart and Air That Kills. A. E. Housman
  Love of Country (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel). Sir Walter Scott
  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. Robert Browning"
  The Tropics in New York. Claude McKay
  America for Me. Henry Van Dyke
  The New Colossus. Emma Lazarus
  Home. Anne Brontë
  The Long Voyage. Malcolm Cowley
  "Home, Sweet Home! John Howard Payne"
  Anchored. Paul Laurence Dunbar
  Terminus. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  The Tramps. Robert Service
  Heart o' the North. Robert Service
  Requiem. Robert Louis Stevenson
  Tavern. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Up-Hill. Christina Rossetti
  The Listeners. Walter de la Mare
  Dream-Land. Edgar Allan Poe
  The Chariot. Emily Dickinson
  Heaven-Haven. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Dream Land. Christina Rossetti
  Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  "Crossing the Bar. Alfred, Lord Tennyson"