Covering world poetry, ancient and medieval times, the 19th and 20th century, and both serious and humorous works, this volume contains more than 400 short poems. It features verses of 12 lines of less by Boethius, Su T'ung-Po, Plato, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Heine, Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats, Cummings, and scores of others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
This volume contains more than 300 short poems, from ancient and medieval times as well as the 19th and 20th centuries, in moods ranging from serious to lighthearted.
Compilation of more than 400 poems of 12 lines or less, dating from ancient and medieval times to the 19th and 20th centuries and in moods from serious to lighthearted. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
ANTIQUITY
Anacreon (570 b.c.-488 b.c.)
Natures Laws
This Is My Lifestyle
Anonymous
Ancient Roman Lullaby
Old Roman Prayer Against the Gout
Ausonius (c. 310 a.d.-395 a.d.)
The Spartan Mother
Bible (Old Testament)
Psalm 15
Callicter
The Patients Epitaph
Catullus (c. 84 b.c.-c. 54 b.c.)
Vivámus (Let us live!)
My Lesbia and I
But does she speak true?
I Cannot Stop from Loving You
Odi et Amo (I Love and Hate)
Claudianus (370 a.d.-410 a.d.)
Double Trouble
Dionysius Cato (fl. 4th century, a.d.)
Work
Time Tells
Mens Ways
Ennius (239 b.c.-169 b.c.)
His Epitaph
Hadrian (76 a.d.-138 a.d.)
The Emperor Hadrian Addresses His Soul
Heraclitus (early 5th century, b.c.)
“You may travel far and wide”
Homer (c. 9th century, b.c.)
Alike Unto Leaves
Achilles and Death
Horace (65 b.c.-8 b.c.)
Desiderata
Carpe Diem!
Glycera Calls to Venus
To Chloe
Lucilius (160 b.c.-103/2 b.c.)
“Asclépiádes, the miser”
Maecenas (70 b.c.-8 b.c.)
O, Stop Your Whining!
Martial (c. 38-41 a.d.-c. 102-104 a.d.)
Change of Business
Wigs and Women
Promises, Promises
Youre Not on My Wave-Length
Wines and Widowers
Nicarchus (fl. 1st century, a.d.)
The Great Doctor
Pentadius (late 2nd century, a.d.)
Entrust Your Ship to the Winds
Caius Petronius (27 a.d.-66 a.d.)
De Gustibus
Plato (428/427 b.c.-348/347 b.c.)
We Are All Awaited
Plautus (254 b.c.-184 b.c.)
Epitaph
Publilius Syrus (1st century, b.c.)
Business and Luck
Some Thoughts on Delay
Sappho (c. 612 b.c.)
Dawn
Question
The Death of Timas
The Sky
Flower Power
Seneca (3 b.c.-65 a.d.)
Voracious Time
Simonides (556 b.c.-468 b.c.)
Timócreons Epitaph
Theódorus Rejoices
Theognis (6th century, b.c.e.)
Rejoice, My Heart
Over the Winebowl
tibullus (55 b.c.-19 b.c.)
Rumor
Zenodotus (fl. 280 b.c.)
On a Statue of Cupid (Love)
MEDIEVAL
Anonymous Lyrics
On Marriage
Small Things
The Rose
Homer
Youth and Age
I Shall Not Care
Shipwrecked
Medieval Song
Anonymous (Irish, ca. 7th century)
The Scribe: “A Hedge of Trees”
Anonymous (English, 13th century)
Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”)
Archias (120 b.c.-61 b.c.)
Take Aim!
Boëthius (480 a.d.-524 a.d.)
On Pleasure
On Wealth
Capito (fl. 600 b.c.)
Beauty and Charm
Demodocus
Theres Always the Unexpected!
Dion of Tarsus
Dion Writes His Epitaph
Dionysius the Sophist
Rose Girl
Eratósthenes (276 b.c.-195 b.c.)
Daphnis to Pan
Hitomaro (662 a.d.-710 a.d.)
Prayer for the Men After Me
Lady Horikawa (13th century)
True Love
Julianus, Prefect of Egypt (6th century)
Love Among the Roses
Advice to the Thieves
Li Po (701 a.d.-762 a.d.)
The Girl of Yueh
A Meeting
In the Mountains on a Summer Day
Macedonius the Consul (500 a.d.-560 a.d.)
To Eros
Memory and Oblivion
Meleager (1st century, b.c.)
Heliodóras Garland
To Timarion
Palladas (4th century, a.d.)
The Double-Minded
Life Is a Stage
Petrarch (1304-1374)
Sonnet 1
Sonnet 104
Sadi (1184-1283/1291)
Hyacinths
Strabo (64/63 b.c.-24 a.d.)
Kiss Me, Sweet!
Share and Share Alike
Su tung-Po (1037-1101)
On the Birth of His Son
François Villon (1431-1463)
Death Seizes All
Rondeau
Ballade
Yakamochi (718? a.d.-785 a.d.)
By Way of Pretext
EARLY MODERN
Anonymous
The Calvinist
Anonymous (French, 18th century)
An Observation
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Fly
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
John Anderson My Jo
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
“When to her lute Corinna sings”
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
The Epicure
richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649) 38
The Worlds Light Shines 38
Philippe Desportes (1546-1606)
Icarus
John Donne (1572-1631)
Death, Be Not Proud
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
A Light Purse
Great Spenders
He that goes a-borrowing
John Gay (1685-1732)
His Epitaph
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Nightsong
Barnabe Googe (1540-1594)
A Posy
John Harington (1561-1612)
Comparison of the Sonnet and the Epigram
George Herbert (1593-1633)
The Quiddity
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
The Present Time Best Pleaseth
Upon Julias Voice
How Lilies Came White
A Sweet Disorder
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
The Noble Nature
Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
On My First Daughter
Why I Write Not of Love
John Lyly (1553-1606)
Cupid and Campáspe
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Helen
John Milton (1608-1674)
Song On May Morning
William Oldys (1696-1791)
On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
Song
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Epitaph
Mathurin Régnier (1573-1613)
His Epitaph
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
To His Soul
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Proud Maisie
My Native Land
Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
Song
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet CLIV
Sonnet LV
Ariels Warning From The Tempest
Full Fathom Five From The Tempest
James Shirley (1596-1666)
On Her Dancing
Good-night
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
My True-Love Hath My Heart
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599)
One Day I Wrote Her Name
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Song
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
On Stellas Birthday
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Epigrams
Jeremiah
Jean Fréron
An Epitaph
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Song
On a Girdle
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Mortons Wife
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
“I would be the Lyric”
Realism
“Pillared arch and sculptured tower”
William Allingham (1824-1889)
Four Ducks on a Pond
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Requiescat
Félix Arvers (1806-1850)
A Secret
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
The Voyage
George Henry Boker (1823-1890)
Sonnet
Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
“The night is darkening round me”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnet VI
Sonnet XIV
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Speculative
Home Thoughts, From Abroad
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
On the Bust of Helen by Canova
The Origin of Love
Epigram
“So, well no more go a roving”
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
“Speak roughly to your little boy”
John Clare (1793-1864)
Stonepit
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
“A Man Said to the Universe”
“Think As I Think”
“The Wayfarer”
“In Heaven”
“Legends” (III)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
“Partake as doth the Bee”
“A word is dead”
“I have no life but this”
“There is no frigate like a book”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come”
“The Golden Fleece”
Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
A Kiss
The Wanderer
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848-1867)
Requests
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
“Let me go wherever I will”
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Waiting Both
Her Initials
Weathers
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
“Your eyes of azure violets”
“Ah, yes, my songs are poisoned”
“Beauteous, bright, and golden star”
“The runestone rises in the sea”
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
The Bridge of Sighs
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Spring and Fall to a Young Child
A Nun Takes the Veil
Pied Beauty
William James (1842-1910)
“Hoggamus, higgamus”
John Keats (1795-1821)
Song
On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)
The book of Life is the final tome
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Ianthe
Ireland Never Was Contented
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
The Stirrup-Cup
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”
Serenade from “The Spanish Student”
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Monna Lisa
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Art
George Meredith (1828-1909)
“They have no song, the sedges dry”
Dirge in Woods
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Chimes
Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
The Foreign Land
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
To Helen
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
I Loved You (“_ ___ _____”)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1909)
A Birthday
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Silent Noon
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Rome and Nature
To ______
A Lament
A Dirge
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
My Wife
Happy Thought
Envoy
Theodor Storm (1817-1888)
“Only for Today”
Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
During Music
John Banister Tabb (1845-1909)
Holy Ground
Influences
Fern Song
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
“Sweet and Low”
The Beggar Maid
“Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead”
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863)
The Sorrows of Werther
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Thaw
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
Envoy
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Mist
Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
Frederick G. Tuckerman (1821-1873)
And Two I Knew
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
“It weeps in my heart”
The Song of Gaspar Hauser
Autumn Song
Jones Very (1813-1880)
The Light from Within
William Watson (1858-1935)
Song
Epigram
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
“When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer”
“I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions”
The Last Invocation
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
The World Is Too Much with Us
London, 1802
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
To a Skylark
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
Evening
Image
Anonymous (Japanese)
“If only when one heard”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
The Sirens
Crayfish
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
The Mask of Evil
Witter Bynner (1881-1968)
“If I were only dafter”
Joseph Campbell (1879-1944)
The Old Woman
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
Susanna and the Elders
Niagara
These Be Three Silent Things
Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
After Lorca
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
An Epitaph
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)
Song
John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
Birthright
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
To Keats
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Morning at the Window
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Confessions of the Tenant in Apt. #2
John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)
The Skaters
F. S. Flint (1885-1960)
Houses
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Dust of Snow
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Lesson For Today
Fire and Ice
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
“When I Would Muse in Boyhood”
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Personal
T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)
Autumn
Max Jacob (1876-1944)
Villanelle
James Joyce (1882-1941)
I Hear an Army
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Sirens
Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966)
Clay
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Aware
Nonentity
Change
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
Factory Windows Are Always Broken
Euclid
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
The Taxi
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Outwitted
John Masefield (1878-1967)
Cargoes
Viola Meynell (1885-1956)
Dusting
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Second Fig
Eel-Grass
Humoresque
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
I May, I Might, I Must
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
Prudence
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Sweet Violets
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Touch (“Palpar”)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Alba
Chanson Arabe
Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)
The Great Man
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
The Panther
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Heard in a Violent Ward
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Playthings of the Wind
Fire-Logs
Look at Six Eggs
Fog
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Everyone Sang
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
I Am Rose
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Disillusionment of Ten OClock
The Wind Shifts
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
The Look
Longing
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Hand That Signed the Paper
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Willow Poem
To Waken an Old Lady
The Great Figure
Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940)
Thrushes
The Lilac
Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
Beauty
William Butler Yeats (1864-1939)
A Drinking Song
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
A Deep-sworn Vow
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933)
Knock at the Door