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Summary
This compact volume features the greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written. The authors are each represented by one of his or her best-known and best-loved works. Each poem is introduced by a brief head note which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xi |
| From The Iliad | p. 1 |
| He Is More Than a Hero | p. 2 |
| Psalm 23 | p. 3 |
| From The Song of Songs [Chapter One] | p. 4 |
| Song 5 to Lesbia | p. 6 |
| From The Aeneid | p. 7 |
| From Metamorphoses | p. 8 |
| Drinking Alone in the Moonlight | p. 9 |
| Moonlit Night | p. 10 |
| Madly Singing in the Mountains | p. 11 |
| Rubaiyat 51 | p. 12 |
| From Inferno | p. 13 |
| Remembrance | p. 17 |
| From The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales | p. 18 |
| The Ballad of Ladies of the Past | p. 19 |
| Sonnet 18 | p. 20 |
| Go and Catch a Falling Star | p. 21 |
| Song to Celia II | p. 23 |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | p. 24 |
| Jordan | p. 25 |
| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | p. 26 |
| From The Prologue | p. 27 |
| To Althea, from Prison | p. 28 |
| To His Coy Mistress | p. 30 |
| An Old Pond | p. 32 |
| Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness | p. 33 |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | p. 34 |
| To Jeoffry His Cat | p. 39 |
| Amazing Grace | p. 41 |
| Tyger! Tyger! | p. 42 |
| To a Mouse | p. 44 |
| Ode to Joy | p. 46 |
| Don't Kill That Fly! | p. 48 |
| The World Is Too Much with Us | p. 49 |
| From The Lay of the Last Minstrel | p. 50 |
| Kubla Khan | p. 51 |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas | p. 53 |
| Abou Ben Adhem | p. 55 |
| She Walks in Beauty | p. 56 |
| Ozymandias | p. 57 |
| Thanatopsis | p. 58 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | p. 61 |
| Concord Hymn | p. 63 |
| How Do I Love Thee? | p. 64 |
| Paul Revere's Ride | p. 65 |
| Barbara Frietchie | p. 70 |
| El Desdichado [The Disinherited] | p. 73 |
| The Raven | p. 74 |
| Ulysses | p. 80 |
| Old Ironsides | p. 83 |
| The Owl and the Pussycat | p. 84 |
| Memorabilia | p. 86 |
| Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning | p. 87 |
| From Song of Myself | p. 88 |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | p. 90 |
| Invitation to the Voyage | p. 92 |
| Dover Beach | p. 94 |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | p. 96 |
| The Jabberwocky | p. 98 |
| Convergence of the Twain | p. 100 |
| Spring and Fall [Margaret, Are You Grieving?] | p. 102 |
| Tears Fall in My Heart | p. 103 |
| The New Colossus | p. 104 |
| Requiem | p. 105 |
| The Drunken Boat | p. 106 |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | p. 108 |
| When I Was One-and-Twenty | p. 112 |
| The Gardener | p. 113 |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | p. 114 |
| Casey at the Bat | p. 116 |
| Gunga Din | p. 119 |
| Lake Isle of Innisfree | p. 122 |
| Richard Cory | p. 123 |
| We Wear the Mask | p. 124 |
| The Cremation of Sam McGee | p. 125 |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveing | p. 129 |
| The Panther | p. 130 |
| Sea Fever | p. 131 |
| Fog | p. 132 |
| General William Booth Enters into Heaven | p. 133 |
| Peter Quince at the Clavier | p. 136 |
| The Highwayman | p. 139 |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | p. 144 |
| Ancient Music | p. 145 |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 146 |
| First Fig | p. 151 |
| Dulce Et Decorum Est | p. 152 |
| Buffalo Bill's | p. 154 |
| From Lament for lgnacio Sanchez Mejias [Absence of the Soul 4] | p. 155 |
| Harlem [Dream Deferred] | p. 157 |
| Incident | p. 158 |
| Poetry | p. 159 |
| Funeral Blues | p. 161 |
| Visits to St. Elizabeth's | p. 162 |
| This Land Is Your Land | p. 165 |
| Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | p. 167 |
| A Supermarket in California | p. 168 |
| Wanting to Die | p. 170 |
| Daddy | p. 172 |
| Still I Rise | p. 175 |
| Index to Titles and Authors | p. 177 |
| Index to First Lines | p. 183 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 187 |
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