| Description |
viii, 112 pages : color plates. ; 21 cm |
| Series |
New excursions into English poetry |
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New excursions into English poetry.
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| Contents |
Elegie on the Lady Marckham / John Donne -- Daphnaida / Edmund Spenser -- Lament / Hugh Holland -- Death / W.B. Yeats -- The Unquiet Grave -- The Cherry Tree Carol -- And Death Shall Have No Dominion / Dylan Thomas -- The Gates of Paradise / William Blake -- The Law Against Lovers / Sir William Davenant -- From Oedipus / John Dryden -- From The Authorised Version, 1611 Death of the King of Babylon / Isaiah -- Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry / A.E. Housman -- Where Are All Thy Beauties Now / Thomas Campion -- Moonlight Night on the Port / Sidney Keyes -- Death by Water / T.S. Eliot -- From Lycidas / John Milton -- Song from the Hollow Land / William Morris -- From The Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- From Elegy on the Death of Mr. Oldham / John Dryden -- From Troilus and Criseyde / Geoffrey Chaucer -- From The Authorised Version 1611 Job Longeth for Death / The Book of Job -- Mortification / George Herbert -- From The Passion / John Milton -- Come Lovely and Soothing Death / Walt Whitman -- From The Phantom Wooer / Thomas Lovell Reddoes |
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Friends Beyond / Thomas Hardy -- Lament for the Makaris / William Dunbar -- From Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg / William Wordsworth -- From The Broken Heart / John Ford -- Of Human Life / Henry King -- From To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses / Robert Herrick -- From The White Devil / John Webster -- From The Philosopher / Emily Bronte -- From King Lear / William Shakespeare -- Rejoice in the Lamb / Christopher Smart -- From the Parish Register / George Crabbe -- From The Revengers Tragaedie / Cyril Tourneur -- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church / Robert Browning -- Ditty / Audrey Beecham -- Song / Thomas Love Peacock -- From Corinna's Going A-Maying / Robert Herrick -- From Elegy on the Death of an Unfortunate Lady / Alexander Pope -- My Sweetest Lesbia / Thomas Campion -- The Midnight Skaters / Edmund Blunden -- The Wood, the Weed, the Wag / Sir Walter Raleigh -- From Clerk Saunders and May Margaret -- Remembering / Emily Bronte -- Sonnet LXV / William Shakespeare -- From 'Tis Pity She's a Whore / John Ford -- As I Walked Out One Evening / W.H. Auden |
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From "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" / Robert Browning -- From Summer's Last Will and Testament / Thomas Nashe -- To His Dying Brother Master William Herrick / Robert Herrick -- On My First Son / Ben Johnson -- From Don Juan Canto II The Shipwreck / Lord Byron -- From Maud / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- From the Duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- From Divine Poems Sonnet / John Donne -- From Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare -- From Divine Poems Sonnet / John Donne -- Sonnet on Catherine Wordsworth / William Wordsworth -- A Funerall Song -- From Old and New Year Ditties / Christina Rossetti -- From King John / William Shakespeare -- From The ORder for the Burial of the Dead / Book of Common Prayer -- From The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- The Dead at Clonmacnois / Angus O'Gillan -- From Death's Jest-Book / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The Silver Swan / Orlando Gibbons -- Ayme, Ayme, I Sigh to See the Scythe Afield -- From the Song of the Mayers -- Death and Despair / W.J. Turner -- A Lyke-Wake Dirge -- From Of the Progresse of the Soule / John Donne -- Sonnet LXXXVII / Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke |
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From The Third Book of Lucretius Against the Fear of Death / John Dryden -- From Ilicet / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- From The Lovers Melancholy / John Ford -- From All Is Vanity / Anne, Countess of Winchelsea -- My Prime of Youth Is But a Frost of Cakes / Chidiock Tichborne -- From The Bloody Conquests of Mighty Tamburlaine / Christopher Marlowe -- Sonnet / John Keats -- The Airman / W.R. Rodgers -- From Oedipus at Colonus / W.B. Yeats -- Of the Last Verses in the Book / Edmund Waller -- From Night Thoughts / Edward Young -- From A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector / Andrew Marvell -- Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford / John Cleveland -- From The Revengers Tragaedie / Cyril Tourneur -- From the Lover's Melancholy / John Ford -- To a Mistress Dying / Sir William Davenant -- From Death / John Clarke -- Song / William Blake -- From The Sleeper / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Trees So High -- From In Memoriam / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- From The Winter's Tale / WIlliam Shakespeare -- From Measure for Measure / WIlliam Shakespeare -- From The Shepheardes Calender / Edmund Spenser |
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My Soul, There Is a Countrie / Henry Vaughan -- From the Third Book of Lucretius Against the Fear of Death / John Dryden -- From Death's Jest Book / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Shadwell Stair / Wilfred Owen -- Epitaph -- From Verses on the Death of Dean Swift Written by Himself / Jonathan Swift -- Pure Death / Robert Graves -- From Shut Out That Moon / Thomas Hardy -- From Silex Scintillans / Henry Vaughan -- From The Farewell / Robert Burns -- From Poems to Thyrza / Lord Byron -- From Elegy on the Death of an Unfortunate Lady / Alexander Pope -- From the Bloody Conquests of Mighty Tamburlaine / Christopher Marlowe -- From Cymbeline / William Shakespeare -- From the Order for the Burial of the Dead / Psalm |
| Notes |
"First published ... in mcmxlv." |
| Subject |
Death -- Poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Ayrton, Michael, 1921-1975.
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Pool, Phoebe.
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| LC no. |
46015428 |
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