The Oxford Book of American Verse: Chosen and with an Introd. by F. O. MatthiessenFrancis Otto Matthiessen Oxford University Press, 1950 - 1132 oldal Fifty-one poets are represented in this anthology which covers the whole range of American poetry from colonial times to the present. The greater part is devoted to the best work of the past fifty years. |
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ANNE BRADSTREET c 161272 | 3 |
The Author to her Book | 5 |
The Flesh and the Spirit | 6 |
To my Dear and Loving Husband | 9 |
A Letter to her Husband absent upon Publick Employment | 10 |
Upon the Burning of our House | 11 |
EDWARD TAYLOR c 16451729 | 13 |
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended | 15 |
Threes | 594 |
The man in the street is fed | 596 |
The people will live on | 600 |
VACHEL LINDSAY 18791931 | 603 |
The Eagle That Is Forgotten | 605 |
The Congo | 607 |
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight | 613 |
Bryan Bryan Bryan Bryan | 615 |
An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain | 16 |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | 17 |
Huswifery | 19 |
The Reflexion | 20 |
Sacramental Meditations | 22 |
PHILIP FRENEAU 17521832 | 32 |
Stanzas Occasioned by the Ruins of a Country Inn | 34 |
The Wild Honey Suckle | 36 |
The Indian Student | 37 |
The Indian Burying Ground | 40 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 41 |
Advice to a Raven in Russia | 47 |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 17941878 | 49 |
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood | 52 |
To a Waterfowl | 54 |
Green River | 55 |
A Winter Piece | 57 |
The Prairies | 61 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 180382 | 65 |
The Rhodora | 66 |
The HumbleBee | 67 |
Concord Hymn | 69 |
Each and All | 70 |
The Problem | 72 |
Uriel | 74 |
Woodnotes | 76 |
The SnowStorm | 81 |
The Sphinx | 82 |
Saadi | 87 |
HERMAN MELVILLE 181991 | 91 |
Hamatreya | 92 |
Forerunners | 95 |
Bacchus | 96 |
Merlin | 98 |
Merops | 101 |
Ode Inscribed to W H Channing | 102 |
Give All to Love | 105 |
Days | 107 |
Seashore | 108 |
Two Rivers | 110 |
Quatrains III | 111 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 180782 | 113 |
The Day Is Done | 114 |
Seaweed | 116 |
Curfew | 117 |
The Fire of DriftWood | 119 |
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport | 121 |
My Lost Youth | 123 |
The Birds of Killingworth | 126 |
Divina Commedia | 134 |
The Monk of CasalMaggiore | 137 |
Chaucer | 147 |
The Tide Rises The Tide Falls | 148 |
The Cross of Snow | 149 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 180792 | 152 |
Dedication | 153 |
Ichabod | 155 |
Song of Slaves in the Desert | 156 |
Skipper Iresons Ride | 158 |
SnowBound | 161 |
Prelude | 186 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 180994 | 191 |
The Deacons Masterpiece | 194 |
Dreams | 198 |
A Dream within a Dream | 199 |
The Happiest Day The Happiest Hour | 200 |
Sonnet To Science | 201 |
Romance | 204 |
To Helen | 205 |
Israfel | 206 |
The City in the Sea | 208 |
The Sleeper | 210 |
To One in Paradise | 212 |
The Haunted Palace | 213 |
DreamLand | 215 |
The Raven | 217 |
UlalumeA Ballad | 223 |
Eldorado | 226 |
For Annie | 227 |
To My Mother | 231 |
JONES VERY 181380 | 233 |
The Garden | 234 |
The Latter Rain | 235 |
The Cottage | 236 |
The Prayer | 237 |
Yourself | 238 |
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 181762 | 241 |
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 181991 | 250 |
WALT WHITMAN 181992 | 275 |
As Adam Early in the Morning | 358 |
In Paths Untrodden | 359 |
When I Heard at the Close of the Day | 360 |
Saw in Louisiana a LiveOak Growing | 361 |
A Glimpse | 362 |
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | 363 |
A HandMirror | 371 |
Sit and Look Out | 372 |
Cavalry Crossing a Ford | 373 |
By the Bivouacs Fitful Flame | 374 |
A March in the Ranks HardPrest and the Road Unknown | 376 |
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim | 378 |
O TanFaced PrairieBoy | 379 |
Reconciliation | 380 |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd | 381 |
Aboard at a Ships Helm | 391 |
On the Beach at Night | 392 |
A Noiseless Patient Spider | 394 |
Halcyon Days | 395 |
HENRY TIMROD 182867 | 406 |
EMILY DICKINSON 183086 | 413 |
It dropped so low in my regard | 423 |
The brain is wider than the sky | 424 |
An altered look about the hills | 425 |
A narrow fellow in the grass | 426 |
There came a wind like a bugle | 427 |
Besides the autumn poets sing | 428 |
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn | 429 |
Glass was the street | 430 |
A light exists in spring | 431 |
To make a prairie | 432 |
Elysium is as far as to | 433 |
I cannot live with you | 434 |
Wild nights Wild nights | 436 |
Safe in their alabaster chambers | 437 |
The bustle in a house | 438 |
Because I could not stop for Death | 439 |
Ample make this bed | 440 |
I heard a fly buzz when I died | 441 |
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies | 442 |
After a hundred years | 444 |
From the Flats | 445 |
The Marshes of Glynn | 446 |
A Ballad of Trees and the Master | 451 |
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY 18691910 | 452 |
An Ode in Time of Hesitation | 455 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 463 |
Oh for a poetfor a beacon bright | 465 |
Zola | 466 |
George Crabbe | 467 |
John Evereldown | 468 |
Richard Cory | 469 |
Charles Carvilles Eyes | 470 |
Isaac and Archibald | 471 |
Clavering | 484 |
Miniver Cheevy | 486 |
For a Dead Lady | 487 |
The Gift of God | 488 |
Cassandra | 490 |
Hillcrest | 492 |
Eros Turannos | 494 |
The Man Against the Sky | 496 |
Mr Floods Party | 506 |
Many Are Called | 508 |
New England | 509 |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS 18691950 | 510 |
Cassius Hueffer | 511 |
Knowlt Hoheimer | 512 |
Petit the Poet | 513 |
Elsa Wertman | 514 |
Hamilton Greene | 515 |
Elliott Hawkins | 516 |
English Thornton | 517 |
Jonathan Houghton | 518 |
Father Malloy | 519 |
Anne Rutledge | 520 |
Lucinda Matlock | 521 |
Herman Altman | 522 |
TRUMBULL STICKNEY 18741904 | 523 |
Mnemosyne | 525 |
At SainteMarguerite | 526 |
Mt Lykaion | 528 |
Six OClock | 529 |
AMY LOWELL 18741925 | 530 |
MeetingHouse Hill | 533 |
Lilacs | 534 |
ROBERT FROST b 1875 | 538 |
My November Guest | 539 |
To the Thawing Wind | 540 |
The Vantage Point | 541 |
The Tuft of Flowers | 542 |
The Demiurges Laugh | 544 |
Pan with Us | 545 |
Reluctance | 546 |
Mending Wall | 547 |
The Death of the Hired Man | 548 |
After ApplePicking | 555 |
The Road Not Taken | 556 |
An Old Mans Winter Night | 557 |
Meeting and Passing | 558 |
Birches | 559 |
Putting in the Seed | 561 |
Out Out | 562 |
The Sound of the Trees | 563 |
The AxeHelve | 564 |
Fire and Ice | 567 |
Dust of Snow | 568 |
The Onset | 569 |
To Earthward | 570 |
Not to Keep | 571 |
A Brook in the City | 572 |
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things | 573 |
Spring Pools | 574 |
Bereft | 575 |
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers | 576 |
The Investment | 578 |
The Whitetailed Hornet | 579 |
Desert Places | 581 |
The Subverted Flower | 582 |
The Gift Outright | 584 |
CARL SANDBURG b 1878 | 585 |
Fish Crier | 586 |
Happiness | 587 |
Limited | 588 |
Am the People the Mob | 589 |
Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight | 590 |
Grass | 591 |
Ossawatomie | 593 |
The AppleBarrel of Johnny Appleseed | 624 |
WALLACE STEVENS b 1879 | 625 |
Domination of Black | 626 |
The Ordinary Women | 627 |
The Emperor of Ice Cream | 628 |
Disillusionment of Ten OClock | 629 |
Bantams in PineWoods | 630 |
Peter Quince at the Clavier | 631 |
Sunday Morning | 634 |
The Comedian as the Letter C | 638 |
Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz | 657 |
Dance of the Macabre Mice | 658 |
The Idea of Order at Key West | 659 |
Poetry Is a Destructive Force | 661 |
Study of Two Pears | 662 |
The Glass of Water | 664 |
Dry Loaf | 665 |
Idiom of the Hero | 666 |
Martial Cadenza | 667 |
Of Modern Poetry | 669 |
Contrary Theses I | 670 |
Holiday in Reality | 671 |
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS b 1883 | 673 |
Pastoral | 674 |
Gulls | 675 |
Apology | 676 |
Drink | 677 |
The pure products of America | 679 |
The crowd at the ball game | 681 |
Nantucket | 683 |
Death | 684 |
The Yachts | 686 |
The Catholic Bells | 687 |
Fine Work with Pitch and Copper | 689 |
Classic Scene | 690 |
Episode 17 | 692 |
The Dance | 697 |
Wild Peaches | 698 |
Let No Charitable Hope | 700 |
Parting Gift | 701 |
Address to My Soul | 702 |
Sonnets from One Person | 703 |
EZRA POUND b 1885 | 705 |
The Seafarer | 706 |
Salutation | 710 |
A Pact | 712 |
Epilogue | 713 |
LArt 1910 | 714 |
The RiverMerchants Wife | 717 |
Exiles Letter | 718 |
From Homage to Sextus Propertius | 722 |
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley | 729 |
Envoi | 733 |
Canto II | 734 |
From Canto LXXXI | 739 |
Hilda Doolittle b 1886 | 740 |
Heat | 741 |
The Helmsman | 742 |
Fragment ThirtySix | 744 |
MARIANNE MOORE b 1887 | 747 |
The Fish | 748 |
The Monkeys | 749 |
When I Buy Pictures | 751 |
Poetry | 752 |
Critics and Connoisseurs | 753 |
Peter | 755 |
The Labors of Hercules | 757 |
Part of a Novel Part of a Poem Part of a Play | 758 |
No Swan So Fine | 763 |
Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain | 764 |
What Are Years? | 767 |
Spensers Ireland | 768 |
Nevertheless | 770 |
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing | 771 |
In Distrust of Merits | 773 |
ROBINSON JEFFERS b 1887 | 776 |
Boats in a Fog | 779 |
Phenomena | 780 |
Haunted Country | 781 |
Shine Perishing Republic | 782 |
Science | 783 |
Apology for Bad Dreams | 784 |
Summer Holiday | 788 |
Hurt Hawks | 789 |
November Surf | 791 |
Rock and Hawk | 792 |
Rearmament | 793 |
The PurseSeine | 794 |
Prescription of Painful Ends | 796 |
The Eye | 797 |
Eagle Valor Chicken Mind | 798 |
Gerontion | 800 |
The Waste Land | 803 |
AshWednesday | 818 |
The Dry Salvages | 826 |
JOHN CROWE RANSOM b 1888 | 835 |
Bells for John Whitesides Daughter | 836 |
Winter Remembered | 837 |
Conrad in Twilight | 839 |
Blackberry Winter | 840 |
Old Mansion | 841 |
Philomela | 843 |
Captain Carpenter | 844 |
Piazza Piece | 847 |
Persistent Explorer | 848 |
Dead Boy | 850 |
Two in August | 851 |
Antique Harvesters | 853 |
Man Without Sense of Direction | 854 |
The Equilibrists | 856 |
Prelude to an Evening | 859 |
Painted Head | 860 |
CONRAD AIKEN b 1889 | 862 |
This is the shape of the leaf | 865 |
Preludes | 866 |
The Nameless Ones | 872 |
South End | 873 |
Three Star Final | 874 |
Shaemus | 875 |
North End | 876 |
JOHN PEALE BISHOP 18921944 | 878 |
The Return | 879 |
The Hours | 881 |
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY b 1892 | 885 |
Passer Mortuus Est | 886 |
Memorial to D C | 887 |
Recuerdo | 889 |
it is not meat nor drink | 890 |
The Return | 891 |
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH b 1892 | 892 |
Ars Poetica | 893 |
You Andrew Marvell | 894 |
American Letter | 895 |
Empire Builders | 899 |
Polestar for this year | 903 |
Speech to those who say Comrade | 905 |
Brave New World | 907 |
PHELPS PUTNAM 18941948 | 909 |
Ballad of a Strange Thing | 910 |
E E CUMMINGS b 1894 | 919 |
All in green went my love riding | 920 |
the hours rise up | 921 |
O sweet spontaneous earth | 923 |
spring omnipotent goddess | 924 |
the Cambridge ladies | 925 |
Poem or Beauty Hurts Mr Vinal | 926 |
she being Brandnew | 928 |
a man who had fallen among thieves | 930 |
next to of course god | 931 |
come gaze with me upon this dome | 932 |
you shall above all things be glad and young | 933 |
the way to hump a cow | 934 |
as freedom is a breakfastfood | 935 |
buy me an ounce and ill sell you a pound | 936 |
my father moved through dooms of love | 937 |
its over a see just over this wall | 940 |
a salesman is an it | 941 |
plato told him | 942 |
pity this busy monster manunkind | 943 |
all ignorance toboggans into know | 944 |
darling because my blood can sing | 945 |
o by the by | 946 |
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET 18981943 | 947 |
American Names | 948 |
Litany for Dictatorships | 950 |
Nightmare at Noon | 954 |
HART CRANE 18991932 | 960 |
Black Tambourine | 961 |
Chaplinesque | 962 |
Repose of Rivers | 963 |
The Wine Menagerie | 964 |
Voyages | 966 |
To Brooklyn Bridge | 968 |
The Harbor Dawn | 970 |
The River | 972 |
The Dance | 980 |
National Winter Garden | 985 |
The Tunnel | 986 |
Imperator Victus | 991 |
The Hurricane | 992 |
The Broken Tower | 993 |
ALLEN TATE b 1899 | 995 |
Last Days of Alice | 998 |
The Oath | 1000 |
The Wolves | 1001 |
The Cross | 1002 |
Sonnets at Christmas | 1003 |
Aeneas at Washington | 1004 |
Winter Mask | 1005 |
Seasons of the Soul | 1008 |
HOWARD BAKER b 1905 | 1016 |
ROBERT PENN WARREN b 1905 | 1022 |
W H AUDEN b 1907 | 1041 |
Herman Melville | 1042 |
September 1 1939 | 1044 |
In Memory of Sigmund Freud | 1047 |
The Flight Into Egypt | 1051 |
DELMORE SCHWARTZ b 1913 | 1057 |
All of us always turning away for solace 1058 545 All clowns are masked | 1058 |
for Rhoda | 1060 |
Prothalamion | 1061 |
KARL SHAPIRO b 1913 | 1066 |
University | 1068 |
Midnight Show | 1069 |
Hollywood | 1071 |
Drug Store | 1072 |
Troop Train | 1073 |
Nigger | 1075 |
The Geographers | 1076 |
Elegy for a Dead Soldier | 1077 |
The Conscientious Objector | 1082 |
RANDALL JARRELL b 1914 | 1084 |
The Soldier Walks Under the Trees of the University | 1088 |
The Drunken Fisherman | 1097 |
Falling Asleep over the Aeneid | 1103 |
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