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Contents: PART 1/POETRY On a Horse Who Bit a Clergyman/ Anonymous (Eighteenth Century) -- Very Like a Whale/ Ogden Nash -- Psalm 23/ The Bible, King James Version -- A Psalm of David/ From the Bay-Psalm Book -- Sir Patrick Spence/ Anonymous (Scottish popular ballad) -- Get Up and Bar the Door/ Anonymous (Scottish popular ballad) -- Western Wind/ Anonymous (English, Sixteenth Century) -- The Dangling Conversation -- Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall/ Paul Simon -- Like as a ship, that through the ocean wide (Sonnet 34)/ Edmund Spenser -- Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show (Sonnet 1)/ Sir Philip Sidney -- Like untuned golden strings all women are (from Hero and Leander)/ Christopher Marlowe -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (sonnet 18) -- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (sonnet 30) -- That time of year thou mayst in me behold (sonnet 73) -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds (sonnet 116) -- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame (sonnet 129) -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (sonnet 130) -- All the world's a stage (from As You Like It) -- Sweet are the uses of adversity (from As You Like It)/ William Shakespeare -- The man to solitude accustom'd long (from The Needless Alarm)/ William Cowper -- Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair (sonnet 6 from Delia) -- Love Is a Sickness (from Hymen's Triumph)/ Samuel Daniel -- To the Senses/ Michael Drayton -- There is a garden in her face (from The Third and Fourth Book of Airs)/ Thomas Campion -- Burn On, Sweet Fire/ Barnaby Barnes -- Song: "To Celia" -- Doing a Filthy Pleasure Is -- The Hourglass -- Though I am young and cannot tell (Song from The Sad Shepherd)/ Ben Jonson -- Take, oh take those lips away (Song from The Bloody Brother/ John Fletcher -- Corinna's Going A-Maying -- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time -- Delight in Disorder -- Upon Julia's Voice -- Upon Julia's Clothes/ Robert Herrick -- Herrick's Julia Improved/ Anonymous -- Song: Go, Lovely rose/ Edmund Waller -- Why so pale and wan, fond lover? (Song from Aglaura)/ Sir John Suckling -- To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars/ Richard Lovelace -- To His Coy Mistress/ Andrew Marvell -- Song: Go and catch a falling star -- The Flea -- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning -- The Ecstasy -- Batter my heart, three-personed God (Holy Sonnet 14) -- Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) -- Antiquary -- A Lame Beggar/ John Donne -- Of Treason/ Sir John Harrington -- Easter Wings -- The Pulley -- Redemption -- The Windows -- Virtue/ George Herbert -- Thus Passeth/ Anonymous (Twentieth Century) -- When I consider how my light is spent (On His Blindness) -- Lycidas/ John Milton -- The Retreat/ Henry Vaughan -- A Song for St. Cecilia's Day -- Why should a foolish marriage vow (Song from Marriage à al Mode)/ John Dryden -- A Description of the Morning -- Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D./ Jonathan Swift -- The sound must seem an echo to the sense (from An Essay on Criticism) -- You Beat Your Pate -- Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton -- The proper study of mankind is man (from An Essay on Man)/ Alexander Pope -- A Red, Red Rose -- Green Grow the Rashes, O -- To a Mouse/ Robert Burns -- The Lamb (from Songs of Innocence) -- The Tyger (from Songs of Experience) -- The Clod and the Pebble -- A Divine Image -- London -- The Garden of Love -- Eternity -- Abstinence Sows Sand All Over -- The Angel that presided o'er my birth -- The Sick Rose -- A Poison Tree -- To see a world in a gran of sand -- Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau/ William Blake |