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    Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure
    Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure
    Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure
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    Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure

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    Great Short Poems This outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias."   Songs for the Open Road Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "The Railway Train."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 10, 2014
    ISBN9780486801230
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      Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road - Dover Publications

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      GREAT SHORT POEMS

      Sir Walter Ralegh

      Even Such Is Time

      William Shakespeare

      Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

      When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes

      Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

      John Donne

      Death, Be Not Proud

      Ben Jonson

      Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

      John Webster

      A Dirge

      Robert Herrick

      To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

      Upon Julia’s Clothes

      Francis Quarles

      On the World

      Thomas Carew

      The Unfading Beauty

      John Milton

      On His Blindness

      Sir John Suckling

      Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?

      Anne Bradstreet

      To My Dear and Loving Husband

      Richard Lovelace

      To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

      Sir George Etherege

      To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her

      Matthew Prior

      A Reasonable Affliction

      Alexander Pope

      Ode on Solitude

      John Gay

      Song

      Oliver Goldsmith

      When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

      George Crabbe

      A Marriage Ring

      William Blake

      The Tiger

      Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau

      The Sick Rose

      Robert Burns

      A Red, Red Rose

      William Wordsworth

      I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

      My Heart Leaps Up

      She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

      Walter Savage Landor

      Rose Aylmer

      Twenty Years Hence

      Thomas Moore

      Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms

      Leigh Hunt

      Abou Ben Adhem

      Jenny Kiss’d Me

      Thomas Love Peacock

      Beneath the Cypress Shade

      George Gordon, Lord Byron

      So Well Go No More a-Roving

      She Walks in Beauty

      Percy Bysshe Shelley

      Ozymandias

      John Keats

      When I Have Fears

      Hartley Coleridge

      Song

      Early Death

      Thomas Hood

      The Death-Bed

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Days

      Character

      Elizabeth Barrett Browning

      How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      The Arrow and the Song

      There Was a Little Girl

      Edgar Allan Poe

      To One in Paradise

      Alfred, Lord Tennyson

      The Splendor Falls

      Crossing the Bar

      The Eagle

      Flower in the Crannied Wall

      Edward FitzGerald

      The Three Arrows

      Robert Browning

      Meeting at Night

      Parting at Morning

      Pippa’s Song

      Henry David Thoreau

      I Was Born Upon Thy Bank, River

      My Life Has Been the Poem

      Emily Brontë

      The Old Stoic

      Arthur Hugh Clough

      Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

      Walt Whitman

      A Noiseless Patient Spider

      I Hear America Singing

      Coventry Patmore

      The Kiss

      Magna Est Veritas

      George Meredith

      Lucifer in Starlight

      Emily Dickinson

      I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

      The Soul Selects Her Own Society

      My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

      I Never Saw a Moor

      Christina Rossetti

      Remember

      Up-Hill

      Lewis Carroll

      How Doth the Little Crocodile

      Thomas Bailey Aldrich

      Memory

      Thomas Hardy

      Hap

      In Time of The Breaking of Nations

      I Look into My Glass

      Gerard Manley Hopkins

      Pied Beauty

      God’s Grandeur

      No Worst, There Is None

      John Banister Tabb

      Evolution

      The Shadow

      The Mid-Day Moon

      Emma Lazarus

      The New Colossus

      William Ernest Henley

      Invictus

      Robert Louis Stevenson

      Requiem

      Francis William Bourdillon

      The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

      Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Solitude

      The Winds of Fate

      Oscar Wilde

      E Tenebris

      Symphony in Yellow

      John Davidson

      Song

      A. E. Housman

      When I Was One-and-Twenty

      Into My Heart an Air That Kills

      With Rue My Heart Is Laden

      Loveliest of Trees

      William Butler Yeats

      Leda and the Swan

      The Lake Isle of Innisfree

      Down by the Salley Gardens

      When You Are Old

      Gelett Burgess

      The Purple Cow

      Cinque Ans Après

      Ernest Dowson

      Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae

      Envoy

      E. A. Robinson

      Richard Cory

      Eros Turannos

      Stephen Crane

      I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon

      In the Desert

      A Learned Man Came to Me Once

      Paul Laurence Dunbar

      Life

      We Wear the Mask

      Silence

      Amy Lowell

      Solitaire

      Robert Frost

      Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

      Fire and Ice

      The Road Not Taken

      Acquainted with the Night

      Hughes Mearns

      Antigonish

      Adelaide Crapsey

      November Night

      The Warning

      John Masefield

      Sea Fever

      Carl Sandburg

      Fog

      Grass

      Wallace Stevens

      The Emperor of Ice-Cream

      Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

      William Carlos Williams

      The Red

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