The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

IntroductionEdward Taylor (1645-1729)The PrefaceOur Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably for His MercyHousewiferyAm I Thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for Thy WealthThy Human Frame, My Glorious Lord, I SpyI Kenning through Astronomy DivineThe Accusation of the Inward ManUpon a Spider Catching a FlyThe Outward Man AccusedThe Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly AttendedAn Address to the Soul Occasioned by a RainStupendous Love! All Saints' Astonishment!Oh! What a Thing Is Man? Lord, Who Am I?Still I Complain; I Am Complaining StillShould I with Silver Tools Delve through the HillThe ReflectionRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Concord HymnBrahmaThe RhodoraThe HumblebeeEach and AllThe ProblemWoodnotesThe SnowstormFableDaysSaadiHamatreyaExperienceCompensationForbearanceThe PastOdeGive All to LoveTerminusGood-byeHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)Hymn to the NightThe Day Is DoneCurfewThe Jewish Cemetery at NewportMy Lost YouthThe Birds of KillingworthDivina CommediaThe Fire of DriftwoodChaucerThe Tide Rises, The Tide FallsThe Cross of SnowThe Bells of San BlasThe Arrow and the SongPossibilitiesThe Ropewalkfrom Evangelinefrom The Song of HiawathaEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)DreamsA Dream within a Dream"The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour"Sonnet – To ScienceRomanceTo HelenIsrafelThe City in the SeaThe SleeperTo One in ParadiseThe Haunted PalaceSonnet – SilenceThe Conqueror WormDreamlandThe RavenThe BellsUlalume – A BalladEldoradoFor AnnieAnnabel LeeThe Lake: To –AloneWalt Whitman (1819-1892)Song of Myself (Complete)Native MomentsEarth, My LikenessOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingI Sit and Look OutVigil Strange I Kept on the Field One NightReconciliationWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard BloomedO Captain! My Captain!To Think of TimeJoy, Shipmate, Joy!Good-bye My Fancy!Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)Success Is Counted SweetestOne Dignity Delays for AllNew Feet within My Garden GoSurgeons Must Be Very CarefulFaith Is a Fine InventionHope Is the Thing with FeathersI Should Not Dare to Leave My FriendI Taste a Liquor Never BrewedThere's a Certain Slant of LightI Felt a Funeral in My BrainI'm Nobody. Who Are You?The Soul Selects Her Own SocietyI Should Have Been Too Glad, I SeeBefore I Got My Eye Put OutA Bird Came Down the WalkI Dreaded That First Robin SoNo Rack Can Torture MeThere's Been a Death in the Opposite HouseWhat Soft Cherubic CreaturesMuch Madness Is Divinest SenseThe Wind Tapped Like a Tired ManThis Is My Letter to the WorldI Died for BeautyI Heard a Fly Buzz When I DiedIt Was Not Death, for I Stood UpI Started Early, Took My DogThe Heart Asks Pleasure FirstI Had Been Hungry All the YearsI Laughed a Crumbling LaughBecause I Could Not Stop for DeathA Narrow Fellow in the GrassThe Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are MeanI Never Saw a MoorThe Last Night That She LivedWhile We Were Fearing It, It CameThere Came a Wind Like a BugleOf God We Ask One FavorMy Life Closed Twice Before Its CloseThe Distance That the Dead Have GoneThe Saddest Noise, the Sweetest NoiseEdwin Arlington Robison (1869-1935)FlammondeLuke HavergalCharles Carville's EyesReuben BrightRichard CoryJohn EvereldownAaron StarkFleming HelphenstineCliff KlingenhagenGeorge CrabbeCredoBewick FinzerMany Are CalledNew EnglandThe Miller's WifeAs It Looked ThenAnother Dark Lady"If the Lord Would Make Windows in Heaven"RecalledHaunted HouseA Mighty RunnerThe Story of the Ashes and the FlameHillcrestEros TurannosMr. Flood's PartyCassandraStephen Crane (1871-1900)In the DesertA God in WrathI Saw a Man PursuingBehold, the GraveMany WorkmenA Learned Man Came to Me OnceThere Was Set beore Me a Mighty HillA Youth in Apparel That GlitteredThere Was One I MetA Man Saw a Ball of GoldOn the HorizonI Walked in a DesertTradition, Thou Art for Suckling ChildrenMany Red DevilsYou Say You Are Holy"It Was Wrong to Do This"A Man FearedThe Sage LecturedGod Lay DeadWar Is KindA Little Ink More or LessFast Rode the KnightA NewspaperThe WayfarerA Slant of SunThe Impact of a DollarAy, WorkmanThere Was a Man with Tongue of WoodI Stood upon a High PlaceRobert Frost (b. 1874)Mending WallAfter Apple PickingThe Oven BirdBirchesThe Subverted FlowerThe Gift OutrightTo EarthwardTree at My WindowTwo Tramps in Mud TimeThe Witch of CoösOnce by the PacificAcquainted with the NightOn Looking Up by Chance at the ConstellationsStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Road Not TakenNeither Out Far nor in DeepThe Vantage PointThe Tuft of FlowersDirectiveVachel Lindsay (1879-1931)The Leaden-EyedThe Unpardonable SinSimon Legree – A Negro SermonThe Eagle That Is ForgottenThe Bronco That Would Not Be BrokenThe Ghosts of the BuffaloesFactory Windows Are Always BrokenThe Pontoon-Bridge MiracleBryan, Bryan, Bryan, BryanGeneral William Booth Enters into HeavenThe CongoAbraham Lincoln Walks at MidnightWallace Stevens (1879-1955)Peter Quince at the ClavierSunday MorningLe Monocle de Mon OncleFlyer's FallMen Made Out of WordsThe Glass of WaterAnecdote of the JarThe Emperor of Ice CreamDry LoafTo the One of Fictive MusicBantams in Pine WoodsThe Idea of Order at Key WestA Postcard from the VolcanoCuisine BourgeoisiePoetry Is a Destructive ForceThe Poems of Our ClimateMartial CadenzaThe DwarfNo Possum, No Sop, No TatersEsthétique du MalThe Good Man Has No ShapeCredences of SummerTwo Things of Opposite Natures Seem to DependTo an Old Philosopher in RomeNot Ideas about the Thing But the Thing ItselfCrude FoyerWilliam Carlos Williams (b. 1883)The YachtsTo a Poor Old WomanThe Sea ElephantLearTheseBurning the Christmas GreensThe DanceOn Gay WallpaperThe Pure Products of AmericaBy the Road to the Contagious HospitalQueen-Ann's-LaceTractSix Poems from PatersonEzra Pound (b. 1885)Na AudiartBallad of the Goodly FerePortrait d'une FemmeA VirginalThe ReturnTenzoneSalutationA PactThe RestThe TemperamentsIn a Station of the MetroThe River-Merchant's Wife: A LetterHugh Selwyn Mauberleyfrom Homage to Sextus PropertiusCanto ICanto IICanto IIICanto XVIICanto XLVCanto LXXXIMarianne Moore (b. 1887)No Swan So FineThe FishIn This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good andCritics and ConnoisseursThe MonkeysIn the Days of Prismatic ColourEnglandA GraveThe Labours of HerculesTo a Steam RollerTo a SnailTo the Peacock of FranceThe Past Is the PresentWhat Are Years?Spenser's IrelandNeverthelessThe Mind Is an Enchanting ThingIn Distrust of MeritsJohn Crowe Ransom (b. 1888)Winter RememberedNecrologicalBells for John Whiteside's DaughterDead BoyGood ShipsEmily Hardcastle, SpinsterHere Lies a LadyConrad in TwilightArmageddonJudith of BethuliaBlue GirlsOld Man Playing with ChildrenCaptain CarpenterOld MansionPiazza PieceVision by SweetwaterHer EyesParting, without a SequelJanet WakingTwo in AugustOur Two WorthiesMan without Sense of DirectionSurvey of LiteratureThe EquilibristsPainted HeadAddress to the Scholars of New EnglandEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)RenascenceDirge without MusicSpringThe Ballad of the Harp-WeaverMoriturusRecuerdoThe CameoLamentElegy Before DeathThe ReturnConscientious ObjectorOh, Think Not I Am Faithless to a Vow!I Shall Forget You Presently, My DearNot with Libations, But with Shouts and LaughterAnd You As Well Must Die, Beloved DustPity Me Not Because the Light of DayI Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak ShoreWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and WhyEuclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty BareTo Jesus on His BirthdayOn Hearing a Symphony of BeethovenLove Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor DrinkArchibald MacLeish (b.1892)The Silent SlainElevenArs PoeticaYou, Andrew MarvellThe End of the WorldMemorial Rain"Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments"Pony RockPole Star for This YearPoem in ProseWhat Any Lover LearnsThe Steamboat WhistleStarved LoversWhat the Serpent Said to AdamVicissitudes of the CreatorMy Naked AuntThe GeniusReasons for Musice. e. cummings (b. 1894)Spring is like a perhaps handdarling!because my blood can singwhen serpents bargain for the right to squirmi thank You God for most this amazingall ignorance toboggans into knowmaggie and milly and molly and mayso shy shy shy(and with ain time of daffodils(who knowif there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)haveMouse)Wonthat melancholyThanksgivingwhatever's merely wilfulstand with your lover on the ending earthi am a little church(no great cathedral)i carry your heart with me(i carry it inif up's the word;and a world grows greenerwhat if a much of a which of a windno man,if men are gods;but if gods musti sing of Olaf glad and biga man who had fallen among thieves"next to of course god america ianyone lived in a pretty how townpity this busy monster,manunkindmy father moved through dooms of loveHart Crane (1899-1932)The Bridge (Complete)Black TambourineEmblems of ConductPraise for an UrnGarden AbstractStark MajorVoyages, I to VIThe Broken TowerRepose of RiversW. H. Auden (b.1907)Musée des Beaux ArtsThe Unknown CitizenPetitionThe ComposerIn Memory of W. B. YeatsHerman MelvilleSomething Is Bound to HappenThe DiasporaThe NovelistThe ClimbersAnother TimeWho's WhoMacaoO What Is That SoundO Where Are You GoingMundus et InfansThe ChimerasWordsEpitaph on a TyrantNarratorNotes on the PoetsIndex