Songs of OurselvesThis series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world. Songs of Ourselves is an accessible one-volume introduction to the astonishing range of forms, styles and content of verse written in the English language over more than four centuries, containing work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English-speaking world. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Բովանդակություն
Why So Pale and Wan Fond Lover? | 3 |
They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek | 9 |
The Authors Epitaph Made By Himself | 15 |
Fear No More The Heat O Th Sun WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 20 |
A Song THOMAS CAREW | 22 |
Walsingham SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 23 |
The Flowers That on The Banks and Walks Did Grow AEMILIA LANYER | 25 |
Come Live with me and be my Love CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE | 27 |
As Loving Hind That Hartless Wants Her Deer | 67 |
From On My Dreaming of my Wife | 74 |
To Lucasta Going to The Wars | 82 |
From A Satyr Against Mankind | 90 |
Careless Content | 96 |
Quickness | 102 |
Kubla Khan | 110 |
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | 130 |
Sonnet 54 | 28 |
What is Our Life? SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 29 |
Sonnet 75 | 30 |
Spring The Sweet Spring THOMAS NASHE | 31 |
Sonnet | 32 |
Sonnet 73 | 33 |
Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 34 |
The Procession of The Seasons EDMUND SPENSER | 35 |
The Man of Life Upright THOMAS CAMPION | 37 |
A Mind Content ROBERT GREENE | 38 |
Grieve and Dare Not Show my Discontent QUEEN ELIZABETH I | 39 |
To Celia BEN JONSON | 40 |
Golden Slumbers THOMAS DEKKER | 41 |
Full Fathom Five WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 42 |
A Farewell To The Reader ISABELLA WHITNEY | 43 |
35 | 47 |
The Grasshopper | 53 |
The Rights of Woman | 57 |
Love Armed | 60 |
Those Winter Sundays | 136 |
94 | 142 |
Amends | 148 |
རྀ ཎྜ ཎྜ ྲ ཎྜ | 149 |
Marrysong | 155 |
Rising Five | 161 |
115 | 167 |
The Planners | 174 |
From Long Distance | 188 |
Ozymandias | 201 |
Childhood | 207 |
Praise Song For My Mother | 214 |
The Trees | 220 |
You Cannot Do This | 226 |
Friend | 229 |
Times Fool | 235 |
Meeting At Night | 241 |
Common terms and phrases
arms beauties birds body breath bright close cold dark dead dear death door doth dreams dust earth eyes face fair fall fate fear feet field fire five flowers give gone grass grave green grow hand happy head hear heard heart heaven hopes hour husband knew land leave lies light listening live look lost mind moon morning move never night once pain pass Poems poor rain reprinted by permission rest rising river round seemed sigh sing sleep smile Song soul spring stand stone sweet tears tell thee things thou thought tree turn voice Wife wild wind winter woman young youth