The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 : an anthology

Doubleday/Anchor AO-73

Negro poets of the U.S.A. Bars Fight / An Evening Thought / His Excellency General Washington ; On Imagination / On Liberty and Slavery / Epigram / The Slave Auction ; Let the Light Enter / Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle / The Feet of Judas / The Way-side Well / Miss Melerlee / A Litany at Atlanta / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; An Indignation Dinner / O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Lift Every Voice and Sing / Sympathy ; Dawn ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; Little Brown Baby ; A Death Song ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes ; Compensation / Sonnet / The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers ; White Magic: An Ode / The Teacher ; Tuskegee / A Winter Twilight ; For the Candle Light ; When the Green Lies over the Earth ; Tenebris / My Hero / Life Long, Poor Browning ... ; Letter to My Sister ; At the Carnival ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; For Jim, Easter Eve / Enigma ; La Vie C'est la Vie ; Dead Fires ; Oblivion / Morning Light ; Arctic Tern in a Museum ; Little Birches / The Heart of a Woman ; Youth ; Remember ; The Suppliant ; Old Black Men ; Interracial ; I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night ; Recessional ; My Little Dreams / San Francisco ; Villanelle of Washington Square ; View Carré / Rulers : The Banjo Player ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired ; Aunt Jane Allen ; When I Die ; The Lonley Mother ; Who Is That A-walking in the Corn? / Status Quo ; At Early Morn / The Tropics in New York ; After the Winter ; Spring in New Hampshire ; A Song of the Moon ; Harlem Shadows ; America ; White Houses ; If We Must Die ; Baptism ; Flame-heart / Banking Coal ; The Blue Meridian / Supplication ; And What Shall You Say? / Dark Symphony ; Lamda ; Do / On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church ; Kid Stuff ; Toast ; Letters Found Near a Suicide / The Craftsman ; McDonogh Day in New Orleans / Nocturne Varial ; Dream Song ; Transformation / The Elevator Man Adheres to Form ; Best Loved of Africa ; Dance of the Abakweta / After Winter ; Old Lem ; Foreclosure ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Sister Lou / The Mask ; Solace ; Joy ; Interim

I, Too, Sing America ; Dream Variation ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to Son ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Personal ; Havana Deams ; Harlem Sweeties ; Merry-Go-Round ; Let America Be America Again ; I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted ; Song for a Suicide ; Harlem ; Birmingham Sunday ; Motto ; Cultural Exchange / Sonnets ; Lines Written At the Grave of Aleandre Dumas / A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Miracles ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern Mansion ; Length of Moon ; The Return ; Idolatry ; Close Your Eyes! ; Golgotha Is a Mountain ; A Note of Humility ; The Daybreakers ; Nocturne of the wharves ; God Give to Men / Epitaph for a Bigot ; Green Valley / For a Poet ; The Wise ; For a Lady I Know ; Incident ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds ; From the Dark Tower / The Resurrection ; My Angel ; And One Shall Live in Two ; Muse in Late November ; She Said ... / Poet ; Haven ; Appoggiatura ; Benedicion / Four Glimpses of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers of Darkness / Northboun̕ / Forgotten Dreams ; On the Death of a Child / Summer Matures ; Fulfillment ; Magalu ; Remember Not ; Invocation ; The Road / Face of Poverty / Urgency / Adjuration ; Tumult / Plans ; A Young David; Birmingham ; Words / Without Name / Heart of the Woods / Freedom in Mah Soul ; Western Town / A Boy's Need ; Crossing a Creek ; Willow Bend and Weep ; On Calvary's Lonely Hill / The Letter / O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; A Ballad of Remembrance ; Runagate Runagate ; Frederick Douglass / Creole Girl / Six O'Clock ; Rag Doll and Summer Birds ; Counterpoint ; Epitaph for a Negro Woman ; The Decision ; Poem for My Brother Kenneth / Memorial Wreath ; Legacy: My South / Where Have You Gone? ... ; If There Be Sorrow

Molly Means ; We Have Been Believers ; For My People ; October Journey ; Harriet Tubman ; For Mary McLeod Bethune / This Hour / Be Daedalus / Ultimate Equality ; Basic / The Fishes and the Poet's Hands / Kitchenette Building ; The Birth in a Narrow Room ; "pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps" ; First Fight. Then Fiddle ; The Wall / Here and Now / Prayer ; Another Day / To Satch ; What Bright Pushbutton? / To an Avenue Sport / Blues for Bessie ; Two Leaqn Cats ... ; Young Poet ; Sunset Horn / Journey to a Parallel ; The African Affair / Portrait Philippines ; Sonnet / Time and Tide / Song ; Notes for a Movie Script ; Letter Across Doubt and Distance ; And on This Shore -- Picnic: The Liberated / Paternal ; Mae's Rent Party / A Folding and Unfolding / Church Burning: Mississippi ; Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital ; Son To a Brown Girl / Refugee ; Midway ; Mortality / A Private Letter to Brazil ; The Map / Clubwoman ; Jungle / In Spite of All This Much Needed Thunder / Christophe / For William Edward Burghardt DuBois on his Eightieth Birthday / Black Man's Feast / Jazz / Miles' Delight / I've Got a Home in that Rock / Three Kings / To Vanity / Dream / Madhouse / Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-way Ticket to France / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Epistrophe / Suburbia / Afterwards, They Shall Dance ; Cincophrenicpoet ; Benediction / Letter from a Wife / A Juju of My Own / The Feral Pioneers-for Dancer / Poems; Birmingham 1962-1964 ; Moths ; Birmingham ; Alabama / Cities and Seas ; Ending / Floodtide ; Othello Jones dresses for dinner ; 18,000 feet ; eclipse / Just Making it (Blood for Sale) ; The Worker / Look at That Gal / Gift / Brainwashing Dramatized / Sketches of Harlem ; Downtown-Boy Uptown / Memorandum

Tributary poems by non-Negroes -- The Little Black Boy / To Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / The Slave's Dream / The Farewell / Stanzas on Freedom / "Formerly a Slave" / The Runaway Slave ; The Wounded Person ; The Drayman ; Ethiopia Saluting the Colors / Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Bird and the Tree / Mammy Hums ; Jazz Fantasia / The Congo / Defeat / Echoes of Childhood ; Uncle Jim ; Delphy / How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry / Porgy, Maria, and Bess / The Stong Swimmer / Elegy on a Nordic White Protestant / Arthur Mitchell / Upstairs Downstairs / Negroes ; Lynched Negro ; Poem to Negro and Whites / Small Colored Boy in the Subway / Little White Schoolhouse Blues / The World Looks On / Creed / John Brown's Prayer / Sonnets at Christmas (II) / Last Impression of New York ; In War ; Big Man ; Pico Della Mirandola ; Things of the Spirit ; Pen Hy Cane / A Communication to Nancy Cunard / They Are Ours / Boogie-Woogie Ballads / Street Scene -- 1946 / Slave Story / Norris Dam ; Daphne ; On a Picture by Pippin, Called "The Den" ; Harpers Ferry / Singing in the Dark / My South / Negro Spiritual / Songs for a Colored Singer / Government Injunction / Nice Day for a Lynching / Lenox Avenue ; The Castle / The Trial / Recapitulations XI ; The Southerner / Say Good-bye to Big Daddy / To a Negro Boy Graduating ; Countee Cullen / Bim Bam / Juncture / Recessional for the Class of 1959 of a School for Delinquent Negro Girls / Buckdancer's Choice / Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Requiem for "Bird" Parker / The Memory of Boxer Benny (Kid) Paret / Biographical notes Author Biographies Author index First line index.

Folksinger's wordbook

Abdul, the bulbul amir ; Adam in the garden pinning leaves ; Ain't gonna grieve my Lord no more ; Ain't it a shame ; The blue-tail fly ; Cosher Bailey's engine ; Crawdad ; The desperado ; The devil and the farmer's wife ; The dodger song ; Eddystone Light ; The fireship ; The frozen logger ; Goodbye 'Liza Jane ; I was born about ten thousand years ago ; Ilkley Moor baht' at ; It's the syme the whole world over ; The lavender cowboy ; Mama don't low ; The man that waters the workers' beer ; My God, how the money rolls in ; My sweetheart's the mule in the mines ; Oh, how he lied ; Putting on the style ; The rich man and the poor man ; Take a whiff on me ; Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e ; Willly the Weeper -- The Arkansas traveler ; Bile them cabbage down ; Black-eyed Susie ; Boatman's dance ; Buffalo gals ; Camptown races ; Captain Jinks ; Cindy ; Cotton-eyed Joe ; Cripple Creek ; - Fly around my blue-eyed gal ; Green corn ; Ida red ; Jubilee ; L'il Liza Jane ; Pop goes the weasel ; Sally Goodin ; Sourwood Mountain ; Turkey in the straw ; Uncle Joe ; Uncle Reuben ; Weevily wheat -- Abilene ; Acres of clams ; Alabama bound ; America the beautiful ; Bowling green ; The Colorado Trail ; Columbia the gem of the ocean ; Cumberland Gap ; Dixie ; East Virginia ; Elanoy ; E-ri-e ; The eyes of Texas ; Far above Cayuga's waters ; The great American bum ; Home on the range ; In Kansas ; My home's across the Smokey Mountains ; Oleanna ; On the banks of the Wabash ; The rackets around the Blue Mountain Lake ; Sail away ladies ; Sidewalks of New York ; The state of Arkansas ; Swannanoa Tunnel ; Way out in Idaho -- Baby mine ; The Big Rock Candy Mountain ; The blind fiddler ; Danville girl ; Deep blue sea ; The dreary Black Hills ; Freight train ; The gambler ; Hand me down my walking cane ; Hard traveling ; He was a friend of mine ; I can't help but wonder where I'm bound ; I'm going down this road feeling bad ; Man of constant sorrow ; Mighty day ; Motherless children ; My ramblin' boy ; Nine hundred miles ; The oak and the ash ; The other side of Jordan ; Poor Howard ; Prospecting dream ; Rambling, gambling man ; Root, hog, or die ; Roving gambler blues ; Run come see ; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ; There's a man goin' round takin' names ; This train ; The Titanic ; The tramp ; Wandering ; Wild rover -- Ain't no more cane on this Brazos ; Another man done gone ; Baby, please don't go ; Been in the pen so long ; The Boston burglar ; Botany Bay ; Columbus Stockade blues ; Darlin' ; Foggy mountain top ; It's almost done ; Long John ; Midnight special ; Old Hannah ; Old Reilly ; Poor boy ; The popular wobbly ; Portland County Jail ; Sam Hall ; Take this hammer ; Tramp! Tramp! Tramp ; When first unto this country -- Alberta ; All night long ; Back water blues ; Betty and Dupree ; Bottle up and go ; Brown's Ferry blues ; Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue ; Cocaine blues ; Corinna ; Easy rider ; Evil-hearted man ; Good morning blues ; Hesitation blues ; - I know you rider ; I'm a stranger here ; Kansas City blues ; Number twelve train ; Poor man blues ; Rocks and gravel ; St. James Infirmary ; Salty dog blues ; Shorty George ; Sporting life blues ; Stealin', stealin' ; Step it up and go ; Take your fingers off it ; Talking blues ; Tell old Bill ; Things about comin' my way ; When things go wrong with you ; Worried man blues -- Across the western ocean ; A-roving ; Blood red roses ; Blow the man down ; Blow ye winds in the morning ; Blow ye winds eesterly ; Boney was a warrior ; The bonnie ship the Diamond ; Can't you dance the polka? ; Cape Cod girls ; Coast of Peru ; Fire down below ; Greenland fisheries ; Hanging Johnny ; Haul away Joe ; Haul on the bowline ; High Barbaree ; Hieland laddie ; Home, boys, home ; Hullaballoo belay ; Jack is every inch a sailor ; Jack was every inch a sailor ; John B. sails ; Johnny Boker ; Leave her, Johnny ; The leaving of Liverpool ; Little Sally Racket ; Lowlands ; The mermaid ; Michael, row the boat ashore ; Pay me my money down ; Red iron ore ; Reuben Ranzo ; Rio Grande ; Rock about my Saro Jane ; Rock 'n' row me over ; Rolling home ; Round the Bay of Mexico ; Sacramento ; Sailing, sailing ; Sally Brown ; Santy Anno ; Shenandoah ; South Australia ; Ten thousand miles away ; Tommy's gone to Hilo ; What shall we do with a drunken sailor? -- Railroaders and lumberjacks. Canada-I-O ; Casey Jones ; Engine 143 ; In the pines ; I've been workin' on the railroad ; - Jam on Gerry's Rocks ; Jay Gould's daughter ; Pat works on the railway ; The raftsmen ; Railroad Bill ; Rock Island Line ; She'll be coming round the mountain ; The Wabash Cannonball ; The wreck of the Old 97 --

Blood on the saddle ; Buffalo skinners ; Bury me not on the lone prairie ; The cowboy's dream ; Doney Gal ; The gal I left behind me ; Git along, little dogies ; Goodbye old Paint ; I ride an old paint ; The old Chisholm Trail ; Ragtime Cowboy Joe ; The railroad corral ; Red River Valley ; The strawberry roan ; The streets of Laredo ; The tenderfoot ; Trail to Mexico ; Tyin' a knot in the devil's tail ; Utah Carroll ; Wake up, Jacob ; The zebra dun -- Ballad of the boll weevil ; Dakota land ; The farmer is the man ; The hayseed ; The little old sod shanty on my claim ; The miller ; The praties ; Roberts' farm ; Seven cent cotton and forty cent meat ; Starving to death on a government claim ; Times are getting hard ; When I first came to this land ; Young man who wouldn't hoe corn -- Ballad of Springhill ; Banks of marble ; Bring me a little water, Sylvie ; Drill, ye tarriers, drill ; The Erie Canal ; The factory girl ; Four pence a day ; Girl of constant sorrow ; I'se the b'y ; John Henry ; Long-Line skinner ; Molly Malone ; Mule skinner blues ; Nine pound hammer ; The ox-driver ; Pay day at Coal Creek ; Pick a bake of cotton ; The squid-jiggin' ground ; Timber ; Weave room blues ; Weaver's life ; Winnsboro Cotton Mill blues ; The work of the weavers -- The commonwealth of toil ; Get thee behind me, Satan ; He's a fool ; Hold the fort ; It's a good thing to join a union ; The Ludlow Massacre ; Miner's lifeguard ; The picket line song ; Raggedy ; Roll the union on ; Solidarity forever ; Talking union ; There is power ; Union maid ; Union train ; We are builing a strong union ; We pity our bosses five ; We shall not be moved ; Which side are you on? ; You gotta go down (and join the union) -- Annie Laurie ; Banks of the roses ; Black is the color ; The cambric shirt ; Charlie is my darling ; Comin' through the rye ; The dark-eyed sailor ; Don't let your deal go down ; Down in the valley ; The first time ever I saw your face ; The foggy dew ; George Collins ; Goodbye, little Bonnie, goodbye ; Goodbye, my lover, goodbye ; Greensleeves ; Handsome Molly ; He's gone away ; I know my love ; I know where I'm going ; Jackson ; Jon Anderson, my jo John Riley ; Katy Cline ; Lady of Carlisle ; Little Mohee ; Locks and bolts ; Love somebody, yes I do ; Mary Ann ; My Bonnie lies over the ocean ; My love is like a red, red rose ; Nelly Bly ; New River train ; Oh, dear! what can the matter be? ; Pretty Saro ; The queen of hearts ; A rich Irish lady ; Round her neck she wore a yellow ribbon ; Scarborough Fair ; Shady Grove ; She's like the swallow ; Spanish is the loving tongue ; The storms are on the ocean ; Turtle dove ; Waillie ; Wheel of fortune ; Will you go, lassie, go? -- Blow the candles out ; Candy man blues ; The chandler's wife ; The foggy, foggy dew ; Gently Johnny, my jingalo ; Green grow the rashes, O ; It was a lover and his lass ; John Anderson, my jo Keep my skillet good and greasy ; Lavender blue ; Little ball of yarn ; Maids, when you're young, never wed an old man ; The next market day ; Roll in my sweet baby's arms ; Sal got a meatskin ; Tom cat blues ; The trooper and the maid ; Two maids went a-milking one day ; The virgin sturgeon -- Bell-bottomed trousers ; Beware, oh, take care ; Bucking bronco ; Careless love ; Come all you fair and tender ladies ; The cuckoo ; Dear companion ; False true love ; The girl on the greenbriar shore ; Green grow the lilacs ; I'm sad and I'm lonely ; On top of Old Smoky ; One morning in May ; Rue ; The water is wide ; Wildwood flower -- Bobby Shafto ; The bold soldier ; Cod liver oil ; Common Bill ; Eggs and marrowbone ; Everyday dirt ; The husband with no courage in him ; I had a wife ; I wish I was single again ; Johnny Todd ; The Johnson Boys ; Kansas boys ; My horses ain't hungry ; Red apple juice ; Reilly's daughter ; Risselty-rosselty ; Sally Ann ; Sally my dear ; The wagoner's lad ; Wait for the wagon ; The wee cooper of Fife ; When the iceworms nest again -- Banks of the Ohio ; Barbara Allen ; Bury me beneath the willow ; The butcher's boy ; Delia's gone ; The dowie dens of Yarrow ; Down by the Sally Gardens ; Every night when the sun goes in ; Frankie and Johnny ; I never will marry ; Lord Lovel ; Molly Brannigan ; Rosewood casket ; Sailor on the deep blue sea ; There is a tavern in the town ; Unfortunate Miss Bailey -- Dink's song ; Early one morning ; Hard, ain't it hard ; Hard is the fortune of all womankind ; House of the rising sun ; The housewife's lament ; Oh, babe, it ain't no lie ; Old maid's song ; Single girl ; When I was single -- Aimee McPherson ; Blow away the morning dew ; Darlin' Corey ; Devilish Mary ; Don't sing love songs ; The gypsy Davey ; The handsome cabin boy ; Hangtown gals ; Katy cruel ; Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight ; Little Maggie ; Little Phoebe ; Old man in the wood ; The rebel girl ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; Who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot? -- Ballad of Sam Hall ; Barnyards of Delgaty ; The bastard king of England ; Billy Barlow ; Billy the Kid ; Bold Jack Donahue ; Captain Kidd ; Cole Younger ; Didn't he ramble ; Hallelujah, I'm a bum ; Jesse James ; Joe Bowers ; John Hardy ; John Peel ; Lincolnshire poacher ; MacPherson's farewell ; The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo ; Old Joe Clark ; Old Rosin the Beau ; Roll on the ground ; Rothesay, O ; Sam Bass ; Stagolee ; Steamboat Bill ; Whiskey in the jar ; The wild colonial boy --

Bailiff's daughter of Islington ; The bonnie Earl of Murray ; Daily growing ; Earl Brand ; The four Maries ; The gallows pole ; Geordie ; The Golden Vanity ; The great silkie ; The gypsy rover ; Henry Martin ; The house carpenter's wife ; Lady Margaret ; The lass of Roch Royal ; Lord Bateman ; Old Bangum ; Queen Jane ; Springfield Mountain ; The three ravens ; The unquiet grave ; The wraggle-taggle gypsies ; Young Charlotte ; Young man cut down in his prime -- The cruel mother ; Deep water ; Down in the willow garden ; Edward ; Fair Ellender ; Johnson ; Knoxville girl ; Lily of the West ; Matty Groves ; Omie Wise ; Pretty Polly ; Tom Dooley ; The two sisters -- Away with rum ; Beautiful brown eyes ; Brandy leave me alone ; The Calton weaver ; Chevaliers de la table ronde ; Drunk last night ; Finnegan's wake ; Four nights drunk ; The intoxicated rat ; Johnson's ale ; The jug of punch ; Kentucky bootlegger ; Landlord fill the flowing bowl ; Little brown jug ; Moonshiner ; Mountain dew ; Real old mountain dew ; Rye whiskey ; Sweet thing ; Take a drink on me ; Tom Brown ; Vive la compagnie ; Whiskey John -- Around the corner ; Cape Ann ; A capital ship ; Chewing gum ; Clementine ; Dunderbeck ; Father's whiskers ; The hearse song ; A horse named Bill ; John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt ; Michael Finnigan ; Oh, Susanna ; Old Dan Tucker ; Once there were three fishermen ; Peter Gray ; Polly wolly doodle ; Sipping cider through a straw ; Talking nothin' ; There ain't no bugs on me ; There was an old soldier; Whoa back, Buck -- The band played on ; Beautiful dreamer ; Believe me, if all those endearing young charms ; Ben Bolt ; A bicycle built for two ; Bill Bailey ; Bonny Eloise ; Darling Nelly Gray ; Drink to me only with thine eyes ; Flow gently, sweet Afton ; For he's a jolly good fellow ; Golden slippers ; Goodnight ladies ; Grandfather's clock ; Hello! my baby ; Home, sweet home ; I'll take you home again, Kathleen ; In the evening by the moonlight ; In the gloaming ; In the good old summertime ; Jeanie with the light brown hair ; Juanita ; Kathleen Mavourneen ; The last rose of summer ; A life on the ocean wave ; Listen to the mockingbird ; Loch Lomond ; Long, long ago ; Lorena ; Meet me in St. Louis, Louis ; My old Kentucky home ; My wild Irish rose ; Old folks at home ; The old oaken bucket ; The rose of Tralee ; Sally in our alley ; School days ; Seeing Nellie home ; Silver threads among the gold ; Summer is a-coming in ; Sweet Adeline ; Sweet and low ; Sweet Evelina ; Sweet Genevieve ; Wait till the sun shines, Nellie ; What a friend we have in mother ; When you and I were young, Maggie ; While strolling in the park one day ; Woodman, spare that tree -- After the ball is over ; A bird in a gilded cage ; The drunkard's doom ; Father, dear father, come home with me now ; The letter edged in black ; Little Joe the wrangler ; Little rosewood casket ; The man on the flying trapeze ; One fish ball ; A picture from life's other side ; She is more to be pitied than censured ; The ship that never returned ; They're moving father's grave ; The vacant chair ; Villikins and his Dinah ; When the work's all done this fall ; Where is my wandering boy tonight? -- The blue bells of Scotland ; Bobby Campbell ; Bring 'em home ; The British Grenadiers ; Buttermilk Hill ; The Campbells are comin' ; The cruel war is raging ; The D-Day dodgers ; Dumbarton's drums ; Gee, but I want to go home ; The girl I left behind me ; Goober peas ; Hey Betty Mullin ; High Germany ; I come and stand at every door ; I just wanna stay home ; I've got to know ; Johnny, I hardly knew you ; Just before the battle, mother ; The Kerry recruit ; Mademoiselle from Armentieres ; Marching through Georgia ; The minstrel boy ; Mrs. McGrath ; Old King Cole ; Old soldiers never die ; Peggy-O ; The quartermaster store ; The riflemen at Bennington ; Study war no more ; Texas Rangers ; That crazy wall ; Weeping sad and lonely ; When Johnny comes marching home ; The yellow rose of Texas -- The battle cry of freedom ; The battle hymn of the republic ; Battleship of Maine ; Beans, bacon, and gravy ; Brigham Young ; Charles Guiteau ; The Constitution and the Guerriere ; The days of forty-nine ; Fair and free elections ; Franklin D. Roosevelt's back again ; Free American ; The good old rebel ; Hunters of Kentucky ; Jefferson and liberty ; Johnny Bull, my jo, John ; Lincoln and liberty ; No Irish need apply ; Old Abe Lincoln came our of the wilderness ; Tenting on the old camp ground ; Wake Nicodemus ; White House blues ; Yankee Doodle --

Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round ; Ballad of Ho Chi Minh ; Bella ciao ; Chee lai! ; Freedom is a constant struggle ; Freiheit ; Go down Moses ; Hallelujah, I'm a-travelin' ; Hans Beimler ; I'm on my way ; The internationale ; Jarama Valley ; John Brown's body ; Joshua fought the battle of Jericho ; Keep your eyes on the prize ; The Kent State massacre ; Lift every voice and sing ; Lilli burlero ; Los cuatro generales ; A man's a man for a' that ; Many thousand gone ; La Marseillaise ; The 1913 massacre ; Oh freedom ; Peat bog soldiers ; The preacher and the slave ; Raise a ruckus tonight ; The red flag ; Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled ; Shtil di nacht ; Si me quieres escribir ; Slavery chain done broke at last ; The star-spangled banner ; United front ; Venga jaleo ; Viva la Quince Brigada ; We shall overcome ; We're gonna move when the spirit says move! ; Whirlwinds of danger ; Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom ; Zog nit keynmol -- The asteroid light ; Ding dong dollar ; Doctor Freud ; Go down you murderers ; Hallelujah I'm a bum (1970) ; I don't want your millions, mister ; Is this land your land? ; Little boxes ; Money is king ; Pity the down-trodden landlord ; Plastic Jesus ; Put my name down ; Round and round Hitler's grave ; Shootin' with Rasputin ; Soup song ; Venezuela ; The vicar of Bray ; What have they done to the rain? -- Ballmurphy ; The bard of Armagh ; Bendemeer's stream ; The bold Fenian men ; Brennan on the moor ; The croppy boy ; Danny boy ; Erin go braugh! ; The harp that once thro' Tara's halls ; Johnson's motor car ; Kevin Barry ; O'Donnell Aboo ; The old orange flute ; The patriot game ; The rising of the moon ; Roddy M'Corley ; Shan Van Vight ; Wearing of the green -- All over this world. À la claire fontaine ; Ach du lieber Augustin ; Adelita ; Ah! si mon moine voulait danser ; The ash grove ; Au clair de la lune ; Auprès de ma blonde ; Cielito lindo ; Coplas ; Du, du, liegst mir im Herzen ; Everybody loves Saturday night ; Guantanamera ; Hava nagila ; Hymn for nations ; The keeper ; Linstead Market ; Marching to Pretoria ; Meadowland ; Mi caballo blanco ; Moscow nights ; Muss i denn ; A new Jerusalem ; O, Canada! ; Que bonita bandera ; Ragupati ragava rajan ram ; Salangadou ; Salute to life ; Santa Lucia ; Stenka Razin ; Suliram ; Un canadien errant ; Van Dieman's Land ; Vive la canadienne ; Walking at night ; Waltzing Mathilda ; World youth song ; Zum gali gali -- Buffalo boy ; The Cutty Wren ; Daughters, will you marry? ; Jenny Jenkins ; Lolly-too-dum ; Lord Randall ; No John ; Paper of pins ; Reuben, Reuben ; Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me? ; Tumbalalaika ; Where are you going, my good old man? ; Whistle, daughter, whistle ; Yomi, Yomi -- All God's children got shoes ; All my trials ; All the way my Saviour leads me ; Amazing grace ; Balm in Gilead ; Beulah Land ; Bringing in the sheaves ; By and by ; Can the circle be unbroken? ; Come and go with me to that land ; Deep river ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Dig my grave ; Don't you weep after me ; Every time I feel the spirit ; Ezekiel saw the wheel ; Farther along ; Free at last ; Get on board, little children ; Give me that old time religion ; Good news ; Great day ; Great getting up morning ; The great speckled bird ; Green grow the rushes ; He's got the whole world in his hands ; Hold on ; Hold the fort (I) ; Home in that Rock ; How can I keep from singing? ; I am a pilgrim ; I can't feel at home in this world anymore ; I couldn't hear nobody pray ; I don't want to get adjusted ; In the sweet bye and bye ; It's G-L-O-R-Y to know I'm S-A-V-E-D ; It's me, oh Lord ; Jacob's ladder ; Just a closer walk with thee ; Keep your lamp trimmed and burning ; Kum ba yah ; Let me fly ; Let us break bread together ; Life is like a mountain railroad ; Little David ; Little Moses ; Lonesome valley ; Meeting at the building ; My Lord, what a mourning ; Nearer my God to thee ; Ninety and nine ; Nobody knows the trouble I've seen ; No hiding place ; Oh, Mary don't you weep ; The old ark's a-moverin' ; The old gospel ship ; Old Hundred ; Old ship of Zion ; Onward Christian soldiers ; Revive us again ; Rock-a my soul ; Rock of ages ; Roll, Jordan, roll ; Scandalize my name ; Set down, servant ; The seven blessings of Mary ; Sinner man ; Sowing on the mountain ; Steal away ; Streets of glory ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; This little light of mine ; Twelve gates to the city ; Wade in the water ; Walk in Jerusalem, just like John ; Wayfaring stranger ; We need a whole lot more of Jesus ; We shall walk through the valley ; Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; What a friend we have in Jesus ; When the saints go marching in ; Wondrous love ; You can dig my grave --

Angels we have heard on high ; Auld lang syne ; Away in a manger ; Chanuke, O Chanuke ; Cherry tree carol ; Child of God ; Children, go where I send thee ; Comfort and tidings of joy ; Deck the halls ; Down in yon forest ; Duérmete, niño lindo ; The first Noel ; Go tell it on the mountain ; God rest you merry gentlemen ; Good King Wenceslas ; Hark! the herald angels sing ; The holly and the ivy ; I saw three ships come sailing in ; It's almost day ; Jingle bells ; Joy to the world ; Mary had a baby ; Masters in this hall ; Mi y'malel ; No room at the inn ; O, come, all ye faithful ; Oh, little town of Bethlehem ; Oh, Tannenbaum ; Poor little Jesus ; Rise up, shepherd, and follow ; Silent night ; Tell me what month was my Jesus born in ; The twelve days of Christmas ; Virgin Mary had one son ; Wassail song ; We wish you a merry Christmas ; What child is this? -- Alouette ; A big ship sailing ; Bingo ; Bluebird, bluebird, fly through my window ; Buckeye Jim ; Free little bird ; Going to Boston ; The green grass grew all around ; Ha ha this a-way ; Here we go looby loo ; I had a rooster ; I sent my brown jug downtown ; Jane, Jane ; Little brass wagon ; Little Sally Walker ; The noble Duke of York ; Old MacDonald had a farm ; One more river to cross ; Paw-paw patch ; Rise and shine ; Roll over ; Shoo fly, don't bother me ; Skip to my Lou ; Sur le pont d'Avignon ; This old man ; Turn the glasses over ; Who did swallow Jonah? -- Aunt Rhody ; Bill Groggin's goat ; Billy Magee Magaw ; The Boothbay whale ; The bulldog on the bank ; The cat came back ; The chivalrous shark ; The Darby ram ; The fox ; Froggie went a-courtin' ; The gray goose ; Grizzly bear ; Groundhog ; Hoosen Johnny ; Leatherwing bat ; Little birdie ; Little brown dog ; Mole in the ground ; Muskrat ; Old Blue ; The old cow died ; Old dog Tray ; The old gray mare ; Old rattler ; Raccoon's got a bushy tail ; Red bird ; The sow took the measles ; The squirrel ; Stewball ; Tam Pierce -- All the pretty little horses ; All through the night ; Cannily, cannily ; Dance to your daddy ; Hobo's lullaby ; Hush little baby ; Oyfn pripetshok ; Prettiest little baby in the county-o ; Riddle song ; Rock-a-bye baby ; Rozhinkes mit mandlen ; Shlof mayn kind, shlof keseyder ; Vigndig a fremd kind ; What'll we do with the baby-o? -- Ah, poor bird ; Frère Jacques ; Hava na shira ; Hey, ho, nobody home ; Kookaburra ; Music alone shall live ; Oh, Absalom, my son ; Oh, how lovely is the evening ; Row, row, row your boat ; Scotland's burning ; Shalom Aleichem ; Shalom chaverim ; Three blind mice ; Vine and fig tree ; What a grand and glorious feeling.

Major British writers,

The Canterbury tales. The general prologue ; The pardoner's prologue ; The pardoner's tale ; The pardoner's epilogue ; The prioress's prologue ; The prioress's tale ; The prioress's epilogue ; The miller's tale ; The wife of Bath's prologue ; The wife of Bath's tale ; The clerk's tale ; The clerk's epilogue ; The Franklin's tale ; The nun's priest's tale ; Chaucer's prayer

Epithalamion ; The Faerie queene. Selections from Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV, Book V, Book VI, Book VII / The first part of King Henry the Fourth ; The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ; The tempest

Essays or counsels. Of truth ; Of death ; Of adversity ; Of marriage and single life ; Of great place ; Of goodness, and goodness of nature ; Of seditions and troubles ; Of atheism ; Of superstition ; Of travel ; Of cunning ; Of wisdom for a man's self ; Of suspicion ; Of discourse ; Of plantations ; Of masques and triumphs ; Of building ; Of studies (1597) / Advancement of learning. from Book I ; from Book II

from Songs and sonnets. The good morrow ; Song (Go, and catch a falling star) ; Woman's constancy ; The sun rising ; The canonization ; Lovers' infiniteness ; Song (Sweetest love, I do not go) ; Air and angels ; The anniversary ; A valediction : of my name, in the window ; Twickenham Garden ; Love's growth ; The dream ; A valediction : of weeping ; The message ; A nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day ; A valediction : forbidding mourning ; The ecstasy ; Love's deity ; The funeral ; The blossom ; The relique ; The prohibition ; The expiration / from The satires. Satire III ; Satire IV / Verse letter to the Countess of Bedford ; An anatomy of the world : the first anniversary / from Holy sonnets. I, Thou has made me ; VII, At the round Earth's imagined corners ; X, Death be not proud ; XIII, What if this present were the world's last night? ; XIV, Batter my heart, three-personed God ; XVIII, Show me, dear Christ ; XIX, Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one / Other Divine poems. Good Friday, 1613, riding westward ; from The litany : XV and XVI ; A hymn to Christ ; Hymn to God my God, in my sickness ; A hymn to God the Father / from Devotions upon emergent occasions. II, The strength, and the function of the senses ; III, The patient takes his bed ; XVI, From the bells of the church adjoining ; XVII, Now, this bell tolling softly ; XVIII, The bell rings out / The Sermons. from Sermon II, Sermon VII, Sermon XV, Sermon LXVI, Sermon LXXX / L sermons. Sermon XXXVI

On the morning of Christ's nativity ; L'Allegro ; Il penseroso ; Sonnet VII, How soon hath time ; Lycidas / Autobiographical extracts. from The reason of church government ; from An apology for Smectymnuus / Areopagitica / VIII, When the assault was intended to the city ; XII, I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs ; XV, On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester ; XIX, When I consider how my light is spent ; XVI, To the Lord General Cromwell ; XVIII, On the late massacre in Piemont ; XX, Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son ; XXII, To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness ; XXIII, Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Paridise lost. Book I, Book II, from Book III, from Book IV, from Book V, from Book VII, Book IX, from Book XII / Samson agonistes

To my honored friend, Dr. Charleton ; An essay of dramatic poesy ; from Secret love, or, The maiden queen. Prologue ; Song / from The tempest : prologue ; from An evening's love : song ; from Tyrannic love : epilogue ; from The conquest of Granada, II. Epilogue ; The zambra dance / from Mariage à la mode. Prologue ; Song / Epilogue to the University of Oxford, 1674 ; from Troilus and Cressida : prologue ; from The Spanish friar : song ; from Amphitryon. Mercury's song to Phaedra ; The lady's song ; Song to a fair young lady going out of the town in the spring / Mac Flecknoe ; Absalom and Achitophel ; from Absalom and Achitophel, part II ; Epigram on Plutarch ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; from Sylvae. Horace : the ninth ode of the first book ; Horace : the twenty-ninth ode of the the third book ; Lucretius : the latter part of the third book against the fear of death / To the pious memory of the accomplished young lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 ; Epigram on Milton ; Epitaph on John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee ; Juvenal : from the Sixth satire ; To my dear friend Mr. Congreve ; Alexander's feast ; To my friend Mr. Motteux ; Epigram on Tonson ; from Fables, ancient and modern. Preface ; To my honored kinsman, John Driden ; Baucis and Philemon, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses ; Chaucer : from The cock and the fox ; Chaucer : from The wife of Bath, her tale / The secular masque

An argument against abolishing Christianity ; from A letter to a young gentleman ; The first Drapier letter / Gulliver's travels. A letter from Captain Bulliver to his cousin Sympson ; The publisher to the reader ; Part I, a voyage to Lilliput ; Part II, A voyage to Brobdingnag ; Part IV, A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms / A modest proposal ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift

Essay on criticism ; Windsor Forest ; The rape of the Lock ; Ode on Solitude ; Epistle X, To a young lady on her leaving the town after the coronation ; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady ; Eloïsa to Abelard ; Essay on man / from Epistles to several persons. Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington ; Epistle III, To Allen, Lord Bathurst / from Imitations of Horace : the first satire of the second book, to Mr. Fortescue ; from Imitations of Donne : the fourth satire of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, versified ; An epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / from Epistles to several persons. Epistle II, to a lady / from Imitations of Horace The first Epistle of the second book. To Augustus / from The dunciad, Book IV

from The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. Monday, 30th August, 1773 ; Tuesday, 31st August, 1773 ; Wednesday, 1st September, 1773 ; Wednesday, 8th September, 1773 ; Thursday, 16th September 1773 ; Sunday, 3d October, 1773 / from The life of Samuel Johnson. May 16-August 6, 1763 ; October 16-26, 1769 ; May 7, 1773 ; May 1776

Letters. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield ; To Mrs. Montagu ; To George Strahan ; To James Macpherson ; To Mrs. Boswell ; To Mrs. Thrale / A short song of congratulations ; Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the theater in Drury Lane, 1747 / from The rambler. No. 25, No. 154, No. 155 / from the Idler. No. 32, No. 60 / from the preface to A dictionary of the English language ; from the preface to Shakespeare ; On Henry IV ; On Polonius / The lives of the poets. from Milton, Cowley, Drayden, Addison, Pope / Thoughts during and after the writing of The lives of the Poets

Preface to Lyrical ballads ; Lines left upon a seat in a yew tree ; The reverie of poor Susan ; The ruined cottage (from The excursion, book I) ; The old Cumberland beggar ; We are seven ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; To my sister ; Lines written in early spring ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / The prelude. Book I, introduction, childhood and schooltime ; Book II, schooltime, continued ; Book III, residence at Cambridge ; from Book IV, summer vacation ; Book V, books ; from Book VI, Cambridge and the Alps ; from Book VII, residence in London ; from Book VIII, retrospect, love of nature leading to love of man ; from Book IX, residence in France ; from Book X, residence in France, continued ; from Book XII, imagination and taste, how impaired and restored ; from Book XIII, imagination and taste, how impaired and restored, concluded ; from Book XIV, conclusion / Lucy Gray ; Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; A poet's epitaph ; Matthew ; The two April mornings ; The fountain ; Ellen Irwin ; Michael ; I traveled among unknown men ; To the cuckoo ; My heart leaps up when I behold ; Resolution and independence to H.C. ; I grieved for Buonaparté ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; On the extinction of the Venetian Republic ; Composed by the seaside, near Calais, August, 1802 ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; Near Dover, September, 1802 ; In London, September 1802 ; London, 1802 ; Great men have been among us ; It is not to be thought of ; England! The time is come when thou shouldst wean ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper ; Ode to duty ; Ode, Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood ; With how sad steps, o moon, thou climb'st the sky ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; The world is too much with us ; Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? -- With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh ; To sleep ; Elegiac stanzas ; Character of the happy warrior ; Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland ; Lines : composed at Grasmere ; Laodamía ; Weak is the will of man, his judgment blind ; Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty ; Afterthought ; Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge ; Mutability ; Scorn not the sonnet ; Why art thou silent! ; The Trossachs ; Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg

To a young ass ; The Eolian harp ; The lime tree bower my prison ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; France : an ode ; Kubla Khan ; Dejection : an ode ; To William Wordsworth ; Work without hope / Biographis literaria. from Chapter XIII ; Chapter XIV ; Chapter XV / Shakespearean criticism. from Hamlet ; The tempest

Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; Remember thee! Remember thee! ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib / Stanzas for music ; Sonnet on Chillon ; Darkness ; So we'll go no more a-roving ; Sonnet to Prince Regent ; On my thirty-third birthday ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year / Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. from Canto I ( Childe Harold's Good night, To Inez) ; from Canto III ; from Canto IV / The prisoner of Chillon ; Manfred ; The vision of judgment ; Don Juan. Canto I ; from Canto III

Stanzas, April, 1814 ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Ozymandias ; Ode to the west wind ; Prometheus unbound ; The cloud ; To a skylark ; Ode to liberty ; Arethusa ; Hymn of Apollo ; Hymn of Pan ; To the moon ; from Epipsychidion / Epigrams. To Stella ; Circumstance / from Adonais ; Lines (When the lamp is shattered) ; To Jane : the invitation ; To Jane : the recollection ; A defence of poetry

Imitation of Spenser ; To Byron ; To one who has been long ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; Keen, fitful gusts ; To Haydon ; On the grasshopper and cricket ; On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time ; On the sea ; Endymion : from Book I ; On sitting down to read King Lear once again ; When I have fears ; To Spenser ; What the thrush said ; To Homer ; Fragment of an Ode to Maia ; Where's the poet? ; from Hyperion, Book I ; The eve of St. Agnes ; Why did I laugh? ; Bright star ; On a dream ; La belle dame sans merci ; To sleep ; On the sonnet ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Lamia ; The fall of Hyperion : from Canto I ; This living hand ; To autumn / Letters. To John Hamilton Reymonds, Benjamin Bailey, George and Thomas Keats ; from To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To John Taylor ; from To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To Richard Woodhouse ; from To George and Georgiana Keats ; To Miss Jeffrey, Benjamin Bailey, Percy Blysshe Shelley, Charles Brown

The kraken ; Mariana ; The poet ; The Hesperides ; The lady of Shalott ; Œnone ; The palace of art ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses ; Tithonus ; Break, break, break ; You ask me, why ; Love thou thy land ; Morte D'Arthur. The epic ; Morte d'Arthur / Locksley Hall / Songs from the Princess. Sweet and low ; The splendor falls ; Tears, idle tears ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; The eagle / In Memorium A.H.H. ; Maud ; In the Valley of Cauteretz ; Northern farmer, old style ; Northern farmer, new style ; Lucretium / Idylls of the King. The Holy grail / Frater Ave atque Vale ; To Virgil ; Demeter and Persephone ; Crossing the bar

from Dramatic lyrics. ; Porphyris's lover ; My last duchess ; Count Gismond ; Incident of the French camp ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; Cristina ; The pied piper of Hamelin / from Dramatic romances. How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix ; The lost leader ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home-thoughts, from the sea ; The Bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's Church ; Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / from Men and women. Love among the ruins ; Evelyn Hope ; Up at a villa, down in the city ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; A toccata of Galuppi's ; By the fireside ; My star ; Childe Roland to the dark tower came ; Respectability ; How it strikes a contemporary ; Memorabilia ; Andrea del Sarto ; Saul ; De Gustibus ; Cleon ; Two in the campagna ; A grammarian's funeral / from Dramatis personae. Abt Bogler ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; Confessions ; May and death ; Prospice ; Youth and art / from The ring and the book. Pompilia ; The Pope / from Pacchiarotto. House / from Dramatic idyls, second series. Epilogue, Touch him ne'er so lightly / from Jocoseria. Wanting is-- what? ; Never the time and the place / from Asolando. Dubiety ; Epilogue, At midnight in the silence

The strayed reveler ; To a friend ; Shakespeare ; Written in Butler's sermons ; In harmony with nature ; To a Republican friend, 1848 ; To a Republican friend, 1848 (continued) ; Religious isolation ; The forsaken merman ; Urania ; Euphrosyne ; Meeting ; A farewell ; Isolation : to Marguerite ; To Marguerite, continued ; Absence ; Longing ; Destiny ; Human life ; Self-deception ; Youth and calm ; Memorial verses ; Courage ; Self-dependence ; A summer night ; The buried life ; Lines written in Kensington Gardens ; from Sohrab and Rustum ; Philomela ; Requiescat ; The scholar gypsy ; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ; Thyrsis ; Persistency of poetry ; Dover Beach ; Fragment of chorus of a Dejaneira ; Early death and fame ; Growing old ; The progress of Poesy ; The last word ; Rugby Chapel ; Preface to Poems, edition of 1853 ; Advertisement to the second edition of Poems ; The function of criticism at the present time ; Literature and science ; The study of poetry ; Wordsworth ; John Keats

Man and superman. Epistle dedicatory

The lake isle of Innisfree ; Who goes with Fergus? ; The folly of being comforted ; No second Troy ; To a friend whose work has come to nothing ; The magi ; The dolls ; The wild swans at Coole ; Men improve with the years ; Lines written in dejection ; The fisherman ; Easter 1916 ; The second coming ; Sailing to Byzantium ; from The tower : III ; Two songs from a play ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz ; from Blood and the moon : I and II ; The nineteenth century and after ; Coole Park, 1929 ; from Vacillation : VII and VIII ; Words for music perhaps. XVII, After long silence ; XVIII, Mad as the mist and snow / An acre of grass ; The wild old wicked man ; A bronze head / from The Autobiography. Middletons and Pollexfens ; Early reading ; His father's influence ; Personal utterance ; A Pre-Raphaelite's son ; Maud Gonne The mask ( Morris : his antithetical dream ; Yeats's anti-self ; Abstraction) ; Unity of being : unity of culture ( A world of fragments ; Image of unity ; Shaw's Arms and the man ; Wilson and Shaw : Phases of the moon ; The tragic generation) ; Yeats on his own writing / from the Essays. Personality and the intellectual essences ; Rhetoricians, sentimentalists, and poets

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Sweeney among the nightingales / The waste land. I, The burial of the dead ; II, A game of chess ; III, The fire sermon ; IV, Death by water ; V, What the thunder said / The hollow men ; Marina ; Triumphal march ; The dry salvages ; Hamlet ; The metaphysical poets ; The music of poetry