CROW'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE Ted Hughes THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL Sir Walter Scott THEME FOR ENGLISH B Langston Hughes OLD SHEPHERD’S PRAYER Charlotte Mew DIGGING Seamus Heaney AMOR MUNDI Christina Rossetti AUTUMN Roy Campbell YOUTH AND AGE Ecclesiastes SONNET IV (from) A Few Figs From Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay PSALM 100 (from) The Book of Psalms ERNIE and IT HURT James Kavanaugh JEST ‘FORE CHRISTMAS Eugene Field THE OXEN Thomas Hardy JOURNEY OF THE MAGI T. S. Eliot THE FABULISTS Rudyard Kipling THE THINGS THAT MATTER E. Nesbit HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT Philip Larkin TEN SONGS (Number One) W. H. Auden WHEN YOU ARE OLD and THE SECOND COMING William Butler Yeats SANCTUARY Donald Davidson WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON John Keats LEPANTO G. K. Chesterton DOVER BEACH Matthew Arnold THE SPELL OF THE YUKON Robert Service EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIÆ Victor Gustave Plarr BARBARA FRIETCHIE John Greenleaf Whittier THE WHITE CLIFFS Alice Duer Miller THE LITTLE BOY AND THE LITTLE OLD MAN Shel Silverstein IN FLANDERS FIELDS John McCrae SARAH BYNG Hilaire Belloc FOUR POEMS Stephen Crane OZYMANDIAS Percy Bysshe Shelley THE SONG OF THE THRUSH T. A. Daly SOLILOQUY FROM HENRY VI, PART III William Shakespeare THE JANITOR'S BOY and THE DUST Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane THE WAR SONG OF THE SARACENS James Elroy Flecker PARADISE LOST - Excerpts from Book III John Milton THE FIGHT ON THE SAN MAURICE Frank C. Roberts THE BELLS Edgar Allen Poe LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE Edwin Markham RAGGED OLD FLAG Johnny Cash THE VICAR OF BRAY Anonymous TO VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME Robert Herrick TWO LOOK AT TWO Robert Frost JOHN BROWN Vachel Lindsay THE FIRED POT and THE AFFINITY Anna Wickham THE SOLITARY and THE LONG HILL Sara Teasdale EPITAPH John Heath-Stubbs ULYSSES Alfred Lord Tennyson GOOD AND CLEVER Elizabeth Wordsworth THIS EXCELLENT MACHINE John Lehmann CHOCOLATE CAKE Michael Rosen WARNING Jenny Joseph HARLEM SWEETIES Langston Hughes MR. FLOOD'S PARTY Edwin Arlington Robinson LUCINDA MATLOCK and KNOWLT HOHEIMER Edwin Arlington Robinson O WORLD, THOU CHOOSEST NOT THE BETTER PART George Santayana STAY WITH ME, GOD - A SOLDIER'S PRAYER Anonymous THE FARMER'S BRIDE Charlotte Mew THANKSGIVING Lancelot Andrewes HEM AND HAW Bliss Carman NATURE Henry Wadsworth Longfellow SNAKE D. H. Lawrence CHRISTMAS John Betjeman THE MASTER and THE ARTIST Seamus Heaney WHEN I AM DEAD George Macbeth VALUABLE Stevie Smith YEAR'S END Richard Wilbur THIRTY BOB A WEEK John Davidson SONG and REMEMBER Christina Rossetti THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE Christopher Marlowe THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD Sir Walter Raleigh A FALLEN IDOL and SOLOMON, LIVE UP TO YOUR NAME John C. Madden, Jr. CRAFTSMEN V. Sackville-West nobody loses all the time e. e. cummings THE SONG OF THE SHADOWS Walter de la Mare THE ZULU GIRL Roy Campbell THE MIND TREE Tito Mukhopadhyay THE LEGION CLUB Jonathan Swift THE CONCERT Edna St. Vincent Millay VILLAGE NOON: MID-DAY BELLS and SHOT WHO? JIM LANE! Merrill Moore MEETING-HOUSE HILL and TAXI Amy Lowell THE RUINED MAID and THE MAN HE KILLED Thomas Hardy I SEE YOU JULIET and ON THE SHORTNESS OF TIME Wilfrid Scawen Blunt HOW DO I LOVE THEE? Elizabeth Barrett Browning WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM Basil Bunting LET ME DIE A YOUNGMAN'S DEATH Roger McGough EAST COKER (Part IV) T.S. Eliot THE LEADEN ECHO Gerard Manley Hopkins WILD PEACHES Elinor Wylie THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS Rudyard Kipling THE BAREFOOT BOY John Greenleaf Whittier NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE Ernest Dowson LOVE 20¢ THE FIRST QUARTER MILE Kenneth Fearing CHURCH GOING Philip Larkin THE RIVER MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER Ezra Pound THANKSGIVING Edgar Guest PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER and THE MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN Dorothy Parker THE DONKEY G.K. Chesterton WHAT THE DONKEY SAW U.A. Fanthorpe THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE Voltaire THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES W. H. Auden POLITICS William Butler Yeats THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Matthew Arnold BESSIE'S BOIL Robert Service THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE Oliver Wendell Holmes MY OLD CAT Hal Summers THERE'S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT and A CHARM INVESTS A FACE Emily Dickinson THANATOPSIS William Cullen Bryant THE HORSES Edwin Muir SANTA CLAUS in a department store Christopher Hassall HAWK ROOSTING Ted Hughes NOT MY BEST SIDE U.A. Fanthorpe BELLE ISLE, 1949 Philip Levine THE SONG OF THE BANANA MAN Evan Jones THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS Robert Hayden YOU WERE WEARING Kenneth Koch PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE Henry Reed FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE FROG PRINCE Susan Mitchell YOKO Thom Gunn STILL LIFE C.K. Williams TRUE LOVE and SOME ADVICE FROM A MOTHER TO HER MARRIED SON C.K. Williams DREAM ON James Tate RECUERDO and THE PENITENT Edna St. Vincent Millay DIARY OF A CHURCH MOUSE John Betjeman THE SECRET Denise Levertov THE WRITER Richard Wilbur EVOLUTION Langdon Smith VALE FROM CARTHAGE Peter Viereck AN OX LOOKS AT MAN Carlos Drummond de Andrad WITH THE CATTLE Andrew Barton Paterson LITTLE BROWN BABY Paul Laurence Dunbar NATURAL HISTORY E. B. White A LETTER FROM A GIRL TO HER OWN OLD AGE Alice Meynell LETTER FROM LT. HOOK Lt. H.B. "Hank" Hook THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN Rudyard Kipling THE FOOL'S PRAYER Edward Rowland Sill AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA Frank O'Hara CROW'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE Ted Hughes

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