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The Seagull Reader: Poems (Second Edition)
The Seagull Reader Poems - Second Edition Author:Joseph Kelly (Editor) Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value editions, The Seagull Readers are a portable and inexpensive alternative to bulky anthologies. Each volume offers an inviting mix of classics and less familiar pieces, complemented by concise genre introductions, short headnotes and annotations, brief ... more »author biographies, and a glossary of terms.
Introduction: What is poetry? --
Poems: Western Wind / Anonymous --
Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous --
School prayer / Diane Ackerman --
Palm tree king / John Agard --
The man with the hardest belly / Paul Allen --
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold --
The painter / John Ashbery --
At North Farm / John Ashbery --
You fit into me / Margaret Atwood --
As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden --
MuseÌe des Beaux Arts / / W. H. Auden --
In memory of W.B. Yeats / W. H. Auden --
The rights of woman / Anna Letitia Barbauld --
To the fair Clarinda / Aphra Behn --
The dream songs / John Berryman --
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop --
Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop --
To Autumn / William Blake --
The lamb / William Blake --
The chimney sweeper (1789) / William Blake --
The sick rose / William Blake --
The tyger / William Blake --
London / William Blake --
The chimney sweeper (1794) / William Blake --
The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet --
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --
A letter to her husband, absent upon public / Anne Bradstreet --
Employment / Anne Bradstreet --
I'm happiest when most away / Emily BronteÌ --
The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks --
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath") / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
43 ("How do I love thee? let me count the ways") / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
My last duchess / Robert Browning --
Love among the ruins / Robert Browning --
The way / Lynne Bryer --
A red, red rose / Robert Burns --
She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
So, we'll go no more a-roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campion --
I found Orpheus levitating / Nick CarboÌ --
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --
To Rosemounde / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Lak of Stedfastnesse / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton --
Lorena / Lucille Clifton --
Coleridge, Dejection: An ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins --
Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins --
On turning ten / Billy Collins --
Sonnet / Billy Collins --
Buffalo Bill's / E.E. Cummings --
In just / E.E. Cummings --
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings --