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. |
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Contents
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 OThSun | 20 |
Come Live with me and be my Love | 27 |
Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind | 34 |
To Celia | 40 |
The | 47 |
Kubla Khan | 110 |
Rising Five | 117 |
Monologue | 124 |
The Old Familiar Faces | 137 |
Full Moon and Little Frieda | 149 |
Marrysong | 155 |
A Different History | 161 |
Pike | 167 |
The Grasshopper | 53 |
The Rights of Woman | 57 |
Love Armed | 60 |
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 |
Death the Leveller | 103 |
From Song of Myself | 192 |
Ozymandias | 201 |
Childhood | 207 |
Praise Song For My Mother | 214 |
The Trees | 220 |
You Cannot Do This | 226 |
Friend | 229 |
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol | 243 |
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