Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Ah, are you digging on my grave? / Thomas Hardy -- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Hawk roosting / Ted Hughes -- The highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- Hunger in New York city / Simon Ortiz -- Oysters / Anne Sexton -- Psalm 23 / King James Bible -- Richard Cory / E. A. Robinson -- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Shine, persihing republic / Robinson Jeffers -- Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous -- Sonnet 30 / William Shakespeare -- Strong men, riding horses / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- This is my letter to the world / Emily Dickson -- Toads / Philip Larkin -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- When I was one-and-twenty / A. E. Housman.