One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether youre looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps youre feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips.

From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, this comprehensive collection contains examples of the many periods of writing from England to Scotland and on to the United States.

Included are such favorites as:

Walt Whitmans O Captain! My Captain!

Eugene Fields Little Boy Blue

Percy Bysshe Shelleys To a Skylark

Joyce Kilmers Trees

Robert Burns Letter to a Young Friend

Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Paul Reveres Ride

Edgar Allan Poes The Raven

Three indices let you find your favorite poems by title, author, and first line.