Foreword by Michael Hennessy

EARLY POETS OF GREECE, ROME, AND CHINA
SAPPHO Be Kind to Me
SAPPHO It s No Use
SAPPHO Tonight I ve Watched
SAPPHO You May Forget But
ANACREON Wreath
ANACREON On Drinking .
PRAXILLA Adonis in the Underworld
PRAXILLA Seek Love among the Brave
ANYTE The Cock Shall Crow No More
ANYTE Elm Tree
CATULLUS Poem 70
CATULLUS Poem 85
CATULLUS Poem 92
CATULLUS Poem 101
ANONYMOUS (CHINESE) Meeting in the Road
EMPEROR WUTI On the Death of Li Fuje¯n
MARTIAL Epigram 10.47
MARTIAL Epigram 10.61
MARTIAL Epigram 5.9
MARTIAL Epigram 9.33
MARTIAL Epigram 6.12
MARTIAL Epigram 6.57
PHILIP OF THESSALONICA A Gardener
ANONYMOUS (CHINESE) Plucking the Rushes
JULIAN THE EGYPTIAN Two Epigrams
LI BAI Thoughts in the Silent Night
LI BAI Taking Leave of a Friend
WANG WEI Deer Enclosure
WANG WEI Thinking of My Brothers
DU FU Travelling Northward
DU FU Sunset
BAI JUYI Spring Grasses

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN POETS
ANONYMOUS From The Triads of Ireland
ANONYMOUS The Viking Terror
HANSHAN Two Songs of Cold Mountain
LU YOU Evening in the Village
ARNAUT DANIEL Alba
ANONYMOUS Cuckoo Song
RUMI Yesterday I Went to Him Full of Dismay
ANONYMOUS Fowls in the Frith
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Rondeau
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Roundel: Welcome Summer
ANONYMOUS Thirty Days Has November
ANONYMOUS I Am of Ireland
ARAKIDA MORITAKE Fallen Flower
ARAKIDA MORITAKE Summer Night
PIERRE DE RONSARD A Shepherd Prays to the God Pan
ANONYMOUS Western Wind
ANONYMOUS Hey Nonny No
ANONYMOUS Two Madrigals
EDMUND SPENSER Shipwreck
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A Ditty
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ariel s Song
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full Fathom Five
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Mistress Mine
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred
THOMAS DEKKER Golden Slumbers

SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETS
JOHN DONNE A Burnt Ship
JOHN DONNE No Man Is an Island
BEN JONSON The Kiss
BEN JONSON On My First Son
JOHN FLETCHER Care-Charming Sleep
ROBERT HERRICK Upon Julia s Clothes
ROBERT HERRICK On Julia s Breath
ROBERT HERRICK Upon a Child
ROBERT HERRICK Upon Prue, His Maid
GEORGE HERBERT Bitter-Sweet
JOHN MILTON Song on May Morning
ANNE BRADSTREET To My Dear and Loving Husband
RICHARD CRASHAW To the Infant Martyrs
RICHARD CRASHAW Upon the Infant Martyrs
RICHARD LOVELACE To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
JOHN DRYDEN Song Sung by Aerial Spirits
MATSUO BASH¯O Four Haiku
ANNE FINCH On Myself
JONATHAN SWIFT From Verses Made for Fruit-Women
ALEXANDER POPE Upon a Girl of Seven Years Old
FUKUDA CHIYONI Four Haiku
YOSA BUSON Four Haiku
ANONYMOUS From Tommy Thumb s Pretty Song Book
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wayfarer s Night Song
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All Things the Gods Bestow
Three Epigrams: Sir Henry Wotton
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Alexander Pope
PHILLIS WHEATLEY On Being Brought from Africa to America
KOBAYASHI ISSA Four Haiku
ROBERT BURNS The Ploughman s Life
ROBERT BURNS Anna, Thy Charms
WILLIAM BLAKE Infant Joy
WILLIAM BLAKE Infant Sorrow
WILLIAM BLAKE Eternity
WILLIAM BLAKE The Sick Rose
ANONYMOUS From Mother Goose s Melody

NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My Heart Leaps Up
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH From Journal Written at Grasmere
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Answer to a Child s Question
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE On Donne s Poetry
LEIGH HUNT Jenny Kissed Me
GEORGE GORDON, LOR