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V.1: Partial contents : from The wife of Bath's tale: In th' olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour -- Get up and bar the door ; God rest you merry gentlemen / Anonymous -- Verses written in his Bible / Sir Walter Raleigh -- from The faery queen: The noble heart that harbours... / Edmund Spenser -- The shepard's wife song / Robert Greene -- from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus: Ah, Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day / William Shakespeare -- O, the month of May / Thomas Dekker -- To the memory of William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson -- Love's progress ; Death be not proud / John Donne -- To violets / Robert Herrick -- Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers / Thomas Carew. V.1: Partial contents cont'd : from Paradise lost: Hail, holy light, thou offspring of heav'n's first born / John Milton -- Long betwixt love and fear / John Dryden -- A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift -- Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope -- from London: By numbers here from shame or censure free / Samuel Johnson -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- from Love in a village: There was a jolly miller once / Isaac Bickerstaffe -- To the muses / William Blake -- A poet's welcome to his love-begotten daughter / Robert Burns. V.2: Partial contents : I wandered lonely... / William Wordsworth -- selections from The lady in the lake / Sir Walter Scott -- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- selections from Don Juan / Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord -- To...: one word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- On a grecian urn / John Keats -- selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Fra lippo lippi / Robert Browning -- On the death of Anne Bronte / Charlotte Bronte -- At castle wood / Emily Jane Bronte. V.2: Partial contents cont'd : When lilacs last in the dooryard blom'd / Walt Whitman -- Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville -- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling -- A newspaper is... / Stephen Crane -- Elegy in a country churchyard / G. K. Chesterton -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight / James Joyce -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- Ninth philosopher's song / Aldous Huxley -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas.