FAVORITES FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING POETS

Andrew Marvell: Bermudas   An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland

Samuel Butler: Hudibras

John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

Henry Vaughn: The World   Beyond the Veil

Anonymous: Tom O’Bedlam    The Vicar of Bray

Ralph Erskine: Smoking Spiritualized

James Mangan: A Song from the Coptic

D.G. Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel

George Meredith: Lucifer in Starlight

Robert Browning: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Christopher Smart: A Song to David

Rudyard Kipling: Recessional   When Earth’s Last Picture is Painted

W. H. Auden: As I walked Out One Evening

Louis Macneice: Bagpipe Music

A. H. Clough: There Is No God 

Roy Fuller: Translation