Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The destruction of Sennacherib / George Gordon Byron
The vision of Belshazzar / George Gordon Byron
Alexander's feast / John Dryden
Antony to Cleopatra / William Haines Lytle
The angels' song / Edmund Hamilton Sears
Boadicea / William Cowper
The Pied Piper of Hamlin / Robert Browning
Bruce to his men at Bannockburn / Robert Burns
Lepanto / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The "revenge" / Alfred Tennyson
The landing of the pilgrim fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans
On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
The deacon's masterpiece / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the extinction of the Venetian Republic / William Wordsworth
Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
A visit from Saint Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Helen / Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters
The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Tennyson
Maryland, my Maryland / James Ryder Randall
Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman
Invictus / William Ernest Henley
The modern major-general / William Schwenk Gilbert
The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus
Recessional / Rudyard Kipling
Cargoes / John Masefield
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
In Flanders fields / John McCrae
Fire and ice / Robert Frost

Isaac Asimov, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Dryden, William Haines Lytle, Edmund H. Sears, William Cowper, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, John Milton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wordsworth, Francis Scott Key, John Keats, Clement Clarke Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, James Ryder Randall, Julia Ward Howe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, William Ernest Henley, W. S. Gilbert, Emma Lazarus, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, McCrae, John, Robert Frost

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Random House, Incorporated

Delacorte Press

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, US, 1977

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Explanatory commentary accompanies thirty-seven frequently anthologized and quoted verses presented in order of the time in which the key event in each poem takes place

1977: by Isaac Asimov - 272 pages - 37 familiar poems annotated as only Asimov could do it - Inimitably informative and entertaining

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2023-06-28