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Tables of Contents for Verses of the Poets Laureate
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
4
5
Introduction
9
8
Andrew Motion
John Dryden 1631--1700
17
12
``Why should a foolish marriage vow''
19
1
from Astrea Redux
20
1
Death, the End of All
21
2
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
23
3
The nocturnal activities of Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius
26
3
Thomas Shadwell 1642--1692
29
4
from An Ode on the Queen's Birthday
30
1
Song
31
2
Nahum Tate 1652--1715
33
6
``As pants the hart for cooling streams''
34
1
The Round
35
1
``While shepherds watched their flocks by night''
36
1
Mr. Tate, the Poet-Laureat's Song
37
2
Nicholas Rowe 1674--1718
39
4
Song, on a fine woman who had a dull husband
40
1
from Ode for the New Year, 1716
40
3
Laurence Eusden 1688--1730
43
4
Ode for the New Year
44
3
Colley Cibber 1671--1757
47
6
Song
48
1
``What tho' they call me Country Lass''
49
1
Birthday Ode
50
3
William Whitehead 1715--1785
53
4
Song for Ranelagh
54
1
Birthday Ode
55
2
Thomas Warton 1728--1790
57
6
To the River Lodon
59
1
``As when the demon of the Summer storm''
60
3
Henry Pye 1745--1813
63
4
``Nurtur'd in storms the infant year''
64
1
from On the Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Caroline of Brunswick
65
2
Robert Southey 1774--1843
67
10
After Blenheim
68
3
The Immortality of Love
71
1
The Well of St. Keyne
72
2
from An Ode for St. George's Day
74
3
William Wordsworth 1770--1850
77
20
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
79
6
``A slumber did my spirit seal''
85
1
Song
85
1
London, 1802
86
1
``I wandered lonely as a Cloud''
87
1
``My heart leaps up when I behold''
88
1
Ode
88
6
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
94
1
``The world is too much with us''
95
2
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809--1892
97
28
The Lady of Shalott
99
7
from The Lotos-Eaters
106
2
``Break, break, break''
108
1
``The splendour falls on castle walls''
109
1
from In Memoriam A. H. H.
110
6
from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
116
3
The Charge of the Light Brigade
119
2
from On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
121
2
Crossing the Bar
123
2
Alfred Austin 1835--1913
125
8
Love's Unity
127
1
As Dies the Year
127
2
Sonnet Written in Mid-Channel
129
1
from Victoria, May 24, 1819--January 22, 1901
130
3
Robert Bridges 1844--1930
133
12
Triolet
134
1
A Passer-By
135
1
London Snow
136
2
``So sweet love seemed''
138
1
Nightingales
139
1
``When Death to either shall come''
140
1
Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913
140
2
Fortunatus Nimium
142
3
John Masefield 1878--1967
145
12
Trade Winds
147
1
Sea-Fever
147
1
Cargoes
148
1
The Emigrant
149
1
The Seekers
150
1
The West Wind
151
1
``Night is on the downland, on the lonely moorland''
152
1
The Rider at the Gate
153
4
Cecil Day Lewis 1904--1972
157
12
The Conflict
159
1
A Carol
160
1
Departure in the Dark
161
2
Hornpipe
163
1
``If love means exploration''
164
1
Circus Lion
165
1
Walking Away
166
1
from Battle of Britain
167
1
Where are the War Poets?
167
2
Sir John Betjeman 1906--1984
169
14
Slough
171
2
In Westminster Abbey
173
2
A Shropshire Lad
175
2
In a Bath Teashop
177
1
Sun and Fun
177
2
How to Get On in Society
179
1
Late-Flowering Lust
180
3
Ted Hughes 1930--1998
183
14
The Thought-Fox
184
1
Fern
185
1
Pibroch
186
1
Crow's Fall
187
1
Crow's Vanity
188
1
Conjuring in Heaven
189
1
A March Calf
190
2
Little Salmon Hymn
192
1
Daffodils
193
4
Andrew Motion 1952--
197
9
In the Attic
199
1
A Blow to the Head
200
4
On the Table
204
1
Hey nonny
205
1
Epithalamium, St. George's Chapel, Windsor
206