Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems Worth Reading Book

	Preface
	Western Wind	1
	Sir Patrick Spence	1
	The Nymph's Reply	3
	Since There's No Help	4
	The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	4
	Sonnet 18 [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]	5
	Sonnet 29 [When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes]	6
	Sonnet 73 [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]	6
	Sonnet 130 [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]	7
	There is a Garden in Her Face	8
	Death Be Not Proud	9
	A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	9
	Song	11
	On My First Son	12
	To Celia	12
	To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	13
	Easter Wings	14
	When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	15
	The Author to Her Book	15
	To My Dear and Loving Husband	16
	The Lucasta, on going to the Wars	17
	To His Coy Mistress	17
	A Description of the Morning	19
	From An Essay on Criticism	20
	Epigram	21
	To the University of Cambridge, in New-England	21
	The Tyger	22
	The Sick Rose	23
	London	23
	Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	24
	Composed upon Westminster Bridge	28
	The World Is Too Much with Us	28
	Kubla Khan	29
	When We Two Parted	31
	She Walks in Beauty	32
	Ozymandias	33
	Ode to the West Wind	33
	When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be	36
	To Autumn	36
	Ode on a Grecian Urn	37
	How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	39
	To Helen	39
	The Raven	40
	Ulysses	43
	Tears, Idle Tears	45
	My Last Duchess	46
	Song of Myself, 6	47
	When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	49
	Cavalry Crossing a Ford	49
	A Noiseless Patient Spider	50
	Dover Beach	50
	Uphill	51
	Wild Nights - Wild Nights!	52
	The Soul Selects Her Own Society	53
	I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died	53
	After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes	54
	Neutral Tones	54
	The Man He Killed	55
	God's Grandeur	56
	Pied Beauty	56
	To an Athlete Dying Young	57
	Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	58
	The Lake Isle of Innisfree	58
	When You Are Old	59
	The Second Coming	59
	Sailing to Byzantium	60
	Richard Cory	61
	Mr. Food's Party	62
	We Wear the Mask	63
	Mending Wall	64
	After Apple-Picking	65
	Birches	66
	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	68
	Patterns	68
	Fog	71
	A Fence	72
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	72
	The Snow Man	75
	The Emperor of Ice-Cream	75
	To Waken an Old Lady	76
	The Red Wheelbarrow	76
	This Is Just to Say	77
	Wild Peaches	77
	The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	79
	In a Station of the Metro	80
	Heat	81
	Poetry	81
	A Grave	83
	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	84
	Preludes	88
	Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	90
	America	91
	First Fig	91
	What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	92
	Ars Poetica	92
	Dulce et Decorum Est	93
	Resume	95
	Buffalo Bill's	95
	in Just-	96
	anyone live in a pretty how town	96
	Song of the Son	98
	Reapers	99
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	99
	Mother to Son	100
	Harlem	100
	Incident	101
	Musee des Beaux Arts	101
	My Papa's Waltz	102
	The Fish	103
	Sestina	105
	Those Winter Sundays	106
	Love Poem	107
	Traveling through the Dark	108
	Fern Hill	109
	Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	110
	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	111
	Dream Song 4	112
	We Real Cool	113
	For the Union Dead	113
	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	116
	Aubade	117
	A Supermarket in California	118
	Paradoxes and Oxymorons	119
	A Blessing	120
	Cinderella	121
	A Walk	124
	Ethics	125
	Metaphors	126
	Daddy	126
	The Tunnel	128
	The Storm	130
	Homage to My Hips	130
	Barbie Doll	131
	Siren Song	132
	Digging	133
	The One Girl at the Boys' Party	134
	The School Children	135
	Facing It	136
	Prayer to the Pacific	137
	An Aubade	138
	The Colonel	139
	Eagle Poem	140
	Daystar	140
	The Traveling Onion	141
	Oranges	142
	Bilingual Sestina	144
	Boulevard du Montparnasse	145
	Lost Sister	146
	Eating Together	148
	The Next Poem Could Be Your Last	149
	Author Biographies	151
	Acknowledgments	183
	Historical Context for Poems	187
	Index	192