The title collects 41 English popular Poetry and Popular Verse written by William Shakespeare, John Donne, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Ben Johnson, Thomas Hood, Laurence Binyon, William Wordsworth, etc. These popular poetry and verse include "Shall I compare thee to a summe's day, "Death be not proud, "An Elegy written in a country churchyard, "Song to Celia", "the Lady of Shalott, "Soldier", "She walks in beauty, "Nightingale". "Down by the Salley Gardens". It is fair to say that this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available, it covers a remarkable range, from striking visions of Blake and Shelly and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Kipling, Chesterton and Edward Lear. These 41 popular poetry and verse are:1. William Shakespeare Sonnet 2. John Donne Death Be Not Proud 3. John Milton On His Blindness 4. Thomas Gray An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard 5. William Blake London 6. Robert Bums My Luve's Like A Red Red Rose 7. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely 8. Lord Byron She Walks In Beauty 9. Robert Herrick To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time 10. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozynandias 11. Robert Browning Home-thoughts, From Abroad 12. John Keats Ode To The Nightingale 13. Elizabeth Browning From Sonnets From The Portuguese 14. Alfred Tennyson Summer Night 15. Christina Rossetti Song 16. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach 17. Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush 18. Rupert Brooke The Soldier 19. William Butler Yeats When You Are Old 20. Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting 21. Ben Johnson Song to Celia 22. William Cowper Verses 23. William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 24. Leigh Hunt Jenny Kiss'd Me 25. Thomas Hood Remember, I Remember 26. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow The Wreck Of The Hesperus 27. Alfred Tennyson The Lady Of Shalott 28. Robert Browning Home-Thoughts, From The Sea 29. Arthur William Adgar O'Shaughnessy Ode 30. Edward Lear Ode The Owl And The Pussy Cat 31. Henry Nowbolt Drake's Drum 32. Laurence Binyon Invocation To Youth 33. Rudyard Kiplins If 34. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Rolling English Road 35. William Butler Yeats Down By The Sally Gardens 36. W. S. Gilbert The Nightmare 37. Oliver Goldsmith Woman 38. Lewis Carroll You Are Old, Father William 39. Ernest Dowson Non Sum Qualis Eran Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 40. William Henry Davies Leisure 41. W. E. Henley Invictus
