Familiar poems, annotated

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

Subjects: English poetry, American poetry

Description: 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