Perrine's literature -- Tenth Edition

Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson, Антон Павлович Чехов, Margaret Atwood, Albert Camus, Chinua Achebe, Kate Chopin, Richard Connell

This collection contains: The most dangerous game / Richard Connell Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff The destructors / Graham Greene How I met my husband / Alice Munro Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri Everyday use / Alice Walker Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux The darling / Anton Chekhov A worn path / Eudora Welty Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer Paul's case / Willa Cather The lottery / Shirley Jackson The jilting of Granny Wetherall / Katherine Anne Porter Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The drunkard / Frank O'Connor Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood The guest / Albert Camus Roman fever / Edith Wharton A new leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The swimmer / John Cheever [The story of an hour ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)/ Kate Chopin A rose for Emily / William Faulkner A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale hurston The real thing / Henry James Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe A & P / John Updike The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Winter / William Shakespeare Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare The whipping / Robert Hayden The last night that she lived / Emily Dickinson Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman Archibald MacLeish The man he killed / Thomas Hardy A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin Is my team plowing / A.E. Housman Break of day / John Donne There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson When in Rome / Mari Evans Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine Question / May Swenson Mirror / Sylvia Plath The clod and the pebble / William Blake Ethics / Linda Pastan Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich. There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson When my love swears she is made of truth / William Shakespeare Pathedy of manners / Ellen Kay Naming of parts / Henry Reed Cross / Langston Hughes The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth Desert places / Robert Frost Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie A hymn to God the Father / John Donne One art / Elizabeth Bishop 35/10 / Sharon Olds Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson Living in sin / Adrienne Rich The forge / Seamus Heaney After apple-picking / Robert Frost Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden An August night / Seamus Heaney The snow man / Wallace Stevens / To autumn / John Keats Harlem / Langston Hughes Bereft / Robert Frost It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet The telephone / Maya Angelou Bright star / John Keats Mind / Richard Wilbur I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson Metaphors / Sylvia Plath Toads / Philip Larkin Ghost of a chance / Adrienne Rich A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins The road not taken / Robert Frost A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman The sick rose / William Blake Digging / Seamus Heaney To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick Peace / George Herbert The writer / Richard Wilbur Fire and ice / Robert Frost Up-hill / Christina Rossetti Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson Hymn to God my God, in my sickness / John Donne Weighing the dog / Billy Collins Ulysses / Alfred. Lord Tennyson Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson The sun rising / John Donne Incident / Countee Cullen Barbie doll / Marge Piercy The chimney sweeper / William Blake Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley Lady luncheon club / Maya Angelou Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne Sorting laundry / Elisavietta Ritchie The history teacher / Billy Collins Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney A considerable speck / Robert Frost The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden in the inner city / Lucille Clifton My last duchess / Robert Browning "Out, out" / Robert Frost "She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare in Just / e.e. cummings Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen On his blindness / John Milton Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson My son the man / Sharon Olds Siren song / Margaret Atwood Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot Little Jack Horner / Anonymous Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson Design / Robert Frost I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson "Faith" is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson On the sonnet / John Keats Sonnet / Billy Collins The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake The indifferent / John Donne Love's deity / John Donne My number / Billy Collins I had heard it's a fight / Edwin Denby. For a lamb / Richard Eberhart Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson Since there's no help / Michael Drayton Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins My mistress' eyes / William Shakespeare Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson The oxen / Thomas Hardy One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us / Emily Dickinson The apparition ; The flea / John Donne Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold Church going / Philip Larkin The turtle / Ogden Nash That night when joy began / W.H. Auden The waking / Theodore Roethke God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Wlliam Shakespeare We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks Woman work / Maya Angelou Rite of passage / Sharon Olds As imperceptibly as grief / Emily Dickinson Music lessons / Mary Oliver Traveling through the dark / William Stafford Thistles / Ted Hughes Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost Virtue / George Herbert "Introduction" to Songs of innocence / William Blake Had I the choice / Walt Whitman The aim was song / Robert Frost Stanzas / George Gordon, Lord Byron Old ladies' home / Sylvia Plath Africa / Maya Angelou To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan A blessing / James Wright Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman Sound and sense / Alexander Pope I heard a fly buzz-when I died / Emily Dickinson Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen Landcrab / Margaret Atwood Tree at my window / Robert Frost Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne Blackberry eating / Galway Kinnell The health-food diner / Maya Angelou The dance / William Carlos Williams The pulley / George Herbert On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats That time of year / William Shakespeare Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas From Romeo and juliet / William Shakespeare Death, be not proud / John Donne The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson The white city / Claude McKay America / Claude McKay We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton / Kim Addonizio Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / T.S. Eliot Villanelle for an anniversary / Seamus Heaney The house on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick Still to be near / Ben Jonson The canonization / John Donne Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats Home burial / Robert Frost. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot Sunday mornig / Wallace Stevens The weary blues / Langston Hughes The fish / Elizabeth Bishop Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden Main character / Jimmy Santiago Baca On her loving two equally / Aphra Behn On reading poems to a senior class at South High / D.C. Berry Manners / Elizabeth Bishop Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega / Gwendolyn Brooks Combing / Gladys Cardiff To the ladies / Mary, Lady Chudleigh good times / Lucille Clifton Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge Voyages / Hart Crane War is kind / Stephen Crane the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand / e. e. cummings A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony / Emily Dickinson The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star / John Donne Nexus ; Persephone, falling / Rita Dove Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti The colonel / Carolyn Forché Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg From the wave / Thom Gunn Snow White and the seven deadly sins / R.S. Gwynn On the death of a child / Daniel Halpern Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy Follower / Seamus Heaney To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant / Langston Hughes The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell To Celia / Ben Jonson Warning / Jenny Joseph Men at forty / Donald Justice La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent / John Keats Aubade / Philip Larkin The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff / Denise Levertov To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace Puberty / William Matthews Silence / Marianne Moore Dim lady / Harryette Mullen I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims / Sharon Olds Résumé / Dorothy Parker A work of artifice / Marge Piercy Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights / Sylvia Plath Epigram from the French / Alexander Pope Salutation / Ezra Pound Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom Poetry: I / Adrienne Rich The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar / Theodore Roethke Young / Anne Sexton Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare Watermelons / Charles Simic Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith Small town with one road / Gary Soto One day I wrote her name upon the sand / Edmund Spenser Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens. A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas The virgins / Derek Walcott To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand / Walt Whitman The Critic / C/ K. Williams Poem ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary / Yvor Winters I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats Trifles / Susan Glaspell The stronger / August Strindberg Beauty / Jane Martin Tape /José Rivera POOF! / Lynn Nottage The sandbox / Edward Albee Time flies / David Ives A doll house / Hendrik Ibsen The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams Los vendidos / Luis Valdez Oedipus Rex / Sophocles Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare Tartuffe / Molière Am I blue / Beth Henley Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare Fences / August Wilson André's mother / Terrence McNally.