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