Collecting some of the greatest poems in the English language, this substantial anthology includes such favorites as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," John Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud," Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed." Under such headings as Friendship, Courage, and Celebration, here too are selections by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, Emily Bronte, A.E. Housman, William Blake, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many more.