The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Hardcover)

from lizzy_bb

Contains "Love's Farewell", which has my favourite opening lines of just about any poem: "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;"

from jarvenpa

My own copy is a well worn red hardcover published in the 1940's, bearing my first scribbles over the drawings. It is the first book I remember in my life, hence the nostalgic 5 star rating. I drew in it as a toddler and haltingly made out words as I learned them (I was a freakishly early reader,...

from osunale

This is a superb anthology. Palgrave's selection is fantastic; this volume contains several of my favorite poems and many great ones that I'd not encountered before reading this book. The arrangement is also wonderful, and allowed this to become the only anthology of poetry that I have actually s...

from chibitika

English poetry from the 1500's through the 1800's. Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland from 1850-1892. It has end notes with lots of extra information, an index of writers, an index of poems, and an index of first lines. A few of the black and white line drawi...

from lizzy_bb

Contains "Love's Farewell", which has my favourite opening lines of just about any poem: "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;"