“Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” by Edward Taylor “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens “Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson Flood’s Party” by Edward Arlington Robinson “The Miller’s Wife” by Edward Arlington Robinson “Luke Havergal” by Edward Arlington Robinson “You, Andrew Marvell” by Archibald MacLeish “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Divina Commedia” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “My Lost Youth” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Jewish Cemetery at Newport” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Shine, Perishing Republic” by Robinson Jeffers

“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost “Success Is Counted Sweetest” by Emily Dickinson The poetic fragments of Sappho, composed for the lyre, hence “lyrics” #4 I heard a Fly buzz – when I died by Emily Dickinsonīetween the Heaves of Storm – List of Other Lyric Poems and Poets “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,Īs of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,Ĭeaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,Įver unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, #1 A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman Passion or conquest, wander where they will, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,Īll’s changed since I, hearing at twilight, #5 The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats Up the hill-side and now ’tis buried deep Past the near meadows, over the still stream, To toil me back from thee to my sole self! Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, The blessed cool at every pore caressing us Of sun from shadow where the trees begin, The solar beam uplifts it all the holinessīut never an angel knows the knife-edged severance The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning ofĪrboreal life, how from earth’s salty lap High eminence are seen unveiled, the seminal Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Īngelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearthĪshes and sparks, my words among mankind! Like wither’d leaves to quicken a new birth! Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, What if my leaves are falling like its own!

He sings effortlessly because he must, because of the inner urge for self-expression. The lyric poet sings in strains of unpremeditated art. Spontaneity is another important quality of a lyric. In the case of lyric poetry the musical element is intrinsic to the work intellectually as well as aesthetically. Music in dramatic and epic poetry was secondary to other elements of the works, it being mainly a mnemonic device (device for being remembered). The lyric, the drama and epic had their origins in a spontaneously melodic expression which soon adapted itself to a ritualistic need and thus became formalised. Lyric has its origin in musical expression-singing, chanting and recitation to musical accompaniment. Lyric comes from the word ‘lyre’ meaning a musical instrument.

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