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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/familiarpoemsannOOasim Familiar Poems, Annotated Annotations andInterpretations by IsaacAsimov Asimov’s Guide to the Bible (in 2 volumes) Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare (in 2 volumes) Asimov’s Annotated Don Juan Asimov’s Annotated Paradise Lost Familiar Poems, Annotated ISAAC ASIMOV Familiar Poems, Annotated DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 1977 ISBN: 0-385-11686-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-2747 © Copyright 1977 by Isaac Asimov All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Familiar poems, annotated. 1. English poetry. 2. American poetry. I. Asimov, Isaac, 1920- PR1175.F22 82i'.oo8 “Anne Rutledge” is reprinted by permission of Ellen C. Masters from the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, published by Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright 1914, 1915 by William Marion Reedy. Copyright 1915, 1916, 1942, 1944 by Edgar Lee Masters. “The Annotated Concord Hymn” is reprinted with permission. © 1976 The Saturday Evening Post Company. “Cargoes” by John Masefield is reprinted with the permission of Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., and the Society of Authors representing the Estate of John Masefield from Poems by John Masefield. Copyright 1912 by Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., and renewed 1940 by John Masefield. Lyrics from “Christmas Song” by Tom Lehrer are taken from The Tom Lehrer Song Book. Copyright 1952, 1953, 1954 by Tom Lehrer. Used by permission of Crown Publishers, Inc. “Fire and Ice” is reprinted from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Copyright 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, Publishers, Jonathan Cape Limited, Publishers, and the Estate of Robert Frost. “Lepanto” is reprinted by permission of Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., and Miss D. E. Collins from The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton. Copy- right 1932 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. Copyright renewed 1959 by Oliver Chesterton. “Miniver Cheevy” (copyright 1907 Charles Scribner’s Sons) is reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons from The Town Down the River by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Lines from “The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving Feast” are reprinted by permission of Vida Lindo Guiterman from I Sing the Pioneer by Arthur Guiterman. Copyright 1926 by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., renewal 1954 by Vida Lindo Guiterman. To my sister, Marcia Repanes. Her hair may be red, but her heart is gold. v , , , Poems Included Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley i The Destruction ofSennacherib by George Gordon Byron 5 The Vision ofBelshazzar by George Gordon Byron 12 Alexander’sFeast, by John Dryden ig Antony to Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle 35 The Angels’Song, by Edmund Hamilton Sears 42 Boadicea, by William Cowper 48 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning 55 Bruce to His Men at Bannockburn, by Robert Bums J4 Lepanto, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton 80 The “Revenge,” by Alfred Tennyson 102 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 114 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, byJohn Milton 121 The Deacon’sMasterpiece, by OliverWendell Holmes 125 Paul Revere’s Ride,by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow igy Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson I4Q On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic,by William Wordsworth 152 Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning 158 vii
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